@[email protected] ​I have come across Maytree, they're great fun! Not as mindblowing in how they do stuff, but still really tight musically and very, very, silly in a good way.

Wing and friends get pretty geeky too; they got invited to headline at an esports competition ( youtube.com/watch?v=m0TXz3oR... - their lead singer can sing) and released an ode to needing coffee on Monday mornings 😁 (youtube.com/watch?v=f8NifgGc... )

@[email protected] Well, if you've ever had any reason to want to do anything unpleasant to @[email protected] now's the time - nobody would blame you given the provocation...

And if you're wondering why Wing broke my understanding of human vocal chords, this is the kind of thing he sings on his own in a single take.

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

Because apparently being gobsmacked by Wing means beatbox bands are now living rent free in my head, have an other killer track (from France this time). Don't let the beatbox moniker fool you, this isn't somebody pretending to be a drum machine, just a band making really good music.

Worth playing on speakers with decent bass...

youtube.com/watch?v=0SPMZSKS...

@[email protected] ​awesome work! Currently unable to walk for more than ten minutes as I come out of post viral fatigue, and really hoping to be posting something similar in a year or two...

@[email protected] I once worked with someone won various slam poetry competitions; watching videos of his performances did look remarkably similar to some depictions of wizard duels...

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] ​oh yes, this. What's your privacy policy? "Don't give me your data, I don't want it. I want to know absolutely nothing about you that isn't completely necessary to provide the service I'm offering."

I'm doing enough stuff with enough people via VisualInk that I've decided to split off my posting about it into a separate account that people interested in #interactivefiction and #visualnovels in education can follow without confusing things with the rest of my posts. That said, for the moment I'm probably going to repost most VI stuff via my main account as well - I'm kind of assuming that following me means you want to know about what I'm doing on at least some level, while following @VisualInk is more about you being interested in the project.

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

@[email protected] ​Ouch. Harsh.

@[email protected] ​"kumquats do not cause walnuts" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled it out... :sigh:

So I got up this morning and thought: I know, today would be a good day to set up my own Activity Pub host.

So I did that, and then I found out Cloudflare is yoyo-ing destruction across the internet, and now I have no idea at all whether the slightly alarming failures rates are me not having a clue or somebody else's problem.

I mean - some things are working some of the time so it's probably not me, maybe?

@[email protected] ​He was called out by name in the next all hands as an example of the work ethic we should all aspire to, when in reality he was at best a minor driver in the team making any progress at all and frequently caused other team members to be late delivering things due to having to clean up after him.

@[email protected] ​I've had the unfortunate experience of working in a team where the tech lead (who's priority on paper was managing, not coding) used this position to "get stuff done" by lobbing low quality work over the wall and relying on the teams under him to tidy it up, fix the bugs, add the tests, etc.

I found out via an irate bug report from a customer one Monday morning that he had released a whole new feature over the weekend without code review (because, well, no one else was online...), and I was now responsible for second line support on it.

Whelp, new account time. With much thanks to the folks at the SDF, I decided that it was time to spin up my own host as I'm starting some projects that I'm hoping to build communities around - some of which will be somewhat private.

As such, I'm trying out bonfirenetworks.org/ in its social flavour, as it gives a much wider selection of tools to manage groups and privacy - and it means that I'm able to take direct responsibility for the personal data of people who decide to join the community via creating an account on this server.

That said: next time I'm being paid again, the SDF will be getting a donation from me. It's a great organization, and they've been great hosts on my fediverse journey.