The state of the fluffy (late December 2025 edition)
Time for another proverbial cheese sandwich post1. Thinking about the end of the year and what’s coming up for me.
This isn’t my annual aspiration wrap-up post; that’ll come later.
IndieRadio progress: Canimus
Remember that idea I came up with a couple months ago and then rambled about a bunch and then stopped talking about it?
I finally had the spoons to write a draft of what I hope will eventually become a specification, which I am (for now) calling Canimus, after the Latin word for “we sing.” It also has a few other meanings, such as “we play an instrument,” “we prophesize,” and “we hoot.”
Or, more broadly, “we make music.”
Some updates
Just some brief stuff:
- Finally followed through on my intention to remove (most of) my music from Spotify. I hope this doesn’t turn out to be a huge mistake.
- I got an update on my disability process in that it’s moved to final approval… right before the government shut down.
- Pain-wise I’m doing okay, not great, and same for fatigue. I’m still not driving.
- Things are progressing with the game I’m working on, but I’m worried about its financial future due to being NSFW and sex-work-positive.
- I’m pretty worried about the current timbre of American politics right now, what with being both trans and an atheist. Also my passport won’t be eligible for renewal until mid-December and I’m not sure the gender marker thing is going to hold out that long.
- Who cursed me to live in interesting times? They can fuck right off.
Random updates
Hey! How’s it going? I think things are fairly okay on my end.
Improving my VRChat performance audio
Now that I’m doing even more performing in VRChat and also making use of occasional backing tracks (instead of just doing everything totally live), it’s time for me to improve my audio setup. But Windows audio is super tricky and annoying, so it took me a bunch of iteration to figure out how I want to make it work now.
Health stuff (positive)
Hey, stuff’s happening and it’s generally feeling okay. Hopefully posting about positivity won’t jinx it.
More rambling about this streaming radio thing
I’ve been playing around with some protocol ideas and I have some more thoughts.
More IndieRadio(?) progress
You can always tell when I’ve been deep into a project when my feed reader stats go off-kilter:
Anyway yeah I’m working on the radio thing!
A fair independent streaming platform
Over on my music site I wrote a bit about the current state of streaming providers, specifically to encourage people to go back to buying their music and listening on local devices.
The problem with this line of thinking is that people really want the convenience of being able to listen to all the music, all the time, anywhere.
A thought’s been pinging around in my brain for a while about how this could be done differently, without falling into the trap of having a single service for people to have to subscribe to and put their trust in: what if we could make an IndieWeb-style streaming platform?
The state of the fluffy
I’ve not been doing super great lately. I’m trying to get better, but I don’t know how.