- When smelting bronze, make sure the metal is hot before stamping a letter into it. If you don’t, it’ll crack and look like shit, ruining the effort you put into it. Goddamnit.
- Investigate more into how to focus objects in the scope when doing astrophotography. I learned (somewhat) about the Bahtinov Mask, and am considering the fact I need to get one / print one for my scope.
- I also forgot about the SOS plugin for WinDBG and spent an hour or two looking at executable code in the heap in WinDBG, trying to figure out why there were no symbols.
On the bright side: my ancient WRF code is mostly functional after almost a decade. So, yay me from 10 years ago. Looking forward to bringing that back and starting to play with weather models again.
All in all, a good day. It’s one of those “building days” where you don’t shine but learn stuff that might eventually pan out. One cool thing: I did get the truck passenger-side wheel well fixed. It was one of those common situations where it seemed more complicated than it really was.
Also, I learned that suet involves fat. I’m kind of dumb and thought it was a type of seed. Thanks Nikki.
Wednesday/Tomorrow: I’d really like to move back to working on the Android GStreamer media player. And wrap that up. It’ll require fixing an issue with GLib on down-level Android devices. Somebody supposedly has a fix. It’ll involve me using Cerbero to rebuild a custom patch for GStreamer.