Wow, A Newsletter
As I said in the last post, I'm hoping this is going to become a regular feature on here. How regular depends on how often I have enough stuff to write a page or two about, I guess.
Puters
Big fun one recently: this PR against the Twilight Princess item randomizer generator makes it 8-10 times faster. I'm working on writing this up as its own blog article, but the summary: I had to learn C# and parsers are tricky for the inexperienced.
I'm also working on writing a terminal emulator! Hopefully I'll have more to share on that soon, but it's kind of in a tedious stage of things right now. Why is the standard for these things "bug-compatible with a pile of discrete logic from the 1970s" again?
Late-breaking work update: things are starting to move forward with our prospective first customer! I don't think I've talked about work much on here (or on cohost), but I'm doing a little startup with some long-time friends and coworkers. It's been pretty rough going the past few months but we got some news today that might be a light at the end of the tunnel.
Photography
I took some photos walkin' around in Contra Costa County the other day. Check 'em out on the other half of the site.
Sports
- [esports (world of warcraft), me] Trivial Pursuit-WyrmrestAccord is 7/8N in Nerub-ar Palace after 1 session (realm 5th).
- My best performance: 56th percentile (n=1,033) on Nexus-Princess Ky'veza.
- We only had time for two pulls on the last boss, so we're hoping that we can regroup and open the Thursday night session with a quick kill and move on to Heroic difficulty.
- [american football] The San Francisco 49ers are 1â0 after defeating the New York Jets 32 to 19.
- Nice to get a win despite star running back Christian McCaffery being absent in person and star wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk being absent in spirit.
- [baseball] The Chicago White Sox are 33â114 (.224).
- If the season ended today, the White Sox would have the worst single-season winning percentage since the 1899 Cleveland Spiders.
- The White Sox are further out of 4th place in their division than any other team is out of 1st place (by 8.5 games).
Cool Stuff from Elsewhere
- Top Twilight Princess speedrunner bewildebeest completed a tool-assisted speedrun of TP Glitchless (ăă°ăȘă) Any% in 4:35:37, about 45 minutes faster than his RTA world record.
Comments? Questions? Saw a cool bug? E-mail morgan@wolfe.garden, or the same on Mastodon.
Seriously, send me an e-mail. It doesn't have to be a professional one or anything.