Date: June 02, 2021 at 21:18:45 From: Skywise, [DNS_Address] Subject: Animation - First Six Months of 2021 - Global Earthquakes M4+
Just made a new video using my Quake3D software showing all earthquakes M4+ so far this year.
Finally had a chance to work on a significant feature. I now have administrative boundaries (aka country borders). Had to write a library to read yet another data format.
I'm now over 15,000 lines of code. The software package without map tiles is 28 MB. High resolution map data adds 1 GB.
It's going to be quite a long while before I'm ready to release this into the wild. There's still several features I want to add. I need to clean up and debug the code. I need to test it*. Also, it'll probably take me months just to write the user manual.
* A popular joke in the world of software testing:
A software QA engineer walks into a bar.
He orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders 99999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a ueicbksjdhd.
First real customer walks in and asks where the bathroom is. The bar bursts into flames, killing everyone.
Date: June 02, 2021 at 22:48:33 From: Skywise, [DNS_Address] Subject: Re: Animation - First Six Months of 2021 - Global Earthquakes M4+
Thanks, Ryan.
I've had the idea for this program for over 15 years. I just didn't have the skill to do it despite several attempts to try. All I could manage was something rudimentary.
If at first you don't succeed...
It's really that I've learned enough to finally grasp the overall structure of such a complex undertaking. I'm moving from coding to software engineering.
And I see my 445MB download is about finished. Even higher resolution topography data than what I already use. Just another data format to deal with.
Date: June 03, 2021 at 07:43:11 From: Skywise, [DNS_Address] Subject: Re: Animation - First Six Months of 2021 - Global Earthquakes M4+
It's just an embedded YouTube video. One way I know of that occurring is if javascript is disabled or blocked. I run a script blocker and it does that to me until I enable YouTube.
Of course clicking on it doesn't work. It's just text. I didn't add the extra HTML code to make it a clickable link because I figured people would know what to do.
But in Firefox, which I use, if you highlight it (many ways to accomplish that), then right click, one of the menu options is to open it (in many different ways).
Also, if you cut/paste, it doesn't get pasted into the search box, but into the URL bar.