From Secure Scuttlebutt

08/08/2026, 08:45:07 PM

Chess in Tilde Friends seems to be coming along. Are there operational other clients and available people that I may attempt to play against? Note: I am no good.

image:Tilde Friends chess

07/29/2026, 11:42:41 PM

I just sent off a Tilde Friends 0.2026.7 release. Among other things, gathering support is new.

What does Tilde Friends need? No wrong answers.

07/15/2026, 04:13:05 PM

Today's weather is "wildfire smoke." I can't say I'm getting used to this, though I suppose it has happened the last few summers now. Everything looks a little yellowish and smells a bit off.

image:Everything is a yellowish haze.

07/11/2026, 01:41:32 PM

I'm on not very good wifi, and tildefriends.net loads significantly worse than I would imagine. It feels like not just low bandwidth or high latency, but like something else is going fundamentally wrong. This upsets me, and I will look into it. Though various other things load poorly too.

On a positive note, in dusting off the wiki app, I found a roadmap I made for myself in 2023, and I'm pleasantly surprised how many of the things I though were just wishful thinking at the time are now basically done: mobile apps, rewrites I wanted at the time, videos, .... The main big area I've neglected is developer experience: type checking, integrated debugger, autocomplete, git integration, and things like that. That was deliberate, and I'm OK with that.

07/10/2026, 01:05:58 AM

I took a half day and Friday off to go to a "remote workers" meetup in Saranac Lake. I have been try to attend one of these for about a year. I had zero expectation going in, and I was lead to believe there would be a presentation or two, but it turned out to be solely socialization.

I had fun! Everyone here seems to be a programmer and paddler. It felt like I found my people.

One person is trying to make the .adk (ie, Adirondacks) top level domain a thing. He has his business reasons, but it seems like a good idea to me.

I think I came from the furthest away for the event, but I'll stay the rest of the weekend paddling and enjoying the area.

One person was at the river cleanup two weekends ago.

Is this what community is?