inmysocks (version: awoo) @inmysocks@awoo.space

Josh is still awake.
It is 3:30 am in Albuquerque.
He is supposed to go and make sure that the hardware and stuff we made is working with the client at 8:30am.

I kept bugging him to let me know if he needed any help, but he insisted he didn't and I thought he was asleep when I woke up.

The stuff looks good though, we made an interactive kiosk for a local food bank to let them show off something shiny during their 'give us money' fundraiser tomorrow

I have never successfully used tar without following instructions written specifically for the archive I was unpacking.

Never.

The joys of parsing svgs:

a.1.1,0,0,0-.2,0

grumble. I missed some part of this in my test cases and now I get to poke the parser and hope I don't mess something else up

Anyone have a reasonably easy to use c/c++ IDE for a not-quite beginner?

Apparently Code::Blocks isn't working out

I am writing an svg parser/rasterizer in Julia because the existing ones don't do exactly what I want.

Is making new tools when an existing tool isn't exactly what you want something other people do?

Unit testing is so much easier when you are using a functional coding style.

@zatnosk but first we have to add a little speaker that goes 'pew pew!' every time the laser is on.

@zatnosk no, it is a pretty weak laser by itself, but that is a good idea.

We made a laser pistol as a legitimate part of work.

It is a UV laser and we are using it to touch up cracks and other problems with the things we make with the resin printer.

I think that it is impossible to use it without going 'PEW PEW!!'.

Compiling Julia code into a standalone executable works without much more trouble than compiling an executable from c or c++

This makes me happy, writing Julia takes about as much attention as Python

It isn't quite as do whatever you want as node, but still cool.

Julia continues to be a very nice language to work with.

Being able to have inline python and c/c++ code is more than a little bit awesome.

and I guess also the celluloid nightmare and the biometric light show stuff too.

It is really weird to see something that I designed and built and wrote the code for doing what it is supposed to do.

Both with Robbie and the sinister plotter

@gamehawk speed holes.

Somehow.

udp multicast is a lot easier to implement and use than I thought.

So screw mdns for this stuff

@tom you really need to get your houses ground wire checked out.

and yes, I am working on what is an explicitly fragmented network. That is a feature, not a bug

I am going to have to write my own dht implementation eventually.

Many of the problem with DHT-based things seem to be solvable by just not having a global DHT.

But so far I haven't figured out how to add a way to filter who can join with existing dht implementations, if you have access to a node to bootstrap with you can be part of it.