Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Today's notes will probably end up at the end of chapter 9.

Wrote a few more pages of notes to incorporate into my book draft. I keep a small notebook in my pocket so when I think of things that ought to go in the book I can write those down. A ribbon holds the place where I haven't yet transferred those notes into the draft.

The cat wants to throw my pen.

Petting the cat, getting pet by the cat.

Look at this cat.

Last night there was a giant opossum in my back yard. #UrbanWildlife

I should probably clarify that that's QML extended by some custom C++ I've written. QML doesn't out of the box have anything appropriate for some of this stuff, but I've written that code for videos before so I can reuse that.

Spent a little time with the presentation for the next class I'm teaching. If I do redo it in QML then I can embed the raw data into the presentation and make the graphics a bit more dynamic.

I hear that the presentation template for the next event I'm teaching at is bad and instructors who ask are being told that they should just go with a neutral dark background instead of trying to use it. I might rework the whole thing in QML anyway (I use that for the visuals in a lot of my videos) so that would simplify matters a bit.

I should replay yoiyami dreamer (also, US release for this game when?)

Just saw someone recommending the local videos on my PeerTube server on a forum instead of linking people to the YouTube channel. https://video.typica.us/

Punk the cat requests belly rubs.

This profile is a cat.

You'd think these Starfleet ships would get more science done if they didn't always park in geosynchronous orbit but nobody ever tells the away team they'll need to wait a few minutes for beam out until the ship is overhead.

The viral math trick that clickbait purveyors want you to think everybody is talking about (but nobody is): literally day 1 algebra.

HD DS9? Yes, please. https://io9.gizmodo.com/a-fan-made-attempt-to-create-hd-deep-space-nine-using-1833301127

The cat is making sounds like a jazz trumpeter.

The coffee on the left is lighter than the coffee on the right. The coffee on the bottom is the ground version of the coffee on the top (with greater difference for lighter coffees than for darker coffees)