Notices by dave stranding (dthompson@toot.cat), page 15

installed the shelves in the office. a bit sparse right now but I'll fill them up eventually.

the current star of my garden is the new england aster. 11/10 would pollinate.

building some floating shelves out of cherry. #woodworking

Met this cute and sleepy wall chicken. tonight.

direct link: https://github.com/smcameron/open-simplex-noise-in-c/blob/master/open-simplex-noise.c#L73

I mean, I was just gonna port this without trying to understand it 100% but my head is just spinning trying to understand any of it.

I saw a blog post about Godot adding OpenSimplex noise generation so users can do procedural generation. I thought I should add noise to Chickadee so I began reading the third-party C lib Godot includes and found the following comment:

"Gradients for 4D. They approximate the directions to the vertices of a disprismatotesseractihexadecachoron from the center, skewed so that the tetrahedral and cubic facets can be inscribed inside spheres of the same radius."

guess I'm not gonna do that.

@js0000 mad when I eat too much. mad when I don't eat. I guess it wants me to eat the right amount! talk about entitlement!

ugh ballot question 3 keeps confusing me. I keep forgetting which way it is phrased so I don't know if "no" is good or bad. I saw a woman handing out "no on 3" fliers at my town parade and just had no idea if she wanted to deny trans people their rights or not. turns out she did want that, and voting "yes" is the correct thing. I imagine lots of other people can't keep this question straight in their head without looking it up every time.

person pitching v8: what if people paid us to drink cold tomato soup?

train had some delays today so I was able to squeeze in a bit more morning hacking. added scene a scene transition api and a fade out/in transition to test it out. discovered some scene composition problems in the process that caused rendering issues, but things are working now. I also gave sane defaults to the 2D drawing canvas, like defaulting the camera size to the window size. not sure what to work on next, maybe convenience methods for simple animations.

basic scene management: working. going to spend some time cleaning up what I have. I've noticed a couple places where things should "just work" a bit better.

TOCTTOU Twins

my basement had high humidity this summer and caused an unfinished wooden crate I was using to store tools to grow mold. 2 lessons: use a dehumidifier and always put a finish on wood!

Now things are getting really interesting. Removed a chunk of drywall, exposing more of the chimney. Whoever worked on this last left behind some empty Sam's Choice colas that expired in 1997.