I love seeing positive toots. Artwork, music, you name it. If you’re proud of it I want to see it!
Negative toots are also okay! We’re human and sometimes things don’t go well.
Something I need to work on: stop sharing doom and gloom. I don’t mean to be dismissive of hardships, I just don’t want to water those specific seeds of helplessness or anger.
New #gemini post is up, "a day of learning," where I talk about installing Ubuntu so that my daughter can program a NES game with me. Also: installed #9front on my ThinkPad X220. Woo!
https://proxy.vulpes.one/gemini/kvothe.one/gemlog/2020-09-26.gmi
A tool-maker's dilemma, perhaps.
"Computers aren't the thing. They're the thing that gets us to the thing." -- Halt and Catch Fire quote (entertaining show but that quote stuck with me)
Is it a take on the "finger pointing to the Moon" lesson?
Which makes me think: I'm often guilty of focusing too much on tools and technology rather than what I'm setting out to accomplish.
@nakedambition this is focused on youth but could be useful https://www.thetrevorproject.org/resources/trevor-support-center/a-guide-to-being-an-ally-to-transgender-and-nonbinary-youth/
this focused on family & friends but same point https://pflag.org/ourtranslovedones
this a good intro too https://www.npr.org/2020/06/02/867780063/4-ways-to-make-your-workplace-equitable-for-trans-people
Company leadership and HR think it would be good to include a resource or two in my coming out announcement to help co-workers understand what's going on.
Can anyone recommend something that's like a good trans 101 for people outside the trans community? It's a remote job so I'm not concerned about stuff like bathrooms but more like a "why" and "how should I behave around this person now?"
the advice to focus on a few things instead of trying to save the entire word at once is very good. also the quote about how choirs can sustain a single note for a long time because individual singers can stop for air while the others continue.
Related: it occurs to me that I'm going to pay attention to button releases, too.
I'm imagining a character running around and picking up and immediately dropping an item at 60 Hz.
I should probs figure out how to record GIFs on OpenBSD or something, but anyway: I figured out how to change a NES sprite's palette when I hit the "A" button.
Picture an arrow flying around the screen strobing two different shades of blue. I suppose it wouldn't make a riveting GIF, but that bad boy is a proof of CONCEPT, okay?!?
Side note: time to listen to one of my favorite albums, Slothrust's "The Pact."
(subject matter definitely not about a pact to quit smoking)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZc-QQ8xJd1LMI5UIoXo40ZkjSK8nnH0M
Hi! It's me, kvothe. I'm a programmer, #polyamorous, parent, and a fan of the small Internet. He/him, and just happy to be here. :)
I post a lot on my #gemini page at kvothe.one. Sometimes I paint watercolors. Currently exploring #plan9 and having a blast.