Found a comment in code accessing a third-party library:
// Yes, the enum has a typo init.
I can’t bring myself to fix the typo in the comment!
Category: Fediverse
In retrospect, the most ridiculous thing is that I couldn’t be bothered to plug my …
In retrospect, the most ridiculous thing is that I couldn’t be bothered to plug my phone into my computer and transfer photos last night, despite the fact that I’d done *exactly the same thing* that morning to pull photos into my offline album & push some of the edits back to my phone.
@ricard_dev Kind of hilarious that it would be that simple, and also kind of infuriating …
@ricard_dev Kind of hilarious that it would be that simple, and also kind of infuriating that they could have so easily included the capability but chose not to.
But then Instagram has always been about trying to keep you in the app, haven’t they? I mean, they were only grudgingly part of the web even before Facebook bought them.
Also, he really wants to get VR gear after trying a demo. Told him we’d …
Also, he really wants to get VR gear after trying a demo. Told him we’d set up Cardboard & we can check out the VR arcade at the mall. Anything more elaborate can wait.
I was looking at some of the other VR platforms & devices last night & it’s a significant outlay.
Plus of course the question of compatibility, both in terms of what devices connect to them and what apps & games are available. (Minecraft VR doesn’t work with Daydream, for instance.) Tried asking, “what do you want to *do* with VR?” but he hasn’t figured that out yet. Hopefully Cardboard will be enough for the “but it’s COOOOOOL” factor for a while.
Took the 8YO to Minefaire, a traveling Minecraft convention. Entered the costume contest with the …
Took the 8YO to Minefaire, a traveling Minecraft convention. Entered the costume contest with the Spider Jockey costume. He made it to the final round! But competition was strong, and he didn’t place. 😞 (Winners were an Iron Golem, Alex riding a wolf, and a Pandacorn, all of which were impressive.) He was really disappointed.
We are now planning to up the game for next year’s costume…
Instagram UI griping
I kind of want to post a round-up of recent photos (that are already online elsewhere) to Instagram, but the UI makes it difficult.
– I can’t upload from my desktop.
– I can’t share multiple items from another gallery app on my phone.
– I can’t select multiple items from an album when choosing photos within Instagram.
So I can scroll a *lot* while selecting, or manually copy the photos into an actual folder on my phone.
And TBH, I’m not motivated enough to go to the trouble.
Figured I’d use the 1977 filter on this, given the architecture
Figured I’d use the 1977 filter on this, given the architecture.
Interesting! The filter is apparently applied on top of the attached image, because Mastodon shows the unfiltered image.
The western horizon was blocked at sunset…but the view upward wasn’t!
The western horizon was blocked at sunset…but the view upward wasn’t!
There’s a hawthorn hedge near work that’s absolutely covered with flowers…
There’s a hawthorn hedge near work that’s absolutely covered with flowers for a length of around 40 feet. I walk past it several times a week. I’d never noticed the scent of these flowers before, but it’s impossible to miss right now!
Correction: It’s more like 100 feet. Not sure why I wrote 40.
Looking up…
Interesting: Because I follow my old @prismo account at @KelsonsLinks, I can still see all …
Interesting: Because I follow my old @prismo account at @KelsonsLinks[@prismo.news], I can still see all of the stories I shared by looking at the profile here on Wandering Shop. But even though it has the title and preview image, it only links to the Prismo page (which is no longer available), not to the original articles.
If I really wanted to, I could reconstruct an archive of what I posted there, by searching for each of those articles.
Anyway, Prismo’s back on a new domain & I’m there at @KelsonsLinks[@prismo.xyz]
*sigh* I suppose on the plus side, the crappy traffic meant that by the time …
*sigh* I suppose on the plus side, the crappy traffic meant that by the time I got to the last eastbound stretch of road, the sun was no longer positioned in the middle of all 3 mirrors.
@andrhia Not sure, but if there is, I want to know if it also applies …
@andrhia Not sure, but if there is, I want to know if it also applies to the terror that you’ll drop your phone as you step into or out of an elevator and it’ll fall through the gap in the floor and tumble down to the bottom of the shaft.
Had to dodge a tumbleweed on the way home from work. Yes, in Los Angeles.
Had to dodge a tumbleweed on the way home from work. Yes, in Los Angeles.
Realized I forgot to post here about WonderCon last week.
I was mostly support for the kid’s #Minecraft costume, but I did get a chance to check out art, buy from small vendors & photograph #cosplay with the new camera.
The kid only took 1 photo, but it made be rethink my technique.
https://hyperborea.org/journal/2019/04/wondercon-2019-cosplay-photos/
Here’s the family as Professor Trelawney and a spider jockey. She ran into a LOT of other #HarryPotter cosplayers:
https://hyperborea.org/journal/2019/04/harry-potter-cosplay/
Full gallery on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/albums/72157690667228043
Death, poaching, opposite of irony (news)
“A rhinoceros poacher in a South Africa wildlife preserve was stomped to death by an elephant and eaten by lions, authorities said.”
LA Times adds: “Rangers at Kruger National Park found his skull and trousers.”
Debugging frustration
Finally figured out why I couldn’t get this third-party library to load its config!
Had to debug through a decompiled class…
It’s checking whether optional parameters are empty using foo.equalsIgnoreCase("") BEFORE checking whether foo != null.
So loading the config throws an NPE every time it tries to load the config. And it silently catches the exception, leaving the config object empty.
Easy enough to workaround, but a dumb error that was a pain to find.
Link: Incredible satellite image of aurora over Canada with city lights… and something else
Link: Incredible satellite image of aurora over Canada with city lights… and something else https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/incredible-satellite-image-of-aurora-over-canada-with-city-lights-and-something-else
I found out where Business Cat works!
The worst part of starting to type and realizing it’s not going into the window…
The worst part of starting to type and realizing it’s not going into the window you thought it was *isn’t* that you have to start over.
It’s wondering which other window picked up the keystrokes.