A bit short and unstructured today, but posting to keep things moving along. End-of-weeknotes, if you will.

• I woke up to a beeping NAS – one of the HDDs is failing with bad sectors, and the drive is less than a year old! I shall be RMA’ing that!!
• Fabrik (which I only wrote about a couple of weeks ago!) is changing their London offering and closing the physical space, so I’ve been trying to track what’s going on with that, but not able to get to any of the meetings about it all. I’m sad about it.
• We recorded episode 476 of Games at Work dot Biz in my early evening. It will be out on Monday. I think it was a good show, and it flowed nicely. I think the episode of Techgrumps that we recorded last weekend should be published shortly as well.
• I worked on the July Trunk & Tidbits blog post (our regular episode of Mastodon engineering updates) – this has been on my list all week to get done, but I fell behind. I hope to get that posted on Monday, a Friday probably would not have been ideal for it anyway.
• Installed a modem into the Pocket Reform, but I left the antenna in a box in the studio and it is not currently registering with the mobile network – I think that’s the only issue, but I’m not an expert in mobile broadband and Linux.
  • I also managed to hose wifi in the meantime (something something kernel update mumble) but I do have a backup / recovery SD image that works, so I’ll figure that out next week.
• Dug into Elena‘s exploration of Friendica! I have a Friendica account – mostly as part of a personal effort to try all of the fediverse things – but I do not use it much. Her enthusiasm is catching, so I’ll probably have to play with it some more. I think the instance I’m on may have fewer features enabled than I see in her article, though.

Next week I really need to focus on some more Mastodon things, some maker projects, and some personal admin tasks. I also want to overhaul the site design here. Hopefully, I’ll have more solid things to write about, as well.

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I’ve been a regular podcaster for, wow, around 15 (!) years now. More or less…[1]

After some occasional guest appearances early in the run of on a show called “Dogear Nation”, back in 2009 I moved up to a regular slot as a co-host, with my friends (and, at that time, IBM colleagues) Michael Martine and Michael Rowe. That show ran for 200 episodes in total, and then after a short break, the same group of folks (more or less) rebooted as Games at Work dot Biz… and we just released episode 473 of that podcast. There’s no special milestone number there apart from the fact that that’s a lot of weeks we’ve been recording, I was just inspired to mention it on my blog since it hasn’t come up for a long time!

We record Games at Work dot Biz together weekly on a Friday, and release on the Monday. Each week, we talk about what’s new in tech, running through stories and links shared in the preceding week by our listeners and also amongst the three of us co-hosts. We originally focused on the intersection of gaming technology and business productivity tools, but have a broad perspective across all things collaborative, social, immersive, and more (plus, LEGO, because, that’s always cool…!).

You can find us on all podcasting apps – here’s a handy jumping off page to your platform of choice, thanks to Episodes.fm which is a really neat way to reach a podcast on your preferred app. We’re currently having a bit of a challenging time getting all three of us together to record at once, but that’s OK – life happens, and there are different dynamics and topics we tend to get into, depending on which of us is reviewing the week’s links!

I also want to give a shout out to Michael and Michael – two dear friends I’m grateful to have made, with connections we’ve maintained, through all these years. They’ve been huge supporters of the things I’ve done, and I appreciate these two humans a lot. I recorded a solo episode of the podcast back in November with a “Thanksgiving” moment, saying the same thing. Thank you, guys!

If you’re interested, I also sometimes pop up in the monthly Techgrumps shows, although that tends to be determined much more by availability – always a fun one, though, so worth checking out if you want to listen to a bunch of folks getting grumpy / cynical about tech! I’ll try to get back to that one sometime soon.

Finally, I’m also always delighted to be invited to be a guest on other shows! Recently, I’ve recorded a couple – only one of them is available right now, and the other one will arrive when it’s ready! This was a panel conversation about Developer Relations in Open Source – you can find that in audio form as well, or a video is available to watch on YouTube if you prefer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oeRxM1X4U4

[1] well, I’m being a little inaccurate here, as there was a whole swathe of time when I wasn’t able to take part in Games at Work dot Biz, so I (re?)-joined the Michaels as a co-host some way into the run! However, I was also occasionally guesting on the Ubuntu UK Podcast back then. It’s complicated!

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