Alright, we can get started. Let me just double check the recording's working.
It is indeed fantastic. Let's go take a look at those list of questions as a reminder.
If you have questions, drop them in the prime time. 2023 11 07 thread.
If you put them anywhere else, I'm not gonna see them.
So get them in that thread if you don't know where that thread is, uh,
I'll link it in various
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dos But, you know, don't
don't put questions elsewhere. I won't see them.
Uh, we
started
here we go, um,
talk to the questions and get them going.
Um so re
it just asks, How is dog? There's lots of stuff in in the primes Dog thread there. II.
I don't really know where to put it.
Um, the dog does now have a name, so I might be able to, like,
do it like make an instagram or something.
I don't know. It's it's difficult to like
metre the amount of spam I'm sending to various colleagues and friends about dog.
So, like, you know,
maybe giving it its own instagram is is the way to go. But whatever,
Um
I'm really annoyed. Um, because that baby, I gotta I gotta send it back.
Basically, um, I hate having to send like,
big Amazon returns back like small things is fine, But like big things,
it's just like,
uh
and I always feel weird about it because it's like, Hey, I I've, you know,
undone all the plastic undone all the cellophane undone like you know,
et cetera, Like half the screws have now got bits of drywall on them. So
cool,
anyway, moving on to non dog related matters.
Um,
Lexus,
what are some of the business related things that you do as part of the business team?
Um, I wish that we wouldn't call them teams I.
I wish we'd still call them areas cos teams in places like Hierarchy Organisation,
et cetera.
We do need some of that, of course. So maybe we should keep the name there. Um,
but it's it's mostly sort of like who can help with what? Right now, Um,
I am mostly dealing with
policy and in some cases, process.
Uh, and in some cases, like B to B contacting, um,
cos that sometimes falls through the gap, we get lots of emails into our, um,
our business email address, and we just accidentally ignore them.
Um,
one of my mandates is that I want to make sure that it's not a
black hole like a certain other email address you guys might remember from a,
um,
a time in the past.
Um, you know, we wanna make sure that, like, hey,
if we don't want to use this particular service, we're going to say no to you,
Um, so that you're aware,
Uh, I do not do that for obvious spam. Like we get about three.
we can
make your SEO on the website better. Like, contact us now. And I just like, Oh,
delete.
I'm not I'm not uniting that with with any sort of stuff. Um,
the other people are focusing on other areas there. Um, a
lot of my involvement in the business team is just because, like,
I've done everything
like,
uh, I've I've worked many jobs, many places, many, many roles.
And so, um, as the company grows, it's like, Hey, I,
I have some experience dealing with that.
I'm not the best at doing it,
but, like I at least know what these words mean,
um,
what came up the other day? Like cost per Millie or whatever. Like it's the way that,
um, most video based content figures out how much to pay someone.
I don't remember why it came up, but it came up. Um, yeah.
Uh, Trinity says now that the convention is over, what's your goals?
Forward progress. Obviously not really.
Surprises, but just general sense of what you want to work on.
Uh, there should be no surprises.
If there's stuff that we're working on,
we wanna make sure that we're communicating it to you.
Uh, to that end, I am working on C I CD.
But I'll save the rant about that for the next question from specs,
cos they're asking about that.
Um, beyond that, I do have an accessibility feature that I want to work on.
You should have sent Shifty's
announcement today about accessibility folders inside
essentials.
Um, good initiative from her. Um, we need to do more there.
Uh, but I will be working on an accessibility feature very shortly about that.
Um, it's very close to my home. Uh, but I'll save details of that when I put up the
github issue.
Unlike other things Where, like, uh, we put up a github issue and it gets, um,
ignored is the wrong word.
Remember, we're not ignoring you and it gets
no attention. I.
I know this is the same with being ignored, but remember that we're not ignoring you.
We're just like we got 400 issues going
and, like my fingers for the last hour have not stopped moving across the keyboard.
Um, doing other random stuff. So not ignoring you.
We're just working on other stuff. But anyway, I will put up a
issue that explains the
feature that I'm working on and stuff like that.
Uh, so I'll wait for that to go up. It's not a surprise. It's just like I.
I can't be bothered to talk about it right now cos I'll have to think about it too much.
If I think about it too much, I'll get out of office hours, Brain.
Um, it's just like, you know, balancing where the brain power is going.
Uh,
so specs ask for some of the work freaks has
been doing to ease the bill process on laptop.
How is the path to C I CD looking?
Um, it's going great.
There's lots of repetition I've noticed that we can like share GI
work. F
files, files, Yes, files. So, uh, I'm looking into
maybe doing bats that we can't You know, I can stop writing dot net pack.
Um, every five seconds.
