20 june 2022
it's really nice to read over the feels I've previously recorded here. just a
couple but there's definitely a Tone here that I love writing in.
there are vibes here that feel like the real & also tender version of, what was
it from HACF, "mutiny"? and it was games but it actually became all about the
community of players, and then it became almost entirely social? I loved loved
that show and waited patiently for it to come out each season on netflix, I
wonder if I still would? idk they just covered such interesting eras of tech
in perfectly lovely fictitious but truthful ways. good art!!
my girlfriend has been staying with me for maybe ten days and they leave in
three, for a couple months. it's going to be weird and hard, I can already
feel how tough it is going to be. I may be able to go visit, if timing and
things work out, but even their travel is a bit up in the air, so it's going
to be a challenge to make my travel even possible. I have a lot of plans to
very much keep myself busy... so let me know if you want to do some coding, or
FFXIV, or some bike rides, or some overwatch, or some camping!
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28 april 2022
and I'm just on twitter so much less, today. those few discords, pluuuuuuuus
trying hard to make rachel.live a thing, working on dns right now which seems
like it should already be working, but it isn't yet. I've never seen dns take
this long to propagate, but here we are. I hope something's not wrong.
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26 april 2022
the rain has been bananas today - pouring to streaming sunshine to thundering (but not actually thundering) hail and all around and back again. the view from my apartment is the nicest, I see the graveyard and see the movement of the rain across the roof next to my place.
I've been on twitter for a really long time. I made an account in 2008 and I don't remember why, but I promptly forgot about it, until 2013, when I wanted to get a job in tech & knew the network was on twitter. I had been on g+ before which was actually the nicest place, where I made so many friendships I still maintain today.
but it's really time to go, or greatly decrease my presence on there. I want a place to write short form or long form, to connect with people, and to get into stupid jokes with people. I don't know that if I leave twitter if I'll ever have access to the kind of community I've made there, again. but I can't help but think that the future holds smaller internet circles, not bigger. honestly I'm not sure what this means for my career - it's how I've gotten literally all of my jobs since 2014.
I've started to be active in a couple more discords than I was before, full of sweet people and self moderated small communities, and that has filled a lot of the gap feeling that twitter leaves behind, for me. I think part of the real answer is going to be maintaining different little slices of my stuff in disparate places, connectable but unlikely to be connected by many but my closest buds. that's probably as it ought to be.
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