Or rather, an itty-bittier update.
Or is that ittier-bitty?
Ittier-bittier?
The point is, I made stuff smaller. I’m up with a really nasty sore throat that will not let me sleep, so I decided to fix something in the cable grapher that had been bugging me. The purl images were really big dots that never looked [...]
Continuing with my new morning ritual of starting my morning off with some hacking, I did a couple of proof-of-concept things just now. The first is for a consulting gig I’m doing involving programatically filling out Adobe Acrobat forms. That went very well.
The second was to try out the new mini-tripod I bought [...]
I don’t remember where I first heard it, but there’s a maxim that I go by in software (and other areas): First make it work right, then worry about making it work fast.
I did that today with the cable grapher. I got the wrong-side row generation working even though it seemed awfully slow [...]
Here’s the progress so far on the Aran:
Kind of a washed-out picture, I know, but the couple of natural light photos I took were very fuzzy. I’ve got to learn about adjusting my camera to take better pictures.
On another front, I’ve uploaded the changes to the cable grapher. Everything seems to work fine [...]
In response to the beauteous Kaetchen’s request, there will be a photo of my progress on the Aran forthcoming. I’ve gotten through about fifteen rows since the last photo, which means almost one complete repeat of the big Saxon Braid down the middle. I feel like I’m working it pretty fast - *when* [...]
This weekend I went up to my mom and stepdad’s place in beautiful Hunt, TX, just west of Kerrville. Their computer was infected by the MyDoom virus and their printer had stopped working, so I was called to lay hands on the system.
The virus was a pain. They had Norton Antivirus installed on [...]