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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.
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Another Twitter embed bites the dust:
That’s all of them now. I can’t see any more uses of that short-code here. Guess I was right not to do that too often.
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Have pulled down the bit of fence extension that was falling down. I don’t think it was recoverable, or at least not with the wear it had endured plus my limited carpentry skills. But that’s fine. At least it’s neater now.
