If someone tells you the last day of the year is 123123 just unfollow / defriend / block / avoid eye contact, you don’t need that unsortable non-ISO8601 negativity in your life.
Great to see us closing off 2023 in 6th and a playoff spot. COYD. 2024 start could be tough with 2 strikers called up for the Asia Cup let’s hope for the best.
It's the hope that kills you.
I haven’t promoted it much but if you want a low impact way to keep up with my stuff you can get a digest of my blog once a week to email now discursive.adamprocter.co.uk/subscribe…
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Saturday evening. Time to chill 😎 🐶
Ian I do not see how you are helping me solve the climate crisis 🐱
At one point I honestly thought I was ahead 😵💫☀️❄️☔️🤔🫠 daybreak game solo play - game over 12 communities in crisis on the final round - no where near draw down so was game over no matter what
Getting battered in solo Daybreak again - this climate crisis is a tough nut to crack ☀️ ❄️ ☔️
We don’t know why but two of our rooms have tripped the sockets - have powered everything off but can’t reset, just keeps tripping. Thankfully an electrician is able to come this week but I fear the costs :( I hope it just a wall socket or the micro circuit breaker that got overloaded
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From prototype to final production game. So glad I played a small role in this and glad to have backed it!
Currently reading: Ways of Being by James Bridle 📚
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Unity Muse - generative ai toolbox to accelerate productivity youtu.be/WSrq-Fdyy…
The pod is finally being used !
Well I have found my next major game purchase. From the creators of No Mans Sky. Light No Fire
I hate you SW trains. Please let me get to football
Designing friction - dctr.pro/2oz
hmmm @cheesemaker oh…. I clicked the verify link in email minutes after signing up and got an error
nodenogg.in PainteR workshop 2
Oh maybe blog posts late
No Wi-Fi, no seats, standing room only on peak train out of London, biggest tax burdens ever… broken Britain #captalismworking
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Spot the cat
Fantastic cover
[odesli.com/m…](https://odesli.com/https://music.apple.com/gb/album/my-youngest-son-came-home-today-with-michael-stipe/1709130018?i=1709130034)
One for a Sunday.
[odesli.com/m…](https://odesli.com/https://music.apple.com/gb/album/tank-park-salute/1672684635?i=1672686215)
Surprise wedding anniversary for friends 33 and a third
On my wish list is that @manton works out how to have selected categories only post to LinkedIn please
This week someone tried to steal our cat Rosie. As they had spotted her outside and it was raining! So just took her. Thankfully we managed to get her back. 🐱 Rosie is not going out for a while for now. 🤦♂️
In this narrative it’s not AGI that is ‘The Last Technology’, but the ‘weak’ AI we have now; because this technology is what we’re occupying ourselves with as the climate crisis starts to spiral beyond our control, what we’re fiddling with as the world burns.
The Last Technology - dctr.pro/2oy
One step closer - Independent regulator in English football has been outlined in the King’s Speech.
Our surname is so often miss spelt but hey ho…
Brilliant that’s what we wanted lowest team in the fa cup at home the next round maybe even TV money so we just need to win & we can hopefully be away to London premier league team in 3rd round #cashin #facup
PV Tuesday (7th Nov) 17:30 Ordinary Things staff Exhibition at The Winchester Gallery, Winchester School of Art (UK). All welcome to join the artists-designers, makers-researchers for a glass of wine or a beer (soft drinks also available)! Plus here is the link to the accompanying podcast - Ordinary Things - Season 1 - Episode 1 - overcast.fm/+BEtlj_e5…
IMAGE of my game on the playdate which is part of the Ordinary Things exhibition.
To draw is to isolate and home in on, to identify a subject in the world or imagination, to manipulate it and render it worthy of attention through attention itself. — Seth Giddings 2023
Finistère update 0.2.3
adamprocter.itch.io/finistere…
AI AI AI sure whatever you turnip 🤦🏻♂️
Wooo it’s out
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Finistère dev log update - adamprocter.itch.io/finistere…
If you were planning to attend the Private view of Ordinary Things to see my game and other work tomorrow although we plan to still be open due to the sketchy weather the PV welcome drinks etc is now pushed back to Tuesday FYI
What does the word ‘ordinary’ mean to you? In this short-form podcast, Louise Siddons, Professor of Visual Politics at Winchester School of Art (part of the University of Southampton), invites artists to reflect on the role of the ordinary in art and life.
Conceived in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, held at The Winchester Gallery, Winchester School of Art, UK from 2nd-25th November 2023.
overcast.fm/+BEtlj_e5… - should be landing in all your favourite podcatchers shortly too.
You’ll find my responses in episode 14
Time for wasted years by iron maiden to get back in the groove 🤣👍👍👍
Considering my end goal is to work as a monk in a monastery brewing beer and tending gardens I think I have made some wrong choices 🤣
Guess which one is the Maines Coone kitten 🤦🏻♂️
Not YouTube again dad… says Rosie
As every “good” dev knows deadlines are “good” Thursday launch party… Winchester, England.
Come play my new game next Thursday 5:30PM at The Winchester Gallery at Winchester School of Art and interact / see other practice outputs by staff across the School in response to Ordinary Things
I think number of downloads count on itch was reset when I last updated the game but hey now I know you dont delete the file but upload a new zip with same name. So Finistère version 0.1.8 is out now! With 3 levels and new original music adamprocter.itch.io/finistere…
I quite like BBC the wheel game show but when you realise the people that win often rightly so with £20k+ are super emotional about it being life changing and yet it’s obvious the celebrities on the wheel probably earn that a month I do question it all…
The older cats “relaxing” last night 🐱
Ah the train I dashed for and jumped on wasn’t my train it was a delayed train. So now I take the slower train home from a station that is not catered for a lot (see image - Shawford) should have looked at the platform boards I guess but when I said to the guard he was “yeah sorry we got delayed as we had a wheelchair user” hmm I said maybe you need to cater for all your passengers better… I said but fair as hey trains have had no invest for years. He said well your be pleased we voted to strike again. I said no as you always strike on a Saturday when I go to football with my family. But I hear you. 🚂 and pains
Yesterdays party
Wow feel old now this was one of our go to consoles while I was at Uni alongside the PS1.
Cars Party for our youngest
Outdoor cinema party
Welcome to the pack Ian. I understand you will grow into the largest domestic cat. Maine Coon. But for now you are small
Trains 🚂
World Mental Heath Day - www.skysports.com/watch/vid…
I’m very fortunate that my work often doesn’t look like work. Todays 1 day game jam theme - forests and eco play resulted in 6 station across campus to play. Here is a clip of us playing the winning level.
Week 1 isn’t over yet openday and more this weekend. Brain fried but great to be back with students making stuff that’s the real deal
Oh whoops TestFlight MB app not latest version 3.2.1 is on the App Store in case like me you didn’t realise.
and this is one of the numerous reasons using Google as a research tool is always a terrible idea www.wired.com/story/goo…
I am hiring a new lecturer / senior lecturer in games and media art, if you would like an informal chat about this role in my team reach out to me - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDC37…
Just saying everytime you use chatGPT and you don’t thank them for the help you bring Skynet ever closer. 🤖
My Rose 🐱
Oh come on we don’t need an investigation. These triathlon competitors are all sick as the water companies in the UK dump raw sewage into all our water ways while making record profits. Guardian
Really pleased to have successfully deployed a new instance of nodenogg.in running on azure University of Southampton. The plan has always been to be able to deploy small instances and this approach will fit anyone with access to Azure and GitHub.
Are things getting better yet for women in STEM? - dctr.pro/2ox
No Rishi I don’t want to drive my car I want to get a train to south London and watch AFC Wimbledon win with my family. Instead I had to stay at home and miss out. What a blooming joke. Can’t wait for support for motorists after climate row back. So helpful.
Daughter #3 bought home a new kitten. So we are back to 3 cats, 1 dog and a hamster 🐹🤦🏻♂️
Oh I didn’t know about action mode on iPhone video. Good to know.
