And here we see the neglected middle child, stuck between the funny and unfunny numbers

That looks so damned good! Great job on the integration

Now this is how you make meowfurshot jealous 😎

Perfect view and weather for a calm and relaxing 5 hour drive to Houston

Gonna need some show and tell soon

Thanks for the fun TFF. Catch y’all around next time!

Picture of a car with the plate “I Yiff”. Car also has a fake tongue in the grill and one light sticking up as if it’s winking.

Genuinely the best fursuit I’ve seen here at TFF

Cartoony banner art depicting train ticket counter for Texas Furry Fiesta.

Helllo TFF

Great job on finding a good outfit for her!

I mean, yeah the looks are nice, and a suit on or off may be hot, but it's the personality and the energy of the creator that we're here for (okay and maybe the kinks too)

Large convention space floor full of furries

Just before badge pickup opened

Adorkable! And good on you for venturing out!

Screenshot of the INI preferences file highlighting the variable where whitelisted domains can be added.

Screenshot of the ITGmania score screen where the HTTP request is automatically made and contents of the remote file is displayed on screen.

Free time from work is finally allowing me to work on my personal projects. It also gave me the time to read their horrible documentation and see the *1* line I missed explaining there IS a way to allow custom http connections. It even supports web sockets. Now to examine the possibilities/uses.

Photo of a placard containing the Rod of Asclepius mounted on an elevator entrance.

It’s so nice seeing the Rod of Asclepius being used correctly, versus the Caduceus… but why on the entrance to the elevators???

City of Houston skyline at a distance.

2 weeks after Beryl, finally in Houston to assess and run maintenance. Even at a distance the Skyline is quite the sight.

Reworking the topology of a model has never been particularly hard for me, but holy fuck do I have a whole new respect for people that need to do UV maps from scratch. This shit is hard.

Half old growth and half new purchase plants in their new home.

Plant sensors and irrigation control laid out in Home assistant using mobile friendly sections.

Plant sensors and irrigation control laid out in Home assistant using the old row layout… which groups better but looks worse.

I never realized just how hard it is to find “just a box” planter, but I’m happy I found this one. Indoor garden finally transplanted into a larger space. Just need to redo my sensors and irrigation setup, and figure out how to water 5 plots with 4 pumps.

A car littered with stickers. Self titled as “Waifu Mobile”.

An RV with the “Serentity” from Firefly emblazoned on one of its side panels.

Interesting things spotted this work trip

Buc-ee’s signage stating “Ice cream sandwiches? Bet.”

Buc-ee’s signage stating “Slay”

Made an unexpected 500 mile drive to Fort Worth. It’s amazing seeing the generationally targeted ads up here. I hate them.

ITGmania live gameplay modifiers Integrating the code into the main theme itself has solved a lot of my problem in allowing this to work, and now I have access to many more parts of the inte...

Success! Moving my code from an external module and into the main theme itself has allowed me more access to the internal interfaces. A custom theme would now need to be released to use, but that is a triviality compared to the new possibilities available. This means chat redeems are now a go!

ITGmania live modifiers More fun hacks. Adding game modifiers to the current song outside of player selection of mods. Currently only applies at start of gameplay. Need to figure ou...

Yet another absolutely amazing discovery... an interface to add gameplay mods outside of the player's control. Can we say hello to possible chat redeems?

ITGmania Chat Request Song Selection In game menu item to automatically select the next song in the queue. Polled from the server, written to a text file, read by the input manager, and confirme...

🤯 Apparently I am an idiot. The majority of my pad issues were due to 2 settings in ITGmania itself. With those unset all my problems disappear. More progress was made with chat request integration. There is now an in game menu to select the next song. Hacks upon hacks, but proof of concept works!

The problem is the LTEK presents as 2 controllers, Joy1+Joy2 with 12 inputs, but the buttons remap every time ITGmania launches regardless of config save. Enabling the emulator post game launch will map the xbox controller into Joy1, invalidating the LTEK pads. A remap binds to the xbox controller.

ITGmania pad overlay test Some quick testing managed to get the pad overlay working via a controller emulator, which I hate, but it works.

Significant progress made. Switched from using multiple custom scripts to toggle object visibility and moved to one plugin which allows scenes to be used, thus transitions. Pad overlay now works by mapping it to an xbox controller via an emulator, which is a blessing and a curse thanks to windows.

solar eclipse photo showing a few coronal mass ejections

solar eclipse photo showing a few coronal mass ejections

solar eclipse photo showing a few coronal mass ejections

approach of the moon nearing totality

2024 Total Eclipse from approximately 30 miles west of Austin, TX. Just over 4 minutes of totality. Even caught a few coronal mass ejections. All despite heavy cloud coverage.

A herd of 10 deer grazing mere feet from me

The wolf in me demands I chase 🐺

Field of Texas bluebonnets growing in an empty lot

Sunset in Central Texas hill country

Can’t believe it’s been over 25 years since I’ve last seen Texas Bluebonnets growing on the side of the road.

ITGmania OBS Chat Integration Test Testing overlays for chat requests ( 0:06 ) and automatic score uploads ( 2:35 ). Gamepads are currently incompatible with OBS' input-overlay plugin, so I'll...

Continuing to revive the old streaming toolkit by getting the score upload, and requests / song list overlays working so that I can make notes and learn where to optimize and what to remove on the rewrite. I mean honestly, who puts the newest requests on the top of the list?

ITGmania OBS integration test When hacking ITGmania actually works and it can talk to OBS

When a shower thought turns into a few days of programming, and it actually ends up working! Hacking ITGmania to talk to OBS so that inputs can be shown/hidden. May need to swap that to scene switching due to how buggy ITGmania's screen capture can be when listed in multiple sources.

User interface for a website listing songs in my ITGmania library, with song pack browsing, full text search for song / artist, with detail accordion for radar chart and difficulty metrics

I have made a horrendous discovery. It is several years old and took about 3 hours to get it working to ~90%... but it is a mostly operational streaming capable toolkit for Stepmania. Bot integration for chat interaction, and website for available songs. Now I want to rewrite and modernize this. 😧