@darryl

Generalist nerd

Space, software, board games, puzzle games, general nerdery. Canadian. Middle-aged. Ask me whatever you want, but if it’s something about naked-eye/binocular astronomy, you’ll make my day

[[[[where to find me]]]]
dshpak on Discord
@darryl@toot.community on mastodon (never use it but WHO KNOWS)
darryl on goblin.band

Mastodon

toot.community/@darryl

Discord

dshpak

Goblin.band (the profile is totally default but I promise it’s me I’m just not using it yet)

goblin.band/@darryl

@darryl @darryl11/9/2022, 12:28 AM

@elena

@elena11/8/2022, 9:17 PM

#The Cohost Global Feed #blast from the past

@darryl @darryl11/9/2022, 12:28 AM

Taking suggestions.

@darryl @darryl11/8/2022, 9:54 PM

eggbug enthusiast @aidan

ubuntor @ubuntor11/6/2022, 3:44 AM

can you find the 5 eggbugs?

use your cursor as a compass to find them! (sorry, desktop only!)

good job!

generator script (requires shapely and matplotlib)

https://gist.github.com/ubuntor/758405e9a66c7f226181efc9df578a01

#interactable #css crimes #pretend your compass is unlabeled or you're looking at field lines but not really since it only takes into account the closest one #it turns out generating a grid of 2500 divs is a bad idea so had to compute a voronoi diagram instead #spent so long trying to figure out how to get svgs with custom cursors to work before using clip-path instead #the implementation of the results panel is absolutely atrocious #cssgizmo

@darryl @darryl11/8/2022, 1:26 PM

I saw someone online talking about the lunar eclipse say “someone at the park let me use their telescope!” and I think everyone should know that if you ever see someone in a park with a telescope they will one hundred per cent let you use it, they are probably in the park because they are hoping someone will ask to use it, there is nothing telescope people want more in the whole world than for some random passerby to express interest in their telescope.