Richard @pretzelhands.com · 23/04/2025First order of my wife's art business kyoti.art arrived at its destination today! It's amazing to see people be so excited about receiving their order. A whole different rush! 131
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 22/04/2025Es ist schön zu wissen, dass meine Kammerumlage zumindest an technisch kompetente Menschen geht.. 🙃 020
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 04/04/2025Just remembered my very first programming experience. NFS: Hot Pursuit 2 stored all its car models with .ini files in a cars/ folder. This INI files had things like acceleration rate and max speed defined per vehicle. You could just edit them. I won every race 😤 150
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 29/03/2025Today in: video games I’m horrifically late for: Shadow of the Erdtree! Fucking FINALLY. 030
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 17/03/2025In the end we managed to generate a whopping 728 EUR from our first effort! 💵 So I'd like to take this as a story. If you have something you want to do, just go and do it. As @levelsio has said: You Can Just Do Things. 8/ 130
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 17/03/2025The big day came and we set up a stand at Button Festival! We were surrounded by so many other lovely artists who welcomed us with open arms ❤️ It was an absolute blast to see people react to the stickers, to chat with them, to just have a good time for two days 7/ 130
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 17/03/2025A lot of long production days and nights followed. Even the day before the event we were still figuring out a prototype for our booth design at 11pm. 😁 Turns out there are great modular boxes you can buy and configure in literally whatever way you want. We were ready! 😬 6/ 110
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 17/03/2025Well, luckily our city happens to have a gaming festival of its own called Button Festival! Jowi immediately applied for a table and even made a whole presentation for the application.. And she got in! Woo! 🎉 So in the beginning of March, we would go and sell things! 5/ 150
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 17/03/2025Between January and the beginning of March she produced a total of 1,800 stickers, bookmarks, art prints, pins and keychains. All of them designed by Jowi and handmade from material you can buy at any stationery shop. But how to sell that stuff? 4/ 130
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 17/03/2025I decided to get her an inkjet printer for Christmas and Jowi bought herself a Cricut plotter with her bonus. Along with some sticker paper, laminating foil and some other misc supplies she now had everything to start producing! And boy, did she ever produce a lot 🤭 3/ 110
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 17/03/2025Jowi was immediately inspired! You can just sell stickers and fanart? 👀 That sounded fun to her. When we got home, she immediately started drawing. Then she decided she wants to do /everything/ by herself. Art, cutting, laminating, the whole nine yards. 2/ 120
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 17/03/2025My wife is starting an art business! 🎨 A story of how you can just do things. In November last year Jowi and I went to @ViennaComicCon on a date. We wanted to see the nerd scene of Austria in one place We also found the "Artist Alley" where people sell their arts & crafts ✨ 1/ 142
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 16/01/2025More cute feel-good content for today: I digitally preserved the love notes my wife wrote for me 9 years ago before she flew back home to the Philippines. I've carefully kept them stored physically until now, but if anything should happen to them I would be devastated. Not anymore! 020
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 16/01/2025My wife snapped a spontaneous picture while we were clearing out parts of our bedroom yesterday. I think we're done with family pictures now. This is it. It doesn't get better. 🤭 0290
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 20/12/2024Not yet, but looks interesting! I currently just carry a little folder with me and grep on it when necessary: 110
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 20/12/2024Hopping onto a 18h flight to the 🇵🇭 Philippines, so here's one of my favorite productivity tips: Did you know you can just bring docs with you offline? It's one command: wget --recursive --level=1 --no-parent --convert-links --page-requisites --html-extension --domains=laravel.com laravel.com/docs 271
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 19/12/2024This is the update function, btw. Just in case I have completely nerd-sniped you at this point. (sorry! 🤭) 100
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 19/12/2024Yup. This runs perfectly. Same if I call $client->refresh(). :D 200
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 19/12/2024FWIW, I also have this sanity check that just verifies all clients are listed correctly. I can also fix the test for `update` by using the following: expect($client->name)->not->toBe($originalName); expect($client->name)->toBe($changedName); I'm just very confused why my view won't update 210
