✨Ben Hamill✨ @benhamill@witches.town

@balrogboogie It's not a bad one, though I own less UA gear than most of my colleagues. Most of it is Cold Gear (which, yes, is a descriptive phrase we apparently brandified 🙄).

Buenas dias, brujas y brujos (y amigxs).

Es frio ridiculo aqui ahora.

IDK if I got that word order right on the last bit. Might should be "ahora aqui". Anyway, thank ZOMG for thermal baselayers.

Feeling sort of listless and bored. Everything I want to watch on TV, my wife also wants to watch and she's asleep already. I'm not really feeling any video games right now. I like my book, but sort of feel like I've done nothing but read and read recently and kind of just want a change of pace.

I think it's not the things, but me. In a weird mood.

@iliana In college, my wife and some friends were naming something after the phoenix and communicating about it in text in some way and one of them asked, aloud, "What a pa-ho-eh-nix?"

So.

@bob Awesome. I hope the rest of your days is great, too!

@mismatched Might do, thanks.

I hope you have a great rest-of-your-day! 💖

@balrogboogie I, too, am doing great. Gonna do some pair programming here in a bit that should be super productive. Lunch was yummy.

I hope you have a great rest-of-the-day! 💖

@bob 👋🏻 How're you?

👋🏻 How're things with you?

@mismatched You know… I never knew where this song was from. I've only ever heard people sing "Good mornin'. Good mornin'." to me (chiefly my mom and her mom).

Also: WOW is this a product of it's times in a buncha ways.

Anyway: How's you?

@Qwyrdo Looking forward to being productive at work this afternoon. It was drizzly at the bus stop this morning, but then I ran into a friend on the bus and we chatted on the way into downtown, which is fun. tl;dr I'm doing well.

I hope breakfast is yummy and you have a great day!

@Qwyrdo 👋🏻 How's it going?

Mornin', y'all. 🌇

@ayachan This is volume 1: https://smile.amazon.com/Dragonoak-Complete-Kastelir-Sam-Farren-ebook/dp/B00WOXQVM2/

It's a self-published book straight to Kindle, so not available other places. It's also pretty clearly not professionally edited, but everything else about it is so good, that's entirely forgivable.

The world building is really great and some fantasy stuff is familiar so that you can focus on the stuff they change. It's a bit of a spoiler, but there's a lot of queer characters (mostly women and NB folks) and I love the way the relationships are written.

It's written in first person and the main character is... extremely relatable.

@feld @Gargron I have used it on various production systems for years so that I choose when and how to manage the complexity of upgrading a dependency instead of the dependency authors choosing. It means I can finish out some feature branch before getting into upgrade work. Or, even better, several developers on active feature branches don't all have to figure out a version upgrade just to get the project to build.

@KameronHurley Starred for, "I see you," not, "This is awesome."

Next up is, surprise surprise, Dragonoak: Gall and Wormwood by Sam Farren. In anticipation of finishing book 2, I'd already downloaded it, so I actually am a few pages in alrrady. #books #nowreading