riga @riga@refactorcamp.org

#introduction

~ Hi Everyone ~

I'm glad this space exists and looking forward to spending some time here. Some things about me:

- web developer for money
- slow burning music projects on the side
- politics/philosophy/psychology buff
- ribbonfarm afficionado

in the spirit of further #introduction, some random things that preoccupy me:

- maintaining a generous sphere of personal freedom while being embedded in society in a fulfilling way
- dreams of next-gen composition tools for virtual modular synthesizers
- thinking about how to make North American cities beautiful and functional in spite of decades of car culture
- recognizing and grappling with spooky psychological antipatterns: mine and others'

@riga And yes I am aware how flakey this sounds XD

I’m not a superstitious person but it looks like synchronicity has been dogging me lately.

@riga counteracting that, i suppose, is the increasing availability of high quality tools that act as force multipliers for people who know how to use them well

What’s a coding or coding-adjacent niche that has a small minimum valuable unit? It seems like shopify wix et al are making this unit larger (no need for every smb to hire a dev).

I would like to see a discussion of technical debt that foregrounds the impact on the workers building the software in addition to the bottom line of the business. Piling hacks onto an unfixable monstrosity is soul crushing alienation for people with a craftsman’s outlook.

A friend proposed that there are two types of people: void avoiders and void dwellers. I know where I stand 😅

this is apparently a classic medieval ballad, which means that at least some medieval ppl were heckin broody

@riga It’s about a woman killing her sister out of jealousy. The sister’s body washes up on shore, where it’s found by some minstrels who promptly make a harp out of her breastbone and hair. Then they take the harp to the woman’s house, where it starts playing itself and telling everyone the sister was murdered.

Some folk music is more metal than metal. Try “Cruel Sister” for instance.

omg pipelines have become "energy corridors"

Joe Biden is the political version of a pastoral ideal. Nobody knows or cares exactly what he did — his whole appeal is just about being familiar and folksy and full of ‘common sense’ like how things used to be and how they should be again.

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@riga People complain that the episode was unsatisfying. But if the episode was satisfying, that would be deeply disturbing. We literally watched a whole city get massacred for entertainment. The bleak pointlessness is the point.