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Theory #276: The diversity of social media kills the focus required by creativity. Take a break if you want to decide a direction.

Freelancing career. Game dev. Cooking. It always come back to the hard question: How do you decide what to make?

Hands up, who else is excited about the new tile optimisations in the #playdate #pulp browser player? https://play.date/pulp/changelog/

I thought 2024 was already pretty mad, but October is just ramping it up a notch.

@orbific How do I get my kids to understand that this is a thing?

It's Wednesday the 23rd of October 2024. Do you know who your sysadmins and stack owners are?

@alnetloc @Fonant @alexanderadam @edintone Thanks for the replies, I'm looking into cloud pricing now to see about trialling it.

Any experience on scanning documents from a phone camera? That's something I use a lot in Evernote, but this page says you can only do it from desktop: https://joplinapp.org/help/apps/ocr/

Well, time to jump the #Evernote ship it looks like. #Joplin is the most obvious replacement - anyone been through this migration process? How was it if so?

And how easy is #selfhosted Joplin?

Or any other #foss alternatives I should look into?

Regular reminder that Bluesky is a VC-funded company which inevitably is headed for the same fate shared by all VC-funded companies. It must maintain hypergrowth until it either:

- folds
- sells
- IPOs

Maybe tuning into another re-run of the social media VC show is appealing to some, but it certainly isn’t for me.

Yesterday's photowalk yielded some pleasing results after being run through the lab. This project ties in long exposures, the moments of breathing, and the path of life.

#photography

Poking my 'playdate game #crystaldaze with a code stick. Currently getting secret rooms* working. Where does this one lead?

* Not secret now that I've told you they're secret.

#gamedev

Not sure about this seagull trying to photobomb my sketch though.

Been a busy few months, so finally taking a day off to myself. Gorgeous day to gather some raw photographic matter beside a supermoon high tide.

> new post: 'What is the future of the tech industry TNG?'

https://6work.exmosis.net/2024/10/17/what-is-the-future-of-the-tech-industry-tng/

Morning and #tzag fellowfolk. Thanks for being here, providing a small corner of the internet away from the auto-gloop of generic slup that is taking over the rest of the networld. It means a lot to a lot of us. Stay indie. Stay human.

@jcalpickard .. or "stop being so bloody difficult", as I'm sure my parents told me more than once.

Bit confused by the reporting and methodology on this #BBC headline on incinerator emissions. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3wxgje5pwo

It states more plastic is being incinerated, but the methodology notes organic and food waste was removed from the model, so were emissions removed proportionately too?

Curious enough to follow up. Anyone know the best way to ask these questions to the BBC?

#climate #data

@interstar @davew Yeah the flexibility x simplicity x standardisation here (all relative, of course) is where my head is at too. Still, it does mush together blogging with microblogging, and I can see that tension between long and short form - in both creating, and in consuming - as something I'll personally need to resolve if the trend continues. eg "tag content as short form, long form, pictorial, video, etc depending on length / type".

@adrianh This is how far the knowledge economy has sunk. What's the tech equivalent of virtue signalling?

Hard not to disagree with the results of this poll TBH

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Ricardus/113297550118877699