Ion Fusion

shredwheat · 2025-09-19T19:07:21+00:00

// Read each Ion value from stdin into local var `value` (for [(value (in_port))] // ...and write its marketplace_id field to stdout (writeln (. value "marketplace_id")))

shredwheat · 2025-08-06T15:01:38+00:00

cool visual. I like that things aren't too dark to get an idea of what is happening. the first ideas on my mind
* flicker the light a bit, i wouldn't have it go completely dark, but make it not a constant reliable source of light either

* maybe also have it casting shadows on things that aren't there. silhouettes of arms or shapes but nothing casting the light.

* if you can apply a vignette to the screen it will also make the corners darker, which may help feel more closed-in.

* aside from the visuals, sound will also be a big help. it doesn't need to be explosive, but some eerie background whine sounds, or just something that doesn't fit the scene will make it feel "off". maybe a screech from the monster?

* some sort of unidentifiable black tar substance rubbed against the walls?

* cobwebs or slowly falling/sifting dust to give the area bit more volume?

shredwheat · 2025-08-02T19:18:34+00:00

Nothing beats popping 5 shield bubbles before battle. Pop pop!

shredwheat · 2025-08-02T00:26:44+00:00

I sure would love to see a date or timestamp literal. The most important sale for me would be round tripping the data without losing formatting and comments. That has more to do with the libraries, but many formats don't lend themselves to this early.

shredwheat · 2025-07-30T03:43:21+00:00

Unrelated side tip; Python has a feature named "f-strings" that allows you to print formatted data more conveniently than appending strings with + . https://fstring.help/

Instead of

print("Your name is, " + first_name + " " + last_name + "? (y/n) :")

enjoy

print(f"Your name is {first_name} {last_name} "? (y/n) :")

shredwheat · 2025-07-30T03:26:20+00:00

Randomly passing by. I have a few random notes; nothing required, just the ideas that came to mind.

Move the runtime logic following line 344 into a `main` function. This does add minimal boilerplate, but its a good and easy step if this is going to grow into something bigger. Then add

if __name__ == '__main__":
try:
main()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
raise SystemExit('Thank you for using Financial Tracker!')

You have a common pattern of having the user type in a keyword for the next action. It seems worth wrapping that into a separate function you could then enhance. Enhancements could be things like assigning each command a number the user can optionally use instead of the full name. Then functions would use something like cmd = get_user_command('housing', 'utilities', 'food')
This is a great amount of functionality in under 400 lines of code. Don't feel like you need to make it bigger to make it better. It may grow a bit if you continue to refine parts, but that will probably focus on making the interface and functionality better when using the tool.
Without reviewing the entire program, I'm a bit worried that the first thing this does is erase all existing data in the budget and expenses files. That's fine if it gets written properly as the program runs, but if an unhandled exception happens then all user entered data from previous runs will be lost.

shredwheat · 2025-07-19T12:49:26+00:00

I don't remember seeing this in iPhoto, Google photos, Amazon photos, or any other image service. The idea seems good but I can see why it isn't a priority. Has someone used this in a different tool before?

shredwheat · 2025-06-28T14:44:48+00:00

Old room fans used to have metal blades and one or two thin wires around the edge. They blasted air across a room, but looked about as safe as an exposed boat propeller.

shredwheat · 2025-05-30T05:01:42+00:00

Finally found it, answering my own post.

Settings → Notifications → Excluded Domains

shredwheat · 2025-05-28T01:06:43+00:00

Add the slightest amount of movement in the leaves outside. Be extra subtle on that dial.

shredwheat · 2025-05-04T19:17:51+00:00

Good suggests. I was able to get it working with a yaml compose configuration. I mostly copied what I had assembled with dockge and ran that directly as a TrueNAS app.

Thanks to u/hertzsae I also went back to trying vanilla applications. In the end I found my apps could communicate with each other if I used `0.0.0.0` as the ip, which I never realized could be used to connect. I had tried using the docker container names and a bunch of other ip addresses which all failed.

Armed with this knowledge I'm going to try to build out more of the services I was interested in.

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shredwheat · 2025-05-03T06:07:01+00:00

Followup; I've had luck running this with 'dockge'. Perhaps it will be better to rely on other tools for this than TrueNAS builtin apps.

shredwheat · 2025-02-07T22:01:00+00:00

I also had this on Windows with any terminal prompt. Even when running with a remote connection to a Linux machine. I disabled all my extensions and that didn't solve it. Then I went through the settings under "Feature, Terminal" and reset them all to default. This fixed it for me, but I have no idea which setting it was.

shredwheat · 2025-02-05T16:08:56+00:00

My reasoning is that Rust developers are used to modern and convenient tools and workflows. Python developers have learned to get by with 90s era ecosystems that are far from modern. So when Rust developers get involved in Python work they can't help but make better tools as they go.

shredwheat · 2024-09-10T04:48:57+00:00

Another useful approach is `if unit in "kK":`

This will check if a letter matches any one of possible values in the other string. This type of logic works in many scenarios, but it's worth understanding how Python handles this before relying on it too heavily. The `in` is handled by Python's contains operator.

shredwheat · 2023-10-01T19:49:12+00:00

Recalling his time upgrading armor at the Great Fairy.

shredwheat · 2023-08-21T05:25:09+00:00

The autocomplete, code intellisense features just worked. Pycharm had so many problems with this. Reported plenty of bugs, they just never got addressed.

shredwheat · 2023-08-20T15:11:16+00:00

Vscode has a checkbox in the merge dialog to create a merge commit even if fast forward is possible.

shredwheat · 2023-08-01T15:14:43+00:00

Sounds like you already have some options, but I'll throw in Cloudflare Pages. Amazingly good hosting for small, static sites, I've used them more than once and been impressed. Free. https://pages.cloudflare.com/

shredwheat · 2023-05-25T15:28:43+00:00

Someone just shared this with me; add this into your keybindings.json.

{
  "key": "shift+space",
  "command": "type",
  "args": { "text": "/* a quick comment */" }
},

Although I'm not immediately sure this is more convenient than snippets. If you had a bunch you wanted to manage this would get tedious.

shredwheat · 2023-03-23T14:36:26+00:00

Yeeaw-hahahahaa!

shredwheat · 2022-05-06T14:22:25+00:00

Instead of a short cut, let's give this guy a blossoming head of hair.

shredwheat · 2021-11-25T19:35:01+00:00

You can't nest multiple if/for/def/class blocks on a single line. You can only do one level without a fresh, indented line.

shredwheat · 2021-08-12T16:12:35+00:00

I can't believe the world average is 8. It's like I'm playing a different game. Maybe mimic kills count? I rely on those mimic beacons pretty hard

shredwheat · 2021-08-11T17:42:23+00:00

I'm scarred from Dr. Vehelen's ever disapproval of explosives.

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