Epic laying off 16% of staff. Baffling. They are worth $31.5 Billion. They have spent the last few years hoovering up independents and now this. None of this is good for one of the most creative industries there is
The audio and news from the Times of behaviour by our ex managing director Danny Macklin is inexcusable, misogynistic and violently abusive and completely unacceptable anywhere near our club or any where at all.
His actions have brought into question many of the values we hold dear for our club by seemly being one thing in public and yet another in private. We are a community club and his actions no matter what else are disgraceful and damaging.
There are many questions this whole incident raises none of them would make his actions ever ok and none of which I want to articulate as in no way would I ever want to condone any of this behaviour. I hope however the club is asking themselves many questions at this stage and how we can be better.
I am shocked and angry. The mission is never compete and we must do more.
Laminate, Monty, Playstation
Migrating phones should not be so bad. Hold phones close together to transfer… 4 hours later and deleted old phone. hey I didn’t transfer signal messages or authenticator apps or fantastical codes .. 🤦🏻♂️ sorry those are not in my remit. Well then don’t push me to erase the other device so fast!
So the phone etc does “Siri” now but not HomePod !?
Fear not the UK gov are committed to that “noble” view of net zero. Nobel view … it isn’t noble. The human species is destroying the planet it’s the only view we need to have is to cut emissions as soon as possible!
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🤣 delaying I think what he means is advancing (extinction) 🤦🏻♂️🤷♂️😬🤣😘🤔
Just watching some flights … pretty busy morning 😬🤣
Week minus one…
iPhone 15 Pro Titanium Blue ordered. Wife will get my iPhone 12 Pro which will resolve the out of storage issues she has with her older iPhone and I get a new phone. Everyone’s a winner baby
This sums it up. We drew 2-2.
Still can’t believe we threw away a 2-0 lead. Bah. Thankfully we at least got a point. FT 2-2
This is modern Britain. Yep blocked in a carer and teacher.
It has arrived
Oh dear Unity’s new pricing model is not going down well and a feels a bit suspicious. One of my team is at event in Brighton Unity offices, I have advise he might now want to go in riot gear
Did they just say Apple Watch neutral ultra. Oh my word I was actually joking about the climate crisis thing before anything was said now I realise my irony post was too close to reality 🤦🏻♂️ apple distortion field reality
Oh you are kidding Mother Nature section in Apple event this is madness. I’m happy the Apple products I may buy and use are heading to carbon neutral but Apple have lost it. Carbon neutral…. Before we apply high quality carbon credits… 🤦🏻♂️
ah no sorry I got that wrong about Apple Watch saving us from the Climate crisis you can now double tap your real finger and thumb to do stuff, sorry if you got excited
Wow new Apple Watch™️ is going to fix the climate crisis, I cant believe it, what a launch event…
First day I have had a chance to really get to grips with JetBrains Rider and Unity integration and I have to say it is 10x better than VS Code or Visual Studio for sure www.jetbrains.com/lp/dotnet… - Education Licences are free www.jetbrains.com/community…
Pretty excited today as we road test a shortened version of a series of new Unity workshops developed by our new digital games technician and then the next big step we start work with a games partner on a suite of free software Unity plugins for rapid game design and prototyping aimed at educators.
Threads may promise a future with activity pub but don’t take that any of the rhetoric about open is what we define as open - Cease and Desist
Hi Southampton consumers of KFC
You seem to have points 1&2 nailed the rest not so much. 3-5 attracts rats, pigeons and dogs on walk 🤦🏻♂️
A host of great stuff to read from @dajb@social.coop this week dougbelshaw.com/blog/2023…
Our MA Exhibtion opened last night and I loved this kinetic sculpture
Of course too in the moment to post anything from Wednesday so here is as they now say a photo dump from that evening
Ok I reduce my statement about getting a smart meter as energy supplier can mess you about as they ultimately have control of the smarts of said meter and can remotely switch you to a prepay meter without court orders if they decide too and leave you high and dry. BBC
Smart meter - excellent for the consumer
Smart meter display - trying to push climate action back onto the individual, great for megacorp
My advise do get a smart meter and then hide / remove battery from Smart meter display.
On the road listening to the Streets.
Cheapest option wanted me to print tickets 🤷♂️
Last time my Dad was at Stamford bridge we won 4-0. Not sure we can replicate that tonight but we travel ! COYD
So today is mainly waiting for the Chelsea game 🤣
Evie (17) today new to playing football, coach said she should watch and play as much football as possible. Evie said well I’ve done a lot of watching…this is true
Mathew and Adam are pleased to release the first public version of Finistère alpha v0.1.5 for Playdate.
Test post - checking cross posting issues I am having
Alpha release on itch.io now
More great updates to Finistère today. And now our Itch page has the first downloadable and playable version, if you have a playdate then feel free to try it out, alpha version, feedback welcome - dctr.pro/finistere
Making some pleasing progress on playdate game Finistère - you can follow more progress at itch.io Yesterdays progress was the scrolling map. (gif attached)
No trains so cant make the big match AFC Wimbledon v Forest Green Rovers, lets keep the momentum going and get the win! COYD
Quickly and easily transcribe audio files into text with OpenAI’s state-of-the-art transcription technology Whisper. MacWhisper quickly and accurately transcribes your audio files into text - dctr.pro/2ov
First time on train visiting his friend Abendigo. Slight detour to not get wet feet in Salisbury
Oliver Antony
And Billy Braggs response
Brilliant
Hey outlook ios update I hate you - pointless notifications now
Vegan chicken things and sauce testing 🤣
Everything is fine…tomatoes £1 last week now £1.05 it’s all fine now honest why are you saying otherwise unbelievable … everything is now under control… seriously it is
I do love having to work with corporate university IT. This maybe a half truth…
Right I think I might finally fire up F1 manager 22 on steamdeck for this afternoon in the garden. Or I might just bumble around with settings and storage 🤣👍
“The ideas are the real economy of music not the execution, not the methods it’s the ideas that are the most important” - David Arnold taking about how the Atari ST unlocked his ideas and democratised music making and creating some of his early work on the Atari - YouTube
Youngest daughter (17) first outing with Hamble United FC and really enjoyed the training session this evening. ⚽️
What Dad it’s too early to rave 🐶
In 1966 England hosted the World Cup and went on to win it. Photos of some of material my late mum kept from then. Now this Sunday England may well win the World Cup again. It’s been a long time but as the nation sings “it’s coming home” it might well be…
Home brew batch one is set to cooling / ready to refrigerate - should allow 10 days / 2 weeks however I have had to try some a few days in as batch two is under way and I am now aiming for 24 batches. Tastes like a good IPA hydrometer suggested 4.5% before adding any fizz, I am agreeing.
Before marrying my Dad my mum followed Chelsea. Becoming more of a Dons follower after but back in 1966/67 she received the supporters newsletter in which they were considering starting a ladies team as was Wimbledon Supporters' club. In 2 days time the National team play in the World Cup final! ⚽️
Good morning 🐶
Chinook Beer now bottled, next a few days for the refined sugar to add a little fizz and then cooling/clearing period (min 10days). I had forgotten the 48 bottles I have are 1 litre so I have realised that I can start a new brew instantly as I have more than enough for two batches to be on the go 🍺 
Test post from sunlit to confirm cross posting is ok
oh nice pixelfed and flickr cross posting seems to now be working cc @help @manton not sure why my first photo didn’t work 🤷♂️
This isn’t Chelsea … players in the bar after the match. Here I am with my new fav! His family also here lovely !
Ones to watch 23/24 COYD. AFC Wimbledon kick off first home game of the season against Wrexham Disney+ FC
test photo cross post to Flickr and Pixelfed…from micro.blog
Monty and I are getting happy in our new slowly coming together new corner of the garden #lobstershack2 🐶 🪴 🕸️
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Monty is already liking my new corner of the garden which is now slowly being set up.
