A realignment of things

So I've done some things.

Deleting My Fediverse Account

Last night, I deleted my Mastodon account of at least ~5 years from https://todon.eu. It was where I went after PlayVicious, run by https://roiskinda.cool shut down. Normally, I feel things - a decoupling, a sense of loss - when deleting accounts like this. But I felt more deleting my Microsoft account than deleting this one. I have a backup and plan on selectively adding folks into https://fed.brid.gy/ so I can still see posts from my account with https://blackskyweb.xyz/ but it's going to be a small number.

There's a bunch of reasons why I pulled the plug:

• I don't use it often: I keep track of what sites I visit on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. This was one of the ones I didn't really care for, I noticed.
• It's discouraging my rewrite: In order to lean into the idea of the ActivityPub API, I couldn't keep using or running an account held on software stuck in the past of ActivityPub — and in what helped calcify the collective Fediverse experience — as a developer wanting more
• It's no different feed-wise from other things: I have chronological feeds in my podcast reader, my AT Protocol AppView and my RSS reader and this one was used the least.

Leaning into Agentic Tooling

I've written my stance on using these tools. What's probably more important — to me — is that my usage has dramatically increased since starting work with https://divine.video. It's a core aspect of how we manage to keep the platform going with our small team, get high speed turnaround and keep our team's knowledge in a cemented place. https://evan.henshaw-plath.com/ has a vision on how this is changing how folks write software and despite some of the qualms I have with it — acting like it's not a thing is like acting like cars didn't exist in the rural South United States of America or Port au Prince of Haiti in the 1980s.

There's this line from Billy Butcher at the end of season 5 of the The Boys — about an half hour before he dies; where he looks to a Supe and says, "if you can't beat them, join them — then beat them". And it worked. Outside of work with https://divine.video, I've been using these tools to help me build up the apps at https://www.olamaelcu.net/projects. I think the biggest issue I've run into is that now I'm too eager to run multiple projects in development concurrently — choking up my (underpowered) machines. But I've been able to fight off a form of amnesia by repeatedly acknowledging what I don't know in order to figure out how to learn it. That's enabled me to:

• build a shared Rust app core for Livtet for iOS and Android (for Livtet)
• build out a dynamic rules engine in Rust bound to Godot (for Spadat)
• grok how to form dynamic feeds in AT Protocol (for Beats)
• land a refactor for hiding posts in the Blacksky appview

I was (and am) fully capable of doing these things by hand, by myself. However, now I can do it and get quicker demonstration of understanding. I'm not expecting this to gel over well and I've spoken a bit on my Instagram stories about this (blending of worlds!) but as a fully independent contractor, understanding and alignment is the game (always has been). And my personal TIL Obsidian vault now gets some semi-automatic updates leaning on a tweaked skill by Dr. Cat Hicks for OpenCode that lets me review things I did differently or new on a daily basis.

We'll see where this goes.