Scott DePouw

Makes me miss blog posts more. They do exist but ever since the advent of "micro-blogging", it's article-title-only-itis all the way down.

I always enjoy the "sampler" of weather that we get and wouldn't want to change that.

Settings screen that has an alert notifying the user to use "the app" to make changes.

I like using my keyboard and desktop, thanks.

Why have a desktop sign-in at all if you're just going to not let me do anything, haha.

"Track - The Legend of Zelda by Arcadia" / "Time - 3:00"

Years later and Twitch is still incorrectly flagging Zelda audio as being part of this musical pre-AI slop song (which amounts to the Zelda theme with a drumbeat put over it).

Remove the trash from your music copyright scanner, Twitch. Have to appeal with "audio not in my video" and it works 100%.

An incredible feat!

Happy 40th anniversary to The Legend of Zelda!

Doing some speedruns: www.twitch.tv/thedoctorblue/

I think the word "stealing" has a much spicier ring to it, myself.

"Content theft" is a good phrase too.

"Plagiarism" is the fancy legal one!

(27:41.0) Legend of Zelda - Any% No Up+A - schicksal88 on Twitch schicksal88 went live on Twitch. Catch up on their The Legend of Zelda VOD now.

Last night www.twitch.tv/schicksal88 got a new World Record in The Legend of Zelda - Any% No Up+A.

The new WR is now 27:41.001!

An incredible run.

Leaderboard: www.speedrun.com/the_legend_o...

Watch it here: www.twitch.tv/videos/26963...

Still have my registered copy of mIRC. Wouldn't fret going back to it.

Text that reads "Federal Due: $9"

Doesn't get much closer than that.

FREE UPDATE DROP! This our way to thanks everyone!!

🧩 230+ new puzzles
🐭 100+ new rodents pictures
⚙ New QoL Settings
🌙 Improved night mode
📦Walls & Edge furniture
⚡The Spirit and the Mouse items
📝and much more (full patch note below!)

To celebrate, we're 20% off for a week!

squeakross.cool

The worst one UX-wise is "max length 100 characters", because the error message you get is "use a shorter password."

Just keep guessing!

Updated a Google password today. Even Google suffers from Secret Password Requirement Syndrome.

- Restricted special characters: !@#$%^&*.()
- Cannot start or end with a whitespace
- Max length 100 characters

#JustTellUsThePasswordRequirements

I always approve of monospaced font usage.

An ASP.NET Yellow Screen of Death

Haven't seen this flavor of error page in a while.

You are being misled about renewable energy technology. YouTube video by Technology Connections

Let's do this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

End result was having a weaker password since the application seemed to not accept good passwords even at such a small max length. Oh well!

Installing software for my new Brother printer.

Password rules bad.

10-16 characters max, with a Confirm Password field you cannot paste into from a password manager.

Had to do some trickery to get KeePass to auto-type it (b/c gen'd passes don't use conventional characters!)

A ruler buried in snow, just the edge still visible. The ruler is 15" so this is about 14".

About 14" as of a moment ago.

A ruler in the snow, showing 13" of snow piled up.

My county's under a Level 3 now. First time in a long time.

Over a foot of snow outside today! This picture's from a couple hours ago and it still hasn't stopped.

Came up in conversation.

Long before TV Tropes, we had this for video game RPGs: project-apollo.net/text/rpg.html

I'm glad it still exists!

Signing Git Commits Mark commits you make locally as Verified in GitHub by using GPG to sign the commits you make.

The good news is I left myself appropriate instructions in the repo's readme (and the GPG notes I took for this blog post from last year blog.nimblepros.com/blogs/signin... ). So it was ultimately painless.

(Said blog post could now receive a sequel potentially...)

Updated my web site and did a small write-up for this new PB.

scottdepouw.com/posts/2026-0...

I also learned how to refresh an expired GPG key, and how to transfer said key from PC to a VSCode workspace keyring. Rabbit holes! Jekyll permalink updates too.

(I need to update my site more often.)

LiveSplit with a final time of 28:51. The run is -12.8 leaving Level 5, behind when leaving Lv8, and finishes +3.5.

A near-PB this morning. 28:51 with a very fast early game.

Another PB could be around the corner.

www.twitch.tv/videos/26760...

Correction on the framecount - 28:48.584

LiveSplit showing a new personal best of 28:48.42, a PB by nearly 7 seconds.

New PB! 982 attempts and 839 days later, my Zelda Any% No Up+A (Deathless) time is now 28:48.633!

youtu.be/mUkh6JqFq8w

I'm now 13th place on the official leaderboard.

No refunds

"We let thieves plagiarize and steal content. We just ask that they tell us they do it."

#Animorphs fans, a reminder!

As the series turns 30 this year, the first three books are being released with beautiful new cover art by @creepcaptain.bsky.social. Out May 5! Here's a link to book one: bookshop.org/p/books/anim...