Andrew Kuchling @akuchling@octodon.social
Python developer; reader; information squirrel. He/him.
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#DoctorWho
#mst3k
#books #sff #fantasy #science
#python
#boardgames
Doctor Who Season 9 soundtrack released... IT'S ABOUT TIME
So far I have been told:
- Dungeon manager
- Game moderator
- Referee / Ref
- Narrator
- Game Runner
- Facilitator
- storyteller
- world builder
- Dungeon Guide
I'm very tempted by Ref
This is an interesting article: https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-go-statement-considered-harmful/
It proposes a new way to handle concurrency, specifically how it should interact with the call stack, and preserve locality. Has some interesting programming language history along the way.
15 minutes to TESS launch — you can watch it live at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwMDvPCGeE0 #astronomy
If there's 20 years between each Avatar sequel, James Cameron can make huge bank making mediocre space military action movies by being at the forefront of every new mediocre movie technology.
After listening to three acoustic versions of different songs, I've decided that CHVRCHES really needs to do an all-acoustic album (or at least an EP). #music
WETA has started a show called "Check Please!" that has a panel of random people review #restaurants.
I was looking for a clip from it on Youtube, and it turns out there are long-running "Check Please!" shows in the Bay Area and Chicago. In 2001 the Chicago show had then-State Senator Barack Obama on the panel.
We're launching a planet-hunting spacecraft to search for worlds beyond our solar system! Learn about the @NASA_TESS mission ahead of its Monday liftoff by watching our @NASASocial Live Show today at 11am ET: https://www.nasa.gov/live/ Have questions? Use #askNASA https://twitter.com/NASA/status/985520625149186048/photo/1 source: https://twitter.com/nasa/status/985520625149186048
“Doctor, why didn't the helium make *your* voice go squeaky?”
“Because I'm a Time Lord. I've been around, you know.”
— Leela and the Doctor, in “The Robots of Death”
TMBG brought trumpeter Curt Ramm on this tour, which is letting them do a bunch of songs from the John Henry / Apollo 18 era. https://octodon.social/media/YZpmq7XBh5f3c54aZ04
At U Street, by the African-American Civil War Memorial. https://octodon.social/media/Fu18Y4RymxwZtlm4nI8
I made a Doctor Who text adventure game, and you can download it and play it and stuff :) (And please do and let me know how it went...)
Wow, this person has made some AMAZING #opensource / #programming art:
https://github.com/jstpcs/lnxpcs
My favorites are attached.
Leckie's first fantasy novel announced:
https://www.tor.com/2018/04/13/ann-leckie-first-fantasy-novel-the-raven-tower-orbit-books/
'Something Like A Song' is a new blog that's going to discuss the Kate Bush discography. The first entry begins at the beginning, with a scratchy demo from when KB was 15. #music
New #song by Coeur de Pirate: "Somnambule" #music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5keCkSvLnyU
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