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creator of textlog, the emote you can set as mood in your profile, what limits does it have? I was trying to use the scissors emoji ( ✂️ ), but it wouldn't let me
creative technologist
creator of textlog, the emote you can set as mood in your profile, what limits does it have? I was trying to use the scissors emoji ( ✂️ ), but it wouldn't let me
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NIH syndrome? I am guilty of it too. I love implementing things from scratch, you learn a lot by doing so and you get to own the codebase end-to-end, so no surprises and fighting around others’ choices. It can get exhausting too though, in the end I succumb to using off-the-shelf components because my primary goals move at a higher level.
I don't see much point in trying to build software at a "higher level", like whole products and services. I'm going to go down low and train myself on the fundamentals. Hopefully in time I'll be able to contribute to the foundational bits.
You're right, it does get exhausting. At some point you just want to rebuild everything, which is not possible.
I needed to process 20,000 json files & 20,000 JXL files. I'm pulling together a website from them all. Anyway, started with emacs elisp to handle it all, just because I've not done that before. Went kinda ok, and I'm gonna use org-mode to export it all to a website (done that bit loads of times before).
In the end, I ended up breaking out my C programming skills (late 80s->nowish). It was a delight. Nothing more refreshing than writing raw code, that doesn't rely on 3rd party code/libs.
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let N=6,D0=[0,1,0,-1],D1=[1,0,-1,0],s=[],g={},d=x=y=xa=xb=ya=yb=0;
for(let n=0;n<N;n++){s=s.concat([1]).concat(s.map(x=>!x).reverse())}
for(let i=0;i<s.length;i++) {
x<xa && (xa=x);y<ya && (ya=y);x>xb && (xb=x);y>yb && (yb=y);
let t=s[i]?1:-1,e=(d+t+4)%4;
g[x]||(g[x]={});
g[x][y]=g[x][y]?"┼":"┌┐└┘"[(t*(D0[d]+D0[e])>0?0:2)+(t*(D1[d]+D1[e])>0?0:1)];
x+=D0[e];y+=D1[e];d=e;
}
for(j=yb;j>=ya;j--) {
let u=""; for(i=xa;i<=xb;i++){u+=(g[i][j]||"·")} console.log(u);
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