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 19/12/2024Hey, Laravel friends! I'm stumped by an error. In my test if I update a user and then check that the name is correctly displayed, the test works fine. (right image) But if I first check if the old name is displayed, then update the user and then check the name again, the test fails (left image) 520
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 18/12/2024There's something very pleasing about working within a Laravel project. The choices made by the library authors guide you towards building elegant code of your own In this case I'm very pleased in being able to hook into tenant functionality with two tiny functions in beforeEach() and afterEach() 110
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 14/12/2024Today we baked a metric fuckton of Christmas cookies. Every year I tell myself we’ll make less. Not that this amount ever survives, mind you. So I’ll spend the next 12 days in a sugar coma! 😄 140
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 13/12/2024Another day, another cooking adventure! Today we have 🇨🇳 yuxiang rousi! The third bucket list item on my recent obsessive excursion into Sichuan cuisine! Like all Chinese recipes it’s chopping until your fingers bleed, but once you’re done it goes quickly! Big yum! 150
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 13/12/2024In case you haven't heard of it, text-wrap: balance is a thing, and my god does it make text more bearable to look at! Feel free to apply where sensible! developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W... 4285
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 10/12/2024Today’s cooking adventure! A new recipe I’ve learned: 🇹🇭 Pad Kra Pao Comes together shockingly quickly and is incredibly delicious! 030
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 10/12/2024I only recently learned that on macOS using the little Preview app you can actually sign your PDFs on your iPhone. I may never print a document again. 3110
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 09/12/2024This weekend I was at the local #analoggamejam hosted by the amazing Ludovico The goal was designing/playtesting new board games in a single day We made a game simulating making pizza with friends and trying to get on as much of your fav toppings as possible while avoiding the ones you hate 2190
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 07/12/2024Today’s cooking adventures: Making wonton and siomai for friends, along with a beautiful pork roast by my wife! (I’m really just a helping hand here) 020
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 06/12/2024Day 3, Part 2 (woops! Thanks @treysdevshed.com!) Listen, I get that the task kinda wants me to write a little parser here to extract the `do()` and `don't()`. Buuuuuuut the pattern matching in F# is ridiculously good. So useful. So. I didn't. 🤭 020
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 06/12/2024Day 4, Part 1 of #adventofcode I felt really clever writing this, since it's a textbook extraction problem. But part 2 had other plans for me. At least I'm happy about this one! 230
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 05/12/2024Hi. I sat in a shopping cart today. That’s it. That’s the post. 2262
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 05/12/2024Recently a friend of ours found a small Russian blue cat in a field. We don't know how he ended up there, but he has now been adopted by my parents at their rural farm house. He is the most intensely cuddly cat I've ever met. When we handed him to my mum, he immediately started purring! 2510
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 04/12/2024No, but seriously I don’t know whether to be proud or disturbed. 010
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 04/12/2024Not me unironically listening to Mary On A Cross as the only song on my playlist for 5 weeks straight. Ahem. 110
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 04/12/2024Day 2, Part 2! Slightly refactored. I'm still getting used to the idea that I can just pass around operators as functions. It's wild! 020
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 04/12/2024Day 2, Part 1 of #adventofcode This one was great fun! Feels like a beautiful fit for pipeline processing an array. 140
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 02/12/2024And part 2! This one feels a lot nicer. Although the inlined functions could probably be extracted to something with a nice name. 100
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 02/12/2024Alright, here we go. Day 1, Part 1 of #adventofcode This solution does not feel 100% idiomatic, but I'm probably still holding F# very wrong. It was however surprisingly pleasant to type out! 120
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 25/11/20243 digits get! Hello everyone! I hope you enjoy my patented mix of ranting about tech and shitposting! ✨ 150
Richard @pretzelhands.com · 24/11/2024I can't quite be bothered to set up PyPy and Node on my production VPS right now, but I did do a local run real quick and it's.. shocking, honestly. 🤭 200