Red_Ted_is_back: the blog

A long time between sessions. I messed up the post-sim forward display trying to make it more efficient and spent hours trying to fix it. The problem was that I couldn’t revert back to the previous version because I had not made a backup after doing the fielder position logic. So it was either lose all of that work or fix it. So I chose to fix it. Which I did, seven weeks later. Unfortunately in between starting and finishing, there was a week-long camping trip, a change of computer (downgrading from 2017 iMac 27" to 2020 M1 MacBook Air) and (most disruptingly) returning to work. The first four weeks minimum after returning to work are basically a write-off timewise. As a consequence the familiarity with the code and the confidence in making a correction decreases as the time away from it increases. Ironically though in this case it only took a few minutes to come up with a solution once I sat down and revised how it worked. I did resort to a much-resented ‘band-aid’. I can justi