Holiday
Arrrgh should have done better with that one could have nicked all 3 points. 0-0
COYD
Not travelling to Grimsby but first game of the new season today. However it’s suppose to be sunny and hot. It’s cold, wet and windy. This is not how the season is suppose to start. COYD. Ps Season 2 of Same Old Wombles podcast started this week - sameoldwombles.com
Dusting off the brew kit
Holiday Day 1/35 - returning house to normal after throwing a summer party for youngest daughter and friends. Only one thing got broken and it was repairable.
Test working well
Summer party at the Procters prep
Congratulations British Gas on making almost £1bn in profit for the first half of this year. You are really “cooking on gas now”.
Profit of this magnitude will of course be used to speed up the much needed transition to 100% green energy.
NB Everything written above is sarcastic
So I agreed to a cowboy themed summer house party for our youngest (17) and friends, I am the bouncer and middle daughter is monitoring of sensibilities but my wife doesn’t do things in half, here is one of our guests arriving a little earlier than anticipated
What the heck ! Sinéad O’Connor has died. 😞
Supporting my son in law and granddaughter at Southampton this evening. Probably should have been a draw but unfortunately 2-3 to Bournemouth
If weren’t fan owned this wouldn’t even be a consideration for me at all but for now I will just close my browser and not think about it…
Throw back to last Thursday
Arsenal v West Ham 1468
Finally found time to catch up on the weekend of World Cup games. Some of the play from Brazil v Panama was amazing!
Creative graduates enrich society – it’s time we recognised it - dctr.pro/2ou
viewing university through a purely economic lens underestimates its value not only to the people who go there but to society as a whole.
Today was mad special
Evie (my youngest daughter), Doctor Procter, and my Dad.
More to come from department away day yesterday. Guess where!? (And before you ask no dreamland wasn’t open 😞 so no pinball or roller skating for me this time but we did cool stuff)
Even Apple are increasing their prices for iCloud. One company you think might be profitable enough to pass on savings to its customers… I should probably stop viewing apple with my rose tinted Jobs return 90s glasses
Brilliant video - 🎩 tip to @dajb@social.coop for sending my way - YouTube
Hypocrite
Image 1 - British Prime Minister hosting an event with one of the UK biggest creative industries games event
Image 2 - the wage value a Creative Industries university courses supposedly provides
Today he announces plans to axe those that don’t provide “good earnings”
I quite like my newsletter this week its basically the collection of posts from my micro.blog over the last week, basically the automated version of the last7.com site I once built. If you thus want a collection of my posts from the last week sign up discursive.adamprocter.co.uk/subscribe…
Was a windy Saturday in Southampton near home
I / the family too have a bad few years effecting our mental well being. I have personally also made some stupid decisions. I plan to attempt some rest and reset when I finally take some leave/ staycation in August and get back to my happy place (which based on what I have is literally here!)
Before I went vegan I was a massive fan of Greek Moussaka. I have a small appetite and am in the bracket of small and often, it’s a pain as eating out often means I waste food but Greek Moussaka was one dish I could just keep eating and eating and eating.
Randomly after visiting an Art opening event in Southampton at Gods House tower - by Iranian artist Bijan Moosavi as part of their Art for Climate Action Programme, it was an immersive exhibition submerging you in a fictional near-future climate dystopia created by neoliberal negligence and greed in 2058 and had representation of the space we stood, which basically meant the sea level swamped most of the city. (Not enough to get to my house mind)
Anyway I am not know for my spontaneity but I said to my wife let’s go for dinner and so as we walked home we looked at places to eat, that the advantage of living in a city indeed, so we picked a Lebanese restaurant, we have always been fans of Lebanese food but I hadn’t eaten out or considered to search vegan Lebanese.
The [restaurant](Beity - 4sq.com/2PM4RUr) was lovely and they had a dish called Lebanese Moussaka which it turns out is vegan.
It is now one of my favourite dishes and since visiting the restaurant I have made it at home twice already. Although very different to Greek Moussaka it is again a dish I can eat and eat.
Here is a good article on the dish and crucially how to make it ! - dctr.pro/2os
I shall be looking up more Lebanese vegan dishes for sure.
The lock in always put me off and didn’t quite gel with my workflow but lots of people did like it so I think I agree they should have kept small and simple
Evernote and Getting Too Big for Your Britches
via @macsparky
Lifers, Dayjobbers, and the Independently Wealthy: A Letter to a Former Student - dctr.pro/2or
Work Staff Party 2023
Ok eero maybe owned by Amazon now but the eero plus subscription thing sure does a good job on blocking stuff. And gives me other tools I paid for independently before in one cheaper annual price. I wouldn’t mind if the (beta) gaming optimisation could be scheduled or set to only be on for X hours
Weird my M2 Max 2023 MBP has started producing odd crunchy sounds when using external monitor speakers. A restart seems to fix it, oh well so much for extolling the virtues that external monitors seemed to behave much better on M chips than intel, although to be fair I don’t have screen issues.
Wow
Football Manager 2025, FM25 Console and FM25 Touch will be our first Football Manager releases to use a new engine – Unity.
Great insight blog from Head of studio Miles.
www.footballmanager.com/news/futu…
Moving in day to around a year and a bit later. I love my home office a lot although I don’t use it much as an office to be fair, however it’s my own space to game, code and watch YouTube/ sports (and hide) 🤣👍
There’s still something deeply uncompromising about it: the lyrics are a potent stew of grief, environmental apocalypse and excoriations of transphobia - Guardian Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
Anohni and the Johnsons: My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
Well I may have got the basic flask app running on my server but can’t quiet get the SleepeR tools up and running just yet.
Well I may have got the basic flask app running on my server but can’t quiet get the SleepeR tools up and running just yet.
Hmm @manton as you know a bit about activity pub why is this mastodon user @d@wao.wtf who has posts appearing as zero when followed/ viewed in micro.blog is something wrong on the instance?
You turn your TV on and this is the junk you have to deal with … Ts & Cs 🤦🏻♂️
Hannah Dingley - First woman in England’s top divisions to manage men’s side! Fantastic! History in the making. Guardian
Of course it does
Sort out getting flask web python app thing to be running on my server.. fearing the pain…. 20mins later wow that was easy (even has CORS set up!)
Oh I’ve been told that 1Password allows you to save sign in as 🤦🏻♂️ so will try and sort that. Do we know if passkeys have arrived yet so I can finally get my wife onto our 1Password family account?
The thing with log in with Apple or log in with GitHub for example is I would like a way to keep the fact I have chosen that option in 1Password or such (automagically mind) there are a few services I am Sign in with Apple but I have no idea which ones ☹️😬🤣🤦🏻♂️🤷♂️🤔
Yusuf / Cat Stevens at Glastonbury was amazing what a singer / songwriter - www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/e…
Oh excellent not only are all these privatised water companies polluting our water and wasting water they are all running massive debts and Thames water will likely be bailed out by tax payers. Haven’t bothered to look it up but no doubt shareholders have been doing great for years.
Bah
That was weird. Flicked app off and was ok. Although new post button was missing but came back when I changed between tabs @vincent 🤷♂️
Been a busy few weeks with assessment and shows so back to some slow work
Thanks @vincent test flight ios MB app 3.0.4 now I can read my text posts as font size is fixed!
Oh yeah brilliant on time with minus 3 to change. Good job the Tardis is parked at Woking…
Not at Glastonbury or Harry styles in Cardiff ?? well you know where you should be! @hoxton_arches tonight play games drink beer (or soda) #wsagames
Levelling up secretary says “sorry” some of us are on one level and the rest of you are on another…
Not taken by me (Instagram friend) and I am not into the royals but that is one impressive close formation flying ! ✈️
When you hoped you had been charged twice by mistake and then realise it’s a server you forgot you agreed to keep up :( darn it
Invited Jeff Minter again to the Winchester Show, I know he lives locally.. maybe one day he will come, although could I cope … 😬
Tonight 6PM at Winchester School of Art, play games, see art, celebrate creativity. If you really can’t make it live stream from the Rotunadome! twitch.tv/gamesdesi…
More tweets coming in on new archive but @manton my log looks poorly mind too
This is why I love micro.blog and try and tell everyone to get on it. Stickers sent to me for just being a micro.camp / micro.blog community member ! Thanks @jean @manton @vincent @cheesemaker wonderful!! From USA -> UK too!
