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Honestly I think I could just listen to Tony Levin all day.

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It seems to be working now. Wonder what happened there. :)

Is anyone else able to view this video?

Any rails devs need a full time job (remote or in ATL) hit me up. I’m contracting with my old company to help build up thier rails team.

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"Who pays the toolmakers?" by Nadia Eghbal medium.com/@nayafia/who-pays-t

Food for thought on open-source sustainability and app dev sustainability.

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The committee of the Diana Jones Award has announced its five shortlisted nominees for 2018, 'for excellence in gaming'. They are:
* The 200 Word RPG Challenge, a competition organised by David Schirduan and Marshall Miller
* The Actual Play movement
* Analog Game Studies, a journal edited by Aaron Trammell, Evan Torner, Shelley Jones and Emma Leigh Waldron
* Charterstone, a board game by Jamey Stegmaier
* Harlem Unbound, a roleplaying game sourcebook by Chris Spivey

Sorry, Astor Piazolla, but right now my mood is more for this:

Servile Insurrection
by Severed Savior

severedsaviormetal.bandcamp.co

Criticism is welcome, but remember to give constructive criticism, which includes consideration of how your criticism will affect the other person emotionally. The golden rule applies: how would you feel if you read the message was directed at you? It's hard for someone to constructively make use of criticism if receiving it is an emotional drain.

Something I also miss: threaded conversations were the norm. Yes, in microblogging! Some of the most intense and interesting conversations about free software philosophy and licensing happened in threads that shot way off to the edge of the page

Oldschool fediverse phrases, from about 10y ago:

- TZAG: Time Zone Appropriate Greeting (preferred over "good morning")
- TZAF: Time Zone Appropriate Farewell
- : when someone posted a response which wasn't linked to the original conversation, someone might link the conversation with (the old StatusNet (ie, GNU Social) interface made not doing this accidentally easily)
- : an obscure joke that was not really worth or more fun unexplained