@[email protected] 👋 found a minor bug in 1.0.3 on mobile but I can't easily access a computer to create a Github issue right now. With feeds not having much bottom padding, it is very hard to push the 'load more' button as it is almost completely hidden by the menu that sits at the bottom of the screen.
New update pushed to VisualInk that cleans up both the UI and the underlying logic for handling art assets a fair bit. Most importantly, it is now trivial to create a copy of a character or scene with a new name - allowing reuse of assets between more than one #visualnovel without having to reuse the same names. It also allows you to update the default image for a scene or character without having to upload a new file; you can just take an existing image from the asset and call it "Default".
And it's already live: visualink.mavnn.eu/ #gamedev
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@[email protected] @[email protected] My son uses Obsidian on an iPad with Mobius Sync (apps.apple.com/us/app/m%C3%B...) and it seems to work pretty well. That said, he's comfortable using a diff program on conflicting markdown files if a conflict occurs (Syncthing defaults to adding the conflicting file with a suffix to your local file system). My wife also uses Obsidian with Syncthing, but she has a very definite 'source of truth' device - editing on the fly is nice but conflict resolution is nearly always 'the laptop wins'.
Again: reliable, works, but to be as reliable and flexible as it is you sometimes need to understand what it is actually doing (moving files around between file systems) rather than a plugin/integration where somebody else is choosing things like conflict resolution strategies for you.
@[email protected] Honestly, Obsidian is pretty perfect for Syncthing if you lean into the lots of little linked notes. If you're more of a "my novel is a markdown file" user you'll probably have a lot of frustrating issues.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] My son uses Obsidian on an iPad with Mobius Sync (apps.apple.com/us/app/m%C3%B...) and it seems to work pretty well. That said, he's comfortable using a diff program on conflicting markdown files if a conflict occurs (Syncthing defaults to adding the conflicting file with a suffix to your local file system). My wife also uses Obsidian with Syncthing, but she has a very definite 'source of truth' device - editing on the fly is nice but conflict resolution is nearly always 'the laptop wins'.
Again: reliable, works, but to be as reliable and flexible as it is you sometimes need to understand what it is actually doing (moving files around between file systems) rather than a plugin/integration where somebody else is choosing things like conflict resolution strategies for you.
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Nothing to see here, just testing a thing... #test
RE: https://mastodon.social/@jefframnani/116581671294641500
I feel it is time that people start buying execs copious copies of 'The Mythical Agent-Month'
It's only been half a century.
@[email protected] If only there were some real world examples of people trying to scale output by hiring more staff that we could look to. How unfortunate that nobody has ever tried that before, so we have no way of judging the impact of just adding more "workers".
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] I use syncthing and it is fine in android, and there's a reasonable paid wrapper on ios that adds much needed os integration. There will be conflicts if some of your devices are offline regularly, but keepass databases have a well defined merge logic that most clients support so that's not too much of a problem.
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] The biggest issue is that it isn't "integrated" - if you're techy enough to understand files being on a file system etc it's great, but it doesn't "just work" if you're setting it up for somebody without that confidence
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@wydamn @alexisbushnell @masek is there a decent file sync tool? I've never found a solution that works at all on my phone, and in 2026 that's absolutely a deal breaker. It'd be extremely useful for this and obsidian and stuff and it baffles me that it doesn't seem to exist
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] I use syncthing and it is fine in android, and there's a reasonable paid wrapper on ios that adds much needed os integration. There will be conflicts if some of your devices are offline regularly, but keepass databases have a well defined merge logic that most clients support so that's not too much of a problem.
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@[email protected] thanks for the heads up! we were testing a new feature, still a few rough edges 😊
@[email protected] I know the feeling! Thanks for the new release, things seem to be improving at a rapid pace at the moment 👍️
@[email protected] Just as a heads up, this post renders as an audio file for me? Following the link to the source file takes me to the 1.0.3 release announcement
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Testing some settings, help appreciated.
I got told about the Pacman rule 7+ years ago and it has improved my experience of conferences ever since. Sharing the rule each time a circle 'closes' to make sure there's a space has lead to meeting some of the most interesting people and opened up conversations in directions I never expected. Highly recommended.
