Sigh of Excitement

After a 110-5 score line, it became apparent change was needed in the OTL. Well, change is coming. This update should go live tomorrow. https://roncli.com/blogger/4346341627055792095/a-two-tiered-untiered-otl

Crazy post on Tumblr about YouTube and the downside of what they consider "success". h/t to Lilac, not something I would reblog over there so here it is instead. https://at.tumblr.com/ohnoitstbskyen/the-overwhelming-misery-of-going-viral-on-youtube/76rusi9hdajt

Hmm, apparently you can't add a text description to an image upload after the fact. Would be a nice addition for when you forget.

For those wondering, that's a bottle of Ramune and a box of Pocky.

Name a more iconic duo. I'll wait.

How you can tell Twitch is updating their ads to combat ad blockers? Check Google Trends for "pixeltris".

The Overload Teams League had a team anarchy game result of 110 to 5 today. The awful one-sidedness of such a game aside, this skews stats and records in a very bad way.

I think I've come up with a reasonable way to solve it, but boy is the SQL for this site becoming mind bending.

And what's worse: I have to convert it all to MongoDB when I do the Docker conversion project. I'm going to be a MongoDB aggregation EXPERT by the time that's over.

Huge if true

Select which of these two statements you agree with:

1-based indexing is superior.
...or...
0-based indexing is superior.

It's definitely a struggle, but I believe the only way to deal with it is to face it unafraid, and learn from every encounter with it. It will still hit me, but I no longer let it control me.

Competition anxiety is the only type of anxiety I get, at least with any regulatory. It doesn't happen when I play 6DoF games (at least not anymore), but almost any other competitive game I play, the anxiety can strike at any time, and it affects me greatly. I have become much more aware of it lately, and I think that's helped result in days like today where, for a moment, everything seems to be falling apart... but then I understand what is going on and don't let it ruin the rest of my day.

At the chess club, I played 5 games between two opponents that I have losing records against. I confidently won all five games, even declining a draw because I didn't think I could lose and had a passed pawn.

Later, I got productive, finishing the week's math homework and doing a video presentation for business in one take. And now I'm feeling really good about how the day went, despite that one hiccup early in on.

An hour later, I played in another Tetris match against an opponent with a lower best score and was playing buzzed. It was a league format where I am not getting eliminated if I do poorly. I got trounced, lost 6-1 over two matches, and couldn't get to level 19 more than one game.

Competition anxiety stuck hard in the second set, and I have no idea why. It tried to frame the remainder of my day. I did not let it.

Today was a reminder that competition anxiety is fickle and strange.

I played in the events today. The first was Classic Tetris Monthly's tournament, a knockout bracket where I have had mixed results. Today I was up against a maxout player, someone who can score a million points. (my best is 740k). I swept the match 3-0 no problem, and felt good the whole way through.

False alarm, that was a typo on their part. 🤣 They meant something more sane.

Someone at work, who I said probably would have to fix a unit test after a change, just fixed it by making it "Assert.True(true);".

DON'T BE PEOPLE!

Worked on a remake to an old song from 2003. Got a coworker to play some guitar parts fort it. Sounds amazing! Now I'm wanting to do more music stuff again. If only I had the time!

@Nifflas So you migrated your Mastodon account to another server once. How was that experience for you? What was good about it? What do you wish was different?

[This post contains an error in the number of Twitter users. Check the new one here: https://mastodon.social/@estebanmoro/109302968305953555 ] Something big is happening in Mastodon over the weekend. Here is my graph, updated. Right now Mastodon is growing ~3 times faster than Twitter.

I have stuff, and things!

Make the net weird again. Hand write sites like it’s the 90s. Pick interesting domain names and make fan sites or random knowledge known to everyone. Don’t monetize anything. Spearhead new protocols like Gemini. Make mods for games on your site. Make FAQs for obscure games no one knows about. Make public software services available to anyone. Make a news site about a really random subject. Create music in all kinds of different formats. Most of all, do it because you want to!

The amount of this random list of things I've actually done is staggering. https://hackers.town/@fuuma/109271681395532421

This is not the line it was in past years. That's a good thing! #dayofthedevs

FOX!

While it's not as bad as last time, it's still kind of bad, unfortunately.

I was today years old when I learned that the M in CPM - a term I recognize as "cost per thousand impressions", stands for the Roman numeral 1,000, and now I feel like an idiot for not realizing this for TEN YEARS. 🤦‍♂️

The confusion of being in the six digit tracking numbers for issues in our issue tracker but referencing an issue that has a four digit tracking number.

"...so the work from 6636 is causing the issue."

"What is the full number for 6636?"

"6636! From the beforetimes of 2019!"

"And if the employees building it don’t meet their deadline, they’ll be fired..."

This right here makes it 100% clear that you never want to work for this guy, if you value your sanity. https://twitter.com/verge/status/1586883874122264576

Hopefully the servers will keep up this time around. 🙃

Well, back here we go, I suppose. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/04/twitter-shares-halted-on-report-that-musk-plans-to-go-through-with-deal-at-54point20-a-share.html

A post long overdue, and especially now that I'm using That Bird Hell Site again... for now.

Honestly, me being able to walk away, even if just for a short time? You might've been a little jealous. But with social media, it's never that easy, is it?

https://roncli.com/blogger/2186884372067439398/secretly-you-wish-you-couldve-done-what

What have I done since my last project? Not much. Well, maybe a little bit. Some discussion about coding burnout, and project plans for the future. https://roncli.com/blogger/7709121032629796821/what-have-i-done-since-ronclicom-v2

Timeago generators are funny.

Apparently I got preoccupied and forgot to play yesterday. Streak ends at 210. GG!

Jesus Christ that order number!

Ooo, this was a dangerous word.

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This was a think outside the box moment.

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Not entirely sure this is a word either but meh.

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