First book review of 2026! https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/c8a70801-62c2-4c38-a2d0-876ed4f29aa6
Once & future senior software engineer. Memory is brutal because precise. they/them/theirs
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Anne
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new SCA blog post: https://anne.loves.technology/anachronism/rapier/2026/03/19/one-year.html
One year of SCA rapier in Ealdormere
We moved to Ealdormere in the first week of March, 2025, and started attending our local practice about two weeks later, once we’d gotten access to our apartment, changed over driver’s licenses, gotten health cards, and overall things were trending well. Notably we did not wait for our rapier equipment or garb to follow us and arrive in our new home in order to start attending practice. I found out a few months later that Duke Edward the Red keeps track of the attendees at our local practice and what martial arts they practice, and does some basic analytics on them. (I just looked it up in the online Order of Precedence to check the title, and apparently he’s a quadruple peer before you count the royal peerages - he’s a great guy, helped us make some spears and armor repairs, always so friendly! I’m not surprised that this has been recognized and I’m also not surprised that he never brought up his peerage status to us.) He posts it on Facebook!
David GerardWeb4 will be fought with telnet to port 80
@maya I ordered the square one, if you want I will report back on whether slack notifs work in a few months when it arrives. My original Pebble got all the notifs for my Android, including Slack. Which was more of a curse than a blessing when my group chat posted something wildly nsfw in the slack we use to chat, when I worked in-person at an office. My original Pebble did not support emoji but that only somewhat limited the nsfw blast radius
@maya (not to be xenophobic, i just hope whoever it is whose job it is to monitor heart rates in china is having a good time analyzing my data? they probably are not but I can hope)
@maya my current smartwatch is, of course, an amazfit band 5 from 2021 which was extremely cheap and which is probably sending my heart rate info directly to China, which I have mitigated by not telling it correct values for my gender or weight and repeatedly denying it location privileges when it asks for them. So like. Maybe I could have a nice thing instead.
@maya when they announced this I thought to myself, "but do i really think repebble is going to work? do i really want to order one?" and then I closed the tab, but like. I need to replace my smartwatch since the battery has degraded some. I want a month of battery life. I miss my weird blocky black and white plastic pebble from 2015. I am tempted.....
https://intenable.bandcamp.com/album/split-intenable-mudie-2023
j'aime aussi les deux chansons qui sont d'Intenable au lien
Split INTENABLE / MUDIE - 2023, by Intenable, Mudie
4 track album
today I learned the lyrics of B.Y.O.B. by System of a Down are anti-war
one would think that I would have already known this, but I learned this only because of tonight's French listening practice: https://slamdisqueslabel.bandcamp.com/album/zoo-10
do I understand every word? no. do I understand more than zero words? finally, yes
one would think that I would have already known this, but I learned this only because of tonight's French listening practice: https://slamdisqueslabel.bandcamp.com/album/zoo-10
do I understand every word? no. do I understand more than zero words? finally, yes
Zoo 10, by Slam Disques
13 track album