Eradication
It has been a while since I last reposted an xkcd. I really liked this one:

It has been a while since I last reposted an xkcd. I really liked this one:
The Nuget Package for GLFW did get it’s update to version 3.3.4 (https://www.nuget.org/packages/glfw/).
And, before you ask, yes, I backdated this and the previous post to the dates on which I published the updated nuget packages. Well.
The Nuget Package for Lua did get it’s update to version 5.4.3 (https://www.nuget.org/packages/lua/).
This was interesting, because it was the first nuget package update on my new computer. A test, whether or not I included all required files in the repository. And the test was a success. The update was easy, just like planned.
I got my “wisdom,” I like to call it that, from many different sources: family, friends, movies, … It’s also often called “useless knowledge.” I can live with that too. And things get most interesting, when we are talking about things which are not (fully) under our control. Opinions then become more and more reflections of how we see things, and not how they are. Well, opinions always are that way, but in those cases this becomes more and more apparent. Let’s take our jobs for example, we love ‘em, we hate ‘em, we need ‘em. If you’d ask me to look at it from an academic perspective, I’d like to first introduce a scale (based on my useless wisdom):
The upper end is defined for me by a quote from Confucius. Actually, the last time I heard it, was when my sister read it to me from Kermit the Frog’s Instagram.
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
And for the lower end, which is not that negative at all, I choose a quote from “The Devil Wears Prada.”
“Jobs that pay the rent.”
Well, that is not Confucius, but it certainly does hit the point we oftentimes feel.
Obviously, it’s an open scale from 1 – Love to 0 – Rent, and beyond at both ends. And, there certainly is something like “That’s it. Here is my resignation. Fuck you all.” as well, but I do hope that range is not needed very often. Let’s put that to -1.
So, there you are. A nice Scale between Love and Hate, about our jobs.
If you had one of those days, and you feel like close to zero, or even in the negative, then try to remember a previous day, where you were close to one. Got it? Keep at it. You’re goal for work is to make those days count! And to have more of those days that the others. And, for the other days, don’t forget about your life outside of your job as well!
The Nuget Package for Lua did get it’s update to version 5.4.2 (https://www.nuget.org/packages/lua/).
One of the best Xkcd evergreens:
Once again, I had fun.
After my apparently successful presentation at the VisGap 2020 workshop, collocated to the EuroVis/Eurographics 2020, in May, I was now invited to give a short Application Spotlight presentation and the IEEE VIS 2020. I am honored. And, I am looking forward to this opportunity.
Somehow, I never liked GetOpt. I am not convinced by all details of GFlags as well. But, it is the better option than whipping up some CmdLine parser myself.
For the nuget package I focused only on the thread-safe static library. If you need another variant, feel free to reuse my AppVeyor artifacts. Those include basically everything.
As usual, the package code is free: https://bitbucket.org/sgrottel_nuget/gflags_nuget
The community for native library nugets seems not very active. I assume most people use cmake, and have to use some extra scripting for some platform dependent package management, or something. I don’t know. I still like nuget a lot. And so, without further ado: my new Nuget package for LibYAML.
As usual, package code is free: https://bitbucket.org/sgrottel_nuget/libyaml-nuget