@signal9 FWIW, first time I tried printing with PETG, I used a PEI print bed sheet and wrecked it (the PEI layer peeled right off). Application of a glue stick layer helped for the second try on the flip side. Also got a powder coated satin steel sheet, which worked no problem with PETG
@signal9 Yeah, maybe I just had beginners un-luck? :blob_grinning_sweat:
holy shit, someone managed an attempt at a Wolfenstein 3D style FPS on a stock Commodore 64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36dzAMgu0i0
@riley Looks like... Cascadia Code, bold, 14 point. I think it came with Windows Terminal? https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code
Trying an hour or so of streaming on a school night, probably assembling an #rc2014 module https://www.twitch.tv/lmorchard
Weirdly excited to get a word processor working?
Also funny because one of the first things Iād gotten running on my Apple II after getting ADTPro working was AppleWorks
I beg of you, web site designers, just let me scroll through a page and stop trying to make my scroll-wheel the hand-crank of your obnoxious hurdy-gurdy of a marketing presentation
This is the latest example, a page for the new Orox bike from Tern.
I like their cargo e-bikes. I'd like to flick through this page to get a sense for the new one. Instead I get this janky jerky twee slide show where I can't figure out how to stop on any particular bit of info without getting stuck halfway through a transition.
@randomgeek Yeah! Actual hurdy-gurdy's are neat!
Oh! And what's worse: Trying to scrub through this page by grabbing the scroll bar with my mouse, I also realized there's periodically a navigable carousel of stuff to stop and click through.
So, while they're doing all these fancy slide-wipes and stutter-stop animations in reaction to my scrolling - the actual info I want to see is hidden behind next / previous arrows I have to stop and click on. Crimony, this is awful
@catraxx Yeah, I used to work on marketing web sites and remember awful dumb clients :blobsadleft: Wish I could tell their client as a customer that this is ass
@sysop408 It's annoying me because I'm like, I need a Reader Mode for this brochure - and then I'm like what am I doing with my life
@redoak Oh, you just reminded me that there is in fact a tool library in close walking distance by me that I've been meaning to join for ages
A little show & tell and soldering stream on a school night, exported to YouTube. Starting assembly of an #rc2014 digital I/O board. Trying to see if this is a thing I could do for an hour or so, every now and then
@nomad That's kind of where I'm at, I never got to build a kit computer back when I was a kid and this looked ideal. Now that it's working, I'm getting slightly interested in actually learning how CP/M runs on it. Also, have some vague notions of maybe designing a board to plug into it someday
@c0debabe I used to do this sort of thing for a living in Flash and Shockwave and ughhhhh yeah. Glad not to have worked with these sorts of clients for a long while
@c0debabe I've had folks swear by chugging an espresso, then napping for 20 minutes and waking up feeling amazing.
I've never been able to make it happen because a) I can sleep through an espresso and b) it takes me an hour to get to sleep almost no matter what, so I'm not a good napper
@mathowie whoa, the blog re-do worked for you, that's like finding a real picture of bigfoot! I keep meaning to do it, but not expecting it to get me writing
@mediaarchaeologylab this is a macintosh system... i know this!
@mathowie I should try Ghost... I've bounced between WordPress and my own markdown-and-git-and-run-a-script tools for years and they're both a pain in their own ways
Several folks have mentioned hurdy-gurdy's favorably in replies, which makes me feel bad I slandered the instrument here.
I wonder if anyone's used scrolljacking to actually hand-crank a hurdy-gurdy simulator on a web page? Or even a music box? Or a player piano? That'd be a neat toy
@mathowie And now I've got a personal goal to ride that trail sometime :thinkhappy:
@DetersHenning Also, the New York Times has (ab)used the scrolljacking technique for "storytelling" purposes in a few stories over the past 5 years or so. So, I imagine lots of folks think it's engaging and fancy
Telling myself I don't actually need a vintage DEC VT100 terminal in my house
@hypolite same here, pretty much: I use a trackball and not a trackpad as my daily driver