Apple are making a proton type layer to help devs port windows games, which may mean you could run any windows game on your max. The steamdeck protondoes a great job on this front but it’s designed and being tested by steam to run the games not just fit Devs so we shall see dctr.pro/2oo
Related to my VR walking - My original blog about No Mans Sky from 2016…medium.com/the-slack… and BBC Radio Interview www.southampton.ac.uk/wsa/news/…
Tell my 13 year old self this would be work for him 30+ years later - so running that games week at school (mainly sensible soccer comps) was worth it…
Another good reason to refuse a Knighthood. Well done Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg for … well basically being evil.. absolute tool
Hahaha clearly the BBC trying to not be alarmist or accused of being lefty woke by having weather presenter constantly saying not “exceptional” when it’s clear days of 27-30c temps are not the norm…
Since iOS15 apparently you can increase the font size within individual apps, which seems rather useful, most apps now, even with my reading glasses on iOS16 with dynamic type up to 135% are too small for me now.
But even on my phone with dynamic text up to max across the phone, some apps still have way too small fonts in parts of their interface. However, adjusting further in accessibility settings makes everything too big for me. Unknown until now, there is, in fact, a setting per app that has allowed me to finally get, for example, outlook writing email font at a size that is no longer insanely small… here is how for any app.
And bang, you can go slide the font’s size up further. See attached images, that’s 135% + 120% in Outlook only – happy days!
For those of you wondering about the innovation of spatial hypertext / infinite canvas after hearing these words at Apple Park… FYI infinitecanvas.tools
a literally “infinite” canvas may never exist
Also had my own list on notion aswell
iOS automatically update apps ☑️ Phone on charger every night ☑️ Opens App Store 41 apps to update ❎
What the heck
As I was bumbling around looking to update my profile photo across the web, I saw a random like of an old tweet 2013 for an interactive web thing I made as part of a festival site I also built totally forgot I did the web app thing but also noticed my micro.blog Twitter import is missing 2013… 🤷♂️
The Vision Pro is “spatial computing”, insofar as windows are arranged in space around you. But it diverges from the classic visions along these lines (e.g. Mark Weiser’s ubiquitous computing, Dynamicland) in that the computation lives in windows. What if programs live in places, live in physical objects in your space?
Andy Matuschak working notes on - Apples Vision Pro
I’ve tried them and it’s like magic
Done new profile photo is now starting to propergate the systems.
For all of Apple’s concern about not making a product that’s perceived as cutting you off from the world, don’t most of the use cases for this product seem lonely and solitary, and not appropriate for anyone with a partner or family at home?
Tim Cook and his fellow Apple executives clearly asked themselves whether they could create a headset as their latest hardware product, but don’t seem to have spent as much time considering whether they should.
Being a maker of a web app this is good news - webkit.org/blog/1420…
Oh is WWDC mention unlocking any new MB badges I forgot about them… @help
A fan or not of the Apple Vision Pro. I refer you so to
Bret Victor
Odd some people in mb timeline double posting and just now the top bar to post a new post wasn’t visible (iOS app) @manton
Well I think I am going to start utilising this as my new photo of me… need to edit to a square for profiles and see if readable.. Photo of me at GDC 2023 in a workshop taken for the official GDC Flickr stream
Setting aside all the issues of techtopia and the hey but we make these things green… Apple should have realised that Bret Victor could have unlocked the potential of a spatial UI but hey… never mind
Maybe I’ll try and write a blog about AR/ VR at some point and why Apple Vision pro is alias terrible. I’ve been playing with a thinking with virtual worlds and discussed these with many people over decades this is hype junk. But hey I don’t work in the valley so what do I know…
Quit WWDC I can’t be bothered it’s a joke product and useless innovation. Make an app that uses vision pro to show the amount of co2 and climate collapse that will happen in front of you where you are
ok these people showing us the Apple vision pro are totally in the reality distortion field
yeah I know what I wanted… the same UI as my laptop but with a massive headset instead showing me the same UI but just floating around me… erm nope you are kidding
Ok just arrived back that Apple vision Pro looks terrible
Woah thanks @sod for sharing this amazing stuff. I mean I find the stuff make for really good dolls houses excellent and a wonderful level of craft ship. Love this mastodon.social/@6502B/11…
Well I cant watch all of WWDC live but will catch up later…
Apple stream playing Little Dragon at the moment - they are already winning
Can’t do more in the garden. Break needed. Trying to get it all organised for the holidays. But it’s proving to be a lot of digging up roots of brambles that are not useful in their current locations.
Seems people with dogs who also buy pedigree jelly in pouches mega packs also try to quit smoking
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i/o sees Gabriel working again with Soweto Gospel Choir, who previously featured on the song Down to Earth that was recorded for the film Wall-E.
Ah ha set up a google scholar profile 🤷♂️ anyway that’s how I found my thesis was published on ePrints Soton - however for more info and the “living” project you can also start at https://thesis.adamprocter.co.uk which allows highlighting and commenting and will be updated with new materials!
FYI @vincent @manton the scrolling issue still persists in 3.0.3. I think it has something to do with dashes
However closing and reopening the post sheet fixed it. Also to note that with scrolling working typing that close to the options bar and over the character count is quite jarring.
I was fortunate to recently be part of an interview for a piece in ABC News Washington about Daybreak a new table top game that helps you work out how we might tackle the climate crisis - abcnews.go.com/US/board-…
I may match Beato with Ray Ban as reading glasses for my YouTube channel but my views are well under…. 10 🤣
When you realise Rick Beatos reading glasses are Ray Ban just like yours 👍 🎸 and he is breaking down “Here Comes the Rain Again” by Eurythmics 😁
hmm @NetNewsWire @danielpunkass your icons have crosses on my new m2 macbookpro when using SwitchGlass by @siracusa@mastodon.social (see attached) ?
Status update bin = empty
/imagine 7AM random Agency bin collector arriving in street. Procter Dashing out with overflowing waste bin as next to no bins locally were collected over a week ago. agency Bin man says that they are trying to take as much as they can but been given old truck and so now the bin lifter has got stuck but they will try and be back later… bin sits in the sun. Huge fly follows Procter back into house.
& in case anyone was unable to see links my twitch / YouTube streams with permission use this audio from today youtu.be/o4fNXS4ar…
Ha I forgot my twitch and YouTube are connected to my micro.blog timeline many feed posts today 🤣
In others news I made a new nodenogg.in explainer on YouTube and a intro to new SleepeR feature atm on Twitch (rough live)
So last week very few on our road had a regular waste taken at all. And this week my recycling bin isn’t fully emptied. But from April our council tax bill was increased. Broken Britian.
Ok I have No Man’s Sky on my M2 mac now ! Happy days… via steam cross save apparently… but Steam itself is a Intel app still and has to be running to open NMS, this bugs me, Steam beta is also still an Intel app 😟
I really think that Steve Jobs would be fuming about the state of the Apple software keyboard on iOS today. Serious iOS 1 had a better keyboard and the story of its development by Ken Kocienda is awesome
escape 21st June 6PM, London Hoxton Arches
Reflections bank holiday
Where have I been… (inspired by other micro.blog people)
England 🏴 Northern Ireland 🇬🇧 Ireland 🇮🇪 Scotland 🏴 Wales 🏴
New York 🗽 San Fransisco 🌉 Los Angeles 🎉 Los Vegas 🎰
Ottawa 🇨🇦
France 🇫🇷 Netherlands 🇳🇱 Germany 🇩🇪 Sweden 🇸🇪 Portugal 🇵🇹
Trains
Trains home
Everytime I actually want fast food it’s not fast… mcDonalds Waterloo I’m looking at you.
