Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

Begging me not to leave, Amazon Prime claims I've saved $19.50/month in shipping fees since March 2017. I'm ... dubious.

Cancelling that one for the same reason I left the birdsite: billionairism is immoral.

I watched Werner Herzog's "Into the Inferno". Some impressive volcano footage (and a lengthy digression about life in North Korea), but I was disappointed that it wasn't either more informative or weirder.

​Werner's best line: "I am the only one in filmmaking who is technically sane."​

On the other hand, what if we moved slowly and fixed things?

I got an error message I don't understand. As an experienced programmer, I know to search the web for a solution.

#SoftwareDevelopment #Programming

Random number generators: Sorry, computers are deterministic. We can technically only give you *pseudo*random numbers.

#unity3d: Oh, you expected pressing the same button again, without changing anything else, to produce the same result?

I keep getting excited and then re-learning that exclamation points aren't allowed in git commit messages.

Pickachu is a bluegrass-type Pokémon.

#bluegrass #pokemon

Impersonating Werner Herzog is a complicated profession.

After two days, I got the feature (persistent inventory) to work!

#unity3d

"Fun" parts of programming with #Unity3d:

Having seven different objects with the same name (the GameObject, the script, the model, the texture ...).

Multithreaded, event-driven programming, with dozens of objects you didn't write invisibly calling things in an unpredictable order, leaving no way to test or trace through the process.

#SpaghettiCode #TearingOutMyLuxuriantFlowingHair

The platypus conspiracy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9FRxokO2so

I turned my broken program into a smaller broken program, and that's progress.

The state of the world is different from, and in many way better than, your perceptions.

https://upgrader.gapminder.org/

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