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· Bluesky backfeed support in Bridgy

My “weekend project” of implementing Bluesky support into Bridgy is finally, several months later, complete! Ish.

· Using Vim for writing

I do most of my daily work in Vim, and by this point I find it quite hard to use anything else, but for writing that isn’t code (or, let’s be real, mostly YAML these days) it could be a lot better.

· Turns out immersive theatre isn’t video games

I went to see Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City the other night. In the bar on the way in, I confidently said to my partner, “immersive theatre is video games”.

It isn’t.

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Our girl utterly transfixed by Cat TV today

A black cat watching a squirrel on a TV, right before whacking it with her paw. She's got her paws up on the TV table, staring at the screen in awe.

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🦦 test note pls ignore 🦦

https://www.joelotter.com

it me as a sunrise or a matt lees
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Just played a tiny prototype of what might well become the next Bearwaves game and I am very energised.

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I’ve lost two entire days of work to Terraform lockfile nonsense

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David Cameron to be Foreign Secretary - despite not being an MP. Nobody voted for him. They’ll have to make him a Lord. The government can literally just put whoever they want in the cabinet with no real consequences. I know “the Lords is anti-democratic” is hardly a hot take but Fucking Hell

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Good morning!

it me as a sunrise or a matt lees
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I think Embracer should rename as they have fully moved into their Extinguisher phase

https://www.eurogamer.net/embracer-owned-time-splitters-studio-free-radical-reportedly-facing-closure

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Oh hey the fire worked

Fireworks
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When I worked in the games industry I remember being told the average tenure was six years and thinking that was crazy low. I lasted…five and a half years.

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· Bluesky backfeed support in Bridgy

My “weekend project” of implementing Bluesky support into Bridgy is finally, several months later, complete! Ish.