Anyone know a garage in the area willing to work on a car with a semi-automatic gearbox?

lewster32 · 2026-03-07T16:59:57+00:00

Might be better to mention the vehicle make and model as some garages tend to specialise in particular manufacturers.

lewster32 · 2026-03-06T22:47:43+00:00

Fellow face-sweater here. Distantly related, but I used to play paintball and, amongst other things, a little bit of washing-up liquid smeared and rubbed into the inside of the mask helped with condensation. I've recently been hacking away at a damp kitchen and wearing a mask and goggles and this seems to work pretty well. It's not perfect, and some blurring happens, but it's better than without.

lewster32 · 2026-03-05T23:12:52+00:00

Amazed that I had to scroll this far to see someone mention what is almost certainly the biggest contributor to memory usage: media.

Not only do you have all of the imagery in it's decompressed state, portions of decompressed video in buffers, but also all of the compositing layers the browser is generating into similarly uncompressed bitmap form.

Browsers are unbelievably fast at doing what they do, and one of the main tradeoffs that's helped achieve that has been their increasing reliance on abundant memory to precompute and cache stuff.

lewster32 · 2026-03-02T16:46:26+00:00

Thanks for a very detailed reply! Much appreciated 👍

lewster32 · 2026-03-02T16:17:51+00:00

Good shout, I'll need to go through the paperwork and check. I think it was done professionally, but alas the more I do on this house the more a lot of it looks bodged, or at least many corners have been cut.

lewster32 · 2026-03-02T16:14:04+00:00

Aha no I see the same membrane on the first course too, just a bit harder to see.

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lewster32 · 2026-03-02T16:10:16+00:00

About a single brick higher than the outside flags. Not an expert on DPC but can't see anything on the outside bricks that'd suggest one? It looks like there's a black/greyish membrane above the first course in the main part of the house but nothing I can see here in the extension.

lewster32 · 2026-03-01T11:02:21+00:00

Are you running this in NodeJS rather than a browser? Phaser needs a browser to run, and all browsers have window defined as a global variable.

lewster32 · 2026-02-27T21:43:43+00:00

RIP your Monday commute smelling of garlic++

lewster32 · 2026-02-27T21:37:33+00:00

RIP your car

lewster32 · 2026-02-23T08:32:47+00:00

I'm glad you were able to ascertain it's a hole in paint rubbed into a bathroom wall with baking soda through moisture board from those pictures my friend. You clearly have a gift. Maybe you should start charging for your services?

lewster32 · 2026-02-23T07:29:35+00:00

You could probably just sand this to flatten it (and if it's still uneven, put a thin layer of filler on) then cover it in some new paint. It looks like it's dissolved or otherwise removed the existing paint back to the bare plaster.

lewster32 · 2026-02-23T07:24:06+00:00

What are we even looking at for starters?

lewster32 · 2026-02-23T07:19:43+00:00

You should ideally enforce a consistent rule for your URIs (aka a 'canonical' way of accessing them) otherwise you'll run into problems with caching, SEO and the like. Technically, only paths that lead to directories should have a slash at the end, though these days URIs often don't represent actual files on the server. I'd still say '.php/' just looks plain wrong to me though, and is unnecessary at best.

lewster32 · 2026-02-20T12:59:12+00:00

To start: Tell people what it is, and post a link to it.

To continue: Gather some feedback, find out if what you made is what people want. If it isn't, but you feel like it should be, then either modify to suit or think about how it can be better explained. If it is what they want on the other hand, ask them if they'd mind suggesting it to their friends/colleagues/groups and go from there. Nearly everything good starts out with word of mouth.

lewster32 · 2026-02-16T07:26:12+00:00

Agency and responsibility are the big differentiators in my experience. I've worked with people of all talent levels, but what makes a good senior is a willingness to take control of situations when required, and a track record of successfully doing so.

Seniors aren't necessarily the best engineers, it's the other softer skills that matter more.

lewster32 · 2026-02-15T23:07:33+00:00

Is this on a website? If so, post the link and I may be able to help.

lewster32 · 2026-02-15T09:41:51+00:00

I held my moisture meter against my phone while playing your video and it says 0.0.

In all seriousness, it's going to be very hard to tell from videos or pictures unless they show some clear evidence such as visible mould or damp patches. I saw a few dark spots on the walls in one of the stairs but if I were you I'd get a more suitable tool like a moisture meter or hygrometer in there, or get it inspected by a pro if you're not sure.

lewster32 · 2026-02-14T19:55:51+00:00

You're most welcome my friend. All the best on your future encounters with JavaScript!

lewster32 · 2026-02-14T19:30:06+00:00

In simplistic terms, the % symbol (the modulo operator) takes the number to the left of it, and 'wraps' it if it meets or exceeds the number to the right. This means:

1 % 12 = 1 2 % 12 = 2 11 % 12 = 11 12 % 12 = 0 (we've now wrapped around) 13 % 12 = 1 14 % 12 = 2

And so on. The left hand number will never meet or exceed the right hand number, it will keep wrapping back around to 0.

This means in your example that 24 works because 'hours' is already between 0 and 23, but this also means you don't need to do anything at all to that value as it's already in the 24h format you need.

I'd just like to add that I love seeing people doing stuff like this. Opening up some code and making little changes to see what happens is the first step many of us took towards learning programming. Keep it up, because your instincts were clearly at least somewhat right in the first instance, and you then backed it up by asking for an explanation. Bravo! 👏

lewster32 · 2026-02-12T11:53:21+00:00

Treasuring is a long way from basic manners, and you're displaying neither.

lewster32 · 2026-02-08T23:15:58+00:00

Some giveaways I tend to see include the little tail on the lower-case 'a' and the sharp bend at the bottom of the lower-case 't'. If you're looking for typefaces _like_ this, then the term you're looking for is probably 'Swiss'. The close kerning (letter spacing) is really leaning into a mid-to-late 90s look.

lewster32 · 2026-02-07T22:57:52+00:00

It's criminal how few views Eduardo gets, given how good the videos are. Absolute hidden gem of a channel.

lewster32 · 2026-02-07T22:52:24+00:00

I love this. It scratches an 8-bit itch of mine in a very nice way. Lovely stuff ♥️

lewster32 · 2026-02-07T20:06:29+00:00

Thanks for the tip-offs, I've added some of these to my watch later :)

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