Notices by Gergely Nagy 🐁 (algernon@trunk.mad-scientist.club), page 22

That feeling when you are trying to debug an issue in a C program, and you end up comparing amd64 assembly.

The error is on this line:

「guint32 hi = GUINT32_TO_BE(id >> 32);」

Where `id` is `guint64`, and has the value of `1` when the issue occurs. Locally, this gets compiled into a huge mess of byte swapping code. On the build host, it uses the CPU's `bswap` instruction.

WTF.

@joop @rysiek Considering the "hair" is a continuation of the mouth... that's an impressive moustache. Or... well... half of it?

@rysiek Two examples: https://trunk.mad-scientist.club/media/DlLD0vMU4cbFSvyGlw8 https://trunk.mad-scientist.club/media/Vw7J1X7R4JQA1wb_7YM

Not to mention that there are other variants, like >;), ;), O:), :(, and so on. It doesn't make sense to use Ü for one, and a rotated one for the others. Consistency matters!

@rysiek Ü is quite a BIG mouth, small eyes, while :) is not so big, just wide. With :) proportions are better. Not to mention that Ü may look *very* different depending on the font, not quite like a smile, while :) remains recognisable.

Case in point: any Serif font will add cheeks to Ü, handwriting makes it non-smiley-like, some fonts will make the left and/or right sides bolder, and so on.

@ckeen Chromium's developer tools, network tab, force reload. Not the most scientific way, perhaps not even the most accurate. But it sounds reasonably correct, and required no setup or anything. :)

By dropping Bootstrap, MouseTrap, FontAwesome, and a custom font I only used for the page header, I'm down to ~40k average, with no other changes. The page still looks reasonable too. Perhaps even better, because fonts are bigger.

This is a good start. Will need to figure out a few things, patch up the few places that relied on FontAwesome, and this can go live.

It also turns out that implementing the part of the EventDispatcher patchset against #Kaleidoscope that is the most pressing (pluggable HID libraries) is trivial to do. All that was needed was a spark that lit the fire that burned the first attempts down.

Saw the Last Jedi again today, with my wife. Today was a good day already.

...and start hacking on #keyboard firmware again, of course.

Well, no one died! Even better, people under 3 years actually enjoyed the gathering! People above were 50-50%, parents were a wee-bit overwhelmed. Overall, this was nice. Not sure I'd do it again, not with so small kids. But next year, they'll be almost a year and a half, which will make a whole lot of things easier.

Now to rest a good few days...

It's that time of the year when I'm thinking about dressing up my personal website in a new dress. This time, I'd likely go with something minimalist. Kinda like @psztrnk did. Perhaps not that minimal, but something very close to it.

Yesterday: Twins' first Christmas. They loved the tree.
Today: First big family gathering, at the in-laws. They loved the tree, and being the center of attention.
Tomorrow: Second big family gathering, at my parents. Two pair of twins, and two other kids.

This holiday season is one we'll always remember. In-laws doubling their grandchildren, my parents going from one to six in the span of 6 months. And now we *all* meet.

This morning, shortly after preparing our Christmas dinner, when we were about to bake a cake, the Twins woke up. Panicked, my wife exclaimed: "Oh no! We have no desserts, what will we do? We can't have Christmas without sweets!"

This was under our tree:

The bundle has been sent, recipient notified multiple ways, I'm hoping she'll find as much joy in the books as I did. For those of you who voiced their interests, there were others offering the same sponsorship, I have let them know about you.

Thank you everyone for sharing my toot far & wide! Happy holidays!