My family has been assembling a DVD collection for the past couple years and it's really starting to pay off. Wow, I own this media and can play it whenever I want without ads, and fear of it randomly disappearing or having scenes cut out of it? It really feels like magic.

I've got a record player coming tomorrow. My song streaming service of choice keeps jacking up prices and now feeds me AI slop; it's time for a change.

I suspect kids growing up right now will experience a renaissance of physical media from fed-up parents.

I bought an HP Reverb G2 for DCS about 5 years ago and it worked great. When Windows started deprecating the Mixed Reality services random things started breaking, though.

I know many hackers read avherald. This is a really bizarre lawsuit that forced Simon to sell his apartment to cover legal costs.

From professional wrestling / carny language: a "work" is something staged for the crowd, whereas a "shoot" (straight shooting) is something that actually happened.

Yes, I credit Scratch as leading to my fulfilling career. I made so many games and simulations! Spending hours over the summer creating operating systems, animations, puzzles, and so on.

This was when Scratch was still a downloaded program. The community was also really encouraging back then - you'd see adults and kids commenting on new projects and cheering people on, remixing, and sharing knowledge.

Inigo Quilez's (of demoscene fame, highly talented graphics engineer) blog is one of my favorites: https://iquilezles.org/blog/

It's a time capsule from that era.

Yes? Toyota has been producing vehicles since the 30s, so two years ago is quite recent within context.

A dead simple, deterministic threshold alert on the pod restart metric in any monitoring tool could also surface this same issue.

In fact, it happened to me today at work!

It's not "Most Swiss", it's 52% of survey respondants (8,411 people) out of the 9.1 million population.

I've been plugging away on MadHatter (https://madhatter.app), a web tool for knitting/crochet projects. It works best on desktop!

Why? Many yarncrafters painstakingly build spreadsheets, or try to bend existing general purpose pixel editors to their will. It's time consuming & frustrating.

Along the way, I've solved a bunch of problems:

  - Automatic decreases (shapes the hat) / overstitching markers (shows when multiple colors are used in the same row)
  - Parameterized designs, like waves, trees, geometric shapes. No more manually moving an object by a couple of pixels, it's a simple click & drag.
  - Color palette merging (can't delete a color if you already use it in a pattern!)
  - Export to PDF (so you can print it or stick it on a tablet)
  - Repeat previews (visualize the pattern as it repeats horizontally)

The core feature that makes this more useful than most general purpose editors is that the canvas is continuous.

If you drag a shape near the right edge of the canvas, you'll see it "wrapping around" onto the right edge.

This reflects the 3D reality of a hat!

I took a look at it because you do PDF generation (I am doing front-end PDF generation in my project as well so I wanted to compare), not because I know anything about knitting or crocheting. I made a design, drew on the grid a bit, but was unable to export. I am not sure if I was missing something but it would be helpful to the user if there was a message in the export area about why they cannot export yet.

Hey, sorry about that! I have a half-hearted "premium" feature tier of which PDF is one.

I just deleted that particular if-statement so you should be able to export.

It's not anything fancy, but gets the job done. Uses pdf-lib.

No worries. I enjoy debugging UIs and giving a few pointers. PDF generation works now. The "Enter Zen Mode (upgrade plan)" button is unreadable (white text on grey background) and if I click the button it says "Your form submission has been received.".