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.

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@[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.

@[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".

@[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

@[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] 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

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.

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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Time, finally, for your secret origin to be revealed Mr "three Claudes in a trench coat"!

@[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

@[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)

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.

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