Topic Lords

54. Stab 'Em Into Place

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Lords:

  • Adina is @FeyTechnologist on Twitter.
  • Alex is @ThemsAllTook on Twitter.
    • https://www.youtube.com/user/adiener

      • Topics:

      • Anarcho-communism for basic bitches
      • How I overcame my inability to stick with a project for the long haul
        • https://pomodoro-tracker.com/
        • Simulating the fluidity of natural group conversations in voice chat
        • Stephen asks: "The Damascus steel of maze generation algorithms"
          • https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190919-the-maze-puzzle-hidden-within-an-early-video-game
          • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
          • The hidden worlds of each person's living space
          • Learning every craft to become the ultimate craft wizard
            • https://consumerist.com/2016/12/12/a-few-pen-strokes-on-this-mcdonalds-coffee-cup-give-warmest-greetings-a-new-meaning/

              • Microtopics:

              • Fabric and circus arts.
              • Getting private trampoline lessons at the largest nonprofit circus in Seattle.
              • Being happy with an audience size that doesn't require you to moderate very much.
              • Forming smaller communities to take care of the people left behind by large governmental systems.
              • Empowering smaller communities to take care of each other.
              • Knowing your neighbors and caring more about them than people you don't know.
              • Cultivating a neighborhood to make sure you live near people you want to know.
              • The long term viability of the nuclear family.
              • A commune of queer people funded by a couple of tech jobs.
              • Motorizing two wooden planks and hooking them up to the internet to get hugs online.
              • Getting a whole lot done when you don't have internet access but now there's internet access everywhere.
              • Adding a physical ritual to a mental activity to make it feel real.
              • Putting the tomato on a different shelf to indicate that you are done with it.
              • An accountability mailing list where people might hypothetically judge you for what you haven't gotten done.
              • Fake accountability that feels real.
              • Trying to replicate a warehouse full of indie game devs on Discord.
              • Asking you for friends' lunch table to be enlarged so you can fit.
              • Writing a Discord bot that replicates the chat of every voice channel in every other voice channel.
              • Solving a social problem with social change rather than software.
              • How many clicks it takes to switch chat rooms.
              • Running through a procedurally generated maze.
              • Doing floating point math by aliasing the bytes to an integer and subtracting it from a weird magic number.
              • Code that is so self contained and stable that it's not really a problem that nobody understands it.
              • Old programmers retiring and their knowledge leaving with them because they didn't document anything.
              • Writing a megabyte long brain dump of everything you know about a project before it leaves your head.
              • The talk Jim didn't give describing the shaving cream technology in Glittermitten Grove.
              • Being too tired from your shaving cream rendering R&D project to do a good job on your beard rendering R&D project.
              • Wario Ware except with relaxing minigames rather than stressful ones.
              • Porting your game from modern systems to MS-DOS so you can sell it on a floppy disk.
              • How scratch and sniff failed where a Smell-O-Vision video gaming peripheral will succeed.
              • A swear filter but for smells.
              • The Femicom museum.
              • Going for walks around your neighborhood and seeing the outside of someone's house.
              • The hidden interior of a stranger's home as an allegory for their unknowable mind.
              • Peeking into your neighbor's window whenever you get the chance.
              • Which service jobs let you go into people's houses and see how they live.
              • How it's okay to let the cleaning service employees see your secrets because you don't consider the working poor to be real people.
              • Whether house cleaners get a small amount of joy in knowing the weird secrets of rich people.
              • The guy who comes in every few months for repairs because your computer is completely full of porn.
              • Seeing someone's deepest darkest secrets and being like "it was aight"
              • Wanting a nicely interior-designed house but not wanting to put in any effort.
              • Wanting to paint your house and painting one wall and thinking "I'm good."
              • Getting the kind of paint that seems like a normal wall color but changes to a garish color after it dries, to fool your wife.
              • Being ready to learn all the new hobbies as lockdown starts but someone already bought all the sewing machines and felting needles.
              • How many more ways you can fuck up a sewing project vs. a knitting project.
              • Pulling out all the stitches in a pleated skirt for the third time and deciding you want a different hobby.
              • Taking natural animal fibers and stabbing them into place.
              • A sewing project having to hang on someone's body in a particular way.
              • Learning every game development skill so you can make games without ever talking to anyone.
              • Smearing goo on a white surface and it becoming a picture somehow.
              • The hobbies we'd have if we had infinite time.
              • Looking at a painting and seeing which parts the painter messed up by looking for the parts that are thickest.
              • The "warmest greetings" coffee cup.
              • The animated gif where they poke a hole in the coffee cup and coffee spurts out.
              • Making a d-pad feel like a fresh control scheme by attaching a jetski to it.
              • Inventing a solution while also entertaining your audience.
              • Co-op TIS-100, where each player gets their own CPU cell.

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