How My Brain Works

Tuesday, 19 December, 2017

How My Brain Works

Or

Why I Never Seem to Get Anything Done

1. My brother sends me a link to some interesting information about Apple’s GameplayKit
2. I think, “Swift Playgrounds are a great way to just try out some code! I’ll just type this code into a playground.”
3. I open a new playground and start typing
4. NSViewController class is undefined… Duh! These code examples are already out of date! NSViewController has probably been replaced by some new UIViewHarnessor or something.
5. (google, google, google…) maybe NSViewController is correct… I’ll just type some more and maybe the compiler will catch up (Xcode sux0rz!)
6. Game() is also undefined… what the???
7. Oh, it’s a whole project thing to download
8. I revise my folder hierarchy to fit my new worldview and prepare a place for downloaded code samples
9. Oh look! README.md - I like Markdown!
10. Oh, I don’t have my markdown display add-on for Firefox on this machine
11. I download the add-on and open README.md
12. What the…? garbled characters?
13. I open README.md in Emacs
14. Oh, it’s a beautiful “right single quote” for the apostrophe.
15. Wait… Firefox should handle that…
16. (google, google, google) Oh, hamburger-menu > more > text encoding
17. Ah, yeah, switch from “Western” to “Unicode” that should…
18. What the…? This Markdown extension must be crap. Where’s the good one?
19. (google, google, google) I install the different markdown add-on - it doesn’t even do what I expected
20. (google, google, google) file -i in Linux, file -I in macOS
21. charset=utf-8 What the…?!
22. (google, google, google) Markdown Viewer Webtext… Unicode… Byte Order Mark “‘Byte Order Mark?’ Oh, hell!”
23. (google, google, google) set-buffer-file-coding-system = C-x RET f (google, google, google) utf-8-with-signature
24. Ahhhhh…
25. Now what was I working on?