I got a task to create an emulator which can connect to the PLC and literally make it possible for the PLC devs to develop their code way before the machine is built. Half of them completely refused the idea to use plc db values instead of the raw inputs so I can actually read and write as well.
All that refused are the 45+ guys.
The reasons:
~ You keep your little code on your computer.
~ I won't reference something twice
~ I never use DB's values as inputs
~ I am always working from paper sketch
~ We just do approximately and the commission guys will align.
~ This is waste of time.

Manage to lose 5kg in a week - which is great but definitely doesn't feel normal 😅

hmmm think I've been using chatrooms as a form of divination

TIL divination is triggers to make you realize stuff in your subconscious

I would sit in chatrooms or random forums I guess and use people as writing prompts or thinking prompts often. I was very addicted to it and I didn't know why, but it made me feel very satisfied to process stuff with my brain

kicker is I wrote a website that turned some "game icons" into tarot cards, and you press a button to draw a card randomly... I don't like tarot cards and all that nonsense (too repetitive and restrictive), but I've oddly been addicted to this little game icons website I made at some point

should get more icons... I get bored once I start recognizing them. think I only put in like 400 and maybe there's like 4000 I could've put in. maybe now there's way more on the site I got these from cuz I made this RNG site like 5 years ago

text isn't as good for this I think. maybe AI writing prompts, it just throws out random concepts? I don't know how you'd do that. making text "human impactful" seems difficult to do

Got moved to higher prio project

- disastrous security
- Built with Knockout.js in 2016
- entire folders of business logic duplicated 3 times to allow for the business requirements of separate regional branches to evolve independently
- Application server in ASP.NET Core MVC but the *real* backend is a WCF service
- there is an outstanding ticket for a list view that fails to load because the API response exceeds the .NET serializer's maximum length. The proposed solution is to stream it down to the client which then collects it into a JS array and renders a DOM node for all 6k rows
- mgmt wants to scale up to the entire European region, not with a single installation but still with a single codebase
- the Germans want interactivity with Relay
- prod database copied around and cleaned to establish new environments, migrations lost to time
- read-only queries have a tendency to deadlock

I'm officially at a point of writing software that I know this snippet of code will be absolute hell for the next developer to maintain.

Doesn't matter how well I document it, doesn't matter how well I break down the problem.

The `why` of the problem is gonna drive the maintainer crazy later. The most dangerous part, it might as well be me in the coming months.

RIP the next developer, who will have to maintain my spaghetti (includes me).

It's 2025 and I'm still stuck with freaking TFS.
FML

!dev

If one more person stomps in the library, I will take off my shoe and throw it at them. 🤬

Wife's driving me nuts
Work is driving me nuts

At least my kids are awesome!

Maybe getting a new job would help. I'd probably need two new jobs to match this one though

I woke up early for an 8am today that got moved to tomorrow because one frontend dev couldn't make it.

I was angry enough I responded, "Could you do this the night before in the future?" with 😴 😩 emoji.

I had an 8am Monday, 9am Tuesday, got up for an 8am that didn't happen today and now there's an 8am tomorrow.

think people should be talking about responsibility instead of "altruism" or trying to shame people for not being selfless enough or how some selfish motivation for being selfless means it's invalid... zzzz. seems so self destructive

greetings, fellow humans! I am so enjoying being a human today.
So, anyway… Breathing, am I right?

vercel doesn't lie, your deployment failed. Fix it

I bought a laptop last year, touch screen Windows 11 pro but the camera is not working. I can't update drivers, can't update camera. What should I do?

Back to the grind of self-employment trying to find work. Fuck I hate this but all the jobs I'm finding are toxic as hell. Still better than my old job.

when i shit i feel lighter

then i can train better

i have more stamina for workouts

this made me realize

im not fat

im just full of bullshit

just like physics makes more sense if it's all magnets instead of gravity

humans make more sense if it's all lizard people instead of "flawed humanity" or whatever the billion unuseful narrative excuses

What do they mean to be frank, who is frank and why do so many people want to be him?

For every Meghan with an H out there, there's a Sara without one

Been waking up with the cold the last few days. Sitting at work getting a bit dizzy. My voice dropped and I am sounding like I have a really deep voice. Somebody commented about it. I said: "Yeah, my balls finally dropped."

Just want to go home and sit and shoot people in game. Also pet the dogs and talk to the kids. Wife feels like crap too.

Can't stop thinking about gem dev tech. Kinda distracting. I think we live in an age of tons of shitty games. Plus the promise of a ton of innovation. Major studios just keep getting shittier.

I am actually impressed by CyberPunk 2077. They made the world interaction a lot of fun. I am really enjoying the magic system...errr...I mean tech hacking. Needs testicular torsion though. Maybe there is a mod.

I wanted to do electronic music since I was a teenager. But the first time I did something was in LMMS. I just learned how to do the software, and did some sort of shitty techno. It was kinda weird tbh. The software is still quite rudimentary and there was a lot of stuff I couldn't do. It's basically based on FL Studio. A friend of mine showed me, he was doing something more like mental tribe tekno.

Anyway one day in a tent town full of weird german people in Portugal (where I tried surf for the first time), some dude showed me Ableton. I liked the grid view.

So I took bitwig (an ableton clone), and with the right script and one of those 8x8 pad launchpad, you could record and loop things easy. So now I need this feature. I wish lmms had it and I'm planning to implement it someday, but in the meanwhile, I'm using bitwig.

But noway I'm paying 200 euros everyyear. So I downloaded a crack. The crack is in flatpak.

But it doesn't have good synth. Zynaddsubfx is the synth I was using in lmms and it's pretty decent, with the right preset it can generate out-of-this-world sounds. But the issue is that it needs some library.

Not that big on the linking part of binary code, but asaik usually, the vst (so a .so or a .dll) is linked to libraries directly. But no, not here, because flatpak is sandboxing the /usr/lib directory. So even though I installed the right library from the AUR (arch repos), it couldn't see it.

So I was stuck. I couldn't use the synth, which blocked me in my artistic energy. It was bad after I lost my laptop but I'm trying to get back into it. And I found myself limited by the samples to be honest, I want to compose stuff and sample that instead. Maybe sample some music directly (now that I can use IA to separate tracks in a song that's way easier). But I was stuck, I couldn't have the synth I wanted in my DAW.

But then I found the solution. It's very simple. Guess what it is.