Remember that there are people who profit from you feeling doomed. So please, take a breath, and cool down. You cannot organise, support, or protect your community if you’re running on solely fear and panic. Steady yourself, share good resources, and remember a clear head is the way to move.

check out this thread if you would like to help out the people in venezuela. now is not the time to look down on the ways you are powerless, but rather do everything that you are able to right now. we all have a responsibility

Australia is a magic land where there's a computer called the "Dick Smith Wizzard". And I think that's beautiful

happy new year from sydney ✨

Currently working on a tracker, and sometimes I'll have 30 instances of older builds in the background with a test project loaded without realizing and I'll accidentally press a key on my MIDI keyboard and get jump scared by a giant cluster of orchestra hits

yeah! it’s criminal, there are endless cases of good students being accused of using AI by these tools, just bc they have a larger vocabulary etc and their writing sounds nothing like AI i’ve known more than one — just me — and i don’t have THAT many friends with kids

being sincere and honest instead of putting up a front is... so freeing, and maybe someone who’s been holding back will see you and remember that it’s safe to feel things publicly too. 🩷

Good morning~ please please celebrate and show your joy online. the internet needs more people who are actually happy to be here instead of pretending everything’s ironic; it’s okay to gush about the stuff you love.

the US has always been so obsessed with disruptive shiny looking tech and applying it in the most brute force and wasteful way imaginable. innovating in such irresponsible ways that goes against everything i've learned about change management and building tech for people

netlify alternative you've enjoyed? new credit system is stupid and a massive price increase for me. don't want to wait until i'm forced to leave my legacy plan. want: - deploy via CLI or git - HTTP headers, redirects, and proxy - some kind of "branch deploy" system - not a ton of manual work

i hate that genAI and big tech in general has zapped the excitement out of technology, and has only gotten people feeling more and more distrustful of it. i've barely scratched the surface of cool things i want to build for the world. none of it which ever involved, or will involve any of this,

fish & chiptunes

Merry Christmas for those who celebrate ✨ youtu.be/7JwDTUgSfbQ?...

Merry Christmas for those who celebrate ✨ youtu.be/7JwDTUgSfbQ?...

it's very weird and just a Ruby DSL rn so not the most ergonomic to type, has a lot of flaws in its design ofc but def the most useful one i've written so far and i've been writing new music for a project with it already. might try and make something more MML-like in syntax transpile down to it

Watch out, Mario! Objects in your line of sight may appear to be 3D! The Famicom 3D System, released in 1987. Worked via active shutters and stereoscopic 3D, and was a commercial failure with just seven games released.

i miss playing the pipe organ

is there a technical term for when you release the sustain pedal on a piano and press it again quickly after (like when changing chords, etc.)? i have a macro that inserts a sustain = 0, sustain = 127 in quick succession after a short delay and i am trying to come up with a name for it

the problem with ai art isn't that it "looks bad". real artists are also bad for a while before they're good. "ai art looks like shit", who cares. "good ai art" is still fucked and gross. we should be more thankful and encouraging to beginners in the arts if we really care about lessening ai use

Hear, hear. It can be quite intimidating to be given a laundry list of things you must do by fans really deep into something who might have forgotten they discovered it organically in part and out-of-order. It's just fine sometimes to go with what catches your eye at that moment.

i'll have random weird mindblowing moments like discovering the 12th root of 2 for the first time. or that you can atan2 your way to an index of directions. or the random bits of trig needed to understand 3d. stuff that probably seems obviously simple to others in my fields

TIL Ruby has a Rational type and fractional literals (thankfully not tooo late after being deep into a side quest trying to implement my own)

Ga Buidhe!! #XenobladeChroniclesX

supposed to be composing but instead gonna make yet another MML to MIDI thing

The Shion sticker is available now and can be yours!! It's a big one! #Xenosaga #XenobladeChronicles ko-fi.com/s/c27a291978

this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

does android support multiple users on one device? i.e., different logins, apps, files etc. like a computer

@moderation.blacksky.app is working on adding AI detection features to their labelers which will allow you the opportunity to opt-out of seeing anything detected as AI on your feed 🥰 you can use it now by subscribing to the labeler and selecting HIDE under the "Synthetic Media" option

what does the world of self-hosted RSS aggregator/readers look like today? currently using FreshRSS but i'm wondering what else is good?

boost so we can reach all the GM enjoyers still around on bsky

what does the world of self-hosted RSS aggregator/readers look like today? currently using FreshRSS but i'm wondering what else is good?

Keep making your own shit. Fuck AI slop, and everything it stands for. I want to see the things YOU create; I want see the soul, and heart. Art will always exist; and no prompt by a techbro will ever fucking understand that. #blog #AI #art

i'm sure people would want me to choose literally any other scripting language, but i would use ruby for scriptable extensions for my tracker/daw/etc whether that be through something like mruby i'm not sure yet

time to whip out the old crude score guide phone wallpaper i made a while back

are there any free/open source pattern-based 3d fashion design apps? (like Marvelous Designer / CLO3D) i'm guessing the closest things are probably going to be blender plugins

boost so we can reach all the GM enjoyers still around on bsky

Gotta start looking into irl Riichi Mahjong meetups here in Sydney. It has been way too long

Respond to me with your favourite thing to listen to General MIDI music with. It can be a software synth/plugin, hardware, a soundfont, ROMpler, FM, keyboard, something weird or hyperspecific you put together, anything.

everyone's goal for 2026 should be getting into using RSS feeds & readers for updates on everyone's projects rather than relying on social media alone. I don't think "big, badly moderated forums where everyone hangs out and gets cranky" are working great for that.

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I've barely used Steam this year, and most of my gaming was on a Switch, but it doesn't feel too far off lol

i've made a starter pack for everybody who was involved with this year's snowdrop (and whose bsky i could find!) go.bsky.app/Mboqh1N lmk if you are missing 😅

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🌸 Here's the full setlist with links to all the musicians, writers, and artists: infloresce.com/snowdrop-festival-2025-setlist 🌼 If you can spare a tip, all funds will go to our 2025 volunteer staff: infloresce.com/snowdrop-festival-2025-tip-jar 🎵 Join our Patreon: patreon.com/infloresce

Snowdrop Festival 2025 is now on YouTube! Thank you everyone for making this year's event so special 🩵 youtu.be/shn58OkJ4o0

New post: i swear to god i will not live my life thinking “is this AI?” at everything forever #text

I'm a programmer with a knack for tinkering and reverse engineering. With 7+ years experience across environments, I excel at efficient and practical integration of tech at multiple levels of the codebase. If you think I would make a good fit for your team, please reach out! #gamedev #lookingforwork

heres the background i did for @infloresce.com 's snowdrop festival! i was super honored to be invited, and i really liked working on this! solarpunk voles!! #art #loniart

Please spend more time clicking on (and sharing!) links to personal sites, your friend's Bandcamp, that specialist news site, and that forum you used to read daily than posting about how you miss the old internet. The old internet's still here! You just stopped visiting!

i didn't really intend for others to use it, but here is the ruby script for those curious, or in case u may find it useful in the meantime! codeberg.org/maddievision...