Timasomo 2022: Final Update Thread

I've finished the UI and am pretty happy with how it turned out, the Add New Redirect button could still change though. The prose may not all be correct yet but that's close to what it will look like. Figuring out how to make the buttons square was a surprising challenge, only to remember that aspect-ratio exists so I slapped an aspect-ratio: 1; on there and problem solved. Modern CSS, how wonderful.

I also encountered a fun bug that took a few hours to figure out, one of JavaScript's infamous footICBMs. You may have heard of this little thing called a regular expression, well when you want to reuse one a lot you generally shouldn't remake it over and over. So I wrote one and naively gave it the global flag and start/end anchors (^$). Turns out when you do that, it makes the regular expression sometimes not work the way you might think it does. See exhibit A. Hours and hours of fun this language! ^/s

The coming week I'll be adding the regex redirect and any other matchers/redirects I can dream up, and test-driving the extension for myself to find any bugs/things I want to change. I also think I'll probably have to publish on Wednesday just to be safe so the CWS/MSE versions are up by Saturday.

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I’m all done with the 𝑻𝑰𝑴𝑨𝑺𝑶𝑴𝑶 𝑺𝑾𝑬𝑨𝑻𝑬𝑹, and I finished a matching one for my little dog! I’ll post pics in the showcase, but overall pleased with my crochet growth this past month. I’ve actually started on my next project: a poncho for my sister as a Christmas gift.

I'm forced to resign as well. My work schedule was erratic this month and I just couldn't bring myself to make something satisfactory. I'm looking forward to seeing what others have come up with!

I have completed my hammer.

There were a few bits bodged and couple of things I'd definitely have redone if I had time, but finished with a few hacks is still finished. I haven't tested it yet because the oil is still drying on the handle but it's a lump of metal on a stick that you whack stuff with. Not sure there's many ways it can fail, except catastrophically.. Hoping for not that.

Here is my fancy new carbide endmill spinning up (full build video for the reveal thread)

There was a wedding, my dad coming to town, and a new nephew, so I didn't get two tracks done. My plan this coming week is to get the mixing/mastering and maybe retooling of what I have done, so I can have a finished, polished product with two clean tracks.

This Wednesday evening I got an urge to create music. Thus, I made a very weird song. Yesterday, the DST shift happened, which means the 0hgamejam happened, which is a super funny thing so I participated in it and made a game. And today, I decided that I want the song I made on Wednesday to be part of a game too, so today in a few hours I made a "game" for it.

So in the end I did make some things which is cool! Looking forward to the showcase!

My apologies for falling off the face of the earth for last week's update. I started a new job that week, and ended up on travel for most of this week for work, so progress has not been what I had hoped. Realistically, I don't think I am going to be able to finish everything before Monday, but I might be able to get something respectable before the actual showcase thread next Saturday. Anyway, what I did accomplish:

• Made cuts on the main body of the shield and the handle. The shields outer and inner curves are definitely not perfect, and I somehow managed to cut the handle too long? But I think it won't be too noticeable in the finished product, and a too long piece can always be cut down.
• I made one attempt at attaching the linen facing, but went about it all wrong. I tried to spread glue over the full surface and lay it down all in one go, which I had some misgivings about but thought would work. When I went to add more glue on top of the linen to complete my composite, it bubbled horribly.
• I made a second attempt at attaching the linen, this time gluing down one section at a time, pulling the fabric taught as I laid it down on the glue, using an old library card to push out bubbles, and waiting about 60 seconds before moving on. This worked quite well, and I was able to add more glue for the top surface without issue.
• I trimmed the excess linen. I started with scissors for this, but because of the glue in the fabric, a box cutter ended up being the more appropriate tool.
• I applied my primer to the whole surface of the shield to make sure my paint sticks nicely.
• I applied a coat of green to approximately half of the shield. I think this will need at least one more coat to get everything reasonably even.

Pictures of my progress so far here.

I am also running a parallel Make Something Month on Beehaw

I've also not gotten very far, turns out the difference between "things that are Arduino-compatible" and an RP2040 is... huge, when it comes to usability. I've come to appreciate what Arduino has done for entering a field that seems so incredibly opaque (to someone who's done sysadmin and "above the kernel" programming work).

I didn't manage to get my RP2040 to do what I thought it should do. Readouts of pins make no sense and don't correlate with what happens on those pins electrically, and I'm very confused.