Hotwheels ramp is missing the loop de loop.
World transformed anti captalism game event arrived and set up (ignore the crinkly paper)
On Sunday go slow trains to the world transformed anti captalism game jam event in Bethnal Green. Bringing game zines created by our year 1 students. Also last day of the premier league means it’s busy too!
Phillip schofield all the alerts …hmmmm what does that say
Bank holiday Monty
I ain’t doing nothing
Almost a year since we suddenly lost my mother in law and then towards the end of 2022 my mum as well. 2022 was rubbish and I still feel like we are all recovering.
Yes LinkedIn I am going up in the world 🤣 no I’m not buying a pro subscription…
What’s that saying…
Another week and another missed bin collection to report. My mind boggles.
Forget it B&E you are not needed.
New song from new album “May Back Was a Bridge For You To Cross” from ANOHNI - It Must Change - excited can’t wait to hear the whole album.
I can say so far that my new m2 MacBook Pro has zero issues with hot swapping into multiple usb-c monitors. The FaceTime camera is an excellent upgrade. And having a hdmi port as a regular presenter of stuff across campuses etc is just so so amazing even I am amazed at how amazed I am.
And who is suprised? ‘Worthless’: Chevron’s carbon offsets are mostly junk and some may harm, research says - Guardian
Perhaps one day this whole age of football will require an asterisk - Guardian
A couple of excellent AI education / learning related posts from @epilepticrabbit@mastodon.social “Deskilling” and AI as a Tool - dctr.pro/2oc and @dajb@social.coop Using AI to help solve Bloom’s Two Sigma Problem - dctr.pro/2od
Apple we know WWDC rumours include a AR headset. I’ve been here before but I’m not sure I can personally afford it… I was privileged to get Google Glass via work on release it was an excellent summer of experimenting but became quickly a dead duck… I think the timing now maybe better but let’s see.
I couldn’t make micro.camp live in the end, UK time and stuff but anothe great set of talks to check out ! @KimberlyHirsh made a playlist too ! Nice youtube.com/playlist
On a Sunday I get to play with a bunch of friends online.
For goodness sake. Make it simple. I have paid subscription for trackmania on steam deck and Ps5 edition seems to have recognised my account but is starter access so do I need to subscribe twice or am I doing something wrong !!!
End of season podcast is out - Same Old Wombles
Nice! thanks @sod for posting - tegel - LOVE HULTÉN dctr.pro/2oa
One of my favourite games has now arrived on console ! Trackmania - youtu.be/8j_VcIKNl…
I like the breaks in my brother new trance EP we don’t need the drops 🐶💤😎
Of course the kings bank holiday was treated as a normal working day by the bin people so I should have put it out on the normal day and that I should make sure to check the calendar. Which is in fact a live calendar 🤦🏻♂️ #binspricacy #unbelievable
The boys are back in town
I wonder if iCloud storage will get a bump soon as I am getting close again to closing that gap…
installing stuff on new macOS finding the MB apps was hard… I had to come to write this post in Firefox to then see the link… @manton I would add a link on the left called Apps
What the heck Southampton city council again didn’t take my regular rubbish bin. I think the bin people have some issue with me
The pursuit of growth at all costs has created a global economic system that is fragile and vulnerable to shocks, and this needs to change, a group of European Parliament Members (MEPs) write.
Sure I am not a M$ 365 fan but when you have to use the suite for work and they let you onto the M$ loop preview I am happy… why well its an intresting notion “copy” but it’s also the start of the realisation of what Google Wave could have been
Yeah! Added shipping info for Daybreak! Almost bought a second copy by mistake !! But so glad it will soon be on its way. Having been fortunate to be involved in the process a little with supporting physical prototypes and testing alongside showcasing the first pre-production copies last month I can’t wait to have the finished game at home - www.backerkit.com/c/alex-ha…
Daybreak is a cooperative boardgame about stopping climate change. It presents an optimistic vision of the near future, where you and your friends get to build the mind-blowing technologies and resilient societies we need to decarbonize the world.
I really hope my (on order) new work m2 max 16” MBP handles multi screen hot swapping and clamshell better than my intel one has over the last numerous years.
A fun day out yesterday at the races
I love Gran Turismo, I loved the competition to bring gamers to the real track and this film tells a version of parts of that story based on a true story more research on that to be done looks pretty cool to me though - dctr.pro/2o7
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Yeah neighbours it’s Crosby, Stills and Nash time!
Another season done.
Awake for last home game of the season. We booked a table at local pub in earlsfield pre-match to “celebrate”. Most of this year since the January transfer window my match day enjoyment has been spoilt by the 90 mins of the ball being kicked. Maybe today will be different…
Unfortunately, no matter what Disney+ or even the BBC will tell you the story of Wrexham is not a fairy tale.
There is no magic, the main character is not poor and underprivileged or the underdog triumphing over adversity, and it’s certainly not clear who is good and who is bad.
In fact, what this story really does is shine another spotlight on the poor state of the English football pyramid and that it can be easily manipulated by money.
Wrexham, have won the title and thus been automatically promoted out of the national conference league because two very rich Americans and a Disney+ deal paved the way purely by ploughing money into the club.
At this stage, this money is not an investment, it is an unsustainable business being bankrolled for now.
Players at Wrexham currently earn around 3 times other players in the same league and the squad costs will not doubt only increase in league 2 as the chairman suggests that “the sky’s the limit” to future success.
Although Wrexham didn’t pay much in transfer fees whilst in the conference (one season longer than they hoped). Ollie Palmer from Wimbledon was, in fact, one of the highest they did pay.
No doubt, however any future negotiations will get harder as Wrexham could be seen to have an unlimited playing budget. The owners are said to be worth £400m.
The owners have also spent a lot of money on ground, investments of over £10m already. With plans to spend over £90m.
However, for the promotion season the club in fact lost £1.17m which was an increased loss on the previous season.
The hope is that due to the international coverage and such they will draw people to watch Wrexham who never have. I know of one person who for the first time ever paid a subscription to watch important matches. This hope needs to result in a larger income next season from again the Disney+ deal, £300k+ per episode, more TV coverage (potentially Sky taking the EFL rights) and increased online subscriptions, perhaps Wrexham’s arrive might bring a competitor to the current iFollow?
However, this tale only ends with an exit strategy and that strategy will be for the current owners to get a return on their investment. This exit strategy is likely aiming for a big sell out once they reach the dizzying heights of the Premier League.
So, having bought Wrexham for £2million, losing over £1m a season and on going investment in the ground.
Lets for argument sakes, as most league teams are unsustainable, Wrexham in fact continue to lose more money every year as costs of maintaining a higher league position go up, and they invest the final sums they mention into the stadium.
We could say the total investment could wind up at at least £200 million maybe?
At this rate would mean the value of the club would have to be at least that of a mid-table Premier League team at that point.
The Newcastle take over bid was reportedly worth an estimated £300 million.
The population of Newcastle is about the same as Wrexham 60,000.
Be warned, this is not a fairy tale. The Brothers Grimm have an exit strategy, and it could well be in 6–8 years' time, but it will not be to the club’s benefit.
This whole story says more about the state of the pyramid and the need for the governance of football to be seriously looked at.
The more money that flows down the pyramid, the more investment into community, grassroots and more. The more the money flows up the pyramid into lining the pockets of a few, the worse things will get for all involved in these clubs and their communities.
I suspect there are a number of Wrexham fans who are concerned, who have raised a voice. As of today, the supporters trust website doesn’t even have an up to date SSL certificate, so it was hard to browse, and I know that the take-over was welcomed generally by the trust. The trust did save the club before however for the take-over they had to give up all control, which they did voted on and agreed to this. So they would have to fight again to regain control.
