Category Archives: Comics

A Drive Through the Country

As I alluded to in February, I’m going to try and shy away from the gaming scene while I experiment with other fields. That doesn’t mean “leave completely,” but my activity will be hampered. That is partially the reason SourceMod moved to a “rolling release” concept so we can push out incremental feature updates easier.

As part of this endeavor, I’ve accepted an internship at Mozilla. I don’t know what I’ll be working on yet, but my primary interest is in language development, so hopefully it will be EMCA4/JavaScript 2/Tamarin. It requires relocation to Mountain View, California.

I’m really looking forward to this, but the next two weeks I am not. I managed to schedule myself into a rather nasty hole. In specific, finals last until April 29th. My apartment lease ends on April 30th. I said I’d be in California by May 5th. That means I need to finish school, move all of my belongings to storage, and move — in a time span of a week.

What makes this feat particularly amusing is that, against better judgment, I have decided to drive to my destination. This is not a short road trip. Clocking in at 3,100 miles, I can expect to spend at least a few days on the road. I’ve gotten a friend to tag along to make sure I don’t accidentally drive in a direction other than “West.”

While I’m resigned to the fact that I will probably miss my deadline by a few days, it’s both a long journey and a stressful two weeks ahead. As of May 1st, I will probably not be on IRC for a week or so. You probably won’t see any commits from me for at least two weeks though I will try to read the forums and bug reports as I have time. Blog articles will resume on May 5th (I have a rather scathing, two-part overview of the JVM spooled up).

And so…
Mozilla or Bust

Sayonara, bickering with Valve!

Bug Report Arrogance

Lately I’ve found myself going down an increasingly slippery slope. I always disliked developers that that treat users poorly when they try to report software issues. As my projects reach stable maturity and a great deal of the code stops changing, my ego starts getting the better of me when people file bug reports.

Part of it is ego, and part of it is that I get tired of fixing things on my own. It gets to the point where if I see a bug report pop up in my e-mail, I think “Oh boy, I can’t wait to deny this.” That’s not good, so I’m trying hard to temper myself. Anyway, enjoy this (I used to draw comics as a kid, thought I’d give it another shot).

bug report anger