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Northampton has few death metal bands, but plenty of stoner doom.Comments
Cambridge has two total metal bands on Metallum.
Somerville also has two.
Malden had one.
Medford has four.
Arlington has two.
Nothing for Stow.
Whoa, five in Amherst, including Lich King.
One in South Hadley!
Two in Acton.
Holy shit, why are there 63 metal bands in Worcester?
Lowell has 23. Graveheart is fun. They also have an accomplished video game cover band. (Warning: NSFW/embarrassing-to-be-seen-looking-at album cover.)
Fall River has seven. There may be some correlation to economic depression.
Brockton has ten, and they've been around a while.
Everett has two.
So, maybe the correlation isn't that tight.
Swinging back the other way to rich towns, Weston has none, nor do Dover, Sherborn
Brookline has one, and Newton has two, Lexington has one, Belmont has two, and Watertown has three.
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- Dropped off, picked up, dropped off.Comments
- Dealt with a condo finance thing which only took five minutes, but still felt stressful, as it always does.
- Booked a location scouting trip.
- Looked at a few map generation algorithms. I didn't like any of them, so I'm rastering lines and circles; which I think is a variant of something I did a decade ago, but since I can't find that code, I'll never know. It's sort of working? I have at least one bug.
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Ah, that last snippet I posted provided a default argument for the entire object. Here's what you need for defaults for values in that object:Comments
export function getNByNGraph(
{ points, startProp = 'from', destProp = 'to', distProp = 'weight' } :
{ points: IdPt[]; startProp?: string; destProp?: string; distProp?: string }
): IdPt[] {
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I forget the question marks in that last post, but the idea of fixing that is exhausting.Comments
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TypeScript is good for some things. If you like named arguments in functions (functions that take objects), it gets rough, though. Here is what it looks like when you make one of those, and you want default values.Comments
export function getNByNGraph(
{ points, startProp, destProp, distProp }:
{ points: IdPt[]; startProp: string; destProp: string; distProp: string } =
{ points: [], startProp: 'from', destProp: 'to', distProp: 'weight' }
): IdPt[] {
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Asteroids have moons! The price of prosumer moons has really come down.Comments
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Somewhere around 2012, I made some map generation thing that wasn't great, but it was a lot of work. I wanted to look at it just now to see how I generally approached, but I never put it on GitHub. That was a mistake, me from ten years ago!Comments
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Nine-minute run, 13 pull-ups.Comments
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- Dropped off, picked up.Comments
- Some Client B work.
- Started 7DRL. Most of what I did was port my 2020 entry to make it work with Rollup. That took hours. Then, I decided I didn't actually want to work with most of that code. Deleted most of it just now, but I kept the Rollup and TypeScript config at least. Gonna have to make better decisions than this for the other four days.
- Took the guy to social class.
- Got gas. It was $50.
- Got groceries.
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Finished eating lunch at 10. Asses are being kicked today!Comments
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35-minute run, 13 pull-ups.Comments
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The new Chaucerian Myth album delivers the dungeon synth goods. That first song has a very Deltron 3030-sounding riff.Comments
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I think I finished one of the songs for the EP I've been planning since the summer. Back then, I thought, four songs, easy!Comments
The current state of the songs:
1. Almost done, or so I think. Just one more layer needs to be written.
2. There is a demo.
3. There is a really rough demo.
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There was a point at which my web back ups weren't working, and I wrote down that I should fix them. I put it off and just looked at them now. They started working again on their own! Probably a case of some process tying everything up until a reboot.Comments
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- Dropped off, picked up, dropped off.Comments
- Made some beans.
- Did a lot of Client B work to buffer it up in anticipation of 7DRL next week.
- Replied to a potential client.
- Figured out XP for D&D.
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A brief report on me and Ruby on Rails interestComments
2007: Everyone's doing it. I do a tutorial, then forget about it.
2018: I want to work for Bandcamp, who seems to only hire Rails devs. I think about learning it, then don't actually try.
2022: Bandcamp is bought by Fortnite; I am vindicated. - Comments
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- Dropped off, picked up, dropped off.Comments
- Paid a toll.
- Set up a chat with someone about Lexington, then later realized Lexington is probably too expensive. Still, information about schools outside Cambridge may just help in general with knowing where we can go.
- Parent tech support.
- Did laundry — including folding!
- Client B work.
- Concluded trying out Pixi. While I'm sure its implemenation is far better than the one in my own "engine", it doesn't really provide that much more, as far I can tell. I was hoping for hit detection, which seems very hairy to me, but that's beyond its scope, and I'd have to bring along my own crappy hit detection. Still might use it. I tried Phaser for a bit, but it creates a bundle that's 7 MB minimum. The build takes over a minute with just example code.
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There's a Web Monetization W3> proposal. It actually looks OK at a glance?Comments
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The MDN redesign made me think OMG have I been hackedComments
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Alex had an idea that someone out there should do: Busking by setting up a keyboard and just hitting the Demo button.Comments
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