You could argue Wimbledons rise back from the combined counties league (that’s 5 leagues lower than the conference) all the way to League 2 was also the fact that we had more money than most other clubs in each league as we progressed. Getting out of the Conference was the hardest and certainly this is not a league I would relish a return too. However, we are the fairy tale. We own our club, our ground and have a stable sustainable base to build from especially since COVID-19 we have finally started to properly settled into our new stadium and all the benefits this brings.
We have now doubled our gates (even after being relegated from League 1) and have started to put in place a much more professional layers of staffing to run the football side of operations, some may say we have been a bit slow in this regard and perhaps that is part of what has put us into a really poor end of this season. But I am feeling optimistic about next season and will welcome Wrexham to Plough Lane and let the media see the real fairy tale still in the making.
Be interesting to see what happens with TikTok as Wrexhams sponsor as less useful being banned in the states and gov.uk. But that’s another post about terrible football sponsorship.
I have to say I am pleased to see my gas and electricity graph getting lower each month. The 3+ months of not being charged gas on time are still biting my balance mind. Here’s planning that May - Sept brings new found cash flow stability. Buying a house and family deaths have had real impacts.
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster said it was now time to alert the peasants to concerns brought about by rampant divisions in society … or something like that. UK emergency test message system tested today
Hmm for those in the UK they didn’t get the test nationwide alert how are the gov dealing with that anxiety? How are they following up? How are they assuring those citizens? I suspect they have no plan…
Emergency alert worked for my house. Everyone’s phones did it’s thing. At least I now know the sound of the next climate disaster event.
Portsmouth Irish Club - Guinness time
Arrgh yesterday was a good day out spoilt by a terrible 90 mins we lost 1-5. I’ll be back for more punishment next Saturday 🤪
Ready to roll at The John Hansard Gallery Saturday 11-5PM a sneak peak at work in progress games design projects.
Image 1. “Your gonna need a bigger boat” followed by some “rapid unscheduled dissassembly”
Image 2. Back together and ready to go
Image 3 ready tables for local board game cafe
My work Instagram reach is unrivalled from Shanghai to Eastleigh.
Today all my bins and extra rubbish was kindly collected by the council so thats a relief. 🗑️
nice nice hey @dajb@social.coop you might also like this gemini://konpeito.media/ you need a gemini browser to visit and cert had expired but once I was in it I was chill - used this browser gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/
I wonder if we could have more options @help as Huge for me is well sometimes not Huge enough
All being well my 2019 Intel 16" MBP will be soon(ish) be replaced with m2 BUT I don’t have time to start fresh, is there an app that like Go64 to see which apps are not M? So I can slowly migrate.. although I guess a lot will all be intel or is there universal apps ? in fact how will it work ! 🤪
My team and I are proud to be educational partners and have a long history with Women in Games. The excellent CEO Marie-Claire posts today a reminder of why this work is never finished - ABUSE, ASSAULT & HARASSMENT – ARE WE GOING BACKWARDS AS AN INDUSTRY?
Today Monty the dog realised the door had blown open and got out. Went on a rampage around town! Somehow he was unharmed and picked up by a kind citizen who brought him home. The alternatives to todays situation don’t bear thinking about 🐶
Update on news the council phoned me to explain recycling 🤣 anyway after I told them there was no need and I knew how not to contaminate my bins they said they would approve extra pick up for both sets of bins and said I had not been blacklisted 🗑️ 🤣
Here I am on YouTube talking about the recent climate games event I co-organised with Matteo at The Winchester Gallery, at work (Winchester School of Art) - youtu.be/Bx5yqJnBB… - more from the event on YouTube asap.
micro.blog is so good seriously if you want a true space to post short and long form content to the web it’s the best way. The apps are awesome, the team is awesome and the community is awesome. And all your content is yours! No big brother nonsense, no technical know how needed just $5 a month!
In other non exciting news our general waste bin also wasn’t collected last week 🤦🏻♂️ seriously …Southampton waste team have I been blacklisted? 🤷♂️ logged the issues … I assume now I just bury my bin bags in the garden 🪴 💼
My day is done
Great time running gaming talks, play sessions and game making all related to the climate crisis and how table top games can play a positive role in understanding, talking about and thinking about these types of wicked problems faced by humanity over the last 3 days. Thanks to all who attended!
Live climate games talks now - twitch.tv/gamesdesi…
Playing with the Climate Crisis event starts today! www.southampton.ac.uk/blog/suss…
The new import of Twitter archive into micro.blog is exactly what I wanted, all my tweets safe BUT not on my blog but separated out to url /tweets which allows you or me to search and read them, nice one @manton all imported now. (NB missing media is video/ audio but I didn’t have a lot of that)
I have started back developing in my “spare time” with friend Mathew Parker a play.date game and as he is now also on a mac i have to say Panics Nova does look mega appealing but VS Code is free 🤦🏻♂️🤷♂️ & also not buying AEsprite and trying to stick with Krita for pixel art. Let’s see how we go!
So @help as I am watching my logs due to Twitter import is this anything I need to worry about? Posting from MB beta app
Well my wife wanted a Ring door bell I had said no we have cameras and that doesn’t fit with apple home kit (I’m glad now as it’s only bothers her) anyway it was finally set up today and guess what first callers where knock down ginger / knock and run ! 🤣 (image 2/3 from eufy HomeKit camera)
Arrrgh some joker put a glass bottle of hooch (yes hooch!) in my recycling bin last night and guess what bin collection team refused to take my bin this morning and now I have to wait around 3 weeks due to bank holidays etc 🤦🏻♂️
I don’t recall how I actually managed to get track mania and sensible soccer on my steam deck but I thank past self for just trying 🤣👍 such great games.
Pretty excited since my youngest daughter started her apprenticeship hair dressing we haven’t made many AFC Wimbledon home games together for the first time in a long time. But tomorrow we will all be there my dad, me and my daughter. A few of the guys we sit with can’t make it mind :(
Attending WASD at The Old Truman Brewery today with students as part of Games.London and UKIE events. 👾
BAFTA nice vampire survivors yes! Totally worth Best game!!! Oh plus Rollerdrome woooo
Playing with the Climate Crisis - Event at The Winchester Gallery.
I run the BA games design & art programme at Winchester School of Art and will be co-hosting a table top gaming event at The Winchester Gallery on the Climate Crisis with the central game being Daybreak created by Matteo Menapace and Matt Leacock (the creator of pandemic) this will be the first time you can play a pre production copy of the game worldwide. More information on the speakers and the workshop can be located here.
Playing with the Climate Crisis (13-15th April)
Tickets for the workshop are required but the rest of the event is open to the public.
Nice article on Wikipedia redesign and excellent use and approach to prototyping indeed - dctr.pro/2o3 /ht @philbowell thanks
Lesia and I had a fantastic week at our first GDC and first time in San Francisco.
Many of the talks, round tables and showcases validated a lot of what we currently undertake with our students on Games at Winchester School of Art (WSA), specifically relating to games for change, games and the climate crisis and experimental games, those that tell stories and approaches from the marginalised, the different and the under represented.
The Independent Games Festival and the Experimental Games Workshop really exemplified this at GDC.
Which is why it was sad to return home and read reports of sexual harassment, spiked drinks and likely worse against women at GDC.
I admit I am shocked but more so, I am angry.
Those of you that know me know that a big part of my position and take on games and the tech industry is born out of being sickened to see misogyny I personally witnessed almost 20 years ago at tech events.
I am determined as a father of 3 daughters that games and tech should be a safe space for all women and have thus wanted to help where I could.
The mission is never complete, we at WSA will continue to create and get better at making safe spaces for anyone that wants to make games and loves and understands the power of games.
If you witnessed or were a victim of any harassment at GDC no matter how small you may think it was, call it out. These people don’t belong in the games industry, and it’s time to normalise the utter rejection of this type of behaviour.
