It’s been a while since I’ve written about programming, but lately I’ve gotten back to working on Ultrawidify. With no major bugs or problems that require immediate fix, I can finally get to work on bugs and features that I’ve been kicking down the line for a while. Problem of the week are, of course, keyboards (or keyboard layouts). In javascript, you have roughly… Continue Reading... "Dealing with keyboards is mini-hell"
Toothless, Intelligence, and Agency: Did Toothless Willingly Betray Green Death?
Nine years after How To Train Your Dragon was released, people still like to argue about just how intelligent Toothless (or other draconids of the franchise) really are. Some people argue that they’re intelligent and sapient, other argue against with mostly dumb excuses (the most retarded ones to date are vague fog of “but they aren’t human” and “they don’t believe in gods”). One… Continue Reading... "Toothless, Intelligence, and Agency: Did Toothless Willingly Betray Green Death?"
Ultrawidify and the Improper Cropping
Yet another day, yet another post about stuff going wrong. This time, I’ve got a bug report that “videos are jumping around” on Facebook and some other pages. I tried to verify the problem … and everything worked fine for me. Then I decided to boot up Windows and there it was — the problem as described. So nice — we have a problem… Continue Reading... "Ultrawidify and the Improper Cropping"
Did Toothless Really Have No Choice?
Sorry, but Toothless definitely had a choice, no matter how you slice it. Continue Reading... "Did Toothless Really Have No Choice?"
Ultrawidify: The Twitchy Twitch Problem
Ultrawidify has been seeing some issues with constant aspect ratio readjustments. This post examines and explains why and how these issues happened. Continue Reading... "Ultrawidify: The Twitchy Twitch Problem"
Safety of New Berk and The Hidden World: an analysis
If shadiversity can do a whole series analyzing defendability of various locations from Game of Thrones, I reckon I can do one for How To Train Your Dragon 3 as well. Continue Reading... "Safety of New Berk and The Hidden World: an analysis"
The numbers behind offsetting emissions
This might lean ever so slightly in the politics territory, but here’s a fun calculation. Was just thinking about how big a pile of carbon would I need to offset my CO₂ contributions while on the walk. Ideally, the CO₂ contributions should be put back underground, so the first idea would be to just cut down bury some trees (after all, once grown, trees… Continue Reading... "The numbers behind offsetting emissions"
How Fast Is the Lift on New Berk (HTTYD: The Hidden World)
I was very bored, so I decided to calculate how long would a ride on New Berk’s lifts be. It would be … very long. Continue Reading... "How Fast Is the Lift on New Berk (HTTYD: The Hidden World)"
Why are Snotlout’s lines in ‘How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World’ edgy beyond reason?
There’s gotta be an explanation, right? I might just have a theory on that … Continue Reading... "Why are Snotlout’s lines in ‘How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World’ edgy beyond reason?"
How tall is New Berk, really? (Revisited)
My previous island put the settlement of New Berk at about 5 kilometers above the sea. This is obviously ridiculous, so I decided to revisit my calculations … Continue Reading... "How tall is New Berk, really? (Revisited)"