I wish I had personal notes for my Steam Wishlist games. "I obviously was interested in this, but I don't remember why"

I should make a tier list of instruments to play with a baby. Like mandolin and xiao flute are S-tier: you can play while holding a baby and getting them to sleep. Uilleann Pipes and fretless banjo are A tier: baby loves them but you're not holding anything other than the instrument.

My kiddo's music school lets me practice my bagpiping in a back room. Which walking into a music school with uilleann pipes means I'm mostly nerding out about celtic music and explaining the pipes and doing very little practicing.

One of my favorite music shops could be going out of business, and it happens to be the one that got me into playing music (owner sold me a dulcimer, set it up, and even showed me some basic dulcimer tunes). So of course I had to give this mandolin a good home.

It actively bothers me a bit when folks claim I'm naturally good at music for two reasons: 1) I'm bad at taking compliments and continue to consider myself aggressively mediocre at best. 2) it ignores the literally hours of work I put into instruments and the things I'm not doing as a result.

I keep whatever tune I'm learning on the microwave, and I'm wondering if I can hide a flute stand around here so I don't have to worry about putting my good flute down in a kitchen mess (or using one of my cheaper pennywhistles)

Today is National Thesaurus Day. Personally, we find these made-up holidays contemptible, abhorrent, nauseating, repugnant, and unpalatable.

So I discovered that the basic clawhammer 'boom chik-a' frailing pattern sounds a lot like old-school folk guitar songs. I decided to narrate my oldest's refusal to go to bed like Alice's Restaurant over banjo frailing. I succeeded in making her furious and cracking her up at the same time.

In the spirit of hanging things on my wall, I have my new fretless gourd banjo up! Don't mind the remaining canjo, it's probably getting swapped for @bionicbeth.bsky.social 's banjolele soon.

Brb: I need to find snail bagpipes to go with this

Why are they called "pickup trucks" instead of "mannyvans"?

How can you just not love these folks? Huge thanks to Kirbycatcher, Starrodkirby86, Raveille and the maimai community for showing us their technical prowess in this Level 15 Showcase! Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go put *my* hands in an ice bath from all the clapping. #AGDQ2026

As is typical of men my age: I finally have a flute wall.

I can do either one of these reels, but I want to play them in a set and my brain immediately combines the B parts into a muddled mess. thesession.org/members/1678...

I'm starting to build a backlog of 3d printing projects I want to do. Which is dangerous because last time I ended up with 3 3d printers to basically make $10 of spare replacement parts around the house and some small fidgets -- and then I entered an endless maintenance cycle.

My 8yo is obsessed with Dr. Who and Pokemon right now, which I consider a parenting win.

Watching AGDQ is reminding me of various games I want to make. But at least if I'm doing music, I don't have to go through a conflict of interest review 😆

I had my first fretless banjo lesson today, and outside of my index finger killing me from clawhammer strumming it's really fun. I don't have perfect intonation, but I'd be leagues behind if I hadn't already developed a bit of an ear trying to keep uilleann pipes in tune.

How good is Lumines Arise? Well, I didn't exit a trance state until my contact dried up and fell out of my eye from a lack of blinking.

I'm slowly adding Ikea pegboards to every wall in my house 😆

I'm strangely annoyed with how hard of a time I'm having learning Cooley's Reel. I wonder if it's because I keep changing the type of flute I'm playing on (end blown vs. transverse vs. fipple vs. a bagpipe), and my brain is just melting dealing with the jumps.

Current status: trying to convince my family that Morris dancing is cool and therefore I need a drum to go with my tabor pipe

Hi, I'm a double decker bus driving on the London side of the road.

I just discovered my oldest hiding our one iPad under her pillow at night. So of course I tried to set it up as a kids iPad, and now nothing works (Apple needs to be better at multiple accounts). I'm pretty sure she's only using it because I never figured out screen time like I did on Android too.

I've been practicing for weeks with my "Selkie" flute (end blown Irish flute). I just jumped over to my M&E, and it's night and day clearer than the Selkie 😭 I like playing on the Selkie since the fingering is a little closer to Uilleann Pipes.

A last minute hail Mary to ensure you're not on the naughty list.

Intention: clean before holiday guests arrive Reality: I have three flutes out and can play duel of the fates

i would happily use llms to automate work i find boring and time consuming but i find checking and fixing the output even more boring and time consuming

Epic flute guy from the game awards is low key my hero. Especially since I cannot for the life of me get something resembling music from my ney (and my family does not like it when I try).

Flute guy having a different, bigger, type of flute every time they cut to him is genuinely one of the best things #TheGameAwards has done.

Current status: "forcing" my 8yo to eat the red M&Ms so the cookies are technically vegetarian.

It's the year of the Linux desktop! www.theverge.com/news/837364/...

It's fun being ok enough at the Irish flute that I can effect a successful sleep spell on a newborn.

I have a frame tv mounted above my fireplace with all the fancy features (motion smoothing, &c) turned on. It's actually way nicer than my old setup with everything done "right" -- don't listen to that weird cinephile friend unless you only watch 4k Blu-Rays in your pitch-dark basement.

My daughter loved this book so much that she had a themed birthday (where we of course gave away copies of the book rather than the typical goodie bag). Highly recommend this!

I guess it's the year of the Linux Desktop for me (again, after many years).

If you see this, quote post with a beach pic from your gallery.

Happy "block and report spam" day to all who celebrate.

So, it turns out that jiggly puff is my spirit Pokemon and my kiddo fell asleep immediately after one bagpipe note.

drawing parkour/menus on one axis and mystlike/skinner box on the other

Can I call it"Colorado Boxty" if I fill the boxty with green chili?

ahah IT WORKS look it's a C² dual quaternion B-spline!! this is interpolating *poses* in dual quaternion form, coupling position and rotation, instead of treating them independently (this is a really neat thing!!)

I'm "injured myself playing taco cat goat cheese pizza" years old.

Today was a good day: hung out in the park playing Irish flute and dulcimer tunes with a guitarist. I'm not great, but folks migrated towards rather than away from us.

Spite. People getting me to settle for not game dev? first of my friends with an industry job. F2P+IAP only valid mobile economy? Build $100+ robot toys with free games. "I think you need a mentor and to learn communication skills." Games DevRel. Always spite when someone makes me cranky.

I made okra stew and jalapeno cheese grits, which was delicious. But now the capsaicin has been burning my hands constantly for hours. Also I wear contacts. Yes, it was worth it.

Brush your teeth after eating these or else you'll get calculus.

I've once again made friends with random people by bringing a dulcimer along to avoid looking at my cellphone. More folks need to carry around folk instruments.