diff --git a/source/2021/05/04/chips-for-week-17-2021.markdown b/source/2021/05/04/chips-for-week-17-2021.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..da4e300da --- /dev/null +++ b/source/2021/05/04/chips-for-week-17-2021.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +``` +published = 2021-05-04T05:41:15Z +title = 'Chips for week 17, 2021' +type = 'tweet' +tweet_id = "1389448863338094592" +retweets = 0 +favourites = 0 +source = "twitter" +twitter_account = "cackhanded" +source_url = "https://twitter.com/cackhanded/status/1389448863338094592" +tag = [ "weekchips",] +``` + +Another week, and I’m still [stacking chips][chips]. Last week’s +[chips][markers] looked like this: + +[chips]: /2020/06/19/my-week-in-poker-chips +[markers]: /2020/08/22/my-weekchips-markers + +

+ +## Intention + +At the start of the week, I wrote down these high level goals: + +1. Fix partial generation in Flourish +1. Another Ezio chapter +1. Finish restoring old content into site +1. Improve site navigation +1. More Eurovision data + +I only did one of those. + + +## Update + +Recently I discovered a bug in Flourish. It should be possible to generate a +subset of a site with a command like `flourish generate /2021/?`, with the +question mark being a wildcard. On this site as it stands today, that should +generate 277 pages, but it was generating less than 10. I budgeted most of +Monday to fix this, figuring it might be hard to track down what was wrong. I +had it wrapped up and committed before lunch. I spent the rest of Monday +recording many hours of game footage to assemble into the next two Ezio +chapters. + +Unfortunately, when I loaded it up into Davinci Resolve Tuesday, it was all +unusable. + +Until now, I've been recording this footage on an old (circa 2012) laptop, +using a cheap (£15) USB capture device. It has occasionally caused problems, +most commonly being a strange audio echo. A quick reboot fixes this, and I got +into the habit of recording a few seconds and playing it back before a +recording session to ensure that wasn't happening. + +But towards the end of recording Horizon Zero Dawn I had a couple of times +where the audio and video would just slide in and out of sync. It was on some +extra footage outside of the main storyline and only happened briefly so I +didn't bother rerecording it. As usual I turned the laptop off and on again, +and it didn't reoccur. Until now. Except now, even if I restart the laptop, +the problem comes back almost instantly. So now my PS4 is up in my study, and +hooked up to my newer, much more powerful iMac with a new (although still +cheap) video capture device. + +As the chips illustrate, I spent most of the rest of the week not doing +anything in my study. Our smol cat [Itsy][itsy] stopped eating anything, +including treats, wasn't drinking, and was listless and acting uncomfortable. +So she went off to the vet where she stayed overnight to get fluids and for +them to monitor her temperature. She's back home now with a course of +antibiotics and an appetite stimulant, and seems mostly okay. But that extra +worry made it hard to concentrate or motivate myself. + +I spent the rest of the week achieving nothing, occasionally doing something +with recovered old site content, occasionally just staring at the computer, +occasionally playing Factorio. + + +[itsy]: /tags/itsy/