Uh, we got interesting in a switch. Is the forks that we do?
Um I don't particularly like how many forks we have
that isn't saying that we shouldn't be doing what we're doing.
It's It's a sort of nature of what we're doing, Uh,
and a nature of the reality of open source development,
Um, in terms of the forks. But I, I just like
I wanna make sure that wherever possible, our forks are years in the living.
They're like months in the living.
Um,
So I'm trying to get sort of like any
changes that we have merged back into the main line
so that we can Then just maybe not delete our fork,
but stop using it cos it means that we don't only worry about C.
I CD
uh, and we get the advancements of those package maintainers,
which in most cases know more about the package than we do.
Um and there are features. Good example Will be message format.
We had some awesome, um, advances to message format that flus wrote a long time ago.
Um, turns out some of those then existed in the mainline,
so we tried to switch back to the main line,
but then we found changes that we still needed from our forks.
So we un forked and then forked again,
so that that's always fun.
I just wanna, like, get that number, um, tracked and get that number down.
I don't want it to, like, stay stable.
It going up up is fine,
but I wanna try and have at least events
where it goes down cos it makes everything easier.
Um,
we still haven't started looking into the more complicated dependencies for CD,
which are things like native dependencies.
By the way, if this technical stuff is making no sense, don't worry.
I will move on shortly to another question.
Um
uh, and those are problematic cos they need to be compiled for multiple, um,
operating systems, et cetera.
Then beyond that, the only remaining hurdle is sort of, uh,
the private dependencies that we have.
Those are things which are not publicly packaged. Uh, we haven't done that yet.
There is a way to do that with github
workflows. You, of course, won't see that cos those are in the private,
I suppose. Uh, but there we go.
One of the interesting things that we're going to have once
we've got all that working is sort of version management.
I am pushing the team towards semantic versioning.
Um, but it's sometimes difficult to sort of reason about that,
particularly when you're trying to push out a build of resonate.
So,
uh, that might be a conversation I have to have with the team.
I'm confident in it. It's just it's taking a lot of work.
It's just like copy paste these work profiles, blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah.
Anyway, uh, moving on to another question, right to ask,
can you motivate me to finish cleaning my VR area so I can hop and resonate?
Um, I'm gonna give you the, um, sort of random cleaning tip.
I think it came from like an a DH D YouTube or anything,
but it it's what I've been doing for all my life,
which is put items closest to the place that they should be,
and eventually they will make their way to the place that they should be.
As an example of this, if I find items that should be in my kitchen in my living room,
I will move them to the kitchen.
I won't care where they are in the kitchen.
I would just put them on a kitchen work surface and vice versa.
If there are items that are in the bathroom, I will you know,
that need to go in the bathroom.
I'll put them on the bathroom counter,
and eventually they'll make their way into the bathroom shelves or or or drawers.
The idea is that you you make it easier to finish tidying up
and also easier to sort of make incremental changes.
Um, a good example there is, like, you've probably at least one of you in this chat.
Has got, uh, too many drinks, um, on your desk
just every time you stand up and go towards the bathroom,
even if it's completely out of your way,
as in the bathroom is on a different route than your kitchen.
Take the glasses with you
and put them at a midway point between both destinations and then it's easier,
right?
Cos then when you journey from either the
bathroom or where you're sat doing your work
to the kitchen, you'll see at that like, let's say it's a crossroads for me.
It's a crossroads. Um, there's glasses there already. They can.
They can just follow you like you have two hands.
Think about how much those two hands are empty whilst
you're walking around your house and you'll give it tidy.
Moving forward to Tiki's question, Tiki says after optimising. My avatar,
um,
bunch of optimisations I still struggle to get 60 FPs inboxed.
Previously on on uh, I had a steady, uh 6080. Is there anything else? You
But we're seeing some issues that we we haven't narrowed these down,
so I don't wanna like I don't wanna, like,
put these on a banner like Come down
from the mountain with my tablets of commandments
But we're seeing issues with render, transform, override and lights.
So reduced lights, particularly mirrors as well mirrors and lights.
So try reducing those and see if you have any benefits.
But please do not stamp that on some tablet and say, Prime said that lights are bad
um I will refer you back to the time where I banned ladders from a Minecraft server.
I was an admin on just to try and illustrate to people how ridiculous rumours were.
Um, we think that there are issues there.
We are still looking into them to get concrete data.
If you do have concrete data, we'd love to have it. Drop it on the appropriate github
issue for that particular thing.
Uh,
we've got people comparing worlds and turning off lights
and doing all sorts of stuff like that.
Um, so that's why I think it's in that area. I'm not entirely certain
Reno ask thoughts on the advancement of, uh,
stores stocking and selling December holiday items already.
