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Lords:
* Adina is @FeyTechnologist on Twitter.
* Alex is @ThemsAllTook on Twitter.
* https://www.youtube.com/user/adiener
Topics:
* Anarcho-communism for basic bitches
* How I overcame my inability to stick with a project for the long haul
* https://pomodoro-tracker.com/
* Simulating the fluidity of natural group conversations in voice chat
* Stephen asks: "The Damascus steel of maze generation algorithms"
* https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190919-the-maze-puzzle-hidden-within-an-early-video-game
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastinversesquare_root
* The hidden worlds of each person's living space
* Learning every craft to become the ultimate craft wizard
* https://consumerist.com/2016/12/12/a-few-pen-strokes-on-this-mcdonalds-coffee-cup-give-warmest-greetings-a-new-meaning/
Microtopics:
* Fabric and circus arts.
* Getting private trampoline lessons at the largest nonprofit circus in Seattle.
* Being happy with an audience size that doesn't require you to moderate very much.
* Forming smaller communities to take care of the people left behind by large governmental systems.
* Empowering smaller communities to take care of each other.
* Knowing your neighbors and caring more about them than people you don't know.
* Cultivating a neighborhood to make sure you live near people you want to know.
* The long term viability of the nuclear family.
* A commune of queer people funded by a couple of tech jobs.
* Motorizing two wooden planks and hooking them up to the internet to get hugs online.
* Getting a whole lot done when you don't have internet access but now there's internet access everywhere.
* Adding a physical ritual to a mental activity to make it feel real.
* Putting the tomato on a different shelf to indicate that you are done with it.
* An accountability mailing list where people might hypothetically judge you for what you haven't gotten done.
* Fake accountability that feels real.
* Trying to replicate a warehouse full of indie game devs on Discord.
* Asking you for friends' lunch table to be enlarged so you can fit.
* Writing a Discord bot that replicates the chat of every voice channel in every other voice channel.
* Solving a social problem with social change rather than software.
* How many clicks it takes to switch chat rooms.
* Running through a procedurally generated maze.
* Doing floating point math by aliasing the bytes to an integer and subtracting it from a weird magic number.
* Code that is so self contained and stable that it's not really a problem that nobody understands it.
* Old programmers retiring and their knowledge leaving with them because they didn't document anything.
* Writing a megabyte long brain dump of everything you know about a project before it leaves your head.
* The talk Jim didn't give describing the shaving cream technology in Glittermitten Grove.
* Being too tired from your shaving cream rendering R&D project to do a good job on your beard rendering R&D project.
* Wario Ware except with relaxing minigames rather than stressful ones.
* Porting your game from modern systems to MS-DOS so you can sell it on a floppy disk.
* How scratch and sniff failed where a Smell-O-Vision video gaming peripheral will succeed.
* A swear filter but for smells.
* The Femicom museum.
* Going for walks around your neighborhood and seeing the outside of someone's house.
* The hidden interior of a stranger's home as an allegory for their unknowable mind.
* Peeking into your neighbor's window whenever you get the chance.
* Which service jobs let you go into people's houses and see how they live.
* How it's okay to let the cleaning service employees see your secrets because you don't consider the working poor to be real people.
* Whether house cleaners get a small amount of joy in knowing the weird secrets of rich people.
* The guy who comes in every few months for repairs because your computer is completely full of porn.
* Seeing someone's deepest darkest secrets and being like "it was aight"
* Wanting a nicely interior-designed house but not wanting to put in any effort.
* Wanting to paint your house and painting one wall and thinking "I'm good."
* Getting the kind of paint that seems like a normal wall color but changes to a garish color after it dries, to fool your wife.
* Being ready to learn all the new hobbies as lockdown starts but someone already bought all the sewing machines and felting needles.
* How many more ways you can fuck up a sewing project vs. a knitting project.
* Pulling out all the stitches in a pleated skirt for the third time and deciding you want a different hobby.
* Taking natural animal fibers and stabbing them into place.
* A sewing project having to hang on someone's body in a particular way.
* Learning every game development skill so you can make games without ever talking to anyone.
* Smearing goo on a white surface and it becoming a picture somehow.
* The hobbies we'd have if we had infinite time.
* Looking at a painting and seeing which parts the painter messed up by looking for the parts that are thickest.
* The "warmest greetings" coffee cup.
* The animated gif where they poke a hole in the coffee cup and coffee spurts out.
* Making a d-pad feel like a fresh control scheme by attaching a jetski to it.
* Inventing a solution while also entertaining your audience.
* Co-op TIS-100, where each player gets their own CPU cell.
