Sander van Dragt's Notes

• Sander @ April 24 at 1:13 pm

  I should really add pagination to my #lamb blog. There's an issue already.

• Sander @ April 24 at 9:52 am

  Needed a way to open a bunch of text links in browser tabs, so I generated a script. #projects

• Sander @ April 23 at 1:28 pm

  It seems sometimes I'm researching and want the previous tab to become active after closing a deep dive, and other times I'm reviewing the tabs and want the tab to the right of the active one to become active. Is there any way to codify this I keep changing my browser's settings. #technology

• Sander @ April 10 at 5:06 pm

  Cut a sharp end to a plastic straw. It makes for a good phone charging port cleaner! Actually, it worked better than a tooth pick for me. #technology

• Sander @ March 31 at 11:36 pm

  OK I figured out a very useful #Godot debugging trick: conditional breakpoints are not supported natively but can be added to your code.

  1. Set an if statement for the condition or expression you want to break on.
  2. As the code block for the condition being true add pass and set a breakpoint on this line.
  3. After hitting it, all the debugging tools are available.

• Sander @ March 31 at 1:40 pm

  PHP can sometimes be unintutive:

• Lamb 0.5.2

  Sander @ March 31 at 12:57 pm

  Lamb is Literally Another Micro Blog -- Barrier free super simple blogging, self-hosted.

  This is a tidy up release, with minor functional changes:

  • Menu items are no longer showing in timeline
  • More secure sessions
  • Deferring scripts for improved performance
  • Lowercase tag pages for canonical SEO
  • Add 'published' date to Atom feed entries for better aggregation

  Originally written on lamb-releases. #lamb #projects

  Via lamb-releases

• Sander @ March 29 at 5:12 pm

  #til In #Godot when you attach a node with a scale as a child of one that doesn't support scale (Node vs Node2D for example), there is a flicker as the card is rescaled. Convert the node to a scale supporting type to fix this.

• Sander @ March 5 at 9:35 am

  #til In Godot, if a scene is instantiated at design time and a child is added to it, does the child belongs to the scene whose tree is currently open, or the scene it's attached to?

  When duplicating a node (including a scene) at runtime it is the node tree where the node sits that is duplicated, so it includes the child. But if the scene is marked as a InstancePlaceholder, and create_instance() is called at runtime, it creates a instance of the scene, and any attached children have to be duplicated and attached to the instance with code. #Godot

• Sander @ March 1 at 12:19 pm

  #til In Godot, when you have a project containing a node MyNode that is a scene itself, and MyNode contains two child nodes within the scene and one is added as a child of MyNode in the project, the number of get_children() that a script belonging to the root node of the MyNode scene returns is 3. #godot