Oh, wow. Yoko Kanno & SEATBELTS have just released an extended 7+ minute version of Tank! (the theme from Cowboy Beebop) It is very, very, good and splat in the middle of the Venn diagram sweet spot of #jazz that is technically awe inspiring but still also sounds like really good music.

So if you've somehow managed to miss it for the last 30 years, enjoy! And if you haven't, go listen anyway - the extended section is fire and being able to see the band so obviously enjoying themselves playing gives life.

youtube.com/watch?v=d75ov4Hv...

@[email protected] @[email protected] I've just also realised that this is exactly what the best bosses do, which I've always previously described as 'being the shit shield' but that's a, erm, less useful name in a professional context than 'applies ring theory in their management of the team'

@[email protected] I love having a name for this concept, which I first met when some Chinese friends were horrified to learn that the immediate family normally handled funeral proceedings in the UK. "But... they're the ones most impacted! That's when everyone else is needed most."

Also: you (and by the sounds of things your wife) are standing strong even if this is a crappy timeline at the moment and that is awesome. There's a lot of us rooting for you, and hoping it gets less crappy soon, including adding some recognition for the people who are actually doing the hard work.

Just in case anyone is actually wondering, I went with fediverss in the end.

Starting to put together a hacky program to federate my blog by reading the rss feed to publish articles with #activitypub and then provide a known url to show any replies that I can drop onto the actual blog pages.

But that means creating a directory for the code, which means a name, 'activity_rss' sounds good but that's too long, I know...

mkdir arss

Fortunately my brain caught up with me before I actually hit enter.

@[email protected] okay, but I have to ask: Aldi clearance shelf or not, is there ever a situation where pink latte sounds like a good idea?

@[email protected] ah, well. It's all over now anyway. There's a line of LLM enthusiasts just waiting to explain to you how natural language is the ideal tool for capturing and defining complex processes.

Now, now, @[email protected] . You're almost making it sound like different programming languages are better at or make it easier to communicate different things to both their users and maybe even the computer.

This is obviously nonsense, as shown by the many developers who will immediately tell you the best programming language.

@[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.

@[email protected] That is an awesome photo, thanks for sharing.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Half to heaven, half to hell?

Short but sweet blog post today on tracking hidden consequences in #ink, responding to a question from my #visualnovel writing course.

blog.mavnn.eu/2026/03/28/hid...

@[email protected] @[email protected] mia moglie dice sbobba è forse una parole appropriato

@[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

@[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

@[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...

@[email protected] This coming from someone whose stag party was based around port and Stilton, so I'm not exactly averse to blue cheese

@[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] 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.

Update of #bonfire complete, and going to 1.0.2 felt smoother than the 1.0.1 update. Nice work, @[email protected] ​team!