Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

The cat tried to sneak up on my bowl of shrimp, but she failed to get into it.

It's been a while since I used goto in C++ but I don't feel the slightest bit bad about doing that today. The code I'm working on now is going to get refactored pretty much immediately once it's done so I probably won't need that in whatever this turns into when it ships and even if I did, well, the project I'm working on has been open source for nearly 2 decades without a single outside code contribution so I'll do what I want.

One of my less used reports in Typica saved the day today.

The too much work option is to just build something custom myself, which I could, but that's not a yak I need to shave.

The option that upstream is working on I might want to switch to because it's better, but I might not because it brings in too many dependencies for something most of the people using my software will only very rarely need to interact with (I'm probably the heaviest user of the feature).

Very little coding today. For the next thing I want to work on I identified 5 ways to do the first step. 2 of them were as near as I can tell the exact same thing accessed very slightly differently for compatibility reasons (hate it, not using it). One was what the previous 2 should have been implemented in terms of but wasn't, presumably for dependency management reasons (less hated, what I'm going with for now). One is not really an option but upstream is working on it. Last is too much work.

The cat was exerting extra calm this morning.

Working on little bits of code today where I can do a thing and then it's done and I can move on to the next thing. Fixed a bug that I have no idea why the observed behavior was what it was, but the fix was obvious once I was looking at the right line of code.

Today I'm re-framing old coffee posters. They've been off the wall for a long time because the original frames had pretty much fallen apart.

My goal for using #Shenhe as a #Qiqi buff in #GenshinImpact has been achieved. Qiqi is once again my 2nd highest damage dealer (just a little behind Raiden Shogun's half million hit). I'm not going to see substantially better results without either a completely different build or an entirely reworked combo.

Almost done building Shenhe as a Qiqi buff and got a new personal best Qiqi burst without food (better than with food and without Shenhe). Hoping to get it over 400K with food before switching Qiqi to Lavawalker for another boost.

The cat has had her nap and is now requesting belly rubs.

Today I noticed that one of the grocery stores is stocking off brand Girl Scout cookies (they're not the same, but they look the same, significantly cheaper and close enough).

I was trying to work out a new combo for my burst Qiqi to see if I could work Shenhe into that. Instead I ended up with Qiqi's elemental skill (not burst) landing a 6 figure hit (no food and Shenhe's build isn't even finished yet, but there's still a lot of buff stacking going on to land that hit).

https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/7a4f7673-d84c-4b09-bc17-89c21f75e257

The cat has decided that tonight she wants to be a back rest. It's not the first time she's done this, but she doesn't do that often.

The cat is insisting on doing her job as the lap cat, so I guess I'm done moving for today.

Old low effort meme comment is up over 200 likes, most of them within the last couple hours. Kind of wish the notifications got collapsed into an x people recently liked your comment instead of making every single like its own notification.

The grocery run was mostly for cat food, but there were some good sales on human foods so I hit those.

Algorithmic comment re-ordering is weird. I go out for groceries and when I get back some week old meme post that got bumped to the top is flooding my notifications.