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jmac

@jmac@masto.nyc

I live in New York. I get paid to write about databases. I don’t get paid to write about other stuff, but I do it anyway.

Tech writer at Google; Co-founder of IFTF, an interactive-fiction nonprofit; Liker of coffee, cats, open web technologies, et cetera. Co-admin of https://masto.nyc.

All views I express in my personal posts are my own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Five Borough Fedi Project.

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emeline, to Athens French
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FR : est-ce que par chance il y a des personnes sur le Fediverse qui sont / seront à Athènes demain soir pour un international ? Je suis une cycliste française et j'arriverai demain à après un périple de 40 jours à vélo et ça serait chouette de célébrer ça avec vous 🎉 (et j'ai encore des geowoods à distribuer 🤗)

EN : are they by any chance some people on the Fediverse who are in tomorrow evening? I'm a French cyclist and I will arrive in your city tomorrow from Paris after 40 days bikig. It would be nice to have a drink to celebrate With you 🎉 (and I still have some geowoods to distribute 😊)

cstross, (edited ) to random
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Business meetings exist to share information and coordinate activity: this shit enables you to be apparently present in all but actually not engaged with any. If your calendar is triple-booked then your organization is under-resourced and needs more people, not more AI. Or it's holding unnecessary meetings to make management feel better about being surrounded by minions, in which case it needs to fire the executives responsible.
https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/112553850995965423

jwz,
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@cstross Back in 1993, I talked to a team at SGI who were building one of the first multi-person video chat apps. Since they were building it, they used it constantly. And the FIRST TWO THINGS THEY DID were: 1) a plugin that played a 5 second loop of you looking like you were still there; and 2) a plugin that would detect lulls in conversation and say "Mmm hmmm" in your voice.

hotdogsladies, (edited ) to random
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Okay, so, Midge Ure.

The guy from Ultravox who also co-wrote “Do They Know it’s Christmas?”

Yeah.

Last night I learned he was also in Visage and THIN LIZZY.

I also learned that his name is a phonetically reversed pronunciation of his given name, “Jim.”

So, I’m gonna kinda take it easy today, because that’s a lot for a person to process and integrate.

https://youtu.be/VVkHZz0WOqs?si=NcQGysQXta8zIEe0

hotdogsladies,
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In the early years of the decade, Visage made the most 80s video, and it’s for a song that still rules.

Also?

Produced by Midge Ure and fucking Conny Plank!

https://youtu.be/eZHk4RwIp_g?si=gPtg1lZcRcAAs236

aparrish, to random
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opens the hood of your laptop welp i see your problem. you got transistors in here. lil electric switches. maybe billions of 'em. not much i can do for you

gabu, to Furry
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he took ur gameboys and he traded ur pokemons

kottke, to random
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Prior to the 2024 Euros, Belgium announced new kits for their national teams and the away kit (light blue top, brown shorts) is an homage to Tintin and his creator, Belgian cartoonist Hergé. So cool. https://kottke.org/24/06/tintin-inspired-kits-for-the-belgian-national-football-team

seano, to nyc
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I don't get it

#nyc #streetart

Pentadact, to random
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Feels weird to news here, but we just released a demo for the game I've been working on for 6.5 years, so news I must:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/Tactical_Breach_Wizards/

Boosts appreciated!

video/mp4

hotdogsladies, to random
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Plexamp is amazing and has some of the best blah-blah text out there.

https://www.plex.tv/plexamp/

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CarlMuckenhoupt, to random
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An adorable dog moment:
I walk into my building. A family of three is waiting for the elevator, accompanied by a small dog. My apartment is on the second floor, so I start up the stairs. The dog follows me. The family calls to the dog, but it pays no heed. I turn around and point down the stairs. The dog looks to where I'm pointing and is overjoyed beyond measure to see its entire family down there!

jalcine, to random
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fixes ties and brushes pants

clears throat

You want a software engineer. I know it (lol). But fr, if you know of a place looking for a fullstack dev, swing them https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacky-alcin%C3%A9-6a9ab730a/ (or e-mail me at jackyalcine@fastmail.com)

GameArtArchive, to random
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Map
'Super Metroid'
Super Nintendo

990000, to nyc
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Visiting the museum of natural history makes me wish public parks had T-rex or Allosaurus, or some other similar dinosaur skeletons on permanent display so kids and just people in general can study them casually and frequently. I know it would be a maintenance nightmare, but it would be so cool.

jmac,
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@990000 Why, I was at Dinosaur Playground at Riverside Drive just yesterday! What more do you want!!

thinkygames, to random
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You can now play the original text-adventure prototype of Outer Wilds! This is so cool! https://thinkygames.com/news/you-can-now-play-the-original-text-adventure-prototype-of-outer-wilds/

mogwai_poet, to random
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The normal flow of game development is to keep the game in a very malleable state, while you figure out what you're making. This is known as the "fun and good" phase of game development. Then as you approach shipping, the code base gets more fixed and brittle and hard to work with as you make optimizations, make things scale as needed, make everything work with multiplayer, &c.

mogwai_poet,
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In a live service/early access game, you do all those optimizations that make the code base fixed and brittle and hard to work with in order to ship it, then you keep working on it in that state forever. It's like if the sculptor had to patch their existing marble statue to add new features every three months. This is known as the "unremitting hellscape" phase of game development, and early access developers live there permanently.

mhoye, to random
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Exhibit 1: https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jun/01/bond-woke-charlie-higson-row-metrosexual-007

Exhibit 2: https://www.metafilter.com/93504/You-carry-a-00-number-it-means-you-have-License-to-kill-not-GET-killed#3171708

"We're all Jason Bourne now."

futurebird, to random
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The verdict may not matter to Trump's base, but I do think there is a group of people it matters to who are being overlooked: the people who were already likely to vote for Biden.

A Trump acquittal would have sapped trust in legal systems and government further. It would fueled apathy. Hopelessness and apathy can reelect Trump.

samhenrigold, to random
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I was looking for 1990s clipart yesterday and came across one called "COMPUTE.BMP" and I'm still at a loss for words

GameArtArchive, to random
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Crocomire
'Super Metroid'
Super Nintendo

sluttymayo, to random
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this customer review image for a hat goes so hard
"neither snow nor rain nor heat, especially not heat, i mean pfft, heat, come on; no, listen, here at the usps we scoff at the sun; seriously, the postal inspectors are going to arrest helios, we are not dicking around, "

thejapantimes, to Japan
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A diabetes drug has been found to eliminate senescent cells — which accumulate with age and contribute to hardening of the arteries and other diseases — in mice, paving the way for research on aging-related diseases, researchers at a Tokyo university say. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/31/japan/science-health/diabetes-drug-aging/

faerye, to random
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I have made upwards of 160 pies in my life, but the criterion that a particular custard pie filling is done when it DOES “wobble” but does NOT “move in waves” still gives me absolute hives. Standing there letting all the heat out nudging the pie pan over and over playing ‘wobble or wave’ until my bangs stick straight up from the hot air. 🥵

grepomatic, to nyc
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Time for bed for the flaming ball of fusing hydrogen


Plumy, to EldenRing French
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Back on the The Lands Between

Plumy,
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Still in love with the perfumers design

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