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This is a lose thread of things I've achieved this year, and things that happened in my life throughout the year. Most of them which i'm proud of. Well, I don't have anything particular in mind, and I might add things here and there over the coming days, so here we go. 1/X
I pushed my Hitster online implementation to new heights. With now over 7K songs, thanks to the help of my partner and a friend, and we got online hits management now too. Squashed a few bugs here and there, and Bingo mode is on the roadmap for next year. Over all, pretty happy with how things are progressing on this end. 2/X
I became a PHD student back in June. I still don't feel too well in this seat to be honest, writing papers will definitely never become something I feel comfortable with. I also just wrote a 2-pager and submitted it for a conference, let's see if something comes of it or not. But anyway, writing something is better than nothing. The initial goal was to finish in 3 years, it doesn't feel like this is in the cards TBH, but I don't want to stress myself anyway. It'll take all the time it needs. 3/X
I turned 30 this year. I know that age isn't important and all, but it still feels like time is ticking in so many different ways. It doesn't feel bad to say and think that i'm 30 now, but it feels bad that time runs so fast these days. I guess that is part of becoming older. Not a pleasant feel, not gonna lie. 4/X
My partner got a job. Just a half-time one, but that means that she can finally stand on her own two feet after finishing her Bachelor degree back in 2023 and not finding a job right after. This helped us put some money into getting some new desks, and we want to keep our eyes open for a new and bigger flat next year. Who knows what'll happen, but i'm proud of her, she can finally buy herself some things she doesn't necessarily need but always wanted to get her hands on. 5/X
I put together a little showcase of how a Komplete Kontrol software browser could look like if it was accessible. Nothing fancy really, but I built it in Rust and used Tauri for it. Not gonna lie, writing a software that feels snappy and cool that uses the same technology stack as Discord, but uses just a tiny amount of resources compared to that beast kinda feels great. It was an interesting ride. 6/X
Music definitely was on the B-side of this year. YouTube channel stopped, I think I didn't touch any music at all this year. Well, maybe at the beginning. And now that my PC stopped to accept my Thunderbolt 4 switch too I basically lost access to my sample library hard drives too. I'll find a solution in time, but there are days when I want to go back to writing or arranging music. I initially wanted to get a new desktop PC next year too, but thanks storage prices, that is not gonna happen. 7/X
2025 also closes my second year in professional teaching people. I still feel kinda like an imposer compared to some teachers out there who know their way much better than me, but I feel like I was able to help some people get the hang of their workflow and enable them to do what they like most, hopefully without ripping them of their money. 8/X
Hi fediverse! I'm looking for earing supports I can use in DIY jewelry making, specifically in silver grade 925 or in titanium. Do you know an online shop where I could get them?
(a non-topical comment on your post... I refreshed my feed in phanpy.cosocial.ca and this post happened to be at the top and rendered with "Musc" which then morphed into "Music" almost right away. I'm supposing that there was a typo and you edited it and, since I've never seen anything around edits that was not a notification that someone I replied to or liked had edited there post, I found it interesting to have seen. Curious if this what actually happened or if I was imagining things)
Does such a thing exist? You would need an active device for that to power the USBC AirPods and a DAC to convert analog to digital for the USB-C host, which then turns it back into analog. Not sure how that would work in practical terms.
If you ever find such a thing, I would be overjoyed to hear of it. I've been looking for 3.5 input, USB C output, for quite a while. I don't want a mixer, it has to be very portable. My search has resulted in nil, sadly.
@techsinger You'd probably have to build something custom with micro controllers and junk. Far as I know, such a thing doesn't exist as a commercial product.
Numbers and algorithms are so messed up for my brain. I have a YouTube channel with 97K subscribers and if I publish a video that does below 1K it feels like a failure, even tho I get dozens of positive comments, I'm proud of the video, and I had fun during the time I spent making it. Fuck numbers and algorithms, dude. I need to go back to how I was pre-internet, just making things for my own pleasure, and being happy if only a handful of people like it
yeah, forums and blogs used to only have comments and messages, then views and "reactions" started appearing because writing a comment I guess became too hard 🫠
Welp ... I was just informed through a Slack DM that I will no longer be working at the place I'm working at in two weeks' time. That is, evidently, how we handle that now. Not entirely unexpected as the writing on the wall was evident, but still not loving that approach for reasons I haven't quite worked out yet. If anyone needs help with their #accessibility from someone with both native #screenReader experience and a coding background, keep me in mind I guess :) #fediHired #layoffs
I should probably slightly amend that statement. If someone needs help with their #accessibility from a native #screenReader user with a coding background, keep me in mind. If you want your product to be more #accessible as a new year's resolution, also keep me in mind. i won't even judge if you drop the resolution two weeks after. If you've received complaints your product isn't accesssible but decided they weren't worth addressing, please realize you're deliberately choosing to exclude a bunch of people, decide you want to be a better human than that, and THEN keep me in mind :)
to whoever stole my Zoom F4 recorder from #39c3 from the toilet rave / Maskenball: please, at least, give me the storage cards inside. they contain very valuable recordings. please. contact me at sdcards@nik.mx.
Is it the brain that thinks? It's at least a typical conception that the brain is where the thinking takes place. But in reality it's the body and its wider metabolism with it's surroundings from which thinking materializes.
Okay, I am thinking about doing Jamuary this year, but maybe with a twist? Would any of you mutuals be interested in creating a prompt for me?
This could be anything, with the stipulation YOU create it. A text prompt of any kind; a visual score; a drawing, painting or photograph; a set of instructions such as tempo, key, timbres, etc; a brief sound recording for me to react to or even incorporate; a mood board or collage; etc/et al.
Just had a great 3 hours music session with @ZBennoui, going through my recently installed ample guitar, and coming so far with a project of mine on which he's been helping me, that now I can finally resume some work on it myself! Yes, that old forgotten instrumental I posted once upon a time in july. Either way as a little shoutout, this ongoing cooperation is amazing looking back and listening to the first tracks, comparing them to what we have now. Really appreciate your help man!
Hey #39c3, can you share pictures of fox ears? My colleagues at home won’t believe me that all of our 1,000 fox ears have found a new owner 😅 / Pls boost
Realizing I could use trackpad gestures to back out of the libadwaita navigation views then spending more time flinging the views back and forth than actually responding to people in Fractal.
that would probably be switching to Linux (with GNOME of course!) on my main PC after years of deliberation and mostly using vms and secondary computers
learning I could alt-space to make *any* window Always on Top and even mighrate with me between workspaces, which is truly one of the coolest windowing UI features ever. 🙌
I joined the Summer of GNOME OS challenge, and actually ended up creating/registering so many issues that I was in the top three when the challenge ended. I'm pretty sure the only reason is because others didn't register their issues, though, but it was still fun.
Also, getting a reply and being taken seriously when I butted in on a board discussion was really nice :)
The thing I like most about GNOME is that it's content to sit in the background chugging along, doing its thing without calling attention to itself. The big highlight for me is that my extensions now work seamlessly across updates, so there's one less case where I even have to think about my desktop environment.
The migration to the strparse API introduced regressions in Digest authentication parsing where Optional Whitespace (OWS) after commas was not skipped, and escaped quotes in values were not correct...
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