I just don't think we should accept without contest corporate-owned blackbox SaaS as infrastructural to society's childrearing

I haven't gotten to spend much time with Inevitable's overall structure, but I appreciate that the system is pretty light on rules and very restrained in how much "stuff" you have to track... So because of that, they can just have a wildly stylish and dramatic character sheet.

I really feel this, having started to get tendonitis flares in my early 20s working in software. It feels so debilitating and isolating to just stay off your wrists.

Speech-to-text and voice commands can be a stopgap for computer use, but it takes a lot of ramping up to get comfortable

The phrase "open source" being invoked also speaks to how complicated and variously governed IP is. That term doesn't really apply but it vaguely seems right and it's not obvious why it's different from "public domain" and "creative commons" and "fair use" and so on until you go digging

I had too much time on my hands in October and went deep into a daily design challenge... a couple of things that came out of it felt viable, so this was one that I tested out during some downtime at KublaCon bsky.app/profile/thec...

Thanks @mockman.bsky.social for running your very cool game for me and others (and connecting on here afterwards), and thanks so much @anireal.bsky.social for playtesting my silly little anime dueling game with me ♥️

one place I worked at farmed out QA to cheap labor overseas. it was enormously harmful to product quality imo. the few QA leads in-house who managed the offshore team were still overworked and undervalued and I can only imagine the working conditions for the offshore team, not that we'd ever know

...and in my experience it couldn't be less true; nobody knows the product as deeply and as holistically, and there is no more effective way to work out a tricky issue than with the help of someone who knows how to methodically narrow it down and determine the conditions for when it occurs

WE'VE REACHED DAY 31 of #ttrpgpromptober, the prompt for which is "halloween". This one's admittedly a little phoned in, but it's also blessedly short. I hope it's at least worth a smirk.

link: thecastlebuilder.notion.site/promptober-D...

the straight-up katana handle is so perfect

Is it possible that the incompleteness was related to my insistence on making silly drawings of every silly space plant? Mind your own business!