Nobody will remember:
- Your salary
- Your fancy title
- How ‘busy’ you were
- How stressed you were
- How many hours you worked

People will remember:
- How many files you had
- How well organized your files were
- What your metadata strategy was

You're right to push back. Let me reconsider this more carefully.

“You’re right to be skeptical - let me double-check the math”

"You're right to challenge me. Let me verify"

What simple blog platform do we recommend for non technical friends and family these days? Free would be ideal but a low cost fee to add a custom domain is fine/expected.

(Looking for something that they won’t need a command line or GitHub to use.) #blog

hashtag #laptopstickers #stickers (before)

About to sticker up my new M3 Max laptop to “make it mine” and I’m choosing which stickers from my collection should make the cut

That some of these #stickers have been in my “favorite stickers pile” since the late ’90s is giving me feelings

@svoisen hi from the sf bay area! found your post on the power of the flash ecosystem and how it lowered the barrier to entry for interactive creation, and it really spoke to me. great writing and thinking. followed!

Used many of the skills I’ve been working on in my 3D practice in this scene:
• subdivision mesh modeling
• variable lighting
• leaning on stock assets where appropriate
• volumetrics
• combining shader node trees
• rendering WIP at low res
• surface imperfections

😅 😤 😌

Enjoy, #blendercommunity!

* stats for those who care:

Rendered in #blender3D 4.1:
- 100 samples in #Cycles
- 52 minute render time
- peak memory used 5.7 G

Minds are fertile turf for patterned thinking; fear is a common pattern that paralyzes.

I’ve learned that confidence comes from experience and experience comes from committed ACTION.

(note the order of operations: freedom from fear at best FOLLOWS action; it rarely precedes.)

Taking action can’t be deferred until fear fades. We must take action first DESPITE fear (AKA reservations, resistance etc).

One way to understand this: courage is more important than confidence.

#FearIsTheMindKiller

sound off / pound off in the comments

Do you keep many files in #Amazon #AWS #s3 buckets?

e.g. for side projects + fun-zie websites and such?

If not, what do you use instead for hosting your self-created web / project files like images / videos for websites and such?

If so, what alternatives have you considered?

Is there a revitalization happening or soon to happen in #interactivefiction (#IF) supported by the trends of retro low-fi nostalgia or generative AI (to parse/interpret user input)?

I’ve always been interested in making a sort of lo-fi retro game of this sort, maybe with a bit of light thematic graphics to evoke an aesthetic ie the player is typing into some kind of #IronHelix console.

I’ve got no game making experience and I don’t even play so this is likely a bad idea lol
#games

@lmorchard random question, sorry, but: have you come across any way to fix Firefox iOS behavior of inverting dark/light mode theme enablement? It persistently insists on flipping the behavior, using light styles when in dark mode and dark styles when in light mode. Sort of wild behavior, reproducible on DuckDuckGo, Google, most any site that does dark/light appearance mode syncing to the system setting. Wondering if there’s something I need to twiddle in my settings

The question is not so much whether the archival reels we deposited two years ago will physically survive, but whether anyone will know or care enough to keep and refer to them. We need to visually signify their importance. That’s why Alexander Rose, executive director of our partners, the Long Now Foundation, told us matter-of-factly, “If you don’t make it beautiful, it’s for sure doomed.” https://github.blog/2022-09-20-if-you-dont-make-it-beautiful-its-for-sure-doomed-putting-the-vault-in-githubs-arctic-code-vault/

Cool that after 21 years and counting (at least since I’ve been contributing to the site), Discogs is still sorting artists by FIRST and not last name!!! 😂

via @pheezy

discogs user @pbl3's 2004 comment explains it well:

This release deserves a bit of commentary for its novel and unique creation. It has been praised by lo-fi-digital music heads as well as scratch and battle dj's since it combines Atari and Commodore64 samples, soundbites, lock groove beats, and even a couple respectable techno-break tracks that were programmed on the original machines. One side is Atari-centric and the other is devoted to the C64. [cont.]

who do i know who is
1. into 8bit retro computing / gaming, and
2. has a record player?

I would like to see my copy of this go to a good home

https://www.discogs.com/release/7941-8-Bit-Construction-Set-The-8-Bit-Construction-Set

https://books.google.com/books/about/Country_side.html?id=zLYXAAAAYAAJ