Notices by Craig Maloney ☕ (craigmaloney@octodon.social), page 23

Send me your account information and I'll add you to the project.

I'm hoping to get enough $$ to hire a professional editor to give it that extra kick it needs. Unfortunately I don't have that right now. I even have folks in mind that I'd love to edit the chapters about programmer mental health to help me better articulate and convey to struggling developers that they're still valuable.

I hope you'll check it out and leave feedback if you're so inclined. Again, right now you'll need a Framagit account to read it.

I think I just need to accept that I made the right call and that no matter how things turned out I'm still in a better place for it. I haven't really lost much of anything other than the nostalgia of using these machines first-hand. I have the UNIX-based environment that I craved from the Sun SPARCStation machines, and I have a more grounded sense of responsibility and community based off of being at the ground-level of Linux, OSS, and the coming-of-age of GNU.

Some days I wonder if things would be different had I taken different paths. Had I not spent college with an 8-bit computer.

But then i realize that I probably would have tried to use an Amiga / Atari ST well past the expiration date of those machines. I wouldn't have been ready for an IBM PC (486 SX 20) and Linux. i'd probably still be wondering when the Amiga would be making its return from the dead.

I don't know why this is my favorite "what-if" that I keep replaying but it's a strong scent

Allister Brimble: The Spectrum Works:

https://allisterbrimble.bandcamp.com/album/the-spectrum-works

#music #chiptune #remaster

@guerrillarain http://open metalcast.com 😉

@kemonine I'm not going to directly embarrass them but it's one of the local counties Daily. ;)

*Log onto website for oil change*

*Ask specifically for email response*

*Receives phone call.*

I don't understand this world anymore.

Local newspaper site detected I had an adblocker. When I said "I'm not disabling the ad blocker" it went through the trouble of applying a "blurry" CSS element and encoded the page with some form of ROT13 cipher.

At which point it became personal.

One w3m command later and I'm reading the article.

(Not going to share the link in question because the story is tragic)

Worse, this came via Google News, so what could have been a positive experience turned into something worse.

@slimekat Yes, please.

"Your wish will arrive in 5 days"

How do you know that I didn't wish for overnight shipping? Huh?

When you look at the current USA housing market and think "wait, haven't we been here before? With a similarly 'smart' Republican president? With none of the safeguards in place to ensure that we don't crash the economy again because of a housing bubble?"

Never trust a smiling banker. And always get a receipt for the "free" pen.

Listening to Michael Brecker: Pilgrimage:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrimage_(Michael_Brecker_album)

Wish I could give you a legal link to listen to this yourselves. It's a magnificent album from an artist that knew it would be his last album.