This looks great! I love OpenSCAD, and this is a pretty feature-rich usage.

Are you planning to print it for regular use as a calendar, or is there another use case you had in mind?

Even using bullet points can help a lot in these situations (I use them quite often in emails with non-technical recipients).

Probably Root, and Once Upon a Time. I love both games, and I think it’s at least partly the aesthetic.

It stops whatever is playing and starts playing the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

One of the things you’re seeing these days are apps made with bloated frameworks, so they’re cross-platform and easy to develop. In theory it’s great that anyone can make an app for any device with little-to-no code required, but it results in apps with absurd load times, ad bloat, and usability problems. And that’s across the board (though FOSS seems to buck that trend a bit still).

As an example, my kid’s school uses an app called Seesaw. It’s straight-up garbage. It takes several seconds to open, the back button doesn’t work, etc. At least it’s not littered with ads, but it’s a small mercy.

The web is experiencing the same thing. 60MB of ad services being loaded with every click, ads taking up 90% of screen real estate, slow everything, etc. I use some older hardware, but even websites that are mostly text are unusable without a strict adblocker. Not just annoying to use, but completely unusable.

These big frameworks were developed for large, high-traffic sites like Facebook. In theory, they’ll work for your AI-generated blog, but they’ll suck to load if you host them with a $5/month hosting plan and load 300 ad-related things on each page.

The solution is to create native apps and websites, or at least use frameworks appropriate to the task. But that would require people to give a shit, so I don’t see that happening often outside of FOSS projects (which are often a labor of love).

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

You have selected: POWER DRIVE

Maybe we’ll get a sequel to Lee Carvalo’s Putting Challenge II.

There’s a reason they restrict these things. Trying to get around them is a bad idea. If you get caught, your professional life is over.

If you’re that desperate, bring a non-office laptop and use a hotspot on your phone.

Why does the larger planet not simply eat the smaller planets?

While there are lots of programming courses out there, not many of them will explicitly teach you about good programming principles. Here are a couple things off the top of my head:

• High cohesion, low coupling. That is, when you divide up code into functions and classes, try to minimize the number of things going between those functions (if your functions regularly have 6+ arguments, that’s a red flag and should be reviewed). And when something needs to be broken up into pieces, try to find the spots where there are minimal points of contact.

• Try to divide code between functions and files in a way that doesn’t feel too busy. If there are a bunch of related functions that are cluttering up one file, or that are referenced from multiple places, consider making a module for those. If you’re not sure what “too busy” means…

• Read a style guide. There are lots of things that will help you clean up and organize your code. The guide won’t necessarily tell you why to do each thing, but it’s a great tool when you don’t have another point of reference.

If you have a chance to take a “Software Engineering 101” class, this is where you’d learn most of the basic principles for writing better code.

If you’re already really comfortable with C, you could consider Java instead of Kotlin. The syntax is more similar, but Java doesn’t have as many features built into the language (and I imagine it’ll eventually be phased out anyways). You could try a sample project in each and see which one you prefer.

You wouldn’t download a car

Hell yes I would

I’m gonna make my own welding! With blackjack! And hookers! You know what? Forget about welding!

Liberation Mono. It’s probably not the best out there, but I like it well enough.

https://youtu.be/DxztSzVlxzc?si=CGYfDsgZr4Hetmd4

A magnetized needle and a steady hand.

Hot take: since the niblonians eat all the brains in that one episode, would they be the intellect devourer devourers?

“Under the sea why not?”

Lords of the Realm 2 - I still come back to it regularly. Holds up pretty well (though battles were kinda easy to cheese).

Now hop on the probulator.