Mirror mirror on the wall, shut up, please, and let me alone! Comments Off

I’ve been working on a small project which consists of taking a picture through the webcam or recording the video stream it provides, fascinating, isn’t it? Nothing fancy, just the standard things you will find all over the net, programs like this one. 

But what amazed me, while working on this, were the print screens you see in the explanations of these programs. You see the author, bent over the keyboard in a more or less messy room with various degrees of uncombed hair.

And then it dawned on me that the test shots I’ve been taking myself look horribly close to those. I mean, how can you look at 1 am, after a full day of work?

And then I wonder – how many of these programmers that post their projects all over the web, some of whom are reaaaaaaally good, realize that when they look at those test pictures, besides the quality, size and so on they should be looking at their congested geek eyes, shut down the computer and go for a walk IRL (that’s In Real Life for those of you who actually look out the window to see if it rains instead of Googling for the local weather).

At least I realized it! And now I’m going for a walk…, oh wait, I’ve just figured out how to fix that zoom problem, let me do that first and then… What’s that my Spirit of Self Preservation? I said what? Just now? Did I? Are you sure?

Shut the hell up, I’m working here.

Thank you!