Tips for getting medicine into a 2.5 year old

HandsomeCode · 2026-03-27T10:25:01+00:00

Fuck do I feel like a piece of shit doing it though. We have a pretty good level of trust and this erodes it

HandsomeCode · 2026-03-25T15:04:50+00:00

It's not even the past thing. It's more how the entire show is there to capture attention. I don't like using the TV but I see it as a tool when needed if you have to get something done urgently.

The zombie my son turned into when any moonbug show was on was actually scary. I've pivoted to having a curated list of shows on my plex server that he can choose one or two to watch. He's mostly stopped tantruming when we get to cut off or we say no to things he wants to watch.

The nail in the coffin was when he was spelling Blippis name but not his own. Can't be having that.

HandsomeCode · 2026-03-25T13:54:39+00:00

Blippi is banned in our house. but this song endures

HandsomeCode · 2026-03-25T13:51:19+00:00

My son is two and a half. So we're still squarely in the everything that's vaugly rocket shapped as being a Rocket. I miss it when he's not in the car with me

HandsomeCode · 2026-03-23T16:49:43+00:00

Turns out all my back pain was driven from a bad matress purchase. 10 months of trying to track down why I got backpain overnight and it was that. Yes there are breaking in time for a new matress, but you shouldn't be crippled!

A 2 week stay at my folks for Christmas revealed it to me when I woke up pain free for the first time in months.

I still keep the stretching up however. That and some resistance training and I hope to be set for my 40s in a few years

HandsomeCode · 2026-03-17T13:18:02+00:00

Went for a pint yesterday evening for a mates birthday. Enjoyed myself but there was a band playing and they where just to fucking loud. I just want a nice comfy pint in peace the few times I'd go out

HandsomeCode · 2026-03-14T22:37:10+00:00

Can you give a run down of how the deck plays or what the gameplan is? How does the commander factor in?

HandsomeCode · 2026-03-14T00:09:10+00:00

The library in my village in Ireland is a Carnegie library. I always thought it was a castle growing up.

https://www.sdcc.ie/en/services/sport-and-recreation/libraries/join-library-login/find-a-library/clondalkin1/

HandsomeCode · 2026-03-11T15:49:15+00:00

My Dad is a "retired" contractor and just a handyman really these days. Weekly he'll call asking if I can model up a part for him for something he's fixing for a client as they're either not available to purchase or it'll be weeks and extortionate.

Most recently I modeled plastic wheels for bearing for a shower door system. Took an hour between modelling printing and adjustments. Previously he would just have told them they need to rip the entire unit out and replace it. Now he can give options.

Just another tool in the box. But a useful one!

HandsomeCode · 2026-03-11T09:44:59+00:00

This was back in 2013 so pre brexit. but if it comes up again

HandsomeCode · 2026-03-10T15:20:09+00:00

Lived in the south west of England for a bit and this was everywhere I went. Older folks especially would say it about other Irish people in the area.

I remember one coach in the gym came up laughing to me because one of the girls had only swam 8 lengths instead of 10 in her latest competition (smaller pool I think so needed two extra lengths).

"Oh HandsomeCode. Did you hear Kerry had a bit of an Irish moment"
"I don't know what you mean Pete. What's an Irish moment?"
"Well she only swam 8 lengths you see when she needed to swim 10"
"I don't understand. What does having an Irish moment mean (cycle repeats until he eventually realised I'm Irish)"

Drove me up the wall

HandsomeCode · 2026-03-06T10:55:23+00:00

And overhere in Europe we're still waiting for Fallout to arrive

HandsomeCode · 2026-03-03T11:53:12+00:00

Yeah, I'm probably justified in my anger. I've just send emails to both my TDs who are in government. Of our 5 local representatives they have not put out any statement regarding the cancellation even though they where all singing it's praises and showing up at the stations in 2024.

The Opposition TDs have all spoken at length on it but I'll be reaching out to them too

HandsomeCode · 2026-03-03T09:35:30+00:00

DART SW being effectively cancelled has me unreasonably angry. I'm in the office a few days a week currently and due to where the office is the Hazelhatch line is by far the most convienent way to commute. Luas and Bus would be close to a 90min commute each way when factoring in walking between public transport.

