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Working on some Go code. Implemented a function, which returns a function, which returns a type that itself has a function which itself returns a function. Four levels of function nesting. Might be a record in my Go career (excluding unit tests).
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At RSS feed reader zero, apart from two articles I’m “saving” for this evening.
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Argh! Why hasn’t Go got a standard UUID type by now? If any type should be included in the standard library, it’s this one.
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Finally added some checkpoints to level 1-3. Also added some animated water as a new type of hazard. The asset pack I’m using came with a single “wave” tile. I used Aseprite to shift that across 4 cells and configured it as an animation in the tile set. I was planning to add some background waves too, but that made it a little too busy and hard to discern. Less is more here.
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I feel good things can come from Apple’s recent rebranding of Apple TV+. One example: the sentence “watching Apple TV on Apple TV on my Apple TV” can now be uttered without the listener thinking we’re engaging in word play. 😀
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I’ve been using ChatGPT Pulse for a couple of weeks now; often enough to be asked to fill in a user survey, which I took the opportunity to answer. Here’s my response to what can be done to make Pulse better:
Please make Pulse available via RSS/Atom. I find the information that Pulse produces to be useful, but I tend to not see it most days as I do most of my online reading via an RSS reader. Being able to read this in an RSS reader would be extremely useful to me.
Yes, ’tis true. Pulse is quite good, but can be so much better if I’m able to read it alongside my other feeds.
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A small devlog entry today. Just painting the level, adding background tiles and kill-zones. I also added a frame around the lift door, just to define it a little. Discovered that it’s probably best not to have sprites with non-even dimensions. It makes positioning them a little awkward, resulting in fractional offsets. I elected to include a transparent row at the top of the frame sprite, just to avoid this.
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Some follow-up to my post about deleting URL suggestions from Vivaldi’s URL bar: I did a quick search, and it looks to be possible:
- Bring up the bad suggestion in the URL bar.
- Press Shift+Delete.
Tried it on my dodgy URL and it seems to work. Suggestion doesn’t need to be in History either.
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I wish there was a way to get Vivaldi to “forget” a URL I entered in the past, or recognise that a URL that never actually resolved is not worth remembering. I mistyped a URL once, and now it shows up as the first choice when I want to visit a site.
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Went to a local art exhibition over the weekend. There was a striking watercolour of a peacock that I was interested in. I said to myself “I’ll come back Sunday afternoon to buy it” but I completely forgot. Although, casting my mind back, it may have already been sold.
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Devlog: Godot Game - A Trigger That Reveals Secrets
A new mechanic has been developed to reveal hidden areas in a game when players approach, using an
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There was talk of journalling in the Hemispheric View’s Discord and it got me curious about Apple Journals. When that first came out it was iPhone only, and I was unable to try it out. But they’ve since included it on iPadOS with the iOS 26 release. So I booted it up and to a quick look.
If I had to choose one must-have for a Journalling app, its exports. A journalling app must support exporting your posts to an open format, preferably one that is readable within a text editor. Apps come and go, but if what you’re writing is to last decades, you’d want a format that’ll outlive them all.
This was a sticking point with Apple’s release of Journals, but it looks like they’ve addressed that. You can export your journal as HTML documents, even on iPad. I’d prefer Markdown myself but HTML is still an open standard that is readable in any text editor so it’s a decent choice. Granted, I only exported one journal with one post and zero images, so I can’t tell you the limits of these exports, but it looks promising.
So would I use it if I wasn’t journalling already? I’d probably say I would, if I had an iPhone. Exporting is still something you need to remember to do manually, so I probably would’ve moved to something like Obisidan eventually: they work on an open format natively. But I wouldn’t have dismissed Apple’s Journalling app.
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Devlog: Godot Game - More on Level 3-1
Placing the exit and adding an invulnerability power-up. Continue reading →
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From the archives:
“Hark! Is that the sound of singing angles, I hear?”
“No, it’s just a Hyundai EV reversing.”
There’ve been quite a few people playing music through their phones’ loudspeaker this morning, so I thought this was another instance of that. But no: electric car reversing.
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Part of me is wondering whether I should move my Devlog posts to another blog. I like writing them, but I can’t imagine most entries being more interesting than “did this, went okay.” And I feel like they’re overwealming this blog in a way. No decision made yet, just waffling in public.
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Some advice for the TLDraw Obsidian plugin maintainer: drop everything after the words “and” and “then” in these menu items, then remove duplicates. This should bring the menu items down to a number that’s easy to scan. I can manipulate tabs myself, but finding what I want here is a lot.
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Devlog: Godot Game - More On Level 3-1
Continuing level 3-1, plus adding some more elements to stop long falls. Continue reading →
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Enjoy getting power bills and seeing a credit thanks to my solar panels. Really happy I got those installed. ☀️
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Okay, up go SPF shields. After seeing spam emails impersonating my domain, I’ve checked my SPF settings and discovered they were pretty lenient:
v=spf1 include:example.com ?allWell, no more. If the email is not from Fastmail, it gets blocked:
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Devlog: Godot Game - More On Level 3-1
Continuing the build out of the new zone for level 3-1, plus implement a new variant of the balloon with mine entity. Continue reading →
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I’m a little surprised I haven’t seen this sooner. Paper-looking sign with dynamic information on it? I think this is an eInk display. If so, it’s the first time I’ve seen it used this way.
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Looks like I’ve already written more posts this year than I have last year — 846 vs 843 — and there’s still two and a bit more months left. Not that this is a goal, but I’m wondering if I’ll hit 1,000 posts just in this year.
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Devlog: Godot Game - The Back Third of Level 3-1
Redoing the back third of level 3-1 to be a closer match to the front third. Continue reading →
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Interesting that given a bag containing both a laptop and a 1 litre water bottle, it’s the water bottle, not the laptop, that determines whether the bag is heavy or not (based on how much water it contains).
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Devlog: Blogging Tools - Podcast Clip Favourites
Finishing off the favourite podcast clips feature. Continue reading →
