@juliancday@writing.exchange
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

juliancday

@juliancday@writing.exchange

Poet, roguelike developer, pixel artist (ish). Chapbooks: Late Summer Flowers (Anstruther Press), Orbits (Model Press). Editor/publisher, null pointer press. he/him

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

matdevdug, to tech
@matdevdug@c.im avatar

The thing about that people who haven’t been through it often don’t understand is that morale never recovers. The employees who remain will never have the same relationship with that company, bosses or peers.

Watching people you respect pack their stuff and crying on the phone with their spouses is something that never goes away. When I survived a layoff in my 20s I became a “do exactly what the ticket says” person. I stopped suggesting ideas, providing feedback, believing anything a manager told me.

If you are a company considering layoffs, especially a profitable company, you should approach it as “this department will have 100% turnover”. The second I got another job offer I left that company and six months later nobody who had been there at the time of layoffs remained.

I’ve seen that pattern play out multiple times.

juliancday,
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

@matdevdug The first tech company I ever worked for got bought by a private equity-backed company in 2011. Within a few months, the layoffs started. I could see the writing. I got out before the next round of layoffs, and the layoffs after that. Before, I had that idealism you mention - the belief I was a part of something. After that, I stopped making my job a core part of my identity, and it was one of the best decisions I ever made.

juliancday, to twitter
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

I'd like to be snarky about this, but it's sad to watch 's slow death. That stupid, beautiful site has been vital to me in my development as a poet. And as someone who can probably be described as Very Online, I used to find the site good in a bunch of other ways as well. But at some point, you have to go. He's deleting old tweets to save a bit of money on storage space. And meanwhile, all the tweets on the Arab Spring, the Mumbai attacks, etc, are gone. They're just...gone.

juliancday, to random
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

Looking to get off Twitter. The one thing really keeping me there is the larger community of poets, who are inventive and fascinating but also incredibly resistant to change. So if you're on Mastodon, and a poet, and I don't follow you, hit me up so I can change that.

juliancday, (edited ) to random
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

If you had the option of working with a regex syntax in the context of game configuration, which would you expect?

juliancday, to random
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

maria erskine, from "GROUNDSWELL: best of above/ground press, 1993-2003"

juliancday, to random
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

A WAMCO shirt but it's

WINAMP &
ALTAVISTA &
MODEM &
COMPUTER &
ONLINE

juliancday, (edited ) to random
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

Deeply bored of this era where all we do is collect data and sell it.

juliancday, to random
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

The latest issue of +doc (my little magazine of longer poems) is now available! Featuring new work by Clifton Gachagua and Connor Ferguson. Let me know if you'd like a copy? $4 CAD in Canada, $6 US/Intl, and if you'd like a copy but money is tight, let me know and I'll send you one. <3

https://nullpointerpress.blogspot.com/2024/02/doc6.html

juliancday, to random
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

Out in the garden: happy Tuxley.

juliancday, to random
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

Found poem.

(gemini://cz.pollux.casa/gemlog/2021-06-04-blacksmith.gmi)

juliancday, to random
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

Lead restored! 17-7

juliancday, (edited ) to poetry
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

Just a small note to say I have a new chapbook out with @ryanfitzpublic's Model Press. It's called Orbits. You can read it for free online, and I'd love it if you would.

https://ryanfitzpatrickca.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/model-press-030-julian-day-orbits.pdf

juliancday, to art
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

Found : "code diff".

juliancday, to random
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

I hate this corporate trend so much. No, I don't want to give you a rating. No, I don't want to provide feedback. No, I don't want to waste my one wild and precious life thinking deeply about Shop-Vac® Disposable Paper Dust Collector Filter Bags for Wet/Dry Shop Vacuums.

juliancday, to random
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

Apropos uhhhh nothing but one of the things I appreciate with Mastodon is the temporary mute function. "shut up but just for a bit".

juliancday, to random
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

My old man, my little man, me.

A young beagle on a teal couch, holding a nylon bone and looking at the camera.
Black and white portrait of Julian. He is wearing a pair of large, round, black glasses, and a plaid shirt. He has long hair past his shoulders and a medium-length beard flecked with grey.

juliancday, (edited ) to Writers
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

! This year's Writes of Spring is now taking submissions on the theme of "Our Shared Stories. Our Shared Future."

Writes of Spring is edited, as always, by the tireless Ariel Gordon; this year I'll be working with her as a co-editor.

Deadline is April 1. Interested? We'd love to read your work.

https://thinairwinnipeg.ca/news/2024/writes-of-spring-2024-call-for-submissions/

juliancday, (edited ) to random
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

I just followed someone on Bluesky, and about twenty minutes later wanted to check one of their posts I'd seen, but I have so many social tabs open (Masto, BS, cohost, even a FB tab I keep open but don't check) that I'd forgotten where I followed them, thought it was here, and got confused why I couldn't find them in my feed or via search. Because it's Mastodon, I assumed the search was just broken, and hoped I'd find them again later.

Welcome to post-Twitter, I guess.

juliancday, to random
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

A note to say that the latest issue of +doc, my little magazine of longer poems, is now available, featuring work by Ottawa poet Frances Boyle and Chicago poet Sarah Peecher.

Let me know if you'd like a copy! And if money's tight, I gotcha.

Sharing's free! Slam that retoot!

https://nullpointerpress.blogspot.com/2023/09/doc5-burn.html

juliancday, to random
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

That game was a heart attack and a heartbreaker. Congrats to the Als, but the game was there for the taking for Winnipeg.

juliancday, to random
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

Hi! This is just to say that CV2 is hosting a virtual launch for its fall issue on Wednesday at 7pm Central. I'll be reading along with Alexander Hollenberg, Amy LeBlanc, Hoa Nguyen, Samantha Martin-Bird, and Sanna Wani. Registration info below! ❤️

https://contemporaryverse2.ca/fall-issue-launch-2/

juliancday, to random
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

Gavin Bradley, from Separation Anxiety

juliancday, to random
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

Time for my annual playthrough on the .

juliancday, to random
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

I hate that a lot of what I want to see online (a shift away from central platforms, people making their own unique and interesting things, the overall feel more like neighbourhoods) is the same sort of thing those web3 dorks latched onto and claimed could be solved by blockchains and cryptocurrencies.

juliancday,
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

Over the years I've come to understand that my personality is this weird mix of wanting to make things, wanting to use technology to do so, while at the same time being deeply distrustful of it.

juliancday, to random
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

Deleted my Reddit account ✌️

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/16/24158529/reddit-openai-chatgpt-api-access-advertising

juliancday,
@juliancday@writing.exchange avatar

Gonna maybe mess around with Lemmy, see if there's anything there, but wow do I ever miss when forums were set up by hobbyists and the thought of selling user data was repugnant.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • provamag3
  • rosin
  • thenastyranch
  • tacticalgear
  • InstantRegret
  • Durango
  • DreamBathrooms
  • ngwrru68w68
  • magazineikmin
  • khanakhh
  • Youngstown
  • mdbf
  • slotface
  • kavyap
  • JUstTest
  • modclub
  • ethstaker
  • cubers
  • normalnudes
  • everett
  • GTA5RPClips
  • cisconetworking
  • osvaldo12
  • Leos
  • megavids
  • tester
  • anitta
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •