Quickbits

September 29, 2022
A kit of parts is better than a swiss army knife.

Tax Rate Based On Residency Duration

September 26, 2022   |   Quickbits

I generally don’t think we’re creative enough with regard to tax rates. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of residents or businesses being taxed based on how long they have been inhabitants of a location. For instance, I move to the highly-popular destination of Bend, Oregon, which has been attracting people like crazy for the […]

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Create Blender Materials from Image Maps

September 25, 2022   |   Quickbits

I just realized I can use the Poliigon Material Converter to build my materials for me…just name them in the same format as they do with their files, browse to the folder using their tool, and things seem to work.

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Changing the Coordinate System Orientation

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This seemed like it should be easy (which it is I suppose), but it took a little searching to find the easy answer. I come from AutoCAD (a long time ago), so the plane that you were working in was called the UCS (the User Coordinate System).   Changing the UCS in AutoCAD was pretty easy, you […]

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Copy With Basepoint

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Move the 3d cursor somewhere Hit Shift+S Select “Move selection to cursor” This will move the selected object’s basepoint to the cursor location — you’ll of course have to make sure the basepoint of the object is where you want it.

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PHP Desktop App Development

September 23, 2022   |   Quickbits

Every once in a while, I feel like I want to build something that doesn’t reside on the web, and while there are better programming languages for desktop app development, I already know PHP, so I would like to just use that.   There are a number of projects that supposedly make it possible to do this […]

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September 22, 2022
Link: https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/09/21/boston-mayor-wu-invests-in-trees-for-cooling-water-savings-and-beauty-climate-change
September 21, 2022
My list of things that I kinda-sorta wanna do is too long.
Productivity Tip: Crank up the music -- I don't do this enough, and when I rediscover this, I always seem to ask why I don't do it more.

WordPress Meta Query Mix Relation

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Using a mix of ‘And’ and ‘Or’ operators in the meta_query portion of wordpress get posts query. Specifically with this one, I was looking for an event that had a tag specified by the $show variable, and where the date to see if it was current was either the start or end date of the […]

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