This is an incredible article! I very much relate to the disillusionment of doing something for the sake of sales, and also find myself on a winding journey to do something that has meaning without really knowing what that is or should be. Best of luck to him!

“Move fast, break things” 🤡

For Wumbo?

Is HotS included?

These are all the same picture

I’ve been playing Endless Sky, which is a free space sim (lite). Been really enjoying it.

Ah man that’s a huge bummer. Thanks for checking in on that. Hopefully it’ll get there!

I’ve done some other xemu emulation for Deck and over all it’s pretty solid. Minor stuttering in Ninja Gaiden Black, but it’s completely playable

This is my first time playing Freelancer, but I’ve dabbled heavily in Star Citizen over the last many years, and I love how you can see the roots of Star Citizen in Freelancer. It’s got that great atmosphere and aesthetic that you can see he’s trying to expand in his newer work. Too bad it’ll never release 😅

Does the fediverse need to consume all of the traffic that’s currently directed at other platforms? I think the best thing about the Fediverse is that it provides more options for online social spaces.

If I don’t like Twitter I can try something else. If I don’t like Reddit I can go elsewhere. It doesn’t have to be the exact same thing as those services, as long as it provides me an enjoyable way to consume information in my free time.

I don’t feel like the goal is to absorb all of the traffic from every other site though? Or if it is that seems misguided.

I’m very much enjoying my time on Kbin, even if it is janky and new and imperfect. All of that is actually kind of refreshing

This year I started keeping a shitty little notebook I don’t care about losing or damaging in my pocket with a cheap fountain pen. I use it whenever the need or desire takes me, which might be every day for a week, or not at all for a month. I use it to stabilize tables sometimes, or just to flip through if I want to do something with my hands. I’ve used to to keep score in boardgames, or to write down my thoughts and feelings. I really love it.

I’m a software engineer of about 8 years and I think the longer time goes on the more I want to be disconnected from a screen in my free time. I love coding and gaming and scrolling Kbin on my phone, but sometimes it’s so nice to just put all that down, take a walk, and write stuff on real paper. Doesn’t need to be anything more than that. Not for me, anyways

I was hoping that because Kbin does support mastodon posts it might work. I’d love to see that integration

Is there any federated interaction between BookWyrm and Kbin? Can I follow book or author updates or keep up with reviews or conversation?

I enjoyed pair programming a lot for the two years I was on a project that did that. We paired every day all day, and I felt that it really drove a team dynamic where people understood the code, and the problems we were solving, and were comfortable and knowledgeable enough to have deeper discussions about technical and architectural direction.

There are some things I really miss, too. We didn’t do code reviews, because two people always had eyes on the code. We rarely ever had bugs in the code that were due to programmer error. I liked that when we came up against a tough problem there was immediately someone to bounce ideas off of, or give input if we were heading in the wrong direction. It felt very much like a team versus what I’ve experienced in my last 8 years of solo programming.

On teams where we are working alone there’s usually a lot of individual ownership over certain parts of the code. The team never feels really in tune with what everyone else is working on and what direction we are moving in. Usually a minority of the team are the vocal decision makers, and everyone else is just pulling tickets and churning out code.

With paired programming it can feel like you’re learning something new every day. You’re either paired with someone more junior, more senior, or at around the same level, and each of those groupings provide for different learning experiences and growth opportunities.

I agree that paired programming is not a silver bullet, and I agree that sometimes I felt like having two people on a task was wasteful, but overall I think it brought our team closer and made us more effective in the grand scheme of things. I miss it quite a bit!

Could have been better. I’m feeling pretty burnt out at work and we’re about to do a relatively big move to a new town, which is always exhausting. The future is uncertain. Really hoping for future days where I can just relax and focus on things I actually care about

This is what I’m wondering! Would be cool to at least see comments or updates based on books or authors I care about on kbin, maybe?