ello in the void

big #hugops to all of us discovering in real-time that we weren't using a cache for tailscale/github-action

#aws #cloudfront

this is the #tdf coverage i crave

https://escapecollective.com/i-was-a-bucket-hat-then-i-was-roadkill/

#procycling #couchpeloton

if you follow #gamedev and you've been thinking golly that seems like an awful lot of layoffs on top of layoffs for the past couple years, you might enjoy this exploration from a former #riot guy: https://youtu.be/Zx5X7eXlItQ

(yes okay it's my brother, it's really good, go watch it)

my face as i, of ansi c ancestry, did this in rust

let mut x = Box::new(98);
let a = *x;

println!("{:?}, {:?}, {:?}, {:?}, {:?}", x, &x, *x, a, &a)

and got this

98, 98, 98, 98, 98

friends. FRIENDS.

ok the migrations were a trip but my lil 12gb sqlite db survived and i'm on #gotosocial v0.22, this is super exciting

gimme all your favorite relays, let's go

#selfhost #smallweb

ok i guess i should pick up SOMETHING in the steam sale right

lovers and haters of dead cells and dragonhold, please weigh in

i really love how #godot's new contribution policy reframes the point of community contribution as the community, not the contribution.

in other words, they don't want a high-quality, high-impact contribution that solves a real problem if it doesn't improve the community. their focus is on people, because people are what will make that project successful in the long term.

damn i really miss n-gate

oh my gosh @preinheimer, cassidoo published a worthless shares explainer https://youtu.be/CzdxHIFAJX4

happy digital independence day to all who celebrate https://diday.org

(if you're not a celebrant you should become a celebrant)

(come on join the nerds we have cookies)

#didit #diday

no lookit i know i am not the only one, come on. you've never put honey on toast and then wondered where that weird smell was coming from?

https://void.ello.tech/@ello/statuses/01KSWJFTEHRNHB86ZCBMH7TJDF

warm honey smells like

bwaaahahahahaha

If you were to ask [engineers and devs] if they feel helpless [when they can't safely voice objections to an org-level vision], some of them might answer yes, but a lot of them would say, Eh, I can do my job. But my job doesn't involve telling people that we're doomed.

https://youtu.be/u5I6BUYDm8g

#gamedev

this one immediately collided with pasting clanker output directly into the chat is the new let-me-google-that-for-you in my head, and i realized that how i interact with people has changed.

if i ask a question of you, you specifically, you personally, i'm not just asking for information. if i post my question on the internet where people -- people -- can read it and respond, i'm not looking for raw facts. i have other places i can get raw facts. i want your lived experience, i want your impressions and your nuance and your emotional weight.

i asked my dad the other day about the electrical system in my house and how i might upgrade it, pretty anodyne stuff. i asked him because he's a lapsed chemical engineer and he Knows About Things™, but also because he's maybe a little neurospicy and maybe so am i and maybe we don't really just chat for the sake of it. we went back and forth about my house for a bit, and then he started pasting links to gemini conversations, and i almost cried. he didn't mean anything by it, of course; he was just trying to help me.

on the other hand, the other day he asked me about a weird email he got that looked suspicious. it would have been trivial for him to dump the whole thing into a chatbot and get an answer, but he asked me, because...why? maybe i'm more trustworthy, or maybe i'm faster, or maybe he just wanted to talk to me.

i don't know man, in this age of agents we need to recognize the intentionality of human connection. every interaction between people is an active choice for humans over machines, and that threads new meaning and value through the interactions themselves. don't dismiss it.

How magnificent
the funeral song our children or contemporaries
will write for us, a song they will make by
taking our obituary and Facebook posts,
plus random quotes from our algorithm,
and feeding them into Chat

hey if you've got an old #ghost blog sitting around that you forgot about you should go update it, it's probably vulnerable to a pretty serious attack. ask me how i know.

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/317134/20260525/ghost-cms-sql-injection-hits-700-sites-harvard-duckduckgo-serve-fake-cloudflare-malware.htm

anybody else find fully-written, fully-forgotten drafts of things sometimes? no? just me?

fine, whatever. here's year-and-a-half-younger me bloviating about deadlines and what they're for.

https://til.ello.tech/to-ship-on-time