Jesse T. Alford

@anEXPer
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Is Experiential Development a Thing Yet?

I've worked on "distributed systems" "in the cloud" for a decade now and I'm still not sure if we can trust 'em.

Recently resigned a role as a technology lead on Cloud Foundry at VMware (née Pivotal). Now consulting on interesting deployment, packaging, delivery, and implementation problems as principal of Nonlinear Garden, LLC.

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Show threadJesse T. AlfordFeb 1
@SnoopJ I did this just today for a USB-micro jack that broke off a pedal board battery. A scribe was a pretty good tool for uncovering traces.
Jesse T. AlfordJan 26
HeavenlyPossumJan 26

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@WiteWulf/115962212168435175

There is something particularly obscene about watching Americans literally fighting and dying in the streets of Minneapolis to protect their immigrant neighbors from a fascist pogrom and choosing to focus on “gun violence” as an abstract issue to solve by disarming those same Americans.

Jesse T. AlfordJan 25
Show threadPaul CantrellJan 24
Oh. 💔 My wife and her dad both knew Alex Pretti from the VA Hospital where he was a nurse. “Gentle and such a good listener.”
Jesse T. AlfordJan 23
Show threadPaul CantrellJan 23

OK, this is wild

Throngs of people arriving in every direction, signs, cars honking, wave after wave of protesters

…at the NEIGHBORHOOD TRAIN STOP. I’m not even downtown yet.

Show threadJesse T. AlfordJan 23
@inthehands I’m staying in the neighborhood today but am glad to have at least one person broadcasting direct experience. I’m otherwise getting very little coverage of the general strike and protest.
Jesse T. AlfordJan 8
John PfaffJan 8
Secretary of DHS openly lying. Here's something from the website of the FBI. You know, the people she's lying about having exclusive jurisdiction. Saying that they do not "take over" investigations.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mbwhpvwctp2q
Show threadJesse T. AlfordSep 14, 2025
@Nycto update: I’m username Jjarro, now have all the high scores. I guess I wasn’t bad at it after all. My advice for when I was stuck would be “prioritize gaining and learning new capabilities over getting upgrades”
Jesse T. AlfordAug 30, 2025

@Nycto I don't know if I could like... sideload an additional copy or something?

What happens if you add the same game from multiple sources, I wonder...

Show threadJesse T. AlfordAug 30, 2025
@Nycto I would work harder on the repro but my current run is my deepest yet and I'm not ready to let go of it!
Show threadJesse T. AlfordAug 30, 2025

@Nycto Also, if it helps, in addition to knowing what level I was on, I was generally doing it from the "Your Outpost Has Fallen" screen, and then some enemies would show up, and I'd take 'em out and draw to max and aim just off the edge of the screen... and wait... and eventually give up. Though, if I let that arrow loose first, sometimes it would hit an apparently invisible enemy?

For a little while I thought it was because I was killing offscreen enemies but I don't think that's it anymore.