Aaron Brady @insom@tiny.tilde.website

Hey friendos! Ottawa Processing Day 2019 is over, which means my talk is done, which means I can experience joy again instead of just anxiety about giving my talk.

@tildetown got called out heavily, and especially @curio (for botany).

Please find attached this image of the Tilde Town Time Service that ran back in November 2017.

It's really more of an artists rendition - as it was created post-facto - but I actually built a working speaker amplifier on breadboard for authenticity reasons.

well sorry about that downtime folks. i did not expect a surprise kernel upgrade to break iptables and therefore break docker and to have to upgrade to a new Ubuntu release before I could get everything unfucked.

SEVENTY THREE WEEKS since you rebooted the host
(cocked your head to the side, and said "i'm vulnerable")

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we're going to take a small lunchtime EST maintenance window I have decided on a whim ~~

Just built Castor (the gemini/gopher/finger browser) in a Docker container on a remote host because I didn't want to install all the build deps on my tiny Chromebook running Ubuntu Bionic and the darn thing worked first time! <3 @julienxx

Dog Posting https://www.flickr.com/photos/insomnike/49714400742/in/dateposted/

The Great Outdoors https://www.flickr.com/photos/insomnike/49714085641/in/dateposted/

Well, while ignoring the news as much as possible and staying indoors I've finally gotten around to designing a Eurorack PSU that I like. One day, some day, it will come from Oregon to Ottawa to be populated.

"In the 21st century, as long as you’re operating within the bounds of the state of the art, programming can feel delightfully Lego-like. All you have to do is rake your fingers through the bin."

This is a lovely sentiment, from https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/ -- a counterpoint to the idea that our Gemfiles and package.json's are pointlessly overflowing and people have forgotten how to write `leftpad`

Listening to the MIDI soundtrack from Doom on an Roland SC-88VL (similar to the SC-55 it targets). Holy wow. This sounds amazing _now_, it would have been mind-blowing in 1993.

And done!

Urgent security update incoming, so TTW is going down. Also my Internet is down because of a snow storm so I'm doing this over tethered mobile. What excellent timing! #tildeadmin

I've just started playing Disco Elysium and gained the thought "Inexplicable Feminist Agenda".

A few lines of dialog later my conceptualization said "Isn't it evil? The order of magnitude between what is asked of a person -- and what they have?"

I can tell that we are going to be friends.

I have been looking forward to this one.

@m455b It all flooded in after I followed a few more pubs. Maybe that helped or at maybe I just needed patience

@m455b mate I'm ready to go back on my Scuttlebutt bullshit -- what pub are you on? Nothing I am following seems to be within two hops of you -- it's ~lonely~ out here