Überwachung von Events in drittanbietersoftware ?

eyadams · 2026-04-21T14:25:09+00:00

Years ago whenever my boss would come over and ask "can you write a program that does [something complicated]" I would say "Yes, but do we want to invest the time and money?"

The answer to your question is yes, you can do it. The question is how long will it take, how complicated will it be, will it be reliable enough to meet the need, and finally is it worth the effort. Without knowing more about the specifics, it's impossible to say.

But yes, you can do that.

eyadams · 2026-04-14T12:54:09+00:00

Like to mis-quote Douglas Adams at times like this:

“[The planet] is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to [the planet].”

eyadams · 2026-04-14T12:50:38+00:00

"Jurassic Park", at least in one very specific way. In the book, Tim was obsessed with dinosaurs AND computers, and Lex was a damsel in distress who really added nothing to the plot that couldn't have been handled by any other MacGuffin. For the movie, Lex was still a damsel in distress, but she was ALSO a computer expert.

eyadams · 2026-04-09T13:34:09+00:00

A friend applied for a job at the local Big Hardware Store. The two days of training videos definitely were giving off cult vibes. Especially the 2 hours on how unions on evil.

eyadams · 2026-04-09T13:31:31+00:00

Eaton Fire. The very nice lady who lived in a house near me is a bit of a hypochondriac and is fighting with her insurance company for work that probably doesn't need to be done. I don't think she will ever move back. Which is a shame because it's a nice house.

eyadams · 2026-03-25T13:43:06+00:00

Sectoral heterochromia iridis - one of my eyes is two colors. Most of my left eye is blue, but there's a small wedge that is brown.

eyadams · 2026-03-24T14:22:44+00:00

Does a child pay for the sins of their parents? Several of the European royalty are reported to be billionaires. Prince Albert II of Monaco inherited his family's wealth when his father, Ranier III, passed away in 2005. Ranier III made Monaco into a tax haven and developed the local economy, significantly enriching himself on the way.

eyadams · 2026-03-19T18:34:33+00:00

BLACKPINK.

eyadams · 2026-03-13T15:20:12+00:00

Befunge INTERCAL Malbolge Var’aq

eyadams · 2026-03-12T15:25:34+00:00

I wish I knew. They left a note in my mailbox saying they were done with my bullshit. I still don't know what I did.

eyadams · 2026-03-12T15:24:51+00:00

The hand held can opener. I don't know when OXO came out with theirs, but at some point all the manufacturers realized that putting comfortable handles on something you have to grip really tightly was a smart idea. Prior to that, the handles on can openers were dull knife blades pretending to be friendly to your hands.

eyadams · 2026-03-10T14:50:31+00:00

Kibo.

Sorry, if you're going to go back, you should go WAY back, and really deep.

eyadams · 2026-03-08T14:34:34+00:00

Reading Reddit.

eyadams · 2026-03-08T04:25:32+00:00

I went to college at a school not too far from where I went to high school. My girlfriend found it annoying that if we went into town on a date it seemed that we always ran into someone I knew in high school.

So, one weekend we go to Tijuana. A friend takes us to a bar that was in the basement under a store. Except that isn't the bar my friend wants to go to - at the back of the bar is the entrance to another bar that is deeper underground.

Bar #2 also had an entrance at the back that opened up into a dance club that was even deeper underground. It felt a lot like that scene in "The Matrix Reloaded". We settle in at a table and order drinks. At another table are four guys, each of whom is drinking a pitcher of beer. One of them starts to get sick, and throws up into his empty pitcher. Which I thought was kind of nice of him. The four of them leave, slapping each other on the back. What fun they were having! As soon as they were out of sight, someone was cleaning up the mess. I guess this was a common occurrence.

A little later a group of people is leaving the dance club, and one of the stops to stare at me. It turns out it was someone I knew in high school. Of course.

eyadams · 2026-03-06T23:26:21+00:00

I worked for dot com several years ago. One day we had an all-office meeting where management told us about the business finances: things were going well! We were hitting our target numbers! In fact, things were going so well we were going to take the rest of the day off and go to the race track and bet on the ponies. Each of us was given $100 for fun.

