Great progress on the virtual pinball project tonight! New PSU and GPU installed thanks to the kind skills and patience of @jamieandlion.bsky.social (Get well soon mate!) and now VPX is running super well with no button lag at all! Also installed a VESA mount on the telly to angle it 5 degrees too!
“My talk for SmashingConf is still a bit too long. What should I cut?“
8-y/o: “Not the part with the large machine! That’s cool.“
(She’s talking about the Large Haydon Collider, of course. 😊)
Alright, so … websites! ✨
In other news, we will see Augustin Hadelich live in Berlin next year – playing the Sibelius violin concerto. One of the most amazing pieces of music performed by one of the best violin players ever. In row 4. I can't wait! And my son, who is the actual violinist in the family, is thrilled to bits, of course! 🤩
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4qovV8Okvs
And there are still tickets available, in case you happen to be in Berlin in May 2026: https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/concert/calendar/56682/
At the very top of Adobe Illustrator is this box: "Be an illustrator without doing any illustration work!" Why is Adobe so keen to do away with the very same people who use its products? Just fuck OFF with this shit, seriously.
Yes!! Zack & the greens saying it out loud. Things are shit, but they can be better. ✊💚 [contains quote post or other embedded content]
📢 there will be a test of the UK national emergency alert system at 3PM on Sunday 7 September. More here:
https://www.gov.uk/alerts/public-testing
👋 @webrocker Wo gibt‘s denn hier das beste Eis für die Kids? 😁
Stoked on tonight progress! I now have buttons to control my virtual pinball table! It’s in a rough-as-rats prototype cardboard housing but it does the job! And there’s the big input lag but hopefully that’ll be helped with a new GPU! Next step: using a vesa mount to put the screen on an angle!
It’s alive!!! The Virtual Pinball install went well… it was just a very late night! Straight away I discovered my GPU wasn’t really up to the job but thanks to @jamieandlion.bsky.social to the rescue, it’ll be getting a beefy upgrade soon!
Less than 10 days until I’ll speak at @smashingconf 😱&&🤩
I’m so much looking forward to this – and can’t wait to meet so many nice people in Freiburg! 💚🥳
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“We found that the tipping point where the [AMOC] shutdown becomes inevitable is probably in the next 10 to 20 years or so.”
Fuck.
#Climate #ClimateAction
https://fediscience.org/@rahmstorf/115107959526900112
And yet another “in case you’re interested in audio plugins”: Universal Audio is giving away their classic LA-2A compressor as part of their Labor Day flash sale (until Sept 1st).
https://www.uaudio.com/products/teletronix-la-2a-tube-compressor
Well it took me several days of wrangling but finally upgraded my @getkirby.com powered site from 2.5 to 5!
Falling deeper down that virtual pinball rabbithole! Ordered myself a 43” 4K screen for my playfield and have gotten lost admiring all the amazing tables have been made / recreated / updated by the scene! Can’t wait to load them up and give ‘em a try! Just look how good this Godzilla one is!
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• Martina Flor
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