I have deactivated my twitter account. The current direction of the company is beyond loathesome. It is unlikely to change.
I mostly quit the platform a couple of years ago, but I now take this further step in quiet protest.
Musk, you could have changed the world for the better.
I have been a bit more active on SoundCloud:
https://soundcloud.com/taskboy3000/abyss
There is a companion video on my YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@taskboymusic
Have a listen, won’t you?
Some songs practically write themselves. This song isn’t one of those. It required a lot of post-production to move it into the goal.
Enjoy:
Some songs practically write themselves. This song isn’t one of those. It required a lot of post-production to move it into the goal.
Enjoy:
Want more electronica but you can’t wait for me to make some?
Try the much better Flashbulb. Let me get you started:
I’m into Radiohead, but I am not, like, THAT into Radiohead, if you follow me.
Against all odds, I have posted a new track to soundcloud:
<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://soundcloud.com/taskboy3000/groove-redeaux">https://soundcloud.com/taskboy3000/groove-redeaux</a>
AND a video of a totally different song to youtube:
<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiYuzUqcBAA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiYuzUqcBAA</a>
So, I made a thing:
<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://github.com/taskboy3000/wordle-terminal">https://github.com/taskboy3000/wordle-terminal</a>
I may have written a command line version of wordle using ANSI escape sequences.
These things happen.
Will 2023 be the second coming of blogs? It is possible. So much of corporate social media has turned out as badly as critics foretold. If you read this feed, you already know how I feel about it.
Scythe (board game) is much more like Race For the Galaxy than Risk.
It isn’t primarily a war game, despite the iconography
The fam redid an escape room at Escapology today. We got further, but still did not crack it.
Much less yelling at each other this time.
“I am from Perl town” is the great way Jason McIntosh expresses the cultural legacy of using Perl for many years. And it is a great legacy! Perl is still my primary language after 25 years of professional programming.
Yes, I use other languages too (most notably javascript). What keeps Perl fresh to me is Moo. It feels like the best framework to construct object oriented apps in of any language I have yet used. In ten years, I am sure other languages will discover and co-opt it — and they should!
But I hear Jason clearly when he suggests he will never invest the time to learn another language as deeply as he has for Perl. I am in exactly the same position. I hesitate to use the word never, since I have picked up quite a bit of javascript.
Generally, I describe my technical skillset in terms of the platforms I deliver solutions for, which in my case is web applications. Those applications might power a mobile app, but the backend is still emitting HTTP messages.
Hemingway knew English, but mostly it was his application of same that he is remembered for.
If you are not making faces like Keith Moon when this song comes up on Spotify, you are listening to it incorrectly.
<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNbBDrceCy8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNbBDrceCy8</a>
Yes, he really did call to scrap the constitution. Typically, presidents support the constitution. That’s kind of their job.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-termination-us-constitution/
Media is reporting that in the last episode of Andor, the hologram’s speech originally concluded with the line: “F*** the Empire!”
The article laments this censorship. I celebrate it.
Cussing up a swear is not clever writing. It is lazy.
Here is your out of context line from unix command calendar’s man page:
calendar doesn't handle all Jewish holidays or moon phases.
IT’S 2022 CALENDAR - BE BETTER.
Correction.
Follow me here: https://taskboy3000.micro.blog/
That’s the pretty, user-facing syndicated content.
Because I can’t do anything without Jason McIntosh, I too am syndicating my taskboy microblogging at:
I believe my first dialup account was purchased somewhere between bars 4 and 6.
My archives are a little sketchy on the details now.
I’ve been pooping on cryptocurrencies from the start.
All are ponzi schemes and always were. Crypto are collectables at best.
Where’s my medal?
Get A Good Grip Before You Start is now has a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcKxmdJKvPQ
I remastered and remixed the song as a 24-bit WAV, you lucky so-and-sos.
(Yeah, I know mp4 compresses the audio again).
I love the more modern Korg Volcas, but I particularly love the Drum. It is dependable, flexible kit which I have no trouble making sound large:
https://studio.taskboy.com/media/sky_like_a_dead_tv_channel.mp3
Phonk Walk. I can’t get it out of my head. Please send help.
Is it me or are many podcasts and youtubers now trying to get their followers to sign up for newsletters? Seems like a hard way to placate advertisers. Next up: the fourth revile of Zines.
