Unpopular opinion: I actually quite like the Windows 10 tile start menu thing, even though I'm on Linux.

Oops. Got a push button switch stuck in my laptop's card reader.

As it turns out, you can actually write apps for Kindles (the practice isn't supported by Amazon though).
Here's a simple news-reader thing i wrote over the past few days.

@dfox

Why not allow edits after any amount of time, but have an option to see how the post was before each edit?

Connecting my Pi to the interwebs through my computer should be easy, right?

NOPE!

Two hours of fiddling with badly-documented config files after I started, I can SSH in but not access the internet on the Pi. None of the guides seem to want to actually work...

Anyone know of good F# code profiling tools?

Fellow Android users:
Is there a live wallpaper which downloads images from a RSS feed and low-poly-ifies them, somewhere in the infinite wilderness of the Play Store?

There are a few low-poly wallpaper things that I've seen, but none with RSS.

Unicode has some really odd characters:
↯⇝ↈ⅟ⅆ⅏ÞĦſƑɐɰ‖‴⁑⁆⁋⅌∰√≂∿≍≜≓⊎≹⌛⌧⍜⎈⎉⎗⎶␖␥⒳⓾┗╫▁▨☶⛮⟗⟁⠫⨈⩶⩸⪔⫸⨊⸎⸨⺶⿆̡̢̛̲̻̺̪̙̥̓̌ͬͧͧͮͥ͂̈̏̆̀〠〾ゅザㄆ㈌︘﹫～🄹🈁🕠🦀

Some I can understand, but some are just crazy.
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‮And don't forget good old right-to-left override (202e)!

isRant <- false
I finally got a tiny white dot displayed, using modern OpenGL, in F#, through OpenTK. There would be a picture, but picture compression made the dot invisible.

For some reason my router has a telnet-based command line control panel.

JavaScript logic:

5 + false + [] is '5'.
5 + [] + false is '5false'

I hate BT.

Today, it started redirecting me to a page saying, basically, to activate their DNS server on the router for "BT Protect" and "Parental Controls" to work, despite the fact that my parents never turned it on. Their support lines appear to be staffed with Indians taught to answer very basic questions, and forwarded me to "tech experts" from BT, a service that apparently costs £8 a month, because "the issue is out of their scope".

How is this even legal?

I'd like to make a simple-ish game with OpenGL, but I'm not sure if I should use the older (fixed function pipeline) versions or the newer (programmable pipeline thingy, with shaders and stuff) ones. Thoughts?

I'm trying out Picolisp. Cool, I think, an OpenGL library. I'll try the example program.

(Clicks mouse on program window)
(A wild SIGILL appears!)

Two hours later, still trying to figure out why it's doing that, with Google and DuckDuckGo returning no helpful results whatsoever. This is very annoying.

Don't bother testing it.

I thought I at least was OK at JavaScript, but today I looked at a tictactoe implementation, and with all the fancy new syntax I have no clue what most of it is doing.

If you're feeling useless, remember that there's a download page for Internet Explorer.

I wanted to get the latest NASA APOD photo with Python. Easy, right? Nope! Firstly, their RSS feed is partly HTML, so feedparser doesn't understand it. Secondly, feedparser doesn't even get the titles of entries correctly.

Which is why I'm trying to parse it in a horrible way using Python regexp. NASA can put humans on Luna but not even get their RSS feeds to parse properly.

At last, I've got a second monitor. Unfortunately I'll have to wait a week for it to arrive. Which will be pretty annoting.

The Pilet (better names wanted) C5, basically a raspberry pi with a 5-inch screen on top.

I was writing a simple algorithm to simulate gravity. But when I tested it it produced wildly wrong results. I looked over my whole algorithm trying to find the error, but thought that the last bit, the final position update, must be fine.
I was wrong, some misplaced brackets were accidentally multiplying the position + 0.5 by the sum of the old & new velocity instead of adding the position to 0.5 those velocities.

I noticed that and fixed it, and now it runs pretty well.

A universe simulator. Because universes are pretty cool.

Installing C++ libraries. There's no standardised system to download a library and link it's headers into my project as of now, so I generally end up symlinking its headers into an include directory, which can be very annoying.

Just noticed that my laptop runs hotter and louder with xscreensavers running than when using the command line and doing heavy compilation...

My parents are quite supportive of my plan to build myself a decent computer with an actual graphics card (currently I have a laptop with an i7-4600MQ chip & HD 4600 integrated graphics). I might actually get enough money for it in some reasonable amount of time!

The solution to the Java-JavaScript problem:

Rename JS to something else, like WebScript or HypertextScript.

My school was teaching 'progamming' - Scratch and HTML. I was interested and wanted to do more advanced stuff. So, I basically browsed the E-Interwebbernet and found some good tutorials for languages I was interested in.

Just seen F# and really like it. Sadly its compiler throws all kinds of errors on Linux with Mono because for some stupid reason it uses the Mono 2.0 DLLs...

Sure, Amazon...

Spent the entire weekend getting nothing done because my xorg won't work properly with my UK keyboard.

Turns out that the keymap was "gb" and not "uk", and because of the annoying utility used to set keymaps I didn't know...