Um, we live in a society where they did surgery on a crepe. Um,
that society is
currently running under capitalism.
I am not sure that capitalism is the best, um, sort of
social construct.
Um, but that's a rant for another day.
Um, additionally I.
I don't like bringing up something like that without having an alternative.
And I don't have an alternative
like I've done research into other sort of social structures,
and I'm like they all have their problems.
Um, and it would be very difficult to make capitalism work.
Like someone was saying, um, the other day, Uh,
I think I saw on a YouTube short if we wanted to fix the traffic around L A.
And I've never been to L A.
But I presume there's lots of traffic in L A based on this tiktok, um,
that they should ban private jets because,
apparently,
like all the L A celebrities use private jets to get
around cos it's easier than the traffic in L A.
If they brand private jets,
the, um, celebrities would have to use main City streets,
and that would fix it within a year, they say.
I don't really know how that would
cos celebrities aren't usually like politically motivated,
but I don't know,
maybe it'll slow down the films or something.
I mean, right now.
Maybe if the, um, the Writers Guild added, like fixed traffic to their, um,
their requirements, then that might also fix traffic.
But, uh,
we should support them in their existing demands and not add more to their list.
I don't know if that's still going on, by the way,
like I need a website like my website where it tells me like,
are the writers still on strike? Yes. No.
Cos like it's difficult for me to keep up with it,
but I still want to know,
like the state of it cos I remember TV S got really wacky last time it happened.
My tumble dryer is still going.
It does that every time I forget to take stuff out, it just keeps tumble drying.
I don't really know why I'll go ahead and take a look at later.
Frankie boy says there's no way A good way to submit ideas and suggestions. Yes, Um,
go ahead and open issues on our, um github
is resonant issues. I see Shadow Panther has linked it below.
Um,
I know that it might be a bit difficult for you
guys to post there or you might be unfamiliar with github.
Please, please, please do it. Um, if you don't,
I'm going to forget it.
I will apologise for getting it, but it's still going to happen.
I lost my phone four times today. I do not know how.
There are only like three places it can be, but I still lost it so There we go.
Uh,
I'm gonna try and do my best to pronounce this. It looks easy, but I might screw it up.
Uh, smuggle.
Uh,
oui. Uh, is optimisation of the game major priority at the moment?
Or are we likely to see a
significant improvement until other features are completed?
We still have not announced our next priority or our road map.
Like I said, I will be working on that accessibly feature. It will be posted shortly.
Um,
I'm doing that one out of a personal reason you'll see more when I post the issue.
I just I don't want to think about it right now,
cos my brain will get distracted from questions.
Um, but once we announce the road map, you'll you'll see there.
Optimisation is a concern of mine.
Um, trust me, um, we're not ignoring it. Uh, we are thinking about it.
I know that every time I launch, um, Resonate, I
like I get little frustrated about how long things take to start up et cetera.
Um, we are thinking about it. We are looking into it. We do have ideas.
We do have plans. We just don't have those plans. Slotted into gaps.
Um,
if you just, like, imagine like, you know,
a big stack of plates where different plates are different widths.
That's what we're trying to do, right?
We're trying to make a nice stack of plates that are different sizes,
different widths, different heights,
different colours and put them all together in a way that makes sense,
like we know what the plates are.
We just don't know the order that they need to be slotted in.
And if you see us doing random stuff like you'll see in the update notes,
I fixed like a colour node.
That was because that took me, like, five minutes.
I could write a test for it, which is part of C I CD.
Um, and it was like a like a a treat. It's like
I I'm I'm done working on my big ticket items today.
I'm going to have this small fancy cake of this tiny, um, proto
flux node fix. So
don't feel that, like we're just randomly picking issues. Sometimes.
Sometimes we just look at the issue list with a different mindset.
We look at it rather from having a full meal. We look at it for like another Dorito.
There's always room for another Dorito.
If there's a bowl of Doritos out on the table,
uh, moving forward red kits has a lot of questions and a video. Yay.
Let's, uh, take a look at this
English back in my face, Back in my face. Um,
so Red's
first question says,
Can you use flux to force equipment avatar like equipment to a cube out of it, and
then back to the original one? Yes.
You should be able to use the equipped avatar now to do that,
lots of people do that to, um, use avatar voice source as signer,
which, uh, appears to be your second question.
So, yes, that is the way that we, um, recommend is the wrong word.
That is the way that you can do it right now.
Um, you can do it other ways, probably in the future, But, hey,
you can do it that way right now
and then Their second question is,
is there a component that allows me to use flux to drive an unknown amount of values?
No.
Um, we still don't have what's called dynamic. Um
uh, field access. So you can't, like, say, Here's a list blah, blah, blah, blah.
