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And you can use Fennel to hack Neovim, if you want to stick with a lispy language.

I've played DS1, DS3, and Sekiro, and thought ER was the easiest of those FROMSoft titles. Two of the biggest changes they made to facilitate that were to limit invasions to co-op play (unless you opt-in to be invaded solo) and Spirit Ashes for boss fights.

It's still very difficult, but I think if you find a good walkthrough, like FightinCowboy, it makes the game a lot more approachable.

Yeah. I feel like there's two types of people that actually use jawn: those that are very Philly and those that are trying, really, really hard to sound Philly. I can't say I've said jawn with a straight face since I was a little kid.

Running a side project on company infrastructure seems like a disaster waiting to happen for both parties.

She passed away last year, but I remember her doing some press the last few years, and was always delightful. She seemed a little mischievous in a way that seemed like it would have offset Fred's near-saintly disposition.

In my peer group of musician friends, there were two archetypes that held out longest: people that were poor and had low wage, dirty and/or backbreaking jobs and those with well-off parents. There were lots more of the latter, because it's hard to justify playing in bands when you can barely feed yourself.

However, both groups had nothing to lose by pursuing their dream.

Similar story here. Although once music as a profession was out, I continued to play in rock bands for a long time. No one in my peer group "made" it, but the ones that stayed in it the longest, and had the best gear, the best studio recordings, were the ones that had well-to-do parents.

I'd guess like most people, my greatest period of music discovery was in my teens and 20's. Listening to music with friends, we'd share new discoveries, hoping to win over a new fan.

Music stores were great, too. Putting on the gross headphones at Tower Records and sampling the latest releases, let me find new bands without risking my limited teen cash supply.

Even better, I could go across the street from Tower and pick the brains of the people at the punk/metal shop, or convince them to play something that Tower would never stock. The people there always had a better understanding of your tastes, far better than a genre listing.

The most fruitful source of new music was going out to see shows. Going to a show to see one or two bands at any given show, there was a good chance I'd come away a fan of one of the openers.

There’s Monogame, if you know C#. It’s got a decent sized community and it's been used to create a number of popular games.

Have you read the Kevin Anderson/Brian Herbert Dune books? Anderson's writing style is much more digestible than the source material, but I don't think it really added anything to the Dune universe.

There's a surplus of management eager to exploit workers.

I've had almost no problems with the game. In about 110 hours of play time, it has crashed once, and had two minor slowups in game play. Both lasted a just a second or two. I'm very happy I took a chance on it.

I really love WKUK and had been watching their Twitch streams at the time of Trevor's passing. I'm really looking forward to them releasing their Mars movie, as bittersweet as it may be.

There's definitely a lot of material that, I have to accept that "I don't have the math for it"[0].

But Matt does a pretty good job of breaking things down conceptually, so that even though you don't know the specifics, the broader picture is at least vaguely understandable. Even if it means you need to watch previous episodes to get the gist of other discussed concepts.

[0] Harry Wilson, from John Scalzi's "Old Man's War"

In Catholicism, at least, as long as you ask forgiveness, you get your ticket to heaven. I was just watching a clip of Martin Scorsese talking about how he grapples with this in his films. Many of his characters are monsters, but they observe the rites, so according to the church, they should be forgiven. He talks about struggling with the notion that these people that inflicted so much pain would be given their eternal reward, alongside those who were good, just for going through the motions.

This is interesting. Growing up, I had 8 years of music theory, so reading standard notation is second nature. In high school and later on in rock/metal bands, I never actually used it. It was far more common to use guitar tablature (even though I was the drummer). Tab is more of a short-hand system, giving you fret markings and measures, but usually omitting rhythmic notation.

To me, this system is actually more confusing. The spacing is kind of hard to see. Maybe it's because I keep trying to read it as if it were standard notation. I wonder if it would help someone starting from scratch.

I’m right there with you. When possible, I still buy a band’s CD. I absolutely love having a CD in hand, being able to appreciate that bands still think about album artwork.

I also find that when I commit to listening to physical media, I’m more likely to listen to the whole thing through, rather than cherry picking songs.

I used this combo for a while, but there was a period of time where VSCode updates would break the vim integration. This was a few years ago, and I’ve recently reinstalled VSCode for use with F#, since Ionide seems to work better than in Neovim.

I agree with your coc.nvim assessment. It’s more cohesive and works pretty much out of the box.

You have to assemble more plugins to recreate the functionality coc provides as a whole and the documentation on the config process is sparse (as of my last attempt to use it). I’m also probably a weird edge case in that my primary use case is writing Powershell. Coc just works and getting native LSP configured and working requires more time than I’ve been willing to give it.

Or more likely, they can’t believe mere mortals would dare push back against them.

I think you can see a similar effect in the music industry. Technology has practically eliminated the barrier to entry for recording. On top of that, sales are down, recording budgets are slashed. Why spend valuable studio time tweaking amp settings and mic positioning when you can record direct and scroll through a list of plugins - or so the logic goes.

Fair enough. I have lots of interests, and develop new ones all the time. I’d love to commit more time to my extended family. I have artist and athletic goals I’d spend more time on. I’d probably also go back to school and also do some community work. Programming is challenging and always provides a means of growth, so I could understand not wanting to walk away from it, if you have a way of avoiding burnout.

You have no interests you would pursue if you were free to spend your time as you wish? I enjoy my work, but there’s a dozen interests I can think of, off-hand, that I would happily enjoy before ever going back to work, given the option.

This is really great. Thanks for posting it.

Yup. I've recorded several albums, some in small home studios and others in pro environments. It's always been scratch track -> drums (me) -> guitars/bass (bass almost always direct to console) -> vocals.

Sounds like you are describing “institutional knowledge”. In addition to good documentation, an org needs to maintain employee retention, so you have people that know the what and why’s of all the automated processes you’re seeing.

I strongly disagree with programming being a “higher” art than music or painting.

As for DIY game devs, I really enjoyed Tom Happ’s Axiom Verge series. The artwork and level design, especially. I’ve seen a couple interviews where he kind of brushes off the praise for the musical aspect - and I agree. I think it’s the weakest part of his games. The music fits incredibly well, but it feels a lot like someone noodling on a keyboard until they reach the appropriate level of spookiness.

But ultimately, all the components work well together, and the games feel like one person’s mad vision.

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

-Carl Sagan

I use Conjure for writing Fennel, which in turn can be used to customize nvim. It’s a pretty great plugin.

> even public nuisances like vim.

I love vim (err… Neovim), and this was great.