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.

it feels a bit wierd to open a word file that processes an access-filtered excel file to optionally generate an outlook mail.

happy range(1577833200, 1609455599)

since my favourite phone automation app llama is no more i discovered automate. you build your 'scripts' with functional blocks. it's quite fun but debugging is messy.

mildly interesting: implementing a guided setup instead of defining the values directly leaves me with 77% setup and ui vs 23% actual task.

oh no! my greatest nemesis!

meme says python lives on land because it is above c-level but was developed in amsterdam which is below sea level

stop reposting lies.

anyone else having issues with starting the app since build 1.14.0.2? did not find another rant and filed an issue.
xperia z5 compact with stock android 7.1.1, switching on and off did not help.

feels bad when the front door of home is closed.

finally using git portable with usb repo for work related things! (no online repo possible) feels good man!

thanks to my wonderful wife i had the best holiday for years.

i present to you:

'made fuzzysearch more precisely'

while being technically true this tipsy commit is a bit strange in hindsight.

i have this js object containing an array with about 7000 values. firefox, chrome and even ie11 need about 1.5 to 2 seconds to process it.
but edge takes 10 times longer! does anybody know about this behaviour? i could not find anything.

so, serious question. i just find results for ie being slow but THIS time it does its work properly. console shows no errors. is there information about edge-specific issues with javascript?

wtf! the star trek: picard trailer made me (37m) literally cry out of sheer nostalgia.

why am i not able to find a way to use multidimensional associative arrays in vba?

plus: why am i too dumb to see my own data structure and process data sheets in a complicated way instead of using prepared data with a simple string split?

the current power outage is an additional reminder why i will always decide for a notebook. no internet though, so that is the ending for my spare programming time :(

thanks to @olback i learned about localStorage today. excited me started to implement this. after half of the refactoring was done i had the brilliant idea to test it with the intended ie11 after everything was fine with firefox. only to find out localStorage is not supported for local sites.
fml

more often than not i receive devrant notifications only with wifi connection but not with mobile data despite a good connection. is this a setting i missed or just an odd behavior by my isp or something else?

1. finally something listens and does as i say
2. direct human interaction is not neccessary
3. creation out of nothing is still impressive

(how) is it possible to run a shell command from a websites javascript? i am aware of the well known security issue but have a use case where i can assume it less critical. currently using ie11 activex which is fine but not supported on other browsers and hell i want not to be dependent on ie! tried to find it myself of course but without success.
in detail i want to print several pdf files with one click based on a javascript array using plain vanilla js.
am i missing something or am i out of luck?

had a question from a friend of a friend regarding a website with search function but javascript only. did his homework. appealing.

i just released my first open source project with effort to make a comprehensible documentation for others to use as well as repetitive refactoring to not embarrass myself.
i am equally excited and knowing no one will care about that.

it is based on my effort to make my companies workflow more effective, knowing well this is just a temporary solution in advance to a professional developed system as opposed to having no system at all. so all of this work will fade into oblivion eventually.

i felt this has been too much work just to be forgotten someday so i cling to my naive hope someone might benefit from that and maybe i get one or three internet points.

in case someone is interested in a free quality management software for document control and access with no real state of art, you might find it interesting to visit my qualitymanagement repo

filled train. to the left business men with maximum size balls, to the right an elderly woman talking nonstop to a stranger. and no power outlet for my drained computer.

so this is the first time i am actively denied content because i am not easily traceable. what about no?

translates to:
dear readers, unfortunately there is a problem displaying our content. please open the article with another browser.

displayed using ddg-mobile browser

i just wanted to make a decent documentation and now the sun is rising.

i strongly recommend considering multi language support before starting a project. implementing it afterwards istn't that much fun as anticipated

my first project was a star trek themed text based rpg adventure. it was a hell of spaghetti of if queries and gotos in gw basic. later these kind of things got something like an ui.

my first experience was my father doing mandelbrot sets from a magazine and i was watching building them up green pixel for greenpixel on an 8086 pc. it was raining outside and i was sitting in an arm chair with a warm blanket. this cozy feeling remains until today and might explain my personal attachment for this topic.
fortunately his failed attempt to introduce me into programming doing a morsecode translator did not stop me for long.

it was all fun and games but suddenly i get a bit nervous since my software will be responsible for almost all aspects of our department from monday on 😱

well well well.
i seem to like javascript syntax more than php.
there, i said it.

it´s not a post about php being bad. in fact i did and do nice things with it. but in the last few months i learned a lot about javascript and now the time has come i get a grasp on opinions of php being inconsistent. and a growing feeling of love for objects. maybe i just have not reached the dark pits of strange js-comparisons like similar objects not being equal. but still...
no, php, i will not abandon you. but sometimes we have to talk about our feelings.