Weekly Post 18

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Recap amendment

First and foremost, I have to right a wrong: I forgot in last weeks recap that my girlfriends internship at the Thalia theater for To my little boy ended with the premiere on Friday. We were there ofc, and she got to go on stage during the applause. It was a fine performance, but we all agreed it wasn’t anything groundbreaking either. That means however she has a lot of free time now as well, so we will tackle cleaning her room next week.

A theater stage featuring a person dressed in an pig stuffed animal. They are sitting with one leg extended on a white geometric structure, and empty black chairs can be seen in the foreground.

Recap

The week started with me defending my bachelor thesis, as mentioned last post. I celebrated with my two best friends and my girlfriend together after finishing that and turning my work stuff in. The not-flatmate friend even baked a very tasty cake, and we had a nice evening, dinner, and played some Mario Kart. Tuesday began with us clearing up the flat so the painter could finish the fixing up of the windows she began last week. We also had a surprise visit from an electrician, who had a look at our not fixed wall in order to give his recommendation to our landlords. After that, I went with my girlfriend to our hometown/her families place. We volunteered to drive out the quarterly newsletter from our church to the people who then hand it out. It is not a huge commune, we did have to drive to 33 places and it still took us about 5 hours. It was a lot of fun though, got to meet a variety of people who volunteer to do that. And also the parents of my friend which was awesome.

An open box placed inside a building, containing smaller labeled cardboard boxes neatly arranged in rows. A door with glass panels is visible in the background. A view of the back seat of a car loaded with the large cardboard boxes. The boxes are labeled, and sunlight streams in through the windows. The interior of a vehicle's trunk loaded with multiple smaller labeled cardboard boxes. The trunk is open, and the arrangement of the boxes is tidy and even.

Wednesday my girlfriend had time to give me a haircut, and we drove back to Hamburg where I joined the yearly plenum meeting of NewPipe e.V. No board changes or anything radical, but it was a good year we had and I am hopeful that this year will be even better. On Thursday I spend my day doing the last bit of work on a side project from university, which is very nice to have finished now. I went to the Hamburg Service on site to get a new identity card though (still a bit salty I have to pay for stuff the governement forces me to do), and in the evening me, my girlfriend and flatmate took a train to Lüneburg to visit Pons. The oldest pub in the town, a totally cozy environment and lots of vegan options compared with great beer was a perfect celebration.

A cozy pub interior with warm lighting and brick walls + thick wooden structures. A very old building. String lights frame a wooden doorway leading to a brighter room with a chalkboard menu and a bulletin board. Patrons are seated at tables, enjoying their time. A tabletop scene where people are playing the card game Staying Alive. Hands are visible holding cards, and there are game cards, tokens, a sand timer, and a partially consumed pint of beer on the rustic wooden table. A collection of cards laid out on a wooden table from Star Munchkin. The cards feature colorful, cartoon-style illustrations, some with text describing game abilities or bonuses. Playing tokens and a die are also visible on the table.

The weekend was also quite full. A mutual friend took me and my girlfriend bouldering. It was her first time, she enjoyed it a lot. On Sunday I organized a youth congregation (I could build the floor plan out of Lego) and election of the next council. Since there were the same amount of applicants as seats, it was just a confirmation election, but always nice to have them together. I also found time to fix some small issues with the newpipe-ev.de website.

Song of the week

I had a talk with my father about music recently. He suggested Mike Oldfield, which you probably know from Moonlight Shadow. I quite enjoy his style, I listened to a bit more of his songs.

Currently watching/reading/listening

I stopped reading “Isles of the Emberdark” to give my mother some time to catch up. I will read “This Way Up” from the Map Men, which is a sketch YouTube channel I enjoy a lot. The book is about weird maps apparently, so I will enjoy that light reading.

Games

My girlfriend finished “Detroit: Become Human”. It was a lot of fun experiencing it partially, I will replay it now with her and see how far our decisions/the story diverges. She has her sights set on “Beyond: Two Souls” now, from the same studio.

We played two card games in Pons. Star Munchkin, which is just the normal munchkin but in space. It has a nice gimmick though, one can stack laser weapons. My girlfriend managed to get six lasers stacked. And we played Staying Alive, which we haven’t played before. It was a lot of fun, I think its even better with more people though and with the later missions we haven’t done yet.

Projects

Looking at my website from my mobile phone I realized that the scaling of the video last week works on desktop, but really not on phone. Researching a bit the flex attributes, I realized I could give the video a max-width of 40% and let the browser scale the video automatically depending on how much space the photos left it. Small fix, big change :D

A screenshot of last weeks post, where the right entry of the thumbnail group is really large and the other two entries are not. Same section, this time all parts of the group are evenly sized, but the video is a bit larger.

Uni Dino project

I realized I forgot to tell you all about the final version of the uni project, which I promised two blog posts ago. First a video which tells you more then words.

As you can see, we achieved most of our goals. There is a nice game over screen, randomized appearance of different enemies, a counter going up, the debug LEDs lighting up. We thought we might end up doing a full game menu or scoreboard with names, but the menu flow would have been rather awkward to do with the buttons we had. My project partner did the hardware and managed to put it all in the nice box, which looks awesome. I painted the sprites manually in Pixelorama, which is something I rarely do and enjoyed a lot. I am very happy with this project, great ending to my studying.

As always, make the best out of your day!