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Richard @benjymous.bsky.social · 18h

Also don't forget you can use a serial terminal and view the log messages on the physical device, too

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Richard @benjymous.bsky.social · 1d

My Only Other... thingy... S

Yes, we are those.

Richard @benjymous.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah - like that gap where your thumb is!

I was super conscious of it as the previous owners had replaced it before, and managed to pick one that didn't quite leave enough room, meaning the oven wasn't fully screwed in, so I didn't want to make the same mistake a 2nd time!

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Richard @benjymous.bsky.social · 1d

I had the same issue trying to buy an oven - we have the power socket at the top of the cabinet, so I needed to check that the oven would have an ample cutout at the back for that, but they just don't show clear images - even their technical dimensions are just a vague "it's this deep"

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Richard @benjymous.bsky.social · 1d

I've really enjoyed making a playdate game, since it's got a small set of requirements, but is pretty painless to get working (I got my game up to the point of near release without even owning the actual hardware)

Also helps having a community which actually wants to spend money on small games

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Richard @benjymous.bsky.social · 1d

He can count to 1, but not to 2?

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Richard @benjymous.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I'm the same size, and it's an utter crapshoot whether a 32" waist will be too tight, or hang off me like clown pants

Richard @benjymous.bsky.social · 2d

Have you gone outside and screamed at the sky yet? Or a cupboard if you worry about your neighbours!

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Richard @benjymous.bsky.social · 2d

How does that even work? And I notice they're very careful not to actually name the game they're apparently using for promo without approval...

Richard @benjymous.bsky.social · 2d

Someone's probably shared a starter pack again

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Richard @benjymous.bsky.social · 2d

Waiting for the octo-bus?

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Richard @benjymous.bsky.social · 2d

Does a tile type of 'Mcguffin' count?

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Richard @benjymous.bsky.social · 3d

In a long ago place, in a far away time,
The villagers cast out one whose song didn't rhyme...

Defeat the Mysterious Monsters! Retrieve the four Mysterious Musical Notes and collect the Mysterious Gems!

sing-song ding-dong coming to @play.date Catalog on the 9th of December!

#playdate #gaming

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Richard @benjymous.bsky.social · 3d

In a long ago place, in a far away time,
The villagers cast out one whose song didn't rhyme...

Defeat the Mysterious Monsters! Retrieve the four Mysterious Musical Notes and collect the Mysterious Gems!

sing-song ding-dong coming to @play.date Catalog on the 9th of December!

#playdate #gaming

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Richard @benjymous.bsky.social · 3d

We had a dog who went blind, and had a similar event when she just bumbled off the canal footpath. Again, she got around mostly fine though smell, though if your walk ever crossed your own path you'd have to just wait for her to follow around the whole loop again!

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Richard @benjymous.bsky.social · 5d

Once when working on graphics code, my fingers decided to type "widht" and "heigth" everywhere. Next day it flipped back, and I spent hours going utterly mad as I couldn't see the typo at all, but none of the code would work when I tried to call getWidth() instead of the declared getWidht()

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Richard @benjymous.bsky.social · 6d

In a similar vein, IRC channels for a web based strategy game, over 20 yrs ago

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Richard @benjymous.bsky.social · 8d

Nick just being?

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 8d

This is just incredible

A tiny, tagged Monarch butterfly has flown from Southern Ontario in Canada to *Oklahoma* in a couple of weeks, as part of their migration

And they haven't got google maps open on their phones either, they just know where to go

Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 9d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