🦷 Today after long suffering I had all of the sudden a wisdom tooth removed. What a surprise. Who would have guessed that a tooth can be responsible for headaches so bad one can’t find sleep?
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Playing an old sound box
Today I found this old sound box from 1989 by Fisher-Price. I had this as a toy when I was a kid and I was curious if it still works. It does. And now my own kids shall get this to play with it 😀
I love sci-fi fantasy and spaceships. I also love buttons and switches but it seems that designers jump the “touch screens everywhere” train. Seems there is a secret contest who can cram in the most absurd amount of screens e.g. in a movie or game cockpit. I don’t like that.
Imagine you can not eject that critical core because your fancy touch screen went byebye on the last barrage/power-surge. “Technician is informed”?
This crept in basically everywhere. Give me back buttons. Clicky buttons! Shiny buttons! Glowing buttons!
There are some games – like Orbiter Space Flight Simulator ( http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/ ) – that scratch that itch, but they tend to be on the simulation only side of things. I also like pew pew 🙁
Today @scy@scy.name sent me down the LUT rabbit hole and while I’ve no idea what I’m doing I’m happy with the improved Chroma Keying result in #OBSstudio
(Admire my beautiful colour palette provided by my little one for Father’s Day!)
Judging foreign code in WTFs/minute never gets old 😁
I’m having way too much fun with this. Did some plumbing today and this is the result 😀
I patched the http server of https://github.com/Alia5/X4-rest-server/ to send Access-Control-Allow-Origin so the browser wouldn’t refuse to load. Could set up a proxy but I wanted results fast xD
The flight instruments are from https://github.com/uw-ray/Skyhawk-Flight-Instruments and are not for #x4foundations obviously.
- Speed is also mapped to ALT as Fast Travel speed
- It reads just the camera position and not really the ship position (and since there is no up and down in space it settles fast on the new artificial horizon – may need some more tuning)
- Plumbed the speed to the pressure so it starts creeping up from 27.1 inHg to 33 inHg (max on the instrument) when speed goes over 200. Just for fun.
- Turn Coordinator is just Camera yaw + left or right based on mouse/pointer X.
- Some target data as proof of concept
This worked out better than expected and the best thing is: Doesn’t need to run on the same computer – it just has to be on the net so a tiny Raspberry and some external display would be enough for some fun cockpit building 8)
REST Server for X4 Foundations
I found https://github.com/Alia5/X4-rest-server/ today and it makes me way to excited. Tricky to set up and “just” a proof of concept (that proofs very well) but look at this: #x4foundations with a REST server that lets you read (and partially set) additional gamedata more or less live. Awesome! Could plumb all sorts of stuff on that!
Not a big fan of reveal parties n stuff so here goes what some close friends know already:
If I had just one wish
Only one demand
I hope he’s not like me
I hope he understands Creed, With Arms Wide Open
(I’m bad with words)
Are you interested in writing a modern, RESTful, scalable solution to common problems?
Learn from existing projects – like FOAAS (Fuck Off As A Service): https://github.com/tomdionysus/foaas.
Under WTFPL license and in JavaScript, of course.
Today I needed a specific really old #Firefox ESR version (don’t ask, answer may be unsettling) and look, stuff is all still on the Mozilla attic: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/45.0esr/linux-x86_64. Neat! Somewhat dusty but it still starts flawless (on a tmp profile, of course) 🙋
