If you’re a developer you’re probably familiar with the idea that you will make a hack or a demo project just to demonstrate that the concept works and then management takes it and runs and next thing you know, your ugly hack is the production code.

Well, I guess this is because it’s the way things have been since the dawn of computing. According to the most recent episode of Red Hat’s Compiler podcast COBOL (the ancient language that still runs the key systems in the modern world) was only ever intended to be a stopgap language. It wasn’t meant to become so widely used.

Found this in our local activities guide:

Although my brother who plays RPGs remarked $149 was pretty steep compared to looking up a video on Youtube.

Scratch

Once again I worked on some Scratch projects with the kids. This time it involved a sports theme. I let the kids choose which games they wanted to create and Sam chose to create the game where Scratch the Cat goes Skiing.

Having done this for a few weeks now, it wasn’t too much trouble to get things working and do a mod or two for Sam. The video below contains the code and a short video of Sam playing the game.

Being a male, who’s racially white, I never had any trouble with finding representation on TV. This hasn’t always been the case for everyone, although it’s only recently (last 5ish years or so) that folks have begun to speak out on how important representation is. When you rarely see yourself in media, I’ve been told, you feel left out by the culture. Disney started rectifying this in its Disney Junior line; first with Doc McStuffins.

Blender “version control” before I knew about VCS

Boy am I glad I know about svn and git now. It was such a mess before to keep track versions of files to be able to go back in the case of an error.

Tried Milk Street’s BBQ Rub #2 for the first time today on some chicken cutlets. Just pan fried for a quick meal. The taste ended up being very similar to chicken satay and I definitely found myself wishing I had some peanut sauce to eat with the chicken. The rub’s also recommended for fish and veggies so it’d be interesting to try on those. I’d also like to try it on food from out on the grill. So far it’s a good run, but not not Earth-shattering.

A week or so after the smoked chicken, Danielle did her marinade on a whole chicken we’d cleaved in half. I cooked it on the Weber Kettle at an average of 350 F and it came out GREAT! I did a 2 zone setup with the dark meat facing towards the fire. I took it out when the breasts were 160 (which was approximately 180 for the dark meat - which is the temp most people like dark meat). Look at how juicy that came out!