fluffyfluffy at beesbuzz dot bizA Seattle-based programmer/musician who makes games, comics, and bad decisions.they/them or it/its (if you're nice about it)Comments
So yeah I’m deep in a pain flareup right now. I made sure that all of the critical bugs in bandcrash are, to my knowledge, fixed, but I just am not in a situation where I can really work on stuff right now due to a massive pain flareup.
I was just starting to work on some music for a game jam game and Novembeat but I don’t think that’s really in the cards for me this year.
And of course now that I’m in agony, suddenly a lot of folks want to interview me for engineering roles that I’d normally be very interested in, so, thanks for twisting the knife on that one.
At least choir is going pretty well and gives me stuff to look forward to.
fluffyfluffy at beesbuzz dot bizA Seattle-based programmer/musician who makes games, comics, and bad decisions.they/them or it/its (if you're nice about it)Comments
I agree that this is a massive pain point and it’s something I’ve talked about a lot on this blog.
At present, I use a combination of 1 (via isso) and 4 (via webmention.io + webmention.js). The integration on 4 is also helped by using Bridgy and Bridgy Fed to receive webmentions from Mastodon and many of the silos, which strikes an okay balance for me, although it’s far from perfect.
One of the biggest problems with webmention, IMO, is that it doesn’t provide a good story for protected/private responses to protected/private entries. Ticket Auth might eventually provide that, but adoption of that protocol has been slow-going, to say the least, and there’s still open questions about how to actually manage the credentials in an unsupervised flow (especially when using a third-party webmention endpoint). An older WIP called AutoAuth had a much better story for that use case but the protocol was incredibly complicated and implementations never progressed beyond the proof-of-concept stage.
For me, isso as my primary comment system remains the least-bad option of a lot of bad options.
fluffyfluffy at beesbuzz dot bizA Seattle-based programmer/musician who makes games, comics, and bad decisions.they/them or it/its (if you're nice about it)Comments
Just testing using Backblaze’s raw object storage as a means of serving up a Bandcrash player for cheap. I’ll be documenting the upload process soon, if actual playback performance is sufficient.
fluffyfluffy at beesbuzz dot bizA Seattle-based programmer/musician who makes games, comics, and bad decisions.they/them or it/its (if you're nice about it)Comments
After years of constantly lowering my prices, trying to get a vanishingly-small amount of sales on things I care about, I’ve decided to raise everything and make it uniform, across all of my music storefronts, namely:
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fluffyfluffy at beesbuzz dot bizA Seattle-based programmer/musician who makes games, comics, and bad decisions.they/them or it/its (if you're nice about it)Comments
I feel like I need to come up for air, after some protracted busy-ness (not to be confused with business, which I have none of at the moment).
fluffyfluffy at beesbuzz dot bizA Seattle-based programmer/musician who makes games, comics, and bad decisions.they/them or it/its (if you're nice about it)Comments
how the fuck was this amazing parody of 2020s tech trends made in 2013
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fluffyfluffy at beesbuzz dot bizA Seattle-based programmer/musician who makes games, comics, and bad decisions.they/them or it/its (if you're nice about it)Comments
I had difficulty finding the studs because there’s some particleboard behind the drywall for some reason. Maybe some half-assed attempt at a moisture barrier or something? It was pretty obvious that it was there since it was visible through the light wiring hole. I ended up using some neodymium magnets to locate some drywall screws and then verified it by drilling pilot holes. I’m not absolutely certain that they’re screwed into studs but there’s a lot more support than there was before, and those screws are at least held tight to the wall.
On the left anchor I thought I’d messed up and that there actually was a stud behind it, somehow, and I started to patch it up so that I could screw in a construction screw instead (which is why there’s plaster on the left hole in the first picture), until I remembered, oh yeah, there’s weird backing board behind some of the drywall. So I drilled a smaller pilot hole and, yep, it went through easily, so yeah, it needed an anchor after all. (I mean I already knew that based on what had happened previously, but, still.)
Also I couldn’t find the nice toggle anchors I’d bought a couple years ago, so I ended up buying some similar ones at Home Depot. Which aren’t nearly as nice. A couple of them ended up breaking off and falling into the wall, and they were just kinda not-great to work with in general. But they did their job, and everything’s tightly screwed down.
Leveling the cabinet was a pain in the ass. It’d have been a lot easier if I had someone to help me but I was being stubborn about just getting this done.
Also, I didn’t need to do any painting, as all of the paint damage happened to be behind the cabinet. Nice.
Hopefully this time it stays up for more than two years!
Also I decided to be fancy and whipped up a custom centering jig to draw the centerline for drilling the holes in the hardwood. It was absolutely overkill but it didn’t take me long to do. I’ll probably post it as a customizable object on thingiverse/printables or something.