Notices by 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social), page 107

@SuricrasiaOnline Several of the protocols in the application layer feel a lot less prominent on today's Internet than they did in the past. Many of them are several layers down in the stack and almost take on a transport-like quality. For example, HTTP is used for all sorts of things and is hardly application specific anymore. Feels like there should be another layer here, for all the APIs and protocols that have been implemented on top of HTTP.

One day, I will unravel the mystery of why furry art and LGBT so frequently mesh together.

Sometimes, you need a tall ladder.

@skypage Microblogging is a perfect fit for it. It's low on the effort and often medium on the awesome.

@skypage If you don't mind being ignored, you don't really need this chart.

@skypage However, the chart isn't designed for that purpose. It's designed to work out what projects are worth doing if you want to maximise your chances of getting them out there.

@skypage Microblogging is fun and generally low effort. You just say what comes to mind, and people engage with it. It may not produce awesome *results* but you're having a good *time*.

@skypage Or, well... Sort of...

@skypage Of course, but that's already a part of the definition of "awesome" the way I see it.

@brainblasted Fediverse culture will probably get wiped out on the bigger instances. That's to be expected. Subcultures never get adopted wholesale by the mainstream.

@radiocaravan I don't primarily listen to jazz, but I saw how influential it had been on 20th century pop music, and suddenly understood where all the sophisticated bits of pop songs came from.

@radiocaravan I've always been more of a single kind of person. I aspired to be a dance pop producer until I discovered jazz. Jazz kind of destroyed me a little, because it showed me how far it was to the top of the mountain, and made me really like the top of that mountain. In plain English: It set my standards really high. It also meant that I was forever going to like a genre of music that most people don't fancy much.

I guess I'm more like my dad than I like to admit. His career choice? Journalism.

As for software development? Well, if it weren't for the fact that it pays the bills, I'd probably only pick it up now and then to fiddle with it, unless some time consuming task needed automation.

I guess the conclusion is that I don't really have any of my old passions anymore. There is one thing I voluntarily spend more time on than anything else, though...

Microblogging.

Short form stream-of-consciousness writing is my favourite hobby. It's a shame you don't win a prize for it.

The story is similar for my music making. I reached a point where I'd have to put in actual hard work to produce a quality of output that I'd get a sense of satisfaction from. Like with the drawings, I did put in that effort occasionally, but it was blood, sweat and tears every time, and I just didn't want to accomplish that quality level badly enough to find it worthwhile, so I reached peak musician and more or less quit doing music.

I never thought the day would come when I didn't care enough about having a working Wacom tablet to bother buying a new one, but here we are.

I reached peak artist. The amount of effort required to reach the next level meant putting in hard work instead of having fun. I got no satisfaction from drawing anymore because I was no longer pleased with my output, and I laid down my pencil.

I think my problem with picking projects is that there's very little that I'd absolutely love to do. Everything I can conceive of is just... kind of neato, and takes some effort to do.

Come to think of it, most of my musical output falls on the "kinda awesome" and "little/some effort" part of the chart, which is probably why I've done so many tracks.

For those of you who haven't heard my music yet:

https://soundcloud.com/thors-music

I'm gonna brag a bit and say that at least a few of them are good enough to play on the radio.

Genres: Disco, EDM, Jazz, Pop