connor @notwa@cybre.space

#introductions hi, i'm connor.

i'm interested in #programming, #machinelearning #ai, #hacking, #reversing, learning and playing with math. i enjoy writing #cpp, #python, and #lua.

sometimes i hack #zelda games for the #n64, but more generally i follow wherever my interests take me. i tend to avoid big projects because of that. i ramble a lot about whatever i'm working on or learning about.

i've helped my sister raise a dozen pet #rats! i also love #tea, #cats, #anime, and #music.

get json2 here (supposedly works with python2 as well) https://github.com/vi/json2/

ok done, this grabs the top clips for a given timeframe from the people you follow. fair warning, it's super-duper hacky: https://gist.github.com/notwa/53b06f2d5dce23df4c0ec9fd41c3e3f1

it seems to use this thing https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-link-persisted-queries except it doesn't include the actual query text. but that's ok since you don't really need to muck with it (but it'd be interesting if you did…)

the only extra http headers / curl arguments you need anymore are the OAuth key and the POST json payload, but the json data is a little funky

reverse engineering some twitch.tv internal api stuff today since my "recent clips" script stopped working

i had a weird glitch in a game of DRG today where the drills made the wrong visual and sound effects when used on terrain, like the indices of any array were off or something

mozilla breaks extensions in their updates while i play unfitting music

ok this seems to be the issue: make sure network.file.disable_unc_paths is false in about:config and your user.js if you use one, then restart

ok yeah firefox 77 is just fucking broken. things seem to work in private browsing windows though, as horrible workaround

hey did anyone else's firefox just break after updating today? a ton of sites never get past the about:blank screen for me

real frustrated today trying to make sense of how i feel about something that's mostly inconsequential, why am i like this

i'm scrolling through old screenshots and it hurts so good

stupid in-joke ignore this

that didn't quite come out right but i need to get out of bed instead of writing posts lol

i think i've gotten better at just about everything since leaving school, and i think it has to do with the lack of the self-judgemental mindset that school puts me in. now that i don't really care about how well i'm doing, i'm experimenting with more things (especially those relating to subjects i was marked poorly in) and i don't worry about being at my limit in the things i'm already decent at. i feel like those worries of not doing well enough were holding me back.

pretty sure this idea just came from a dream where players were immediately launched in from the sides of the map at a high speed and slowed down as they entered in-bounds

i had a thought that in competitive shooters, you could remove respawn timers and fixed spawn points in favor of having players navigate to their desired spawn locations. how would that work exactly and be kept fair? idk

good thing i remembered that affine transformations linearly affect the area of shapes 'cause i almost calculated this the hard way

oh maybe worldbuilding is the wrong word but I can't think of anything else at the moment

it seems a lot easier and fun with things I'm already familiar with where I can go "oh yeah, this real thing is totally just a game mechanic in disguise" and such