@[email protected] as someone nearly two years into dealing with part viral fatigue (which may not even have been from covid!) I totally agree. The effects of the pandemic go so far beyond the immediate, in objective physical terms but also in terms of trauma, uncertainty, and general mental health.
Christian, husband, dad, coder, trainer, speaker, rpg geek, adhd
@[email protected] That is an awesome photo, thanks for sharing.
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Short but sweet blog post today on tracking hidden consequences in #ink, responding to a question from my #visualnovel writing course.
Michael Newton
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Afterward, multiple people reached out to ask about our charts - we used Tamara Broderick’s “Distrosaurs” to illustrate statistical distributions. I’m delighted to share that the distrosaurs are available under a CC license:
@stiiin don't tell me you haven't been dividing your clauses!
@[email protected] @[email protected] Half to heaven, half to hell?
@[email protected] @[email protected] right. That's what I mean. I can't really find the right negative/dismissive Italian word for it, especially among food related ones. I guess we just like and respect our food too much.
@[email protected] @[email protected] mia moglie dice sbobba è forse una parole appropriato
The magic of your fingers knowing what keys are under them suddenly goes away if you start to think about it too much.
@[email protected] fun fact I learned from watching a family member: if you have a visual sensory processing disorder, you can become a very competent pianist who immediately loses the ability to play if you look at your hands
Michael Newton
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have you tried turning it off
@bovaz I'm guessing that Italian is very rich in food words? If so, is there something suggesting that a dish is liquid and tasteless?
@[email protected] @[email protected] There's a place in Italy called Fonteblanda which caught my eye as the name can literally be translated as 'the bland spring'. It's not the only or even the most natural translation, but I love the head canon that the person who named it did so accidentally by declaring how tasteless the local spring was.
Anyway... I wouldn't use the term in this context both because it is actually a real place, and because spring water doesn't have the right negative connotations for translation
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I've seen a bunch of folks talking about "managing energy, not time" and although I've tried to do that for many years, none of it really clicked for me on a visceral level until recently. It's frustrating because every day it feels like "I've still got an hour, I should do 3 more to-do items, ugh, there's so much left". The point where I run out of "energy", hit the wall, and get to the point where *tomorrow's* admin time will be useless wall-staring does not *feel* like my breaking point
@[email protected] yeah, starting to talk openly about my #adhd at conferences suddenly meant I got asked a bunch of questions where it was obvious people needed to hear about and be validated in the 'average' or 'somewhat hard' days, not just the 'this worked great this one time' and 'pit of despair' days. Which also led to writing things like blog.mavnn.eu/2025/09/16/stu...
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116270479206058052
having another morning like this and feeling like I should share a bit more about this #ADHD self-accommodation: dealing with a period of absolutely overwhelming tons-of-overhead (i.e.: tedious, annoying, anxiety-provoking tasks) but I've been mostly managing to avoid the pitfall of "stare blankly, exhausted, incapable of progress" by rationing my overhead per day
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@[email protected] I once had the misfortune of being present when a sealed blue cheese was discovered behind a fridge. When the discoverer opened it unaware that it had been sitting there being gently warmed for at least 6 months, an immediate unspoken consensus was achieved around the decision to remove the cheese from the premises, as well as as much of the contaminated air as possible. It was French, if the European status of the cheese is relevant.
@[email protected] This coming from someone whose stag party was based around port and Stilton, so I'm not exactly averse to blue cheese
does blue cheese ever actually go bad or does it just get progressively more european until everyone nearby comes to the unspoken consensus that a decision needs to be made
@[email protected] I once had the misfortune of being present when a sealed blue cheese was discovered behind a fridge. When the discoverer opened it unaware that it had been sitting there being gently warmed for at least 6 months, an immediate unspoken consensus was achieved around the decision to remove the cheese from the premises, as well as as much of the contaminated air as possible. It was French, if the European status of the cheese is relevant.
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Michael Newton
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The problem with C level execs is that they're too low level.
Our new company explores Haskell level execs.
This allows standards of a higher order in every part of our organization.
i think i fixed it? contact cleaner saves the day
@[email protected] The l33t hacker finishes limboing under lazer beams towards a desk, in a room where everything is lit in cyan and teal; they pause briefly before... carefully... drawing a carton of semi-skimmed milk from an improbably large pocket on a bullet proof vest.
splosh
"We're in!"
Text immediately start flashing across the computer screen, which if paused on freeze frame would be revealed to be the source code of curl.
Michael Newton
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okay. I have finished redoing Act 1 Chapter 1 of Glory in the Thunder visual novel in the lego style. I am very happy with the results. There are fifty - FIFTY - rendered backgrounds just in this chapter, not counting the swappable face layers. Here are four of them. I hope you like my woobies
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Update of #bonfire complete, and going to 1.0.2 felt smoother than the 1.0.1 update. Nice work, @[email protected] team!
@thomasfuchs (it's definitely no ketchup, but it's great in stews)
@[email protected] @[email protected] I will not have you disparaging hp sauce by comparing it to tomato coloured sugar syrup!
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