Kevin Turner @keturn@toot.cat

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blockygameplatform Teresology broke a 14-month dry spell with a new release recently, inspiring me to give it another spin. So I find myself writing some Java recently.

I came up with some unit-test code I'd love to have suggestions on.

The app uses JavaFX for the UI, so there are some observable beans, and I'm using ListenableFutures (from Guava) because that's the concurrency abstraction I'm most familiar with, and javafx also has an event system. Some other variants on `Future` jumbled in there too.

This code is at a point where I think it works and is reasonably readable: https://github.com/keturn/TerasologyLauncher/blob/6454f652ce2da1b7e98054c1ba9306d9f5697080/src/test/java/org/terasology/launcher/game/TestRunGameTask.java#L210

but the mishmash of different concurrency abstractions makes me want to know from more fluent java-testers if there's a more idiomatic way to write it.

#gamedev #javafx #unittests #java #junit5

Talking about version control conventions today, and I realized that if your audience is secondary-school-aged, the Linux kernel has been using git since the time they were born.

And git has been the most popular version control system for at least half their life.

#old

Y'all, I posted that question in 2008, when I was working with an earlier generation of web startup, about to be laid off in a different recession.

Ages ago in software-years, and yet only *slightly* before Python 3.0 was released. ​

Yesterday Saaj <https://recollection.saaj.me/‌> posted this excellently documented answer about tracking down memory leaks in a Python process:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/61260839/9585

The StackOverflow comment box says it is not to be used to say "Thanks!", so I don't know how to award extra kudos any more directly than shouting into the void here.

Also good to know pyrasite still works, as does Dozer: https://pypi.org/project/Dozer/

but, hmm, since a lot of fedi-culture is ephemeral, which is also true of snapchat and its descendants, a community server could moderate its storage costs by having videos self-destruct.

The last few weeks have had me recording and sharing a lot more video clips, which is a phenomenon in itself.

But on fedi, I'm more aware of how many more bytes video is than text, and someone has to pay for those hard drives 'cuz they're not made out of venture capital pixie dust. It gives me pause.

Learning things! The winglike things there are from an aftermarket drill press attachment. That whole thing can be unthreaded from the drill shaft without any set screws or anything.

Dear Lazyweb, how do I take the drill chuck off my Black and Decker 7144?

Video is just a little clip trying to show what it looks like.

@danajaybein@twitter.com has provided lyrics to Coronavirus Rhapsody: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1240307541491494912.html

[…]
Go take a walk, or ride a bike, or dig into an unread book;
Avoid the bars and restaurants and carry out, or learn to cook.
There's lots of stuff to watch online while keeping safe from sinus ills
(In this case, it's far better to enjoy your Netflix MINUS chills)!
Adopt a pet, compose a ballad, write some earnest doggerel,
And help demolish Trump before our next event inaugural.
Pandemics are alarming, but they aren't insurmountable
If everybody pitches in to hold ourselves accountable.
In short, please do your part to practice prudent co-existence-ing,
And be the very model of effective social distancing!

— Eliza Rubenstein

[2/2]

I am the very model of effective social distancing!
I listen to the experts on the topic of resistance-ing;
I know that brunch and yoga class aren't nearly as imperative
As doing what I can to change the nation's viral narrative.
I'm very well acquainted, too, with living solitarily
And confident that everyone can do it temporarily:

[…continued, 1/2]

— Eliza Rubenstein

train of thought:

• I need to get up from the computer.
• What's a program that will kick me off the computer?
• Oh, `workrave` is still maintained, but the website is derelict? Do they need any help to get the new one ready?
• Here's a different program in a language I like better. But some of these dependencies seem superfluous. Could I reimplement those functions to streamline it?
• This API says it's been deprecated in favor of something about a "Seat." What's a Seat?
• I'm still hungry.
• I need to get up from the computer.

I always second-guess the spelling of #florespondence

#florespondece from Wednesday the 12th.

(I'm working on a pull request I started at the #PyCascades sprint yesterday, that's what reminded me of this.)

This repo doesn't live here, I'm just making PRs: <https://gist.github.com/keturn/9ea3aa7e005cb7cfa5b0bb236c5526e8>

In the GitHub workflow (which is ubiquitous these days), you submit contributions by forking the repo, which shows up prominently on your profile and namespace.

But I'm not maintaining a long-lived branch and this URL isn't one anyone should use to reference the upstream project.

I've made a little script that replaces the default branch in your forked repo with a sign that says "Pull-Request Only Fork."

Okay Pythonistas. Pythians. Portlanders and other Cascadians. I'm not at #PyCascades today but I'm signed up for Monday's sprints.

wanted: a browser/window manager plug-in that detects if I am mindlessly flipping between windows in a novelty-seeking cycle, and kicks me off for a while.

(I've had some success with things like Leechblock, but this would be more checking behavior than strictly filtering by destination.)