BurnhamUp!

I’m working on a simple application, and thought React would be helpful. The react docs now recommend you use a framework, and recommended nextJS. I tried it out, but it seems like it’s really working against my goals for this application. I want something that will run statically without a server, since the API calls should be made from the client. They provide a lot of server features, but it looked like you had ways to turn them off. However I finally hit a snag trying to do static deployment and dynamic routing. I wanted a route like /post/<postname> and they really wanted me to be able to enumerate all the possible routes. I think this just wasn’t what I wanted.

I’m fairly happy with what React is providing me, so maybe I go with a lighter framework.

Got an error trying to help my son launch Plants vs Zombies. A big popup about how the game ‘could not activate’ and that I needed to sign in with the correct account. Super confusing, since I was launching the game from my library in the EA app.

Found an article with the solution which is to navigate to “C:\ProgramData\Electronic Arts\EA Services\License” and delete the contents of the folder. Afterwards relaunching games will build back licenses.

My guess as to what happened – I originally installed the game from Origin some number of years ago and their DRM scheme didn’t survive the change to the EA app. Why they didn’t just code that solution into the app, I don’t know. Maybe their app doesn’t know the DRM check failed. Maybe the transition period where both apps were active caused a conflict.

General Conference was still hard with kids today.

I was really quite taken with President Nelson’s story about myopic. It raised so many questions – did he have a lesson in mind when he passed the word along? Or was he trusting in inspiration that he did not yet understand? I would be concerned with how it might be received, and yet it turned into a really profound lesson.

Maintaining an eternal perspective turns a lot of problems on their head. Things like suffering, difficulties, and even death don’t seem so bad when you don’t see them as permanent. And I think once it’s combined with loving and serving others, it feels like an unstoppable force.

The one story about the missionary missing out on the historic event at the Tokyo conference resonated with me as well. It just seemed to validate all the other parts of this year that suck, besides the death and sickness and racial injustice. Like, that it was okay to feel sad about everything else too. I can’t remember if there was advice offered, but I’ll be looking again soon.

There’s a lot on my mind today, but this is the story that is so overwhelming. The President of the United States is has been hospitalized with the coronavirus. The whole thing is just so upsetting. And I think what’s so upsetting is that it’s not just him, but it’s looking like almost two dozen people at this point. It’s just frustrating to see people that we call our leaders, and their hand picked advisors and professionals all fall ill because they weren’t ignoring the basic safety advice. I’m not saying that this could have been prevented, but it didn’t have to be this bad. It’s really looking like the event to introduce the new Supreme Court nominee is what they all have in common, an event marked by no masks, close proximity and hugging! And it just feels like that we’re never going to turn the corner on this pandemic, because this keeps happening.

I think there’s also a lot of anxiety because it looks like things can still get worse. How many more White House staffers will turn up positive? Cabinet members? Senators? What if someone dies? There’s going to be serious and lasting consequences – and it didn’t have to be this bad. I’m just upset at how reckless this is, and how many unrelated innocent people are yet to be harmed.