Tidying & Introspection
Not every week can be super interesting. Really the main thing that happened this week was my partner and I managed to tidy up a bunch of moving boxes that have been lingering in our study for 1.5 years. Consolidated everything down into a few tubs and freed up heaps of space for us to actually use the study for things now. We're thinking we might put a desk in there and move the 3D printer there, just so it's a bit more of a temperature controlled room etc.
Otherwise, really not that busy! I did end up creating an 88x31 badge for my site visible on the homepage or on the badges page. I also added some badges for sites I think are cool or sites run by people I've yapped with.
On Yapping, I ended up yapping heaps with aria.coffee on signal. I ended up liking some of her random posts on bsky, she liked some of mine, we both realised we're Australian, and it just kinda went from there1!
It made me realise that I'm actually really missing having a cohort of friends I can yap randomly with about tech who are local to me. Like, someone pointed out this week how bsky is suffering from the "linkedinification" of discourse. It all needs to be about "What the next big moves are", "How can we scale", "What are other players in the space talking about" etc.
Originally this point was about bsky but reflecting on my conversations with coworkers, and other ppl I've worked with etc, it's all like this. I'm not saying I don't enjoy chatting with them. But I've realised that I actually yearn for standard friendly banter with people that's tech adjacent2.
I do already have a space with friends online where I can talk like this, but it's really refreshing to have people in the same timezone as me (or close to me) where we can just... yap. IDK, maybe I'm just yearning for trans community or something, people who are like me and have shared interests. For ages this was really just my partner, so I'm kind of excited to try to get out a bit more and interact with more ppl.
I've got some fun stuff planned for this week though so I'm excited for that!