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This starts tomorrow, last chance to contact me if you're interested.

#InteractiveFiction

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@[email protected] Hello! Quick question: I've upgraded from 1.0.5 to 1.0.7 and all my feeds are suddenly very slow (almost all loads time out, even with a single user active). Federation is fine. Any suggestions on trouble shooting what may have gone wrong in the upgrade? All migrations claim to have run, and there's nothing suspicious in the logs beyond the timeouts that I have seen so far.

@VisualInk Testing back

Okay folks! Next week I'm starting online 5 week courses for 11+ year olds on writing #InteractiveFiction and creating 2D art assets for #GameDev.

These courses are good! They are not expensive! I've run them a few times now, so they're reasonably polished! I've just had a generous offer towards a bursery so I can accommodate one or two free or reduced cost places! They involve less exclaimation marks than this paragraph (disclaimer: may depend on the character of the students who take the course)!

But: next week. That means if this sounds interesting, you need to act reasonably quickly. Given the bursery this time around, please also share to people you know who would be interested but wouldn't normally be able to cover the ~£66.00 cost. More here: thinkersmeetup.com/scholars/...

@[email protected] Indeed. I remember a time when the point of rapid iteration was to get feedback and test ideas, rather then a rather bizarre goal in its own right.

Different bits of @VisualInk work best with very different storage patterns so I finally bit the bullet and wrote my own data access layer with... #sql. Did I get object mapping for free? No, I had to hand craft some code there. Does the new version have less storage overhead, safer migrations, transactions across multiple operations, and enourmously higher performance? Yes, yes it does. The API you can build with a #fsharp computational expression to make carrying the connection pool and transaction info is pretty sweet.

Now I just need to deploy it to prod before teaching the next course using it (which is next week).

Muhahahaha! Hack successful. By publicly announcing my brain was irrationally not doing a thing, my brain decided that was too stupid for words and now I have done the thing. I only procrastinated the five minute job for 6 hours, so not too bad at all.

I have one, simple, straight forward job that I was planning to do today. And my brain has decided it doesn't want to do it.

Ideally... I'll do the thing at some point. But the much bigger challenge is not trying to force it, which I know from #ADHD experience will just block me from doing everything else.

@VisualInk Also, achievement unlocked: I managed to write the word 'complement' in a public post without spelling it 'compliment'.

@[email protected] @[email protected] "I kept on losing the passwords for my password managers, so now my password manager password manager is set up and I can get all the other passwords using the one master password on the postit note on the top of my monitor"

@[email protected] Could be worse. You could have used 'simple', immediately cursing you to create a thesis of insanity inducing unnecessary complexity and a type system represented in xml.

@[email protected] @[email protected] It's honestly unclear to me whether King has any idea what he's doing. Not in the sense he's a bad writer - by any metric I can think of that would be a stupid claim to make. But in the sense that he always gives the impression of not really understanding what's going on in his own writing process. That said: many, many people have found his book on writing helpful and I've never been published so...

@[email protected] Oh yes, this. Chronic fatigue means that I've just lost an entire day (and broken my deliberate exercise pattern) to my wife needing a neck massage to release a trapped nerve, because the 20 minutes it took used all my energy for the day.

Do I regret it? Nope. Has it taken 18+ months to reach the stage where this sort of interrupt is closer to 'tomorrow will need to be a new day one' rather than spiralling into a week plus of black thoughts and depression? Yes. Yes, it has.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Not sure if the first one is true, but I love the rumour that one of the tests listed for the original 2CV was "can be picked up and carried out of a field by no more than four farmers if it gets stuck in mud". "Can drive across a dry ploughed field without breaking a case of eggs on the back seat" was an actual documented requirement.

@[email protected] Cowards! If they're not even going to animate the wave motion for actual motion sickness, why even bother?

Last week, I worked with a small group of 9-14 year olds to build a game almost, but not totally, unlike space invaders.

youtu.be/l7-sgNSvW9c

It is quite silly. And the week of first time #gamedev was great fun.

If you're looking for a silly and simple #godot project, the code is at code.mavnn.eu/mavnn/michael-...

@[email protected] Worse than AD is quite a high bar to jump. I'm (somewhat reluctantly) impressed. And very grateful I have no reason to use either right now.

@[email protected] Watch 90% of the participants with #adhd be marked as having zero comprehension. My wife was baffled for years that I could relay the content of conversations easily while being completely incapable of repeating the words that were actually said verbatim.