Officially moved back to the UK! With my dog, wife and possessions still pending.
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Joe
@joenash@hachyderm.io
mastodon 4.7.3Talking to developers by day, listening to bats by night.
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A very good Spoonfest was had, and spoons were carved. Some of them almost competently!
Am I into LLM? Yeah I love Large Ladle Making
I’ve just stuck the last Bodgeham smart pass hexpansion in an envelope. Cannot believe there are (about to be) 99 of these things out in the world, I’d never opened kicad in my life 2 months ago.
The @emf@social.emfcamp.org call for participation is open, and so are submissions for the arcade! Starting in 2024, we pivoted from an arcade of classic and retro commercial games, to a space for games makers in and adjacent to the EMF community.
We offer DIY cabinets with x86 pcs or raspberry pis for digital game makers, and have space for more bespoke mechanical and physical games and playable objects.
Just like with the CFP, makers of accepted games are guaranteed the opportunity to buy a ticket, but submitting your game to the arcade is also a great way for folks who can’t make it to the event to have a lil piece of themselves present.
You can find the Arcade submission form along with other CFP details here: https://blog.emfcamp.org/2026/03/24/emf-2026-call-for-participation/
Good news everyone! Copper tier, the self-service, <£1000, online checkout sponsorship option for @emf@social.emfcamp.org is now available! You hold a corporate card, I know you do. Go on. Stick the details in. Just a lil sponsorship. Call it learning and development spend. We won’t tell.
It brings me so much joy that Nominet have now had to deal with not one, but two @emf@social.emfcamp.org parody governmental bodies attempting to register highly legitimate URLs. @BodgehamVillage@chaos.social and @glastonledburyshire_on_severn@fedi.semtex.net, standing together against registrars
As someone who reviews the writing of others a lot in my day to day, I do not actually think LLM writing has improved as much as the discourse suggests it has
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@glennpegden@infosec.exchange thanks Glenn! Really appreciate it :) definitely no space this year, but would love to chat next year. In general we’re aiming for a “developer driven” arcade nowadays, all of our games are submitted by their developers, or invited, we don’t tend to show games whose makers aren’t involved. But we do have a lot of requests to bring back some of the old retro favourites from the previous iteration of the arcade, so any offers are appreciated
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@dee and extremely rad and cool sponsorship benefits that others should definitely follow your lead in purchasing 😏
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@thechaoszone @flamingspork the Bodgeham-on-Wye Official Local Lore Organisation for Cultural Knowledge & Study is very grateful for this archival submission, and will make sure it is duly noted
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@alyx@fedi.shorks.gay @emf@social.emfcamp.org @BodgehamVillage@chaos.social @glastonledburyshire_on_severn@fedi.semtex.net good shout! We’ve had a lot of problems specifically with “-gov.uk”, and I think Glastonledburyshire are as well 😄 https://fedi.semtex.net/@glastonledburyshire_on_severn/116380607191154634
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@dee definitely correct behaviour! (Huge Tailscale fan, I’ll keep a tier warm for them 😉)
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@dee ahhh so that’s how antithesis happened!! Thank you very much for driving both sponsorships 💖
Well that’s the first time I’ve clocked a SAM launcher next to a runway
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@HughEvansDev we cannot comment on our selection process, but it _is_ highly competitive and we are have no time for games with insufficient sides
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Many people liking this do not seem to be aware they have not submitted a game for the @emf arcade
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@Marcus permanent exhibition in the arcade is for makers of the games, but this is deffo something you could submit as a session for the arcade stage! Would make a great evening activity. Could also try hitting up the StepMania devs and see if they’re up for a collab
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@knotnicky no need to be so hasty, the arcade tent doesn’t get erected until Tuesday 14th July
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@knotnicky nicky you’re bringing me PROBLEMS when I need SOLUTIONS. I look forward to receiving your DDR on Monday.
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I need someone with a full working Rockband/guitar hero setup to show up and run Clone Hero/YARG nights, please
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@thechaoszone please our sticker wishlist for 2026 is already going to bankrupt the parish council, we can’t afford to be sniped like this
I host a little Computer Science Education reading club, as a chapter of https://paperswelove.org/. On Thursday, we're back with Professor Felienne Hermans, to chat about her paper "Hedy: A Gradual Language for Programming Education". All the details, and where to tune in and take part, are on our GitHub Discussions! https://github.com/papers-we-love/edu/discussions/11
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@TodePond@mas.to very excellent post for many reasons but I really love the documentation of all your serendipitous meetings and how they all link together
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@bouge@hachyderm.io @Quinnypig@awscommunity.social how dare you, Infinidash was an elegant name
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@cm@fedi.semtex.net i don’t think we’ve had to deal with that one! But we did have to deal with the Spamhaus DBL, which was resulting in our emails being spam filtered. Looks like it’s got your number as well: https://check.spamhaus.org/results?query=glastonledburyshire-on-severn-gov.uk
You can open a ticket with them to get it removed
Do I bother taking the Kellykettle to spoonfest
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@futurebird@sauropods.win I was literally just showing someone the fantastic work of https://moesews.com
New Coincidence (the new studio by the Zachtronics folks) game alert!! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2536720/UVS_Nirmana/
Anyone have experience with MoCA? Is it worth doing? Any preferred adapters? New rental house has coax sockets in all the rooms