_caw

Inigo Quilez's (of demoscene fame, highly talented graphics engineer) blog is one of my favorites: https://iquilezles.org/blog/

It's a time capsule from that era.

Yes? Toyota has been producing vehicles since the 30s, so two years ago is quite recent within context.

A dead simple, deterministic threshold alert on the pod restart metric in any monitoring tool could also surface this same issue.

In fact, it happened to me today at work!

It's not "Most Swiss", it's 52% of survey respondants (8,411 people) out of the 9.1 million population.

Hey, sorry about that! I have a half-hearted "premium" feature tier of which PDF is one.

I just deleted that particular if-statement so you should be able to export.

It's not anything fancy, but gets the job done. Uses pdf-lib.

I've been plugging away on MadHatter (https://madhatter.app), a web tool for knitting/crochet projects. It works best on desktop!

Why? Many yarncrafters painstakingly build spreadsheets, or try to bend existing general purpose pixel editors to their will. It's time consuming & frustrating.

Along the way, I've solved a bunch of problems:

  - Automatic decreases (shapes the hat) / overstitching markers (shows when multiple colors are used in the same row)
  - Parameterized designs, like waves, trees, geometric shapes. No more manually moving an object by a couple of pixels, it's a simple click & drag.
  - Color palette merging (can't delete a color if you already use it in a pattern!)
  - Export to PDF (so you can print it or stick it on a tablet)
  - Repeat previews (visualize the pattern as it repeats horizontally)

If you drag a shape near the right edge of the canvas, you'll see it "wrapping around" onto the right edge.

This reflects the 3D reality of a hat!

Do any other upper body strength exercise, and then come back to pushups in a couple of months.

If you're somewhat terrified of Lyme's disease, as I am, one thing you can do to protect yourself and relatives is wear Permethrin treated clothing, especially pants and socks[0].

After hiking, take a very close look at all of your body parts and remove any ticks. You can bag them and send them off to a lab for testing as well.

I've known multiple Lyme's sufferers. You do not want this.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/prevention/index.html

Could be using a 10x or similar eyepiece so 400x total? I am not super familiar with microscopes but that is my guess.

I love observing the moon, whether that's taking a picture with a telephoto or peeping through telescope.

There's something special about seeing the craters with your own eyes and then sharing that with friends. The framing & cropping, zoom, color of the sky are all unique to that experience.

Plus the moon is always looking slightly different each time, with different areas shadowed; fuzzy details one day are sharp the next.

And it's a skill like any other, which feels great to improve day after day.

Would love to hear more about using Claude to determine which E2E tests to run. What context are you giving it?

Is it like, "this looks like a billing feature, let me run any tests that seem relevant"?

I got the sense the author wrote the post in collaboration with LLMs as a way of processing the experience:

I was alone. Nobody understood the weight of losing a decade of work. But I had ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok to talk to

To everyone who worked on these AIs, who contributed to their training data—thank you. Without you, this post might have been a very different kind of message.

It sounded like perhaps this post would have conveyed a message the author didn't think constructive if they wrote it entirely themselves

Haven't seen stitch-maps, that is useful.

I've also been thinking about what constitutes a "good" encoding, and it definitely comes down to individual preferences, even preferences in a given moment. Today you're reading off a sticky-note and want to optimize for size, tomorrow you're laying out 3 notebooks for a huge project and want clarity.

I like the idea of a creator making the base pattern, and then sharing a link that lets the user customize the output encoding.

That customization could be visual (I want a different random seed that is used to parameterize different aspects of this pattern, so it's totally unique to me) or in the notation.

I think it'd be awesome to have a recursive notation editor. So you'd click on a variable and it expands to the verbose representation, which might include other nested variables that you can further expand (or not).

(side note, I hope you don't mind: Game Programming Patterns made a huge difference for me early in my career, thank you for bringing that into the world.)

I tried and failed to write a knitting interpreter that could take a written pattern and generate a visual representation. You could have variables that expand into larger expressions, and some kind of "syntax highlighting" or verification step to make sure things are consistent.

