OK Let's do part 2 of my mega thread on hobbies, motivation & keeping things fun! we rejoin the quest for plinky in nov 2019. I'd forgotten why I started - to reignite my hobby with something simple & instead fallen down a rabbit hole of complexity.
worse, I'd gone on a side quest to learn about STM chips, an interesting intellectual journey but I had taken for granted that capacitive touch sensing was 'easy'. (part 1 was here:
And now, a abramson-sized-mega-thread about hobbies, motivation, and keeping things fun! an illustrated journey through my silly mistakes and occasional joyful success.
if you know me, you know I've been working for years on a megaproject called #DreamsPS4, that just came out (you should buy it, it's great!)
had an eye popping chance to visit @dynamicland1 where @cabbibo and @lukexi spent several hours enthusiastically showing off the space. obvs I'm a big fan of @worrydream's work & various talks, but what I wasnt prepared for was that I'm still thinking about it now! THREAD 1/n
I'm not gonna explain the core premise of @Dynamicland1 , so these tweets are just a couple of things I cant get out of my head at 4am - so if you dont know it, go read about it! back? cool. assuming you have a vague idea of what dynamicland is, as I did, before walking in...
Nov 23, 2018 β’ 4 tweets β’ 2 min read
@AeornFlippout I feel your pain! We had a βfunβ one on LittleBigPlanet 1: 2 weeks to gold, a Japanese QA tester started reliably crashing the game by leaving it on over night. We could not repro. Like you, days of confirmation of identical environment, os, hardware, etc; each attempt took /
@AeornFlippout Over 24h, plus time differences, and still no repro. Eventually we realised they had an eye toy plugged in, and set to record audio (that took 2 days of iterating) still no joy. Finally we noticed the crash was always around 4am. Why? What happened only in Japan at 4am? We begged
