I don’t know when I’ll have time to do a proper update, so here’s a list-dump of geeky stuff I’ve been up to lately:
- I started playing Cities: Skylines two days ago. My brain is processing all kinds of patterns around roadways and pedestrian paths and stuff like that.
- Left was my 6th or so city.. Right is my 8th or so city. I keep trying to get things “perfect”.
- I made a chart of “Noise Polluting” vs “Ground Polluting”, and another chart of “Who wants to be near whom”.
- My best idea so far is a big Triangle with Commercial, Industry, and Residential at each corner.
- My 3D printer broke, and then resurrected itself – there’s a loose power wire going to the extruder. Its jiggered so that it works for now.
- I volunteered to make a unique 3D print for a fundraiser basket. I started off in blender, ended up doing it mostly in OpenJSCAD. Here are the draft (left) and almost-final-but-slight-oops (right):
- The code was all trigonometry: sine, cosine, tangents. I had to do some googling on how to get the center of an equilateral triangle. Code here: https://github.com/sunnywiz/3dAfg/blob/textUsingMath/main.jscad
- At work, not much is new. Still working in an fairly simple MVC app, which deals with gathering user input, filling out PDF’s, and submitting information to various external services.
- A little bit of PDF parsing and modification that I’d never done before.
- A little bit of image-detection using some System.Drawing libraries (to detect if what the user uploaded was a valid image)
- Mostly churning through smaller tasks in preparation for a release.
- A lot of dealing with configuration migration problems. Finding a way to export and import configurations between environments so that changes only need to be hand-typed once, and then can be copied from environment to environment.
- Next week I get to start investigating 3 services I’ve never talked to before. Exciting!
