luna

luna, 12 days ago to random

This email found you. Roll initiative.

luna, 5 months ago to random

I wrote some code. It hurts to look at.

https://moonbase.lgbt/blog/minimum-wage-clock/

luna, 5 months ago to random

In 2009, I join Twitter.
I make friends there.
I can see their posts.

Twitter has a Nazi problem.
I pre-emptively join Mastodon.
But I don’t really use it yet.

Elon Musk buys Twitter.
My friends start leaving.
I no longer see their posts.

I want to see my friends’ posts.

I find my friends again on Mastodon.
Now I have two apps to keep track of.
But I can see my friends’ posts again.

My instance admins get in a fight.
Friends’ instances defederate from mine.
I can no longer follow them, nor they me.
I am told about this by a friend who noticed.
There is no indication given by the software.
I am not notified of the connections I’ve lost.

I want to see my friends’ posts.

A friend invites me to their instance.
I accept, and migrate my profile across.
I re-follow missing friends I can remember.
And I can see my friends’ posts again.

A friend posts photos on her instance.
But those photos are not visible on mine.
Her profile appears, to me, devoid of images.
My new instance seemingly media-blocks hers.
There is no indication given by the software.

I just want to see my friends’ posts.

Am I wrong to want that?

https://moonbase.lgbt/blog/i-want-to-see-my-friends-posts/

luna, 7 months ago to random

who needs things like skydiving when you can get the same adrenaline rush by causing an incident in prod

luna, 1 month ago to random

Did you know? I curate a gallery of procedural artworks by various demosceners — each piece was rendered by an executable program no larger than 4096 bytes:

https://executable.graphics/

luna, 1 month ago to random

> Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised by how much laying off 1,500 employees negatively affected the streaming giant’s operations

luna, 2 months ago to random

“Fragments of Self”

A still image rendered by a 4-kilobyte executable, released at Revision demoparty 2024.

Download:
https://pouet.net/prod.php?which=96556
https://demozoo.org/graphics/342289/

luna, 6 months ago to random

Ever wanted to know where Fizz Buzz came from? I did a lightning talk all about it at @BigMathsJam — enjoy!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rwwYmFsiJQM

luna, 4 months ago to random

“Now obviously for this position we’re expecting some amount of frontend experience… it says here you’re familiar with manipulating the DOM, would you tell us a little more about that?”

The candidate smirked.

“Make me.”

luna, 5 months ago to random

boosting posts from my old account on another instance like

luna, 7 months ago to random

idk who this “TAS” person is but their speedruns are incredible, literally inhuman levels of skill on display

luna, 6 months ago to random

New blog post!

I noticed a thing that bugged me, and now it'll bug you too.

https://moonbase.lgbt/blog/apple-markup-colors/

luna, 12 days ago to random

imagine what a creature called the "mountain chicken" might look like.

then google it.

luna, 30 days ago to random

Aurora borealis near Manchester, absolutely breathtaking

A pink-green aurora with flares in all directions
A pink-green aurora cascading diagonally across the sky

luna, 21 days ago to random

Fell in love with the gameboy camera again and I've been having a go at trichrome photography (combining red/green/blue-filtered exposures over a grayscale sensor to produce a color image). I'm really happy with how well the colors came out on this one!

luna, 4 months ago to random

How many more? How many more until the blood-sucking parasite executive class are satisfied?

https://lunasorcery.github.io/vg-layoffs/

luna, 5 months ago to random

JNZ (Jump to New Zealand)

Affects Flags: N Z

JNZ teleports the active processor to the island nation of New Zealand.

Note: it is of critical importance to ensure that execution does not halt before the corresponding RET occurs.

luna, 4 months ago to random

babe you need to drink your water

“Water? I hardl–”

hardly know her? yeah tHAT’S THE PROBLEM

luna, 6 months ago to linguistics

Hey #linguistics folks — is there a word for, and if not can someone coin a word for, things whose functionality is dependent on their existence in the plural?
Some examples:

• Telephones — Alexander Graham Bell was initially disappointed with the apparent uselessness of his first telephone, until the Ghostbusters quote “Who you gonna call?” fell through a rift in time and he realized he needed to invent the second telephone too.
• Train stations — Congratulations! You’ve built the world’s first train station. Where do the trains go?
• LEGO(-alike) building blocks
• Gears

luna, 1 month ago to random

no actually i love it when my interrupts aren't firing and i can't figure out why

luna, 2 months ago to random

look I appreciate the effort you’ve put in, but this isn’t what I had in mind when I said I like my food with a lot of cumin

luna, 4 months ago to random

Finally succumbing to the "blogger blogs about their blog" trope, I wrote a bit about how my blog engine handles images, because it's a little more involved than you might expect!

https://moonbase.lgbt/blog/how-my-blog-handles-images/

luna, 5 months ago to random

misbehaving software tied up in a debugger like “step through me mommy”

luna, 6 months ago to random

anything can be a Star Trek fanfic if you set it in the holodeck

luna, 1 month ago to random

hey remember back in like 2021 when i was gonna sell prints of my demoscene/shader artworks and then didn't? what if i actually do that