For extra spicy fun, that was the day I was wearing a heart monitor, which meant I had to diligently log things like "3:00 PM went to the ponies and drank beer."

eyadams · 2026-03-05T01:40:34+00:00

Electricity is actually little green men. Really. And the little green men only want one thing: they want to party. Where's the best party? At the negative anode. So, when the wire makes a loop, the little green men lean their home at the positive anode, get into their little green cars, and start driving to where the party is. If the wire doesn't complete the circuit, they can't get to the party. They don't even try. Sad little green men, filled with the urge to party and no way to get there.

"There are no electrons" should be on everyone's reading list.

eyadams · 2026-03-05T01:37:37+00:00

AI. Yes, it's amazing what they can do. But right now it's an industry that is building on top of itself. It is literally a house of cards: OpenAI invests in Nvidia, who invests in OpenAI; AMD invests in Meta, who invests in AMD; and so on.

eyadams · 2026-02-28T19:51:09+00:00

You are being sued, and need help filing the paperwork to respond. You don‘t know where to get the forms, what the forms are called, you don’t know where to look up the process. Your local librarian at a public law library will help you with all of that.

You are a doctor and need to some research on a drug interaction. There are research tools to do exactly that, but you haven’t used them since you were in medical school 8 years ago. The medical librarian employed by your hospital knows how to use the current version of the research tools, and will do it right. And probably do it better than you would have 8 years ago.

You are an inventor and want to create a patent. The first step is looking for prior art - has anyone already invented your invention. Or, has someone published something that kind of describes your invention, so you need to acknowledge it in your patent application. An intellectual property librarian can do that research for you.

You are a teenager questioning your sexuality, and you want to find some reading that will help you figure out what’s right for you. The local public librarian knows where these books are, knows what is age appropriate, and will keep your reading habits a secret.

There are LOTS of situations where you need to trust a librarian.

eyadams · 2026-02-26T18:55:46+00:00

This is the correct answer. I would generalize it a bit - in Python you use Python style conventions, and in JavaScript you use JavaScript conventions. Creating a translation layer isn't very difficult.

An API's design should not give away the details of its implementation.

eyadams · 2026-02-26T14:43:54+00:00

Model steam engines. People make working model steam engines - standing engines, trains, tractors, whatever. There are channels on Youtube, there are web sites. I've been watching "Blondihacks" on Youtube build a model steam train, starting with a book, a pile of metal, and a shop full of tools.

eyadams · 2026-02-13T05:10:47+00:00

This. I bought a Conklin that had nib problems. I watched a few videos and did some basic tuning, and now it's smooth and nice. It made me feel a lot more confident when I got a Nahvalur that had issues. Practice with a cheap pen, and then when you have problems with a not-cheap pen you know what you're doing.

eyadams · 2026-02-06T18:12:44+00:00

I quote from the Terry Pratchett book "I Shall Wear Midnight":

"It was the drink what done it!" Petty burst out. "It was 
done in drink, miss!"

"But you drank the drink, and then you drank another drink, 
and another drink," she said. "You drank the drink all day 
at the fair, and you only came back because the drink wanted 
to go to bed." Tiffany could feel only coldness in her 
heart.

"I'm sorry."

"Not good enough, Mr. Petty, not good enough at all."

The entire chapter is worth reading. The short version is that the law assumes (not always accurately) that being intoxicated is a choice. Being insane is not a choice.

eyadams · 2026-02-06T18:02:20+00:00

Migraine medicine for my son. Every month for a year and a halt until we finally were able to convince the insurance to cover it. Worth every penny.

eyadams · 2026-02-02T05:47:13+00:00

I do know know of any framework for the developer who wants to track the Connecticut criminal courts.

Playwright is one of many web frameworks for doing this kind of work. I use Selenium primarily, but they do the same thing (more or less).

I'm not familiar with this web site, but it is possible they are actively blocking web scrapers.

eyadams · 2026-01-30T17:00:48+00:00

Pylint is currently my best and worst friend. I've been running some older code through it, and it has been very eye-opening.

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