kadei
🏳️🌈🐀 ratboy nerd · https://www.kadei.net · still the only rat rat ·
AD: @afterdark.kadei.net
- had two levoit LV-PUR131 air purifiers, both broke after 3yrs, dead electrolytic capacitors. got hold of new caps, tried replacing them and bugger me they go out of their way to make it hard. glued-in power cables, blobs of glue on the circuit board, one triangular screwhead just to fuck with you..
- finally got some free time today to make some headway on a new (non-work) project and feeling hyped for it! this is what I needed to get over the pawsome fiasco. ah, new software smell 😊 keeping the details under wraps for now (since it's a rewrite of a friend's existing project)
- new vr gear just been delivered! bsb2e, lighthouses, index controllers, 3x vive fbt. ...valve of course announces the death of outside-in tracking immediately after i buy into that ecosystem 😅
- so for a while now I'd been working with Neutron, who was one of the directors of Pawsome, on a registration system. It was on track to be ready for reg in 2026. I've previously worked on con reg systems and knew I could do something that avoided the
- issues that almost all the existing ones had (few tests, little static typing, and almost always proprietary to the con that used them). Mine was open source from the beginning, github.com/kadei-rat/ka.... Well-tested from the beginning. Statically typed, performant, reliable.
- And then Neutron died.
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View full threadAnd I'm absolutely fucking gutted. I spent hundreds of hours on a tight timeline working on this, and to hear so soon after Neutron's death that without him to champion it the con no longer has any interest in it feels like a double gut punch.
- Rumours from distant Wild Northern lands of a questing rodent carrying a Godforged sword...
- realised I know four unrelated furries who all have the legal last name Wolf (or similar) and none of them are wolves
- patiently waiting as the airport security official, looking increasingly annoyed, removes 17 layers of meticulous wrapping around my newly acquired @rivalmit.bsky.social sculpture, which apparently flagged on the x-ray 😅
- a software engineer is a machine for turning coffee into furry art (indirectly)
- the scale and quality level of the eurofurence art show is incredible. just head and shoulders over every other con
- Mango keeping vigilant watch over us as we sleep at EF 🎨 @huie.bsky.social
- at EF and regged! tg me if you're here and want to say hi ^^
- for #fursuitfriday: @dimiotter.bsky.social 🦦, me 🐀, and azure 🦊 at kadcon
- this is how you control drones right
- KadCon 2025 official group photo! (...of everyone except malusmaus who was having a nap)
- for #fursuitfriday: please enjoy @keytarrex.bsky.social chasing me around the garden at KadCon! drone and editing by azure grapes & @raltrax.bsky.social
- sorry about the 30°C weather everyone, turns out that's all from the decades of archived mailing list emails i've been accumulating, my bad
- rumours that the kadcon invite list consisted only of gay furries I've slept with are lies and slander 😤
- best thing about running your own con: droit du seigneur
- trains! (and a canal)
- 5 days till the first kadcon, get hype
- I realise that it starts on vore day, but all the same i would politely ask KadCon attendees to refrain from eating @lupineturpentine.bsky.social even if he asks you, or we won't have a staff bartender at future kadcons. thank you for your cooperation🙏
- trainpal app refusing to sell me a ticket because "The date of birth doesn't match the age selected" the age field is not user-editable. it's calculated from the DoB field. by the app itself. it miscalulated my age, caught its own mistake, and then complained to me about it..
- (actually it had calculated and cached my age the last time i opened the app, which was before my birthday. i just needed to clear cache to force recalculate. amused that they had logic to recheck the DoB against the cached age at purchase time, but not to just recalc if that check failed...)
- when training your derg, remember to positively reinforce the proximate behaviour you want more of. if you get angry at your derg when they fess up about burning a village to the ground for its precious metals, it'll only learn not to fess up next time
