my head complains about lack of trigonometry and too many variables. and it's just about drawing and positioning some circles. no 'real' math.

the last several times i reached out to support there were at least 5 days of tumbleweed and cricket noises. fine with that while not accessing personal mails during the week. last time i got a response the next day with request for more information and case closed the other day due to lack of response. well played...

when i found out on how to import modules instantly being able to deploy bugfixes and changes to multiple macro-dependent documents without copy-pasting the code to every single file manually.

i understand way too little about web data types. while having to store a shitload of data in cookies (sorry for that, no localstorage for local sites, insensitive though) i was so proud of compressing strings with bitshifting only to find out that uriencoding bloats chinese characters massively up. fml

another week, same fuss. i just freaking can't wrap my head around the fact that it is basically not allowed to use natural language invocating a skill and use natural conversation flows.

latest alexa certification experience
them: you must not name your skill like this, this and that.
me: ok. please certify my skill named a not listed option.
them: YoU mUsT nOt NaMe It ThIs EiThEr.

for real, if i would have to do alexa skills for a living i'd long have gone mad (well, madder)

sincerely fu

til recurring reminders have a lower interval limit of 4 hours. this 500 server error wasn't very specific about that.

good guy pexel allows me to insert free random kitten pictures as an easter egg, retrieving all by a tidy api. made my day.
no affiliation, only gratitude.

don't know whether i am too dumb to understand apl syntax or the documentation is just shitty. where should the damn data payload go?

my wife is setting up her new phone that arrived today. maybe i am a bit jealous. on the other hand i dont know how using devrant, reddit and duckduckgo justifies a new phone. better save this for my dream computer.

!dev
can someone recommend a free 3d modelling software to create printable stl-files for mechanical technical devices? i am not experienced with cad and freedcad gave me a hard time to start with.
educational or commercial use both can apply.

encouraged by you beautiful folks i present my weekend doodle: a text2asciiart converter with cli commands and optional terminal responsiveness.

https://github.com/erroronline1/... if it matters

i am tired of the mood swings that come with being alone. whenever i make something i am proud of i realize having no one to share it with.

unfortunately i am not the hermit i would like to be.

funny how creating something merely useless like a text2asciiart converter can spark this amount of joy

so i did this convenient download script that worked like a charm at home only to find out internet is blocked for these kind of things at work. adding a port results in a single connection success that will be blocked on the next attempt. i get it with all the security concerns but am curious which way it-department tells me to download 3k+ files with likely dynamic filenames otherwise...

i am actually proud of my achievement of a scraping download-robot with decent logging, structured setup file, a small auto login to password protected areas and fancy cli options. because i am the only one on this sofa who can do this. :) this day has been kind to me.

scraping websites gave me some insights on different design patterns and OH MY GOSH THE HORRORS IV'E SEEN!
some are so inconsistent as if they had been designed and saved with ms word. another loads the whole sites content on every request as an bloated object. i think of me being just an amateur developer, but these seemed likely unprofessional or overengineerd. not what i would expect from major companies.

this weekend has been kind to me. rediscovering python i happily achived the creation of two very useful automation tools for the company. now i am curious if it even will be used given the fact that it runs in the shell without a fancy ui.

vscode because it is a looker and does what i want it to do and don't have time to fiddle with others, n++ portable where i can not install something.

the final season of mr. robot and a sudden usecase had me looking into python again after a long time. forgot way too many basic things. 6 hours to open a csv and applying some regex filters from a json setting file? really? not exactly helpful while fantasizing about a developer career, or maybe the necessary hint to stick to the decent job that pays the bills.

just finished new series 4 of doctor who. how can it possibly get better from here?

sorry !dev but this is my only social environment and at least somewhat of a rant

this could be the start of a short series - special moments of finding a domain

fyip.net leads to a cosmetic company website whereas i think of this being an acronym for "fuck you in particular"

i hope all the domain hoarders die a slow painful horrible death.

a world fair has been postponed straight to the autum holidays leaving my wife all alone with the kids. can't skip being a speaker.

after 21 years today was the day i let go of my personal homepage.

still don't know whether this is just a depressive short circuit action or at least reducing channels of unfulfilled socialisation.

today i almost had my first intentional 'fuck it, i declare this bug a feature'-moment. then it suddenly worked. i don't know whether to be happy for it to work or to be annoyed not knowing what the hell happened.

i had to deliver roughly 250 gb of data. after two days he received it. on a hard drive. by parcel service.
sending it online it would have been done by the next but two weeks. what a brave new world. (still better that uruguay)

most controversial programming languages in one project. what am i doing with my life?

current language vba.
(14 / 24) - (8 / 24) > (6 / 24)
compiled to true. apparently rounding to 8 digits did the trick. quirky was that debug.printing each calculations showed exactly '0.25' for both not giving a hint about some float issue in the first place. ah, and rounding to 4 digits wasn't right either.

change your routers dns server in case your vodafone (germany) internet keeps you from getting shit done today.