Every few months or so I check in on @eloraam 's Twitter just to see how their perpetual gamedev project is going. It's kinda comforting, the way they're just always picking away at it, whether or not it ever releases. It's the same kinda warm fuzzies I get seeing someone on Youtube doing a hobby; just seeing a familiar face keeping themselves busy with something they find interesting makes me happy, even if it's someone I barely even know.

Their old RedPower Minecraft mod is a big object of nostalgia to me; to this day, whenever I boot up modded again, I find myself running into problems that i know exactly how I'd solve with RP's tubes. It's always been frustrating to me how clone mods like Project Red keep the list of circuits frozen in the (not at all final! RP was unfinished!) state they were in when it ended, and don't port the tubes at all. Eloraam had a unique knack for constructing a powerful, flexible, yet simple toolset, and if their standalone game ever does release I'll be happy to play it.

UCS-X: a proposal to extend Unicode to a potentially unlimited number of characters.

https://ucsx.org/

Honestly, I'm sad this never caught on - judging by the IPv6 situation, we *really* need to think about future-proofing as early as possible, and we're already more than 10% of the way to filling up the entire Unicode code-point range. How are we ever going to encode all the alien writing systems after we make first contact?

And just *think* about all the emoji crimes we could potentially commit...

What's the best way to attach videos to toots? Since video hosting is really expensive, it seems like I probably want to avoid uploading them directly to the instance unless they're real short.

Is PeerTube the solution here? Just uploading them to YouTube? Will those embed the same way video files will?

Concept:

A thanatobiologist who advocates that "living" organisms should properly be viewed as merely the larval stage of ghosts; frustrated that life-chauvinist mainstream biology stubbornly focuses so much attention on the vanishingly fleeting pre-mortem stage, when basic questions about ghost taxonomy and deathcycle remain unanswered.

#Introduction Howdy! I'm Maxwell Elodie Eldritch - Melody, for short. I'm a twenty-[mumble]-year-old queer enby with a passion for oddities, curiosities, and novelties. I work as a technical writer, but I prefer to focus on hobbies like science-fiction worldbuilding and programming.

I'm no Twitter refugee - I had a Mastodon account (on a now-defunct instance) before I had a Twitter.