ALAN LAVENDER @lavenderlens@social.cleverlibre.org
- Employer
- https://stayahead.com
- Big Idea
- http://mindyourself.io/
- Past Life
- http://www.alanlavender.com/
Java & Web Development Trainer, London & virtual. Author: The Frontend Cookbook. https://FrontendCookbook.com 25+ years’ prior in photography, filmmaking, web development & design for print. Someday would like to do something humanitarian with codeforireland.org and codefortheuk.com. 🌐
Joined Nov 2022
@controlfreak that sounds a really interesting bio in the link above. Us old-timers have the benefit of having seen The Next Big Things come and go. Hopefully we can recognise true advances in productivity tooling whilst not being sidetracked too much by the fad of the moment.
@controlfreak man I remember Sepultura. A fan of our 90s indie Glasgow band used to be a devotee of theirs (fan is too mild a word, even slave or acolyte is more appropriate) and would make his way up the stairs in our tenement close “singing” their lyrics… Neighbours locked their doors, you could hear the keys turn as he ascended floors. Golden days.
@hilljam @axwax @m2m @controlfreak isn’t that amazing?! If we had known then what was to come… just recently upgraded to M1 MBP myself but my day job, coding, doesn't even scratch the surface of its potential with the likes of Photopea, iMovie, GarageBand
@m2m absolutely and I think hybrid is a good fit for many. I miss the water cooler chats and Thursday/Friday drinks after. For me, though, office-based meant a 500 mile commute from Ireland so WFH rocks. I like the occasional on-site to break it up a little and I now travel door to door rather than through my normal place of work which used to be London.
@hilljam @axwax @m2m @controlfreak overheating was an issue with any tech back then. I remember our bass player who was also a video VJ was doing visuals at the Sub Club in Glasgow and had fans on everything, full blast. He went to use his lighter to see something and it would not spark. There was not enough oxygen in the air for combustion yet the floor was full of clubbers giving it the little box big box
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Simone here. I've been a sound and web designer for more than 25 years. Professional bass player and producer, I've been juggling between creativity and technical jobs for decades.
I'm trying to go back to the videogame industry after a 5-year stint as lead sound designer for a console game. I was present at both the launch of Steam by Valve and Game Audio Network Guild, in San Jose, GDC 2002.
Passionate about the small web, static site generators and web standards.
This is interesting… read it, it’s not what you might think..,
https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/the-great-freeset/
@hilljam @axwax @m2m @controlfreak ahhhh nostalgia ain’t what it used to be!!!
Tonight. In. Jun-gle. Land. 🎸🎹
https://youtu.be/m9eBc4ozJHQ
Starships are meant to fly. 🚀🎵
Green light go: SpaceX receives a launch license from the FAA for Starship - Enlarge / SpaceX's Booster 4 is lifted onto its orbital launch mount i...
Ole “52/100 satellites mcSatelliteFace”!
Elon Musk's New Artificial Intelligence Business, X.AI, Incorporates in Nevada - The new organization’s name suggests link to the billionaire’s int...
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Elon Musk's New Artificial Intelligence Business, X.AI, Incorporates in Nevada - The new organization’s name suggests link to the billionaire’s interest in an everything ... - https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-new-artificial-intelligence-business-x-ai-incorporates-in-nevada-962c7c2f?mod=rss_Technology #paid
@sundogplanets guess that’s what Space Force is for!
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Welp, I'm giving another talk on satellite pollution so I have to update the numbers in my slides.
*checks https://planet4589.org/space/con/star/stats.html and https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/table.php?GROUP=active&FORMAT=tle*
Oh crap, there are 150 more Starlinks than when I gave a talk on this topic 1 month ago.
3908 Starlink satellites out of 7545 total satellites.
52% of all sats now owned by one awful dude. Still with effectively no regulations. This is so bad.
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Hello World!
Here's a little #introduction:
I'm a German web developer currently living the rural life in Spain making olive oil, breeding goats and growing vegetables.
Before that I spent 23 years in the UK, studying sound engineering, working at and then running a community radio station and volunteering at a #csa project 1/2
@axwax @m2m @hilljam @controlfreak ah yes! I used an Akai S900 which took oooh 1.44Mb’s but still I could only fit samples fir three songs on one disk. So every three songs the singer had to do a talky bit while I fiddled with the sampler 😂🎹 ah those were the days…
- Employer
- https://stayahead.com
- Big Idea
- http://mindyourself.io/
- Past Life
- http://www.alanlavender.com/
Java & Web Development Trainer, London & virtual. Author: The Frontend Cookbook. https://FrontendCookbook.com 25+ years’ prior in photography, filmmaking, web development & design for print. Someday would like to do something humanitarian with codeforireland.org and codefortheuk.com. 🌐
Joined Nov 2022
