Win of the Day

Nearly a month ago I got an oil change and found out I had a brake light out, alongside a dying battery. Instead of paying the shop the requested monies (because I can do a battery and no, you aren’t replacing my upgraded, non-working, LED brakelight with a halogen), I did the battery myself over the next day. For the brake light, I had to order from Amazon, and the replacement had been sitting by the door for what must have been two weeks. Well, long story short, I can’t believe they wanted to charge me $13 to change my tail light. I spent more on the replacement pair, but LEDs.

TL;DR I finally fixed my brakelight and can safely drive in front of police vehicles again!

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That feeling when you write a long, well thought out post, and you submit it, and it’s the first post on a new page of a thread.

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I'm ranked 59th on the Oceanic server on my favourite League of Legends character.

He's not played often and OCE is a smaller server, but I'm still pretty proud of that. Very solid win rate, so I'm hoping to get into the top 30 by the end of the week.

trueheart78 wrote:

Nearly a month ago I got an oil change and found out I had a brake light out, alongside a dying battery. Instead of paying the shop the requested monies (because I can do a battery and no, you aren’t replacing my upgraded, non-working, LED brakelight with a halogen), I did the battery myself over the next day. For the brake light, I had to order from Amazon, and the replacement had been sitting by the door for what must have been two weeks. Well, long story short, I can’t believe they wanted to charge me $13 to change my tail light. I spent more on the replacement pair, but LEDs.

TL;DR I finally fixed my brakelight and can safely drive in front of police vehicles again!

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I thought I could change the bulb in my cars headlight. Simple, pop it out, put in the new one, pop it back in. The problem being Subaru decided to encase the Tribeca headlight inside a plastic funnel the end of which was just barely big enough to wiggle my (relatively small) hand into. After removing the battery and several pieces of plastic cowling I was at least able to reach the headlight and remove the old bulb. Several cuts, failed attempts, and curses later, I dropped the replacement bulb in my efforts to get it seated and was unable to retrieve it. I paid the $30 for a mechanic to do it. I would have gladly paid another $30 if he showed me how the heck he managed it. Years later if I took a turn right, I could still hear the replacement bulb rattling around in there.

Thankfully, the current car has normal easy to reach headlight bulbs and I was able to upgrade them to LEDs easy peasy.

I get the booster shot for my COVID-19 vaccination today!

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Not a huge win, but still:

Actually had fun today writing a Python script to read a CSV file, validate its content, launch a command line utility, and update the CSV file after processing.

It's not that impressive for Python veterans I'm sure, and I'm certain there are better ways of doing it, but I had never really worked with Python before, and I was really impressed with how easy the whole thing was!

This was for a personal project, not for work, and that's always a plus!

bobbywatson wrote:

It's not that impressive for Python veterans I'm sure, and I'm certain there are better ways of doing it, but I had never really worked with Python before, and I was really impressed with how easy the whole thing was!

That’s awesome. IMAGE(https://emojipedia-us.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/thumbs/240/softbank/145/sparkles_2728.png) As a longtime software dev, that feeling never goes away for me. IMAGE(https://emojipedia-us.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/thumbs/240/softbank/145/sparkles_2728.png) I adore writing stuff like that.

Yeah I love that feeling when the unit test board goes green and everything just works. I wrote my first real Go program a couple of weeks ago and even with a stupid amount of subsystems (XML/YAML config files, command line arg parsing, DB queries, outgoing REST calls, and writing files) once I worked through the syntax it did what it was supposed to do.

New win for today: apparently four games in my PSP game collection sell for more than CAD200 on eBay. Looks like I'll have to get busy listing stuff soon.

My custom Stream Deck cover finally arrived!

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Waowww!
What do you stream?

I seem to be on a winning streak: I've just finished the inking on a comic page that has been half-finished, sitting on my drawing table since... mid-Decemberish? I still need to do the inkwash, but I won't get to that until I have four inked pages (and the one I just finished was only page 2).

Amoebic wrote:

Waowww!
What do you stream? :D

Genuinely, I use it in my day to day life as a software developer and it works wonders for me. IMAGE(https://emojipedia-us.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/thumbs/240/google/274/sparkling-heart_1f496.png)

A stream deck is mostly just an array of buttons that run macros, right?

*looks at all the extra gaming buttons plugged into his PC*

Nope, can't imagine how that would be generally useful...

trueheart78 wrote:
Amoebic wrote:

Waowww!
What do you stream? :D

Genuinely, I use it in my day to day life as a software developer and it works wonders for me. IMAGE(https://emojipedia-us.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/thumbs/240/google/274/sparkling-heart_1f496.png)

For auto-posting Swift gifs to your team slack channel?

Vargen wrote:

A stream deck is mostly just an array of buttons that run macros, right?

*looks at all the extra gaming buttons plugged into his PC*

Nope, can't imagine how that would be generally useful... :)

You would be correct! Extremely useful, having unlimited pages, profiles tied to the focused application, etc. So many less links to repos I need to remember, meeting dial-in's I need to look up, and console commands that have been wiped from my brain since I've slept.

Bonus points above a normal macro keyboard: dope images. Here's a very general page of icons, since it's mostly work-related and I'd rather not get in trouble. This is a personal page.

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Mixolyde wrote:
trueheart78 wrote:
Amoebic wrote:

Waowww!
What do you stream? :D

Genuinely, I use it in my day to day life as a software developer and it works wonders for me. IMAGE(https://emojipedia-us.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/thumbs/240/google/274/sparkling-heart_1f496.png)

For auto-posting Swift gifs to your team slack channel?

No, I actually have a completely different setup for that, if you can believe it.

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So I'm standing in line for my appointment to get my first COVID shot and the guy tells me that my insurance card is expired. He says he'll push it through on my drivers license. He then tells me that that is also expired. Do they send me home? No. He tells me to fill out a sheet and I get the shot ten minutes later.

Grenn wrote:

So I'm standing in line for my appointment to get my first COVID shot and the guy tells me that my insurance card is expired. He says he'll push it through on my drivers license. He then tells me that that is also expired. Do they send me home? No. He tells me to fill out a sheet and I get the shot ten minutes later.

Not sure how you're gonna drive home, but at least you'll have your first shot down!

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As fast as possible, to minimize the time in which you are in danger. This is not legal advice.

Heh, I had to stick around for about 20 minutes to make sure my arm didn't explode or something. It was long enough for achieve my second win of the day. They had Edy's Ice Cream sitting next to Ben & Jerry's. B&J was half the size $1.50 more than Edy's so I walked home with twice the amount of Ice Cream I would have going anyplace near my apartment while paying less for it. Mint Chocolate chip for lunch.

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Electric Boogaloo

I could've done a lot of things today at work, like I should have. Instead, I transitioned away from my old website URL subdomain and revamped my site icon, landing page, etc.

https://www.trueheart78.com

trueheart78 wrote:

I could've done a lot of things today at work, like I should have. Instead, I transitioned away from my old website URL subdomain and revamped my site icon, landing page, etc.

https://www.trueheart78.com

Nice work. I have to do something similar with mixolyde.net one of these days.

I love it! I think we should all make little personal websites <3

Looks great mixolyde!

charlemagne wrote:

Looks great mixolyde!

Thanks! It's just GitHub Pages and Markdown.

Mixolyde wrote:
charlemagne wrote:

Looks great mixolyde!

Thanks! It's just GitHub Pages and Markdown.

Two of my favorite things!

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