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johnnyFive  ·  2290 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: December 20, 2017

Winding down to the Christmas holiday, which I'm looking forward to. Unfortunately my wife has to go back to work on the 27th, and then is heading out with a friend for a couple of days, so I will be sole-parenting for a good chunk of the time. This of course means a tad lest restfulness than I might otherwise get, but se la vie.

I've been playing around with Electron, a library geared towards doing desktop apps with NodeJS. It's interesting enough, even if I haven't quite figured out what it adds specifically over regular old node. It's something to do, even if I find the documentation to be lousy most of the time. And another thing is that variable scope seems really inconsistent; I'm randomly getting errors where it can't find global variables, or at the least those variables are being changed in ways that don't make sense. I haven't really gotten my head around how asynchronous events work, either.

I also started with an art tutor, which is something I've had on the back burner for months.

Games-wise, I've mostly been playing Mario Odyssey, which is fantastic. Breath of the Wild is also amazing, but I've been in the mood for something a little more casual. I did download the demo of Inside (the new game by the folks who made Limbo) for iOS, and so far it's got some of the best touch controls for a side-scroller I've ever used. This one will likely be a purchase, as long as the story holds up.

More reading, more writing, just as usual.