Interested to know if you've ever tried something like that? I also get that knitting is a hobby many people do to escape computers for a minute.

Anyways, that got me into approaching the problem from a different angle (https://madhatter.app). A visual editor for hat patterns with layering, repeats, shapes, overstitching markers.

Some stuff is broken right now and it doesn't look great on mobile, but I'm building it in real time whenever my partner expresses frustration in some aspect of existing paid software ;-)

You're generally not wearing just a drysuit if the water is cold. Under the outer shell, you often wear multiple undergarments to keep warm. Think a base layer, underwear, socks, 1-piece.

SSE works seamlessly with existing HTTP infrastructure

This is false. SSE is not supported on many proxies, and isn't even supported on some common local proxy tooling.

NanaGram is awesome, used it for a while back in the olden days of 2021. When I visit my grandma she still has pictures on her refrigerator delivered by this service. Cheers to you and your brother!

I'm working on hat knitting software focusing on colorwork[1]. It has some bugs, but so far has been a great way to learn React and Typescript.

[1] https://themadhatter.netlify.app/

I really wanted to check this out (using redis as an example), but it appears I need an account.

Is there no public demo?

Can you expand on that? The Federal Government[0] seems to think the EDL[1] is a RealID.

[0] https://www.dhs.gov/real-id

[1] https://dol.wa.gov/id-cards/real-id

Hey, feel free to disregard this as I obviously don't know you.

Have you considered if you might have ADD[0]?

I know someone with identical experiences and this was the root cause. Having the diagnosis was life changing.

[0] https://add.org/adhd-test/

Direct link to ESA: https://esawebb.org/images/potm2308c/

2.7MB JPEG: https://cdn.esawebb.org/archives/images/publicationjpg/potm2...

NIRCam vs. MIRI Slider: https://esawebb.org/images/comparisons/potm2308/

That must be a web quality pic.

The ones in his book are far higher quality. Too bad I can't nail the book to my wall..

I highly recommend this book, which I received as a birthday present (hint, for your friends or loved ones who are into space stuff.)

Every page is filled with these georgeous, highly detailed pictures, and a running commentary from the astronauts or author.

You won't be disappointed.

You are correct, it eats battery; it lasts about 8 hours or so on li-ion. If you look down the lens and move it around, you can really see the mechanical movement in action.

It has two operating modes.

1, it stays on as long as the button is depressed. This is good for quick looks.

2, you press it once and it stays on until either (a) 5 minutes pass, or (b) you press it again, or (c) you put the binoculars down (it knows when they are vertical, like hanging around your neck.)

I own a pair of the 10x42s and they are indistinguishable from magic. When you press that button, the wobbly image becomes rock-solid and allows you to perceive and enjoy way more detail than would otherwise be possible.

Perfect for observing birds, planes, double stars, nebulae, satellites, and planets. I can't resolve Saturn's ring, but Jupiter and its moons and the Hercules cluster are not to be missed.

A tripod doesn't solve the same problem. You can walk around, pass these to other people, take it on a hike, use them in a car.

Some downsides: expensive, battery maintenance, and heavy (not as much a problem with smaller pairs.)

If you don't have it already, I'll shill for the excellent tool "Everything" by voidtools. This is a must-have for me on any new Windows install.

I do wish the first was more widely adopted.

The typing experience on AppleTV is actively user hostile - the password is masked (you cannot reveal it) so if you even think you've made a mistake in one of your 25 characters, you need to start over.

The second doesn't work for me: we only have Android devices. It's unclear why our 3 MacBooks aren't sufficient for this purpose; I didn't have any suspicion that this would be the case.

We've flown a helicopter on Mars. We've crashed a vehicle into an asteroid.

I have to type 25 character random passwords into AppleTV with no mistakes 5-10 times from a remote.

On that note, it's 2022 and I cannot set up an AppleTV in the Home app on a Mac. It's apparently impossible.

The ability to change default Google accounts without signing out of every account.

At this point, I'm absolutely convinced I'm doing something wrong. Maybe this is painless in Chrome?