Season 3, Issue 6: Tears of the Cosmos
Writing and printing since 2023
1. Weekly Update
My friends. Three weeks in a row, let's go!!
It's been a productive week for us. We finished one of the Cosmic prototypes. Barry went to see Janet (yes, Janet), and a couple of us here have had the pleasure of seeing the Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse movie (mind-blowing, amazing, glorious, all the hype you've heard is real!).
And we wrote! Not just one but three blog posts:
James learned a thing about Turbo Streams
Lettini told a story about his obsession with the latest Zelda
And I wrote something about free pizza
And James unearthed a fun thing out of his closet:
And I've been working on a zine (yes, for Good Enough).
We hope you've had a fantastic week and may your weekend be filled with sunshine and butterflies or whatever bugs you prefer. ––SL
2. Stepwise
A twitter thread about the beautiful, functional architecture of step-wells, of which India has hundreds. Built to solve the challenge of water supply before plumbing, these structures acted as both access to the water table and cisterns, as palaces and hives of daily social activity. Truly beautiful, functional, public architecture. ––JA
3. Hardware is hard
As part of the Maelstrom I’ve been dusting off an old connected-hardware project and trying to bring it back to life. I thought the big issue was going to be the server, since it hasn’t been touched in almost ten years and a lot of dependencies were EOL and largely undeployable. So, after patching a lot of that, imagine my joy when I plugged in the prototype physical device and it started working right away!
Fast forward to this morning, and the device has decided to stop working. Poking around in a debugging IDE indicates that it doesn’t want to write data to an SD card, so I swap out the card, twice, and still, no dice. The little red “error” LED I made is now lit solidly, like an embarrassed cheek. I don’t really want to spend too long digging through low level software stacks, since that is not The Way Of The Maelstrom, so I’m going to throw computational power at it instead, and upgrade the hardware from an Arduino to a Raspberry Pi. But yes, this has been a good reminder that hardware is, well, hard. ––JA
4. Telling the People
As a new studio filled with people who are decidedly not marketing folk, we’ve been wrestling with how we are going to get the word out about our products. Our most straightforward and obvious first attempt is to tell people about the things we’re doing.
If you follow us on our blog (I sure hope you do!), you may have noticed a flurry of writing recently. Forgive of us if some of it seems half-baked as we’re working on our writing practice. Whatever happens, I just know that we will win the best Zelda blog posts trophy during the new studio awards season!
We’ve also been making attempts at being more active on social media. Right now all that means is more frequent posting. Over time maybe we’ll find some uniquely sardonic corporate voice that will appeal to the meme-lovers. (Good Enough thinks it’s people!) If you don’t follow us, please get on board at Twitter or Mastodon (if you can figure Mastodon out). All likes and hearts and retweets and boosts and toots are welcomed. Thank you! ––BH
5. In Conclusion: Check Your Settings
