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· My favourite command-line tools

A friend got a MacBook recently and was asking for recommendations. I found myself wishing I had a list of all my default-installed command-line tools, so that’s what this is.

· The games of 2024

I wrote this time last year that I hoped 2024 was a better year for the games industry - this has turned out not to be the case.

· Is Bluesky in the Fediverse?
And does it even really matter?

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The Deep Blue Okay by Self Esteem is a song my brain simply refuses to get bored of. Whole album tbh

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Good lord I’m getting married in two weeks

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So there are a lot of Fediverse servers, right. One for basically any topic or community you could think of. Unfortunately today while researching something unrelated I stumbled across a “feminist” (TERF) instance. I’m not going to say the name or link to it.

Anyway, it’s built on some software called Soapbox which is a Mastodon/Pleroma/whatever frontend. Looked it up and found the guy who made it, thinking “does he know?”. Anyway that was the shot, here’s the chaser.

I am formerly Head of Engineering at Truth Social, which was built using Soapbox.
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Went to my first Algorhythms event last night and it was fantastic

A photo of the venue at Carpet Shop showing two screens, one with Strudel and one with Hydra Some cool visuals on the projector screen, lots of red and skellingtons
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Not mushroom left in Lucy’s backpack by the end of the day

Lucy with an enormous bolete of some description Lucy listening to mushroom music with the Pocket SCION Fly Agaric Lucy with a backpack full of mushrooms
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Gorgeous day walking on the High Weald and around the (Five) Hundred Acre Wood

Peeking out to the fields from the woods Piglet’s house Pooh in his house A view out over the fields near sunset
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The world is full of horrors but, conversely, my cat’s head is really warm when she comes for a cuddle after she’s been sleeping

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Went to see me old mate Gecko play with Chris Read and a full band at Folklore in Hackney last night and it was lovely

Gecko and Chris on stage, Gecko is to the left on guitar and Chris is playing keys and shaking an egg thing Gecko Chris holding a kazoo looking delighted to be there With the full band. It’s a bit blurry
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I am begging you lot not to sleep on Shinobi Art of Vengeance, it’s so so good

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How is she so perfect

Little cat cuddled up with her wee head on her wee hands