I am SO EXCITED to announce the new release of @The Spritely Institute Goblins 0.17.0 featuring to MAJOR new improvements to our persistence system, including a lightning-fast storage backend called Bloblin!

Spritely Goblins v0.17.0: Persistence is better than ever! — Spritely Institute

This is an exciting release, and to celebrate I animated this loop of the persistence system mascot (Aurie!) serializing to a crystal and breaking out again :) Exciting stuff! :D

Isolation Killed My Creativity by Ben Levin is a heck of a watch and I keep thinking about it

I hate phones. Or, I hate the phones we have Friends wondered why I was so upset when I had to finally ditch the n900 dream and switch to Android. Well. *waves at present* This is why.

Is this right? That *tomorrow* they're going to start denying, in some way or another, X gender markers at US borders / on US passports? https://www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com/u-s-customs-and-border-protection-cbp/cbp-enforces-binary-sex-codes-and-enhanced-us-passport-validation-in-apis/ It's not quite clear what they're going to end up doing. Will they "infer" a binary gender, or will they deny the validity of the passport?