Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Cat wants to bash her head into my face. Time for allergy meds.

Picked up a PSVR after work (I blame Tetris hype). Initial thoughts: I'll need to do some crafting to feel more comfortable with camera placement. It took way too long to find the power button/volume controls. Rez Infinite worked really well but now I suck at the boss fights. Race the Sun seems a little better in VR. Concert Editor in Project Diva X seems a lot less pointless now. Cat wanted to help. Mild nausea kicked in a bit after turning the headset off. Had a big smile on pretty often.

Today's cat.

Yesterday my YT channel hit the payout threshold again. It took a bit over 9 months and works out to an average of about 5/100ths of a cent per video view, so that'll cover a couple months of servers.

There are a few companies that make plaques out of press mentions that insist on pestering me every time I'm in a newspaper and they've apparently branched out into magazines now. Nothing against the product, I'm just completely uninterested in it.

Someone just called to find my email address so they could spam me. First, no. Second, it's way easier to find my email address than my phone number so what's up with that?

VFD for a new test rig is scheduled to arrive some time between tomorrow (unlikely since it hasn't shipped yet) and Monday. I'll need to write some new code to make use of all the functionality there and since I've seen similar stuff in the documentation for other devices I'll need to think about how I want to handle some of that stuff to keep it broadly applicable.

The more I follow web devs here and hear their troubles, the more I think that writing web applications in C++ might really be the sane thing to do.

The road to becoming toast is hard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_O5ZGIhE9U

Time to work off the pizza with some DDR.

I had a late lunch and ate 3/4 of a pizza. Will probably skip dinner.

Someone did one of those seal some art in a weather proof bag, leave it somewhere public (outside my shop). A customer noticed the art but did not look closely enough to realize that it was abandoned intentionally and that she could keep it, instead turning it into a staff member for the lost and found. Staff member also didn't look at this closely enough to realize nobody is going to claim that. I'd contact the artist, but I'm not on any of the listed contact platforms that don't do interop.

Pretty sure Orca always looked like he had another face on his chest, though.

Tried out PS2 emulation on this machine. It won't play my discs directly so I have to rip those to ISOs before I can play them, but that doesn't take long. So far, at least with this game, there are some minor audio and graphical glitches but nothing too bad and it's playing full speed without stressing the system.

I tried to buy tonic for my gin but the grocery store didn't have any.

Initial fixes are in. Alignment bug fixed, though I think I wrote it the way I did because doing the right thing didn't work on some platforms so I need to test that. Grid lines now pick up the same color as the the text. Unfortunately, if the theme is changed while the program is running, the background gets updated but none of the content changes so I need to detect and handle that event.

Also tempted to go all in on respecting theme colors because the parts of Typica that do handle that properly look cool.

I'm thinking that as long as I'm touching this code anyway it might be worthwhile to see about adding more features that were originally planned to be on hold until 2.0.

This is how Typica currently mis-displays the graph on this machine. It's picking up the dark background and light text from the system theme, showing the text about twice as large as it should be and for temperatures mis-aligned. The lines remain black.

I should see about hooking my MIDI stuff up to the new computer, especially some of the smaller gear and see if I can figure that out.