Christian Alder

Actually you know what, I'm going to right away erase point #2 for this newsletter-like thing. Why shoot myself in the foot? The page design I mocked up last night (envelope and papers), it's ripe for a lil pamphlet/ad space isn't it? just like you might find in real snail mail! 🐌

Heavily vetted (Because point #1 still stands, until I die), leaning towards indie creators making real things, and cheap. It'd be super clear it's an ad, and I think it's fair to leave room for this. This might never happen, I just want to leave the possibility for it down the line :)

Pals, I've been a bit doomy gloomy, innit? Sorry for that, here's some cool stuff instead. Hope everyone has an amazing weekend 💜 This lil thread contains a bird, some ruins, cinnamon rolls, a laptop, and board games you can print at home.

✅ I will: - Likely share stuff related to a what I've experienced recently - Strive to share accurate information (I am not an expert in what I'm sharing, so I might make mistakes) - Correct any mistakes I find, or am kindly informed of - Link to further reading/context

Pals, I've been a bit doomy gloomy, innit? Sorry for that, here's some cool stuff instead. Hope everyone has an amazing weekend 💜 This lil thread contains a bird, some ruins, cinnamon rolls, a laptop, and board games you can print at home.

I'm toying with the idea of putting together a lil RSS feed/newsletter/zine like this, If only as an excuse for me to research cool things about the world and pull myself out of feeling low. Being online used to bring me joy and wonder, I think it's still there, I just need to dig for it.

Pals, I've been a bit doomy gloomy, innit? Sorry for that, here's some cool stuff instead. Hope everyone has an amazing weekend 💜 This lil thread contains a bird, some ruins, cinnamon rolls, a laptop, and board games you can print at home.

💻 There are folks out there building really interesting things, this week I was reminded of MNT Research, designing and assembling open source hardware in Germany 🇩🇪 mntre.com/index.html

Pals, I've been a bit doomy gloomy, innit? Sorry for that, here's some cool stuff instead. Hope everyone has an amazing weekend 💜 This lil thread contains a bird, some ruins, cinnamon rolls, a laptop, and board games you can print at home.

🌍 Last week we went on a hike that took us through some old ruins along Serra do Louro, Portugal. Together with a more recent Islamic settlement, is Castro de Chibanes, which dates back 7,000 years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castro_... (photo from a previous visit)

Pals, I've been a bit doomy gloomy, innit? Sorry for that, here's some cool stuff instead. Hope everyone has an amazing weekend 💜 This lil thread contains a bird, some ruins, cinnamon rolls, a laptop, and board games you can print at home.

Some of the elders in my life keep watching AI content on social media, adamant that what they're seeing is real. I just had to download a clip and take some frame by frame screenshots to highlight the inconsistencies in the Instagram of a 'hot guy making bread'.

It's time I look into alternatives to iCloud, and I think we'll start with some local storage solutions first. Photos are the main thing, and software like immich immich.app looks nice for that. I'd love some tips for the hardware-side of things though if anyone has any :)

Uh, that pang of disappointment and confliction, when a tool/service I've been enjoying suddenly adds an AI button, and now I have to decide if I want to renew it next year or not 🫩

I thought I'd look around Steam Next Fest a bit. Holy shit that was a mistake... I can't find the legit gems amongst all that slopware 🫩 I'll look for a nice curated list some time, until then no new games for me. AOE2 recently ported to macOS so that'll be plenty fun for now.

This isn't a game I'm interested in, but an example of the deluge. I know copycat/shovelware games have always been a thing, but at this speed? I've read a few accounts of indie devs afraid to even publish a page/demo now, as folks are just spinning up poor quality copies & beating them to launch 🫩

The novelty of running a self hosted podcast server (Audiobookshelf) has worn off 🤷 It works, but I'm not really finding any benefit to using it? the Raspberry Pi that's hosting it is just gradually filling up with episodes, and there isn't a built in way to purge them other than "keep x episodes"

"Max # of episodes to keep" is a bit pants, because then it'll just delete one and I wouldn't know unless I went per-podcast show to check. I tried to make a script to handle it based on episodes marked as finished, it kinda worked, but then it just auto downloaded them again 😩😅