I tried Zork 1. I got stuck immediately. I saw a house, went to it, read what was in the mailbox, but couldn't open the door. Now what? I never played the original Zork but if this was D&D there would be a little more information to go off then just "you see a house and there is nothing you can do there".
I used to dislike AppleScript but now I enjoy using it. The turning point for me was when I finally bit the bullet and read a book on the subject.
AppleScript’s human readable language lulls you in this false sense of security that you can wing it and everything will just work out. This is simply not the case, it is a very quirky language and it helps to read a book to get the right mental model.
The second thing that helped was getting AppleScript debugger from Late Night Software. They recently decided to no longer develop it and release it for free on their site. It’s worth getting if you haven’t done so already.
I will never understand these people who invert their camera controls, especially in something like Dark Souls. You are playing as a knight not an airplane.
I have a sure fire method for detecting Canadians out in the wild. Pay close attention to how they pronounce the word “resources”. If you hear the letter Z in there then they are probably Canadian.
Most people who refer to "North Americans" collectively are Canadian. People in the US can forget Canada exists. People in Canada can't forget the US exist and so they need a term that includes both.
I think the idea of ed is to embrace the edit-compile-cycle. So the error tell you the specific line to go to. Then after the obvious errors are out, you do a full printout to handle logic errors.
The idea of Ed is that you have a large spool of paper and you make little editing marks on the printout until you decide you've reached some threshold and then print out a fresh up-to-date copy
It’s always fun to figure out the path through the error messages that changes the error line numbers the least, so you don’t have to search or recompile.
I have tried multiple times to make notebooks work for me for note taking or tracking tasks but it always falls apart eventually. First it was bullet journals, then I tried something a little less structured but in the end I couldn’t get it to stick. Now I use Apple Notes which is good enough.