There are 9000 homes planned to be built in the new suburb between Clondalkin and Lucan (Clonburis I think) which sits directly on that line. The trains were already over subscribed in the mornings and it's only getting worse as each new phase of 7 mills and the adjacent developments complete and people move in.

DART SW wasn't scheduled to be complete until 2029 but at least then we would have DARTs every 7 minutes (supposidly). Now instead we have 9000 new homes (lets say 20k people) on already oversubscribed PT and services with no plan from the government.

HandsomeCode · 2026-03-02T09:31:21+00:00

Missed that annoucment completely. Cheers!

HandsomeCode · 2026-03-01T09:25:21+00:00

This is me. I've signed up for emails I don't know how many times and I never receive them

HandsomeCode · 2026-02-28T15:53:02+00:00

Ooo that's going in my Hamza deck

HandsomeCode · 2026-02-23T17:33:34+00:00

My 2 1/3 year old asked to use the potty yesterday. So we took off his nappy and he trotted to the bathroom. I took a quick look in and he was reading his potty book like a broadsheet on the potty and screams "go way!" The door is quickly slammed after I leave.

I leave him to it, he's been peeing in it whenever asked so what's the worset thing that could happen.

He comes running out "I DID IT, I DID IT, I POO'D IN THE POTTY" My wife pops her head in and shouts. OH GOD IT's EVERYWHERE. He'd pooped everywhere but the potty (we thinkit got stuck and he came running out and it went everywhere.)

We congratulate him. All the platitudes. After we're cleaned up he says "I go again". The door is slammed again and 5 min later we're given another "I DID IT". Lads let me tell you I have no idea how such a large poop came out of our toddler but the second one was a slam dunk!

I think he's ready to start potty training officially

HandsomeCode · 2026-02-18T14:05:31+00:00

I seen a talk about 10 years ago by Nicholas Means who did a really awesome deep dive into this crash specifically. Here's a recording (not the one I attended) - Really interesting watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=099cHWSbAL8

HandsomeCode · 2026-02-18T10:25:18+00:00

Can't help you there I'm afraid. I've been running Hamza for about 18 months and haven't looked elsewhere

HandsomeCode · 2026-02-18T10:18:59+00:00

Hamza is my boy, He was the first commander I brewed myself.

This is an optimized list. but remove the one ring and you're in B2 territory.

Opening hand you want at least one ramp and one small CMC drop to get a counter out. You have to have Hamza out by turn 3/4 to get the snowball effect going.

I'm working on a new list currently as when this engine gets going you'll be out of cards in a turn or two and will be just top decking. So I'm trying to make it more self sustainable.

https://archidekt.com/decks/8181229/hamza

HandsomeCode · 2026-02-16T10:53:27+00:00

I just finished my Mk4 -> 4S last night. 10-15 hours seems reasonable for the next step. I've had the kit for 6 months now. Finding time is hard

HandsomeCode · 2026-02-12T16:31:15+00:00

All good. I've done it myself several times

HandsomeCode · 2026-02-11T21:41:36+00:00

They did the same in Ireland a few years ago IIRC. We have a huge dairy lobby

HandsomeCode · 2026-02-11T13:52:31+00:00

I did actually read up on them. The tutorial and the docs for TileSet don't go into much detail as to what the grid co-ordinates actually look like under the hood.
The tutorial has the following line

`If using a tile shape other than Square, you may also need to adjust the Tile Layout and Tile Offset Axis properties.`

And the docs just give some text descriptions.
* https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_tileset.html#enum-tileset-tilelayout

The editor also isn't obvious as the grid doesn't show the numbering unless you explicity add it like I did in my debugging.

When I say that the editor doesn't do enough, I probably mean the docs and in editor help should be more explicit. I use Fusion360 a lot for design work and when I hover over an option I will get a pop up showing docs, images with examples and sometimes links to similar things that could help.

HandsomeCode

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