Explore local activities

@[email protected] feel free to get in touch if I can help, I do this kind of thing when I'm not ill: blog.mavnn.eu/2024/01/29/sho...

@[email protected] Well, given the type of people who follow you it doesn't seem like it would be hard to get help on the technical implementing of anything that needs implementing. But is that actually the aspect you're feeling paralysed by, or is it more the getting funding etc side of things?

A man just showed up in the mentions of somebody I follow and said "a third party you don't even know about expressed nuance about this idea and nuance is bad, because decisions should be black or white and you should take responsibility." The person he was directing the mention to was not taking about nuance, and is not responsible for the decision being made.

Don't be that man. Please. There are several layers of not being that man you should aspire to.

@[email protected] Fnord.

So, yes, this brand does use the same kind of #coffee beans so the taste is kind of the same as the one we normally buy but pre incinerated with a blow torch and delivered to your taste buds with a hammer.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Yeah, it's been long enough since I set up a new device I'd forgotten but Syncthing-fork is the way to go on android.

Hmm. Looks like the Bonfire UI doesn't allow for polls with attached images. I'll try creating one via the API tomorrow. In the mean time, here's Eddy

Gee thanks, #adhd! What my #chronicfatigue really needed was new project ideas that are related enough to what I'm trying to do already I'll be constantly reminded of them, large enough to need non trivial effort, silly enough to be tempting and completely useless. Why not just hit all the high points at once?!

Occurs to me that by using polls I could make a play through of a #visualnovel on @VisualInk an #ActivityPub actor such that the first person picking each option span off a new save game down the new path (or even each vote triggered a reply to the vote on the new path given the novels can contain randomised elements). Sort massively multiplayer visual novels where anyone seeing a post could jump in and spin off a branch from the play through.

For reasons best known to my subconscious, forgetting to test changes while logged out is a deeply embedded habit that no amount of embarrassing bugs seems to shake.

bonfire.mavnn.eu/pub/objects...

Now with bonus bug fix to not give controls to guest users that won't work. Oops.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Wait, what? I thought you used that as a place holder for the actual subject. If that's an actual quote I can only compliment you on not slapping him in the face. That's pretty disgusting behaviour.

@[email protected] I'm mostly struggling with the enormous level of ignorance required to think psychology isn't relevant to devex. Does he think the developers aren't human? Maybe the software users? I'm mystified by the (lack of) thought process.

That said, I've watched people try and fix education with tech without looking at any of the psychological or even pedagogical research in the field so...

@[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

@[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.

@[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.

Nothing to see here, just testing a thing... #test

@[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".