Please look to support any initiatives you can as well such as Women in Games in your area or the UK Raise the Game initiative.
There are many more initiatives I am not aware of so please do seek out, the majority, the good people in games and tech and rid this industry of a rotten minority that need to be gone.
Sometimes you just have to go into a bar and then the story starts 🤪
I see faces
Pleased to see ubisoft doing the same as my workshops by looking to map the UN SDGs to game ideas. Certainly going to double down on this across all years & all projects
Look at that robot stealing our jobs
Day 3 GDC - fascinating insight into the Level Design process in Rollerdrome next up the awards ceremony.
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I also made it to GDC Flickr a few times - https://flic.kr/p/2ooivEQ 🤣
Learning more about wholesome games, great new indie games and teaching sustainability in game design at GDC day 2 AM
Working out day two next at #gdc
Day one was mainly spent attending a full day workshop on using games to help tackle the climate disaster,which was excellent, our team came up with a fun hyper casual simulation called “the farmers dream” in which you are government granted to transform your industrial farm into a more sustainable and local farm using drip irrigation, mitigating against water shortages and as you do so you will be rewarded by seeing the positive effects on the local community around your farm and ward of bigger climate events. Our impact was that our non gamer audience might consider consumption choices in the grocery store based on new knowledge of how supporting local not only boosts your local economies but also helps fight the climate crisis. Not bad for a day of talks and breakouts!
We then wrapping up day one for the evening we joined another queue to attend a local Bay Area game dev showcase - lnkd.in/eTStvV88
It was so busy we took local advise and heading to wait it out at a dive bar where we played another local game dev yet to be released twin stick local Co-op game lnkd.in/e-GsZfAw
Before heading back to the meetup for a now slightly shorter queue to final play more games #gdc #gamesdesign #gdc2023 #southampton #sanfrancisco
(Apologies for LinkedIn links will edit asap)
Day 1 at GDC San Fransisco - I am planning to attend all day workshop on bringing climate action into game making just a about to head to Moscone centre to register. First I needed to buy a travel adapter from Walgreens. BART ride in last night was pretty sketchy
Ok friends I am days away from my trip to San Francisco for GDC any tips, tricks for me to know about the city and the event. We are staying very close to the Moscone centre in downtown which I know has issues so am prepping myself mentally as well, top tips to enjoy myself welcome 😊
My iPhone was getting slow and battery being weird decided to throw all caution to the wind and I just closed all 625 tabs in Firefox - hmm what you gonna do (thankfully I have unlimited history) - and that’s just the tabs on my iPhone
Adam Procter in a dystopian abandoned education facility in 2048 in the style of art deco (BING / Dall•E)
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Today I was fortunate enough to take my students to Two Point Studios in Farnham I am always blow away by how gracious the games industry is and how wonderful their studios are. Thank you so much 😊
Snowy Winchester
Nice @playdate@panic.com just released Catalog ! play.date/games/cat…
Oh my HomePod mini now does temperature and humidity nice.
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Just passed The Rapid Results College at Wimbledon. On the way to the big match
I find it interesting how software designed for good by 1 or a few people is compared and criticised in line with those made with billions that are basically stealing your privacy making $$$ for VCs / corporations that care next to zero about making tools for people 🤣🤪
By specifically “playing” with web technologies this thesis and its associated practice look to understand modes of knowledge production, networked culture, and collaborative practices.
The thesis discusses the unique pedagogy that informs art school education and brings this understanding and related theories to bear directly on the use of web tools and networked technologies directly into the art school environment.
The train station yellow line width has now doubled - Sign o’ the Times
Lots of playable games on this mac emulation macos9.app hat tip @dajb@social.coop also reminds me of this awesome book you should all get too secrethistoryofmacgaming.com
Private eye feb -> March
A gift from daughters to level up my Sunday gaming evenings #beingcomfyandnotfeelimgcoldisforprogamersonly
What… what… I am just hanging out with my friends 🐱
So the other week I fixed my gitlab but in unrelated news my plesk log in was broke. Had to clone server for backup purposes then run Plesk repair m, added more RAM and now I can’t get my gitlab to work at all. So annoyed.
I got some small short term pilot web science institute funding to do a specific AI / ML stuff for nodenogg.in - more details will follow. The project is called “Research while you Sleep” and is investigating a possible fun approach to machine and person co-creation symbiosis.
Road fix
The Dons Trust is 21 today - a Spotify podcast on some of it from 2019 - open.spotify.com/episode/4…
It’s just absolutely wrong. Households are struggling to pay to heat their homes and yet the fossil fuel companies are reporting record profits. I don’t know how the people that work for these companies can sleep at night, disgusting.
Arrgh dam I been on micro.blog so long I’ve no had my mastodon account auto activated time to disable again 🤣 @help
well seems I have managed to improve and update my gitlab instance on my own server which is nice… still can’t log into my Plesk control panel mind (500 error), even with a lot more free ram so that is rather confusing
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Day 2 running Global Game Jam 2023 at Winchester School of Art. Live studio stream twitch.tv/gamesdesignart from around 10AM GMT
Someone thought it would be funny to drag a massive bin from shops or local church and park it on my drive way. Seriously not funny.
Let see how this goes… oh quoteback block seems to be counted in post so makes it long
Wow. Soon #openai will be able to write software. It definitely won't start a heinous proliferation of common mistakes and bugs that create a feedback loop resulting in random computers catching on fire. It also definitely won't program itself sentience and start throwing tantrums like a 5 year old. [www.semafor.com/article/0...](https://www.semafor.com/article/01/27/2023/openai-has-hired-an-army-of-contractors-to-make-basic-coding-obsolete)
Should a quoteback block be counted in post - it is on MB ios Beta app @help
So if the train ticket machine is broken. And there are no staff. You need to look for the orange flashing light on the train to ask guard for ticket before you step on the train or you will be fined £100 plus single fair. Hmmm I can see a lot of accessibility issues here. 🚂
There is a small handful of people I also get as a newsletter from micro.blog. Doing this allows me focus time on some people I really don’t want to miss what they blogged about. Such a nice little feature and approach to newsletters. Well done team @microblog
We won and it’s now getting super interesting…
Oh I just saw this cool post about your computer history. I might have a go at that but expect edits when I fill in gaps - michaelhans.com/eclectici…
My two slide deck as my back drop to explain nodenogg.in - use case and principles
nodenogg.in a messy mapping tool for multiplayer thinking
The focus micro post bug is fixed in MarsEdit 5.0.3 nice one @danielpunkass
Testing micro post bug fix in MarsEdit 5.0.3. Post I have focussed in main window shouldn’t change now…
Hmmm train fines have been doubled if you don’t have a valid ticket and yet I have noticed more and more the ticket barriers being left open… just saying
NYC libraries are offering free digital library cards to people across the U.S. - www.timeout.com/newyork/n…
Recalling why I hate social media and the mastodon effect is now hitting me on micro.blog you expect posts to make an impact and people to respond but 9/10 they just don’t. So remember write for yourself no one else. Of course writing openly means you & perhaps others can reflect
In other weird news micro.blog let’s me follow @d@wao.wtf but claims no posts yet when I check my mastodon app there is lots :(
I guess like they said in ghostbusters “don’t cross the streams” 🤦🏻♂️
And even my blog itself seems to be delayed in publishing now.
This is just nuts
The cost of food including milk and cheese are at their highest since 1977.
