Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

Someone give me an excuse to drop $10k on a volumetric display. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbMk2sP0_i0

@halcy Appropriate addition!

If you're not already here, get in: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/revision/revision

#revisionparty

The Revision Party twitch ban is bullshit.

I have no idea what I'm doing, but I think I start here.

https://github.com/Gargaj/Bonzomatic

This is the closest thing to a sport that I can get into. I need to learn to do this. Linking to last year's Revision Shader Showdown, but I've been watching and voting for this years on the live stream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-0tpXlJLBM

Revision 2021 Demoparty is live now through the weekend: https://www.twitch.tv/revisionparty

I was a bit more selfish with my use of it, and used it to explain to anyone who noticed why I was port scanning the entire IPv4 address space twice per day.

Several years ago I owned the domain portscan.io, and I badly regretted letting it expire, as it was purchased immediately by someone else.

But it seems that the current owner has made proper use of it as a free self-scanning service, so honestly, I'm not mad.

The ability to be a no-code tech worker is pretty neat, but I know I would do better to actually learn how to code.

This is me right now:

So, full disclosure, I have worked in tech for over a decade, I'm skilled at network engineering and software engineering, I work as a support engineer at a software company, and my coding skills are absolute poop from lack-of-practice.

So I dropped like $300 on Codecademy and Mimo training materials, and I'm determined to get myself back into proper shape to program fluently again.

10 days in, and I can program a prime number generator and a fizzbuzz program without docs.

100-day router throughput check.

Of course, I type at like 90wpm, have a degree in journalism, and can do some programming, so it's not like I'm illiterate.

Weird fact about myself: I cannot write. My handwriting is illegible unless I slow down to about 15wpm (printing only), and even then it looks like a child's writing.

This is made even worse by the fact that my digital lifestyle allows me to literally never write. The most writing I ever do is signing a receipt, and that's mostly just a hand-gesture at this point.

And yet this has never held me back since my K-12 days, where I was told that perfect cursive was a requirement to be human.

Just fired up a DHT scraper and I'm sucking up data about the torrents people are downloading in real time.

10 minutes in and I've indexed over 150TiB of downloadable content.

I bought 10 shares of NOK during the initial GameStonk squeeze, hoping to get a tiny taste of the action, and while I have lost money, I also now have an invite to the Shareholder meeting and get to vote, which I plan to do because I've never done that before.

@steve @delve Inoreader does something similar, and lets me put channels into groups based on topic, or create search feeds.

@delve I've been using the hosted RSS at https://www.inoreader.com/ and it's the closest thing I can get to the classic Google Reader experience. I like it enough to pay for the full version.