tjhowse

Travis Howse. Brisbane, Australia. Father, husband, engineer, hacker, FOSS dork, beekeeper, he/him. Currently helping to advance EV charging infrastructure with Tritium Power Solutions. BE (Mechatronic)

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/tjhowse
Github: https://github.com/tjhowse
Homepage: https://tjhowse.com
Sailing blog: https://sailing.tjhowse.com

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2025-05-01 08:17:52

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Disgusting cynical marketing slimebags polluting our world with this garbage. For shame.

2025-04-15 00:02:42

Damnit, a bit of the scab on my foot came off after a shower last night and revealed some stitches that were hiding underneath. Seems my GP missed them deep down in the wound, under a scab.
No biggie, I have an appointment tomorrow with the surgeon who put the stitches in. He should be able to sort it out.

2025-04-10 06:21:42

Yay! My employer just started paying for my github copilot subscription. I got a pro rata refund for the rest of my yearly subscription.

2025-03-27 00:42:29

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It's bizarre innit. You think "I feel like a nice long blink" then BAM: The sun went down and your mouth tastes bad.

2024-11-01 06:01:26

Just copped some hail in Carina. Grape sized at most.
#carina #brisbane #brisbaneweather
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2024-10-21 03:29:34

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Ooo! Where do you buy these? I love having fresh mushies on hand.

2024-09-13 11:10:51

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Shitposts were invented by Alfred Shit of Dorchester one Tuesday in 1948 when he wrote a letter to the editor insisting he owned the only real pure-bred fox terrier in England.

2024-09-12 06:30:24

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It seems the consensus is that they might be there for wear prevention.
It wasn't until I was unthreading the old halyards from the blocks did I realise that the SS was on the free end of the jib halyard, but on the fixed end.
In any case – I've replaced all the halyards with 8mm spectra. I'll keep an eye on them when we're underway to see if they're likely to chafe on a stay or something.
Cheers all!

2024-09-12 06:09:46

I'm definitely setting up a dedicated time-lapse camera and lighting for the next time we do one of these mushroom boxes. This is going crazy.
#mushroom #fungi
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2024-09-11 04:58:50

I've been putting off firing up my 3d printer after we moved house last year.
Turns out I needn't've worried. After a quick clean and few dabs of oil she was away and printing. Very relieved.
Fun fact: This printer is the great-grandchild of the original reprap! I printed it on my old printer, which was printed by Hackerspace Brisbane's printer, which was printed by Adrian Bowyer, AKA Mr. Reprap himself.
#3dprinting #prusa
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2024-08-30 01:50:34

Ok #coles , you got me. Fair play.
Working on adding Coles grocery price scraping to https://auscost.com.au . I might have to get a bit more circumspect.
#auscost #costofliving #colesworth
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2024-08-18 03:21:42

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I'm the wrong type of engineer to give you a definitive answer, and I don't have enough information anyway.
That said: As long as you've got some drainage between the supported soil and the wall (gravel and agpipe), and the wall collapsing won't cause catastrophic problems up or downhill, she'll probably be right. Retaining walls around here require a civil engineer's signoff for anything above 1m.

2024-08-05 23:59:32

Did this #pakidge go the long way around? Three days of flying seems excessive for NZ -> AUS.
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2024-07-19 06:08:36

Oopsie.
#croudstrike
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2024-07-10 07:37:03

Here's my 17th dev log for my #indiegame I'm making in #godotengine . It's a first-person turn-based space strategy sim.
In this version I have a play with particle shaders to generate a fake endless looping dust effect, and improve the UX a little bit by letting the player reset to the start of a turn at will.
Let me know what you think!
https://youtu.be/l0lpPLfbNTU
#godot #indiegamedev #indiedev

2024-07-03 11:47:22

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My 5 y'old boy, after a few months of school, developed a brand-new set of strong opinions about gender. Like performative "I HATE pink" non-sequiturs, just in case someone thought he might like something girlish.
I've had to fight tooth and nail to counteract this mind poison he's learned at school. "Look, my favourite bath towel is pink! I love gardening! Smell this nice flower!" I don't know how successful I've been, but it feels like trying to sweep the tide out sometimes.

2024-06-23 02:15:03

Working on a geometry shader for the warp-in effect in my #godotengine first-person turn-based space strategy game.
I think I want it to swing through the blackbody radiation colour range, rather than just fading down from bright white. I also want to layer on top some spatial distortion.
I'm loving working with shaders. It's amazing what you can accomplish with half a dozen lines of code.
#indiegame #gamedev #godot
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2024-06-21 12:26:55

Here's my 16th dev log for my #indiegame I'm making in #godotengine . It's a first-person turn-based space strategy sim.
In this one I show off my Ink scripting integration using the superb godot-ink plugin, as well as some rudimentary self-preservation instincts for enemy AI.
Let me know what you think!
https://youtu.be/-T5GpPBAcqg
#godot #indiegamedev #indiedev

2024-06-12 01:01:05

Any #godot peeps able to give some hints on how to do 3D space dust?
I want to add some dust and/or streaks to the environment to give players an indication of movement. I've got some results with a GPUParticles3D, but this isn't a great fit. I don't need particles to persist if they're off-screen, or far from the camera. Currently the volume around the camera is populated, leaving no particle count for when the player moves into new space. Works bad.
#godotengine #indiedev #indiegamedev

2024-06-05 06:26:54

https://youtu.be/l-ae27rIiwY
Here's my 14th dev log for my simultaneous turn-based space strategy game made in #godot !
I show a few missions I created to explore what I could make with my currently implemented game logic, and work out what I most need to add to enable more mission variety. I also improved the initial fleet selection process for warping in your ships at the start of a mission.
Next up: Integrating ink scripting and AI self-preservation instincts.
#godotengine #indiedev #gamedev

2024-03-22 03:48:24

You are not immune to being scammed.
Today I was half a second away from tapping a link in an SMS that was informing me I need to renew my credit card details because my CC was expiring.
My CC IS expiring this month. I updated my CC details on two other services yesterday. Through sheer dumb luck the scammer happened to bait their hook correctly.
I must not be complacent.
Complacency is the opsec-killer.
Complacency is the little death that brings identity theft.
#scam #opsec #infosec