It’s a disgrace really. I mean good job I’m vegan but I fear my sprouts have also gone up 🤣
Worked it out I am cross posting to my mastodon on fosstodon and there I am following people but I can also follow them now on MB if I mention inline that’s fine but @ at start doesn’t work. I was seeing some reply’s in MB as I also had a mastodon compatible name set up (mistake)
Hey @dajb@social.coop if you see this ping me one more test reply. I think I have reset things to be a little more normal
Basically I can follow mastodon people in micro.blog timeline
I can cross post to mastodon to my fosstodon account
Replies I now check on mastodon
I’ve have always had cross posting set up from my feed.json to my mastodon account on fosstodon - I have now removed my micro.blog compatible name and removed linking my fosstodon as alias which I only did today. Let see if they clears up any of this mess. @help
This morning I have been mainly stressing about how my blog on micro.blog works with my mastodon on fosstodon.org the idea is I post on my blog and syndicate to mastodon and any mentions come back at me on my micro.blog timeline but the mentions part seem to be hit or miss
Cannot for the life of me work out how activity pub + mastodon is working with micro.blog now. Have added my mastodon name as an alias as well now to see if that helps. Just seems random If I see really mentions both in micro.blog or mastodon app so apologies if you mentioned me
Well either @ mentions from micro.blog to people I follow through to mastodons are not working or they are ghosting me 🤣 time to test it to myself I guess here is an online mention @adamprocter@fosstodon.org
Well either @ mentions from micro.blog to people I follow through to mastodons are not working or they are ghosting me 🤣 time to test it to myself I guess here is an online mention @adamprocter@fosstodon.org
Well either @ mentions from micro.blog to people I follow through to mastodons are not working or they are ghosting me 🤣 time to test it to myself I guess here is an online mention @adam@fosstodon.org
About 3 years ago I requested on GitHub a feature in a simple VS Code Text plug in to be able to reverse a list of text and save me using a website. Today I got notified this feature had been added to another plug in about 2 years ago 🤣 🤷♂️
One of my biggest beefs with iOS is that when tapping an app notification if said app then needs you to log in or does something funky you are not taken to that notification and it has been wiped out so you are now totally lost & frustrated as you may never find that notification
Definitely something weird about new account following someone on mastodon and what posts you get to see without clicking through to the profile. In other news followed a few more peeps myself now as they leave Twitter so hopefully I’ll see the posts in my MB timeline soon😁
Ok I just followed my fosstodon mastodon account which is connected to my micro.blog from a new mastodon account I created and it only shows posts from me up until the 3rd of Jan. Very odd.
Archer Maclean passed away recently creator of IK+ and of course Jimmy White’s ‘Whirlwind’ Snooker lives it on the A500 - dctr.pro/2o1 🎮
Testing
The ethos behind Quotebacks is one of the reasons why I love the product. Yes, it’s a great addition to my thinking toolkit, allowing me to store quotes without polluting my note-taking and thinking system. But it’s also a tool which aims at making the Internet a more generous place. If you regularly write online, give it a try!
Wow Wow I never thought this would ever happen!!
Hotel Booked ✅
Flights Booked ✅
GDC Tickets Ordered ✅
Myself and another member of the Games team at Winchester School of Art will be flying to attend GDC in San Fransisco in March! Any recommendations for trip welcomed!
How can my iOS devices be set to auto update apps but they never do even though I am plugged in and on Wi-Fi a lot of the time and definitely over night 🤦🏻♂️ I seriously feel Apple have lost control of OS software doing what they say it does reliably
0-0 after the train pains - fluked getting home Mind - not sure it was worth it 🤣 however vegan burger chips beer and catching up with dad made up for trains
So annoyed haven’t been able to get to Football for ages and even when the train staff are not striking they are all broken.
Thanks
I have a 10 minute change but of course we haven’t even left - UK trains
Hahaha turns out my train wasn’t cancelled and now I have missed it. Seriously please any train personnel do not speak to me
1st time in an age I might actually be able to get to football (Wimbledon) but parts of journey have replacement buses and then the fast one I wanted is now cancelled (signal failure). Pay drivers more £££ for sure but that won’t fix the infrastructure ! UK gov are blooming tools
As an academic we have to do a lot of writing in various forms some useful and exciting, some less so. But to help my team have started Friday Write Club 🧼 where I have timed boxed a few hours for pomodoro style heads down writing. Day 1 went well I managed around 1000 new words
did i imagine it or is there a selective way to check in to a location either direct in MB or via Swarm? @help
My mum kept photos I have never seen then and now 🤣
Testing cross posting to mastodon is still working… set and forget can sure be great until you wonder how anything is working 😳
Yes Rosie you can be a double pain 🐱
Rosie you are a pain sometimes 🐱
PM “My own health care is no one’s business but as I am minted … “
Panopticom - Peter Gabriel - out today [odesli.co/m…](https://odesli.co/https://music.apple.com/gb/album/panopticom-bright-side-mix/1659681108?i=1659681109)
Pretty ironic that due to hottest January ever households are probably burning less fossil fuel (gas) than normal 🌍 🔥🤦🏻♂️
My plan next is to have an Obsidian to Ulysses to long form blog workflow soon, aka over the next couple of months. Need to get myself a proper flow of personal research to publishing management happening. I also need a better way to manage work related actionable tasks
I teach Games in an Art School at a Russell Group University & I know why Maths is important generally and for creativity in our space it’s really good to deploy and understand well but do not make it compulsory for all till 18 you are having a LAUGH!
Bank holiday bin collectors caught up good job I looked out my window phew honestly thought they where coming tomorrow
Blooming heck Royal Mail can’t even deliver my The Week or Private Eye on a regular basis now claiming they have been unable to deliver 🤦🏻♂️ Private eye good enough to ask me about it… what you can’t even post a letter through a letter box on a door with a number on it anymore
My love of an Arcade is so high…here are some from L.A. - New York Times more Photography from Franck Bohbot
Made some notes on todays UK prime minister announcement.
Todays incorrect announcement on the trains
“due to RMT strike action we are running a reduced service”
Nope
“due the governments inaction and greed of shareholders and mates of mates holding the power we are just screwing over the working people. Can you get off now”
Not sure this is the future of my Home Screen 1&2 but @0xquirk has some folder ideas I may deploy instead
I also going to tackle my iPhone Home Screen this week just make Home Screen one blank to move in new important icons … will lose some muscle memory but also gonna make Home Screen 2 my fav widgets the rest can do what they like search is my friend
Also starting the habit of using Epilogue to catch books I might want to read so I have a personal wish list building this year 😀
Turns out wasn’t food poisoned by a local vegan pizza last Thursday - seems suspicious - but Doctor says highly likely I have/had a viral stomach bug which has been doing the rounds locally and I should feel normal by next week 🤢🥴🤕🤒 never normal pick stuff like that up 🤷♂️
Boy I sound rough on this weeks Same Old Wombles - Episode 19 - Media City - Enjoy! www.sameoldwombles.com/episode-1…
Is there a really good eInk device that is great for RSS(preferably somehow talking to NetNewsWire), micro.blog / blogs and perhaps mastodon. I kinda link the idea of a device for just reading certain content on the web
whoops just trying to turn on github auto save my micro.blog to my previous repo…. basically github is now spamming me, Ive turned it off… hopefully it stops soon … @help
hello does anyone and @danielpunkass have a recommended markdown plug in for wordpress so that I can send my Marsedit posts in markdown now to a wordpress blog I own. I don’t need the wordpress editor to do markdown as it may confuses others but if it has to so be it. Thanks
Quickly updating blog posts with emojis and adding catergories with MarsEdit 5 & micro.blog is a breeze, this may be come a fun bi-weekly task in an vein attempt to make my blog even better 😂
play.date game “PlayThrust” update - SOUNDUP! Of course all the code is Free(libre) open source AGPLv3 and made in the open follow, chip in and comment
CODE: gitlab.adamprocter.co.uk/adamproct… DISCUSS: discourse.adamprocter.co.uk/c/playdat…
I wonder with the extra traffic I am seeing in micro.blog time with mastodon followers I know replying to more people I don’t if there maybe time for a replies as a seperate timeline option. I know I can this off from the main timeline but I do like to see them @manton
Play.date dev coming along slowly, at least I think I am learning the SDK slowly at least & having 4+days of food poisoning has kinda helped, booking doctors tomorrow (recorded using play.date mirror app so captured from the real hardware)