Philipp Hagemeister

Software engineering

[Philipp Hagemeister @phihag]

@DanielRensch Obviously 90+30, that's the minimum FIDE classical time control, and the default at tournaments.

To space it out, also 30+5 and 60+5.
It doesn't make sense to play these long games without increment; nobody starts a game that can last hours only to have it end with a dirty flag.

[Philipp Hagemeister @phihag]

@CallMeAlexGyver @t3dotgg In principle, if you can connect your SIP library to the (JACK, if memory serves) audio endpoints, it should work. The Røde binaries are not built with the assumption of anything else running on the device, so hijacking one of the interfaces like USB2 or TRRS is your best chance.

[Philipp Hagemeister @phihag]

@AlexTho09445422 @rodemics @t3dotgg Actually this is fairly safe. I renamed the original GUI binary and replaced it with one that doesn't do anything. Everything else is running from SD card (keyword: mount loop). So it's just one command to restore the GUI. Don't even need to reboot.

[Philipp Hagemeister @phihag]

@joelcompiles @rodemics @t3dotgg Looks perfect to me as a user. Seems to me they have an ini format:

"RECORDINGS" = "Recordings"
"RECORDINGS" = "Enregistrements"
"RECORDINGS" = "Aufnahmen"
"RECORDINGS" = ""
"RECORDINGS" = "Registrazioni"
"RECORDINGS" = "Grava
"RECORDINGS" = "Grabaciones"

[Philipp Hagemeister @phihag]

@joelcompiles @rodemics @t3dotgg Oh, duh! I figured that was their internal name. 🙈

[Philipp Hagemeister @phihag]

@joelcompiles @rodemics @t3dotgg # strings /usr/bin/rc_gui_juce  | grep QObj
#
So, not Qt.
Also, with Qt you wouldn't have everything as SVG files, right? There are 346(!) SVG files compiled into this binary. No HTML, by the way.
Røde dynamically links to libglib & libgobject, but not a single "Gtk" in strings.

[Philipp Hagemeister @phihag]

@joelcompiles @rodemics @t3dotgg Yup!
4x Cortex-A53✅
RT Linux Kernel✅ (aarch64)
UI❔ It's one big binary with a lot of embedded SVGs. Not Qt nor any framework I recognize. Renders via libsdl to the kernel Direct Rendering Manager. I installed Xorg, by default it's a much leaner setup.

[Philipp Hagemeister @phihag]

@rodemics @t3dotgg Doom is a bit laggy on the Rødecaster (at least on top of Xorg). For some reason there are some audio-related processes running on the device.

[Philipp Hagemeister @phihag]

@rodemics @t3dotgg Saw this while casually scrolling through twitter on my Rødecaster Duo (as you do). Let's see whether I'm up to the challenge.

[Philipp Hagemeister @phihag]

@Olympics @momota_kento @bwfmedia @ViktorAxelsen Viktor as coach. Because he can tell me to Get Off My Behind in 3 languages.
Momota as partner. Because with me there's gonna be a lot of defending.
TTY as opponent. She tricks her opponents into moving in the wrong direction. But I'm slow to move in any direction anyways!

[Philipp Hagemeister @phihag]

@marvinhagemeist @squidfunk Sorry can't help; I have a critical project, but it's small enough I only do manual releases.

[Philipp Hagemeister @phihag]

Insidious JSON/YAML bug:

- python_versions: [3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10]

… results in "Not found: python3.1" 🤦

Correct:

- python_versions: ["3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10"]

[Philipp Hagemeister @phihag]

On Error Resume Next in JavaScript, 2/2:

Unhanded promise rejections will only print out a scary warning with some node versions. Exit code of the process is 0, as if everything worked fine!

[Philipp Hagemeister @phihag]

ON ERROR Resume Next in JavaScript, 1/2:

fs.writeFile(filename, JSON.stringify(data), e => {if (e) console.error(e)});
console.log('File saved successfully to', filename);

In an async function no less!

[a n k i t @WtFawwk]

It be like that sometimes

[Philipp Hagemeister @phihag]

Livestreaming website has very annoying ads.
First bookmark in the developer's toolbar is: "skip ads". 🙈

Developer tools are great, but make sure they don't hide bad UX!

[Philipp Hagemeister @phihag]

After a plane crash, the airline industry addresses not only the immediate problem, but also contributing factors.
In software we should do the same, with (among others)
1. assertions
2. unit tests
3. e2e tests
4. tools to check & manipulate
5. documentation

[Philipp Hagemeister @phihag]

Me: Why is this page so slow? It's just displaying a log of actions for a test object.
Also me: Performed 2257 actions on said test object, resulting in a giant table with details on each action.

[Evgeni Golov @zhenech]

@phihag I once had a file /dev/null, not helpful if that accidentally overfills

[Philipp Hagemeister @phihag]

TIL that if you accidentally create a FILE /dev/sda, writing to it will modify that file (in devtmpfs) rather than the thumb drive. Fastest thumb drive I ever had!
ls -l /dev/sda should start with "brw-rw----", the b stands for block device.