@mavnn @ParadeGrotesque @shaft
I resemble this remark.
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Time, finally, for your secret origin to be revealed Mr "three Claudes in a trench coat"!
The problem with being pretty smart is that I'm not even sure the smarter people than me would have any good ideas.
@[email protected] Just use your intelligence to become more intelligent. You'll hit the singularity and invent time travel in effectively no time!
...experienced time may be more than zero, logical fallicies may apply, please check the rules and conditions of your local universe as well as your psychiatrist before assuming that you are the basilisk
When you've been staring at a problem trying to integrate 2 very different systems for a week, and come to the conclusion that it's about as impossible as taking thousands of excel files and automatically migrating them into a database. Unstructured data to structured data just doesn't work like that...
@[email protected] Back when I was a young and more naive Mavnn working as a data analyst, many years ago, I was surprised when the local authority I worked for asked me to add a new measure to a dashboard (fine), which required asking staff performing a service to record a new piece of data (fine), and for a historic 12 month rolling average to compare against the first month to see if we'd got better at this since last year (apparently elected politicians do not experience the linear flow of time the way the rest of us mortals do)
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Today in #ChronicFatigue : I hit a week of exercising every day, without skipping any. And given it has been 15 months since I stopped work, and this is the first time, I feel the need to celebrate that. In this state it is so easy to do too much and knock yourself out for the day(s) after.
It does feel a bit strange to celebrate though, because exercise in this context is 10 minutes at 4.5 km/h on a treadmill. For those of you not used to metric measures, this is a ludicrously minimal amount of exertion; I normally walk at around 6 km/h and ten minutes is, well, ten minutes. And if I try and do this twice too close together (like walking to get an ice cream, sitting for half an hour, and walking back) I wreck my energy levels and sleep for the following several days. #PostViralFatigue #LongCovid
So why a public post about this? Partly because it forces me to acknowledge the improvement myself. Partly to encourage other people hitting such "lack luster" milestones that no, this really is progress.
But also as a public service annoucement that post-viral/chronic fatigue feels and behaves differently to 'being tired'. You can carry out a task that doesn't feel like it is straining you at all - because it is well within your trivial strength levels - but which will leave you brain fogged, physically washed out, and unable to sleep properly for days afterwards. If you're getting hit by feeling like somebody has pulled the plug and feeling, well, stupid hours or even a day or two after being more active than normal, it might be worth looking into a longer description of how normal and chronic fatigue differ. The things that help in each situation are quite different.
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Today in #ChronicFatigue : I hit a week of exercising every day, without skipping any. And given it has been 15 months since I stopped work, and this is the first time, I feel the need to celebrate that. In this state it is so easy to do too much and knock yourself out for the day(s) after.
It does feel a bit strange to celebrate though, because exercise in this context is 10 minutes at 4.5 km/h on a treadmill. For those of you not used to metric measures, this is a ludicrously minimal amount of exertion; I normally walk at around 6 km/h and ten minutes is, well, ten minutes. And if I try and do this twice too close together (like walking to get an ice cream, sitting for half an hour, and walking back) I wreck my energy levels and sleep for the following several days. #PostViralFatigue #LongCovid
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@[email protected] @mavnn That makes sense as a feature, but it's a bit of a gamble when you're trying to build a community. I'll stick to the tags just to be safe.
@[email protected] @[email protected] It is, I may need to check if I can change it as a config setting. Also, apparently you've just discovered that I set up an account on .social in 2018 and completely forgot about it!
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@mavnn That's a bit of a nightmare for keeping a thread going. I'll make sure to keep the mentions in so you actually see me.
@[email protected] Yeah, I'm honestly not quite sure whether it's by design or not; I can see the logic of 'well, if you replied but removed the tag you didn't want to notify the person you're replying to' and I would expect that to work on descendent replies (i.e., letting the original author drop out of being notified on a thread that has gone off topic). I don't know what Mastodon does in the same situation.
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Godot and IF are such a powerful combo for kids to learn how systems and stories actually talk to each other.
@[email protected] It seems I've just made a random discovery: it doesn't look like I get notified here a Bonfire instance if somebody replies without a mention.
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