💚🚀 Gustav Holst - The Planets // #NowPlaying

(#ytmfkfq) @prologic Speaking about networking: I think we did not yet have internet access back then. 🤔 There were local mailboxes / BBS systems, but I only really remember browsing the web with Windows 95. 🤔 Memories are pretty fuzzy, though. That machine you see in the photos is not the original setup. I re-installed this around 2007, I think.

Alright, except for that one day, the AoC quizzes are actually quite fun. I might go back and do the previous years, once this one is over. 🤔

(#fob5q6q) But: I *can* make out the dots and, thus, the letters. I still haven’t memorized what they mean, so I’m looking them up in a table on my computer screen (which is a huge advantage, of course). Like, I feel ⠑ and then the table tells me that that’s an “e”.

(#3lnaiea) @lyse 🤣

(#xnn7djq) @david I had the Kinesis a few years back. I sent it back after a couple of weeks, because the typing experience was *really* bad. :/ Very soft and wobbly. Maybe newer models are better, I don’t know.

(#mq5inwa) @mckinley Playing Dungeon Keeper. 🥴 It was available for free on GOG a while ago. (Turns out, this was already 9 years ago, sigh.)

(#okvr5aa) @fastidious > The kind of exposure I referred to was developers. Skilled individuals that could join, and/or contribute to the project. Yarn needs that kind of exposure. That, I understand. 😃 I just don’t think that you’ll get that *just because* it’s hosted on GitHub. Hmm, maybe I’m misunderstanding or misusing the word “exposure”. 🤔 Sorry. What I mean by “exposure”: You make a painting and hang it on a wall of your apartment = little exposure, just the people that visit you at your home will see it. If you show the painting at an exhibition where there’s 10 other paintings and lots of visitors = large exposure. However, if there are 1000 other paintings at that exhibition = much less exposure, because it won’t stick out that much. To me, GitHub is like an exhibition of paintings but *everyone* can show up at any time and put their painting there, so there’s a *vast* number of paintings and *your* painting will hardly be noticed by anybody. So the mere fact that you’re at an exhibition doesn’t mean that you’ll get lots of exposure. I mean, I have discovered literally zero projects just because they’re on GitHub. I wouldn’t even know how that works. When I log into GitHub, I see this: First page of GitHub Only the stuff on the right where it say “explore repositories” is *new* to me. And it’s completely random – the chance of Yarn showing up there is basically zero. The rest, I already know about it. So how will I discover new and interesting projects that I never heard about? Am I supposed to visit the “stars” pages of the people that I follow and then check out those repos? And look at the list of followers of those people? 🤔 I don’t see how this is going to work out. Alright, there’s one thing: If one of the people that I follow “stars” a repo, I’ll get notified about that. Maybe something interesting shows up there. That depends *a lot* on which people you’re following, though, and there is absolutely no guarantee that something interesting is going to ever show up. *But!* @prologic already mentioned in the past that it’s different for him. Apparently, he *does* discover new projects on GitHub. So *maybe* I’m just not getting that platform and maybe I’m just using it wrong. That’s totally possible! 🤔

Whoohoo! We finally had a classic leap year bug at work today! 🥳 😂 “Today + 1 year = 2025-02-29” …

Dat Geböller geht mir schon bisschen auf den Sack, muss ich sagen.