ChangeLog » March 2019

written by owen, published 2019-Mar-08, comment

The year is running by so fast I cannot believe it is March already. Time for the yearly design refresh. I fixed some issues I had with how the website displays on the PS4.

• I made a custom colour picker because I got tired of colour web services and wanted something simple.

• I have made some an updates to Newofox including the ability to do barrel rolls and other bug fixes.
• Created new project called "Code" where I can upload little snippets of programming code that I feel would be useful to other programmers. I dont really have a theme for that section yet but I figured I would through it up because I procrastinated on starting it for too long. The first upload is an achievement system that created in C for one of my old games. It is hard to find stuff like that on the internet nowadays because most code is now written in monolithic OOP. Or worst yet on APIs on mobile phones have transformed those systems into services (SaaS). So if you ask anyone how to do it in code they either dont know or they come up with some kinda convoluted object inheritance map. My approach is much more dynamic by maintaining a relational array of numbers that update each other when certain events happen. Only 2 events are really needed "addition" and "reset". Anyway I am not going to bore you all with the details.
• I also need to put in some work into the JMGov search project because I have hit a wall in terms of how deep I can drill down into the network of websits. I now need to go 4 levels deep (inception style, lol) and the code just cannot manage that amount of data. I will need to do a partial read of website, crash out and then be able to continue without losing track of where I am in the structure. Previously I could store and crawl the entire structure in memory but now 4 levels deep I have gone down a rabbit hole that I cant crawl out of without something clever to guide me. That clever thing is what I need to figure out.

Previous design (brought back from 2004)

New Design for small monitors

New Design for wide monitors

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Logbook » Send My Love

written by owen, published 2019-Feb-14, comment

The astonishing thing about the human experience is that you can only experience it at one time in one place. You cannot be in 2 places at once. Physics. Of course there is always pictures, videos and stories. But those are not really the same thing and if you think they are the same then you are only fooling yourself. You are a kid then you grow old. Certain experiences are only applicable for that time like that apple tree you climbed when you lived in the country. It is what it is because it existed in that time and lived in that place. All that is left are the memories. Make new memories.

As I was arriving late at work this morning a saw a women dressed full red. Themed up like an amusement park ride. I swore she put on everything red she had in her house. All she needed was a big red bag and sled to be Santa Clause. She was peering down at her phone as I walked by her without so much as a good morning. I saw her head pop up in the reflection of the door. She was clearly trying too hard. We are on a big rock spinning around a ball of fire. It is hard to dance with the devil on you back - shake him off.

You never know what experiences are going to affect someone so much that it changes them to the core of their inner being. You just have to hope that they come back out as a better person. "All that matters are the things you survive" is what I say most times. Because clearly it does not matter if you tried something and you died - so if you lived to tell the tale then it cannot be all that bad. Focus on making the rest of today better. Happy Valentines day.

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Logbook » This is tommorow

written by owen, published 2019-Feb-10, comment

I went out to get some fast food for lunch on a Friday. I am not sure how people are getting by with these prices. The fruit juice is half the price of the meal. The tax is half the price of the fruit juice. I tried drinking the juice without the plastic straw that they gave me - it was awkward at first - to be sipping gin and juice in public straight from the cup - but it is a small price to pay with the end goal of getting rid of every piece of single use plastic on the planet.

I have been doing the rounds more than usual. Meeting people and showing them charts. Programming software takes a whole lotta a time and effort. It keeps me up at night. Creating anything new in general takes time which is why most people avoid it. It is often a delicate balance of extreme focus and picking your battles wisely. If you are going to do something you might as well do it right or do not do it all. Incompetence is a stink that spreads quickly. There is no perfect system. No matter how good the techstack.

I went to a dance in the hills of Papine last weekend. By went I mean I was carried because I promised I would go. But if I had known my final destination I would not have ventured so far off road, up a hill. It was a real street dance, buy out the bar, 2 am and the party just a pickup, gal a dash out. I could see all the stars in the sky and by the time the police came to lock off the dance I had already seen all there was to see. I did come away with one observation: if the music is not a deafening levels the crowd gets really complacent like bored children with tics in dem batty. The only good system is a sound system.

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