I say go all the way and have more fun all the time.
Author: mdhughes
Tuesday Music
Monday Music
In honor of Rick & Morty:
- Mad Max soundtrack - by astrophysicist & rock star Brian May
- Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome soundtrack
They always said that the living would envy the dead.
LOWREZJAM 2017
Signed up for LOWREZJAM 2017
I've just started drawing some "art", adapting an old pixel font nerds of a certain age will recognize. Finally, something my 1980s pixel art skills are good for!
Figure I'll make a metroidvania dungeon game; I don't mind action, I'm just not good at dealing with real-time animation of giant art sets. This'll make a good test of my Electron framework, before I ship something big in it.
Update: Realized there's an old game I loved to match the art that I'd like to do (an update/homage, not a straight ripoff), and it's not a metroidvania. Making a ton of level maps is beyond my current spare time, and procedural metroidvania's a hard research problem.
Rickmancing the Stone
- Rick & Morty S3E2: Rickmancing the Stone
Commitment to nihilism confirmed.
Sunday Music
- Zero Days, by Prong
- Cleansing, by Prong
- Superunknown, by Soundgarden - 20th anniversary edition
Saturday Music
- The Man Who Sold the World, David Bowie - sorry, this is the 2015 remaster, which I think has the instrumental levels much higher than Bowie's voice. Listen to the 1999 or 1970 version if you got 'em.
Internet of Small Annoying Things
What It Feels Like, Sometimes, by Andy Ihnatko
Reminds me of Apricot Lane, by Rudy Rucker
The mustard bottle just wants to be loved, Andy. And it's gonna keep bugging you until you do.
RIP iPod
Tragedy: Apple kills the last two iPods
The "iPod touch" should be renamed the "noPhone iPhone". It's a cute device, a good pocket Unix terminal, and 128GB is usable, but iPhone and noPhone iPhone are far less convenient as actual music players, especially for walking.
I know, Kids Today™ don't buy albums, hell, have never sat thru an entire record and flipped to the B-side and back again, listening to every note & word of Black Sabbath or 2112 or The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions. I'm not even sure Drake counts as music. #getoffmylawn
But the noPhone iPhone has no cellular, so they can't stream away from wifi, so they have to download & curate music, which means iTunes and syncing anyway.
I'll be keeping my iPod classic 160GB as long as it keeps spinning. But then what? I can't even get a shit-brown Zune.
Mastotool
[Update: No longer necessary, you can export your Mastodon content from Settings, Data Export]
After a while, you need to be able to back up your Mastodon content, and there is currently no way to get anything except your follow/block/mute lists.
So I whipped out Python and made a kind of brute-force scraper.
More details here: Mastotool