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Gallery: Morning In Sherbrooke
A visit to Sherbrooke in the Dandenong Ranges on Easter Monday included a walk along the falls track, a sighting of a Superb Lyrebird, and a brief exploration of Alfred Nicholas Memorial Garden. Continue reading →
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Some more #big-spending going on around here with the arrival of my brand new TV… remote control. 🤑
Yeah, I finally got a replacement remote control for my TV. And honestly, doing so was a long time in coming. The old one (right) has been failing over the last few years: with certain buttons, particularly Power and Enter, requiring significantly more force that others before responding. About a month or so ago, the Power button stopped functioning completely, and the only way I could turn the TV on was to use the Netflix button (making that button useful for the first time in years) and quickly switching to AV 2. That, plus the volume, were the only buttons working by the end.
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The weather is stubbornly refusing to turn autumnal. Fortunately the trees are happy to oblige.
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That small lizard that occasionally gets inside my house is back. Got a bit of a surprise when I saw it in the hallway today. It ran as I reached for my phone to take this picture.
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New Desk Chair Day
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Two awesome vessels: a water bottle I got from AWS reInvent, and a keepcup I bought at Coles. What makes them awesome is that they’re double-layered, so my coffee stays hot and my water stays cool.
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Here’s a useful Obsidian plugin. It allows you to use emoji short-codes in your notes, just like Slack and I think some flavours of Markdown. Good for todo lists where emojis could be used to highlight questions or priority items.
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Stunning day for bocce today. Finally nice to get some autumnal weather. Tournament ended with a draw, so no definitive winner for the 2024 season.
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This week’s earworm: Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair (Original Game Soundtrack). Might be all the Godot stuff I’m doing at the moment. 🎵
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Can definitely recommend Aseprite for making simple pixel artwork. I’m using it now for making some sprites for my Godot game I’m working on. Reminds me of the time I used MS Paint for this during the 90’s era, back when it was closer to this than what it is now.
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After the last peanut incident, I added a rule to mark emails with the lunch menu red when the word
satayornutappears in the body. It’s been working pretty well so far. There is the occasional false positive — “coconut” is a common one — but it’s doing it’s job in alerting me to be careful.
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Replacing A Side Mirror Of A Toyota Echo
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Was looking at how I could add hazards to my Godot project, such as spikes. My first idea was to find a way to detect collisions with tiles in a
TileMapin Godot. But there was no real obvious way to do so, suggesting to me that this was not the way I should be going about this. Many suggested simply using anArea2Dnode to detect when a play touches a hazard.I was hesitant to copy and paste the scene node I had which handled the collision signal and kill the player — the so-called “kill zone” scene —but today I learnt that it’s possible to add multiple
CollisionShape2Dnodes to anArea2Dnode. This meant I needed only a single “kill zone” scene node, and just draw out the kill zones over the spikes as children. The TileMap simply provides the graphics.
This discovery may seem a little trivial, but I’d prefer to duplicate as few nodes as a can, just so I’ve got less to touch when I want to change something.
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Plenty of people taking advantage of the warm weather and low water level at Pound Bend, Warrandyte today.
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“Get out more” goal for March achieved. ✅
Joined a bushwalking club and went for a hike in Warandyte.
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So, uh, Stripe; which is it? You can’t change the currency of a customer, or you can? Because I was under the impression that you were unable to change the currency once it was set. So you could imagine my surprise when I was able change the currency of a customer this morning.
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Saw a couple of spotters at the gym this morning: two brush tail possums. Mother and baby I’m guessing.
