The singing stones in the sand

It is midday and I am restless. I leave the tower to take a walk through the desert outside. My mind continues to dive back into dark places, no matter how much I try to focus on something useful.

That is part of the problem, of course: There [...]

Re: This is 41.

Aww, it is nice to see you and the kitty!

Progress and plans

Despite this WebRTC work being largely uninteresting (as it is basically just front-end stuff), I do seem to have it basically working. For this system, I am going with something simple: Starting a "chatroom" data channel and video/audio stream [...]

Uggh, so tired

I am not sure how much of this is the time of year (I remember the beginning of autumn usually being a time of year when I feel extra tired), the lack of mental engagement (this WebRTC stuff will be useful but it is SO boring to poke at and only [...]

Sluggish movement

After a pretty tedious day of poking at some WebRTC experiments, I do seem to have something which basically establishes the connection order and allows data to pass between multiple processes.

It was slow-going since I find this stuff rather [...]

Tired and next plans

I have been oddly tired, this week. I think it is due to the time of year: I recall the cold shift at the beginning of autumn coinciding with feeling unusually tired, in years past.

In terms of next projects, I think I will do that WebRTC [...]

Re: Liking how Cacophony works

Hmm, that is really strange since it means that the call is happening and correctly returning. Does anything interesting show up in the console when you visit that page?

I wondered if maybe there was a problem with IPFS Desktop or some rendering [...]

Re: Liking how Cacophony works

Hmm, does it still show the cache sizes correctly, after that? Something like "Followee cache size: " with some number of bytes? I will have to fix that before the final release so I will need to figure out what could be going wrong.

Re: Liking how Cacophony works

Yeah, I find myself often having a similar problem.

Let me know if you find any issues with that build since it should be basically the same as RC2, which will likely become the final release.

Independent games are impressively good

I really like how things like GOG and Steam have made buying independent or classic games easy, these days.

As an added bonus, Steam's forays into the console market have put emphasis on Linux compatibility.

Sure, I like my big games, like [...]

Liking how Cacophony works

Given that Cacophony work is winding down (really, just some documentation updates to the wiki and ReadMe, then it should be "done"), I do find that I like how it turned out.

Sure, it has basically no usage, but I don't know how to really get [...]

Re: The chicken or the egg?

Yikes, those withdrawals would definitely be unsettling. I hope that your doctors are giving you good guidance in this endeavour.

Re: 4.1 pre-3

If you press "Save draft", with this version, does it work?

I know that the normal way that this works, it will save before it tries to publish, so that is probably why it would save and be something you could retry if the publish failed due to [...]

Re: 4.1 pre-3

Thanks for taking a look.

Based on that image, I think I have seen that thumbnail problem before: It only seems to be on new posts which are currently being synchronized. I do plan on fixing this before the final release.

That is peculiar that [...]

Re: Cacophony 4.1-pre3 release

I am interested in seeing what you think about it. I definitely need more input into some of the UI details, as well as just a sense of how well it is working.

Re: The last while

Good to hear that you are doing some things to keep busy, at least. I feel like my own world is in a similar "waiting for something to happen while we all get older" sort of state.

By the way, I found the bug which was causing those Chromium [...]

When the excitement of youth turns to the dread of old age

While watching the video in the context (a discussion of the ending of Oppenheimer - the video does include spoilers), I was struck by something interesting (my comments here shouldn't constitute spoilers in any sense beyond a vague "feeling" - this [...]

Re: Line breaks and paragraphs in posts.

Ah, I am seeing these now. I suspect that your IPFS was dead for a few days.
Technically, when it draws a post on the main "play.html" page, it is replacing newlines with "<br />" tags. You can tell that the line does start over but I agree that [...]

Imposters of reality and knowing oneself

Something I think about, from time to time, is how I don't really know what I am.

That is, I don't know if I am any good or of any value to my profession. Instinctively, I claim that I know what I am doing and how to do things, but I am not sure [...]

Oppenheimer

Went to see this movie, today. It was very good. As others have said, it is less about World War 2 and more about Oppenheimer's life, more generally.

Fascinating and tragic tale. Apparently, it is unusually historically accurate, too (important [...]

Re: As my dad says... "I keep going!"

Sounds like things are going generally well.

Good to hear that they are giving you the go-ahead with phasing off of that medication.

That reminds me that I need to get around to updating the IPFS version for testing the next Cacophony version. [...]

Re: 4.1 pre-release 0

Hmm, did it used to work in Chrome, before the update?

I suspect that this problem is that same need to force a cache refresh. You should be able to fix that by pressing shift+ctrl+r when looking at a broken page.

I suspect that it works in [...]

Just meandering

Went for a long walk, today. My eventual destination was Dufferin Mall, to get a Cinnabon, but I figured I would take the long way.

I walked down to Queen and Dufferin, to get a sense of how far away that intersection is. A new club, Ground [...]

Nice drawing

I see what you mean, about it being anime-style. It looks good.

Definitely a busy day

It sounds like you got up to quite a bit. That is odd to hear from an ex via LinkedIn. I always like to keep that space professional so it always confuses me when a friend, with whom I have never worked, wants to connect there.