Brian Swetland @swetland@mastodon.social
Writes the codes.
Joined Apr 2017
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Hey folks, I'm migrating to @swetland@rafting.io -- might as well live on an instance run by somebody I know! Leaving this as a placeholder account for now.
Hey folks, I'm migrating to @swetland@rafting.io -- might as well live on an instance run by somebody I know! Leaving this as a placeholder account for now.
I should use this thing more. I wish the UI were a bit less clunky.
Since I've been away, Zachtronics has unleashed another amazing "engineering puzzle game":
http://www.zachtronics.com/opus-magnum/ https://mastodon.social/media/csTNXaahIkiyDzAeRL4
Later, the Navi prototypes provided devices that were roughly the form factor we were aiming for, but did not include the hinge mechanism. https://mastodon.social/media/Mj_wIz_FnAcWQYwbgQs https://mastodon.social/media/M5V4rhDXgJg9v7If6Ic
A fun bit of history. The first fully enclosed prototype for what eventually became Hiptop/Sidekick was a project-box-y critter called Paperback (roughly the size of a trade paperback book). https://mastodon.social/media/cUmIkU-QmZ9L1awtJCM https://mastodon.social/media/xZ3O-poJHiV-6G_Bo0s
I keep forgetting about mastodon, using the bird network out of muscle memory.
Brian Swetland
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Huh. The Home pane claims I'm not following anyone yet (and has no content). My profile claims otherwise. What's up with that?
Brian Swetland
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Apologies to everyone I had to leave out! (your instances are great too)
From Witches to Dolphins, These Are the Communities That Make Mastodon Great https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/from-witches-to-dolphins-these-are-the-communities-that-make-mastodon-great #eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Hollow Knight is a game about fantastic elevators and signs.
https://mastodon.social/media/MYPDBoH-9JLu1x2bag0
Hollow Knight is a game about travelling map-maker bugs. https://mastodon.social/media/zwSvKfxsVDUGLoUcKjE
Hollow Knight is a game about meeting mysterious bugs in the rain. https://mastodon.social/media/S8u4jcVQxArjujbE85U
Hollow Knight is a game about rescuing adorable grubs trapped in jars throughout the land. https://mastodon.social/media/dM2jrH2cCq3MTLkzPsw
I'm Metroidvania-ing it up this weekend with Hollow Knight. So incredibly good, wonderful art and music, fantastic gameplay. So many strange bugs!
Brian Swetland
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Attempted to buy something from the Playstation Store yesterday. Failed. Failed & failed again. Re-checked CC numbers: all fine. Failed again today & just now read Sony's customer support help on this problem.
There's a 24 hour waiting period after you change your billing info. If you attempt to buy anything during that period, the waiting period *resets*.
If I had not used Google, I might never have been able to give Sony $ ever again.
Brian Swetland
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What did I learn?
1. systemd sucks
2. operations at production scale is an esoteric skillset
3. documentation is brutally important
4. I am not very good at vacations
5. some bits are still broken but I am not sure
6. I do not volunteer to run npm for a good reason; my team & I deserve salaries for that
7. this will swiftly fall into the same category
8. omg the dude who writes this is saint
@Gargron @ceejbot Making "choosing the wrong instance" something that has near-zero cost, is, I think, a key problem to solve.
If users can migrate to a new/better instance if their first choice becomes inaccessible / unusable, without losing their identity, timeline, connections, then the major "cost" to users of federation goes away, and it becomes more of an advantage than a burden to the average user that just wants to Toot at their friends and/or the world.
I like federation, but one of the downsides (especially for very new infra like #Mastodon), is that tying your identity to an instance ends up being really painful if you need to move to a new instance for whatever reason.
Is there a mechanism to backup/restore your timeline if you have to move?
Combined with more durable identity that could survive instance implosion, that might be handy.
#TIL FractInt is still around and there's a Linux version available.
#Nostalgia #1990s #MandelbrotSet https://mastodon.social/media/8bfkabejTyHO-_JJaKU
Is there a way to further filter a user timeline by a hashtag or vice versa? I'd really like to be able to easily see all my own posts on a particular topic, for example.
#Mastodon #FeatureRequest
Writes the codes.
Joined Apr 2017
