I ramble, enjoy.
Small Money, Big Stripe Confusion
I got my first GitHub Sponsors payment yesterday. Five US dollars, landed at around 21:00. I didn't see the notification until I was heading to bed, so at 02:15, right as I was about to fall asleep, I opened the email and immediately posted this:
I Wear My Faith Every Day. I've Never Once Filmed Myself Crying About It.
I was on the werewolf side of TikTok, minding my own business, when the algorithm decided I needed to see a woman crying because a barista wrote "Happy Holidays" on her cup. Not laughing about it. Crying.
Caine Didn't Go Haywire Because He's Evil. He Went Haywire Because Someone Installed Him on Windows 95.
My head hurts.
Seven Prime Ministers, Sixteen Years, and I'm Meant to Feel Something About the Latest One
The door keeps turning. Nothing behind it changes.
AT Protocol has a trademark policy now
Bluesky acquired the AT Protocol trademarks, published a community-friendly policy, and sent me on a tour of every repository I maintain.
Don't Migrate Your Main. I Did, and Here's What Happened.
I pointed early software at the one account I couldn't afford to lose. It went exactly how you'd expect.
Chan eil Fios Agam, and I'm Fine With It
I asked myself, a few weeks ago, whether it would be normal to go by Eòghann when I'm speaking Gàidhlig. My own name is just an anglicisation of it, so the logic seemed sound enough on the surface.
There's a Cross Emoji. There's No Pentacle. That's Not Nothing.
None of the existing pentagrams are a pentacle anyway, which is the detail that gets lost every time this comes up.
What I Actually Do, For Anyone Who's Heard Me Say "AT Protocol" and Nodded Politely
Someone told me recently that I should get some work experience. I have about fifty repositories on GitHub. I also have a poetry anthology running past 180 pieces over six years, and by the same logic, apparently, I'm not a poet either, because nobody's put my name on a spine yet. Both claims are wrong for exactly the same reason, so let's deal with them properly.
Twitter Is the Bit. Bluesky Is the Control Group.
I made a burner account so you don't have to. The hypocrisy was the least surprising part.
Ten Years of Brexit. I Was Never Asked.
I was ten. I'd have voted Remain. Nothing since has talked me out of it.