You you
gonna have to link it together.
Um,
and unknown
values would probably benefit from, um, dynamic variables,
particularly dynamic variable value driver.
What you can do there is just write that variable
to one place and then use dynamic value variable driver
to drive. Um, a bunch of different values.
So good example here might be lights right. So there is one light switch in the world.
And rather than wiring that light switch up to all of the lights in the world,
you would instead, um, make light switch total a dynamic value,
variable of type ball for lights on or off.
And then all of the other lights would just
have a dynamic value variable ball on them,
which drives the enabled state of the lights,
and then it would work for any number of lights.
That setup is also particularly good, because if you duplicate a light,
let's say you grab, you know the lamp and you duplicate it.
If it's still got the dynamic variable components on it,
it will work with that light switch without any updates.
Completely wirelessly, I recommend that set up,
uh,
Trinity says diverging from the back end of
resonate on your tutorial centre of things.
Do you have any tutorials in the works? I have four that have been on my laptop.
I did have plans to like, um, upload them whilst I was at the convention.
Um, but I usually spent zero time at my, um, at the convention room.
Um, I roomed with, uh, dionys, um, the Venus tri, uh, flytrap guy.
Um, awesome person to room with no complaints whatsoever.
Um, I was a bad roommate cos I'm like, Hey, it's 4 a.m. I'm coming back to the room.
I'm incredibly drunk. I'm trying to keep quiet, but I just stubbed my toe on, um,
anyone who went to the convention, You know,
this the weird seat that's at the front of the bed, which looks like it should be soft,
but is actually harder than diamond.
And so I stubbed my toe on that one.
and
there was one night I came back completely drunk at 6:30 a.m. Yeah.
You heard that right? At 6:30 a.m.
Um, that was that was fun,
but, uh, yeah, I spent, like, zero time in my hotel room.
I I could have like, honestly, I could have just, like,
had a blanket pile in like a corridor, and I would have slept.
Yeah, I will get them updated. I've got, like, I think, three I wanna record more.
Um, it's just like
there's always something going on.
I mean, like, now I've got the dog I've got, like, the dogs that I like sell down.
We're having some house training issues, so we take them out all the time.
I say we I don't know really know why that it's just us two. But, you know,
like but immediately following this office hours, for example,
we we're going out for a pee and we're coming back in,
and then I'm putting him in the crate, and I'm gonna go to a Walgreens,
and I'm gonna buy, like, fizzy water of some kind.
Whatever fizzy water is is cheap right now.
Uh, vod poor says what? Objects look better with motion Blur.
I apologise for this, but I'm instantiating a new policy for office hours.
I am not answering questions about motion blur.
They will be treated exactly the same as other topics
that I am not answering questions about it is not out of disrespect.
It is not out of ignoring your issue.
It is out of my frustration that every single office
hours we have the same questions about that particular topic.
I understand that you are frustrated about it.
There is nothing I can say to you in this half hour time that
I have that will improve the situation or decrement the situation in any way.
So in order to remain entirely neutral,
we're just not answering questions about motion Blur.
If you have questions about motion blur, drop them on the
github thread and I will answer them there when I can.
And when I'm able to, I won't be answering them here. I get it. I understand.
I wish it was simpler. It's not. But talking about it here isn't going to help.
Uh, someone mentioned tile. Um yeah. I. I had a tile in the past. I I lost it.
I know that sounds stupid.
I do have Google home, and I have used it to find my phone occasionally.
Um, but the the type of losing that I mean is the like.
You lose it for, like, less than a minute it's
Where's my phone?
Is it on
the desk, or is it
in the kitchen, or is it in the bathroom or is it in the bedroom,
or is it in my coat pocket?
It's not. I've lost it completely.
There was once where I lost it completely, and it was like bunched up in some laundry.
And I did use the Google home feature for that.
OK, so I think we're through on questions, so I get to go into random times.
Now, if you have any additional questions, please drop them in the thread.
But we're going to go ahead and and tangent over to, um, BLFC happenings.
Um, so someone asked 6:30 a.m. You good? Yeah, I'm good. Um,
for anyone who has not been to a convention before, Uh,
the general principle is you try to see as many people as possible.
People are like, What am I meant to do? A convention.
So it's like your objective each day is to say hello to as many people as possible,
and usually that means sort of migrating around various events.
Um, and you try not to spend, um,
too much time at one event unless It's a really good one.
And that way you're you know,
you
You exist very well at all of these events.
So that particular day, they all kind of blur into one.
I don't know if it was, like, I know the days by, like, which shirt I was wearing,
so I don't know if it was burger shirt or union jack shirt,
but like,
a lot happened there.
Um,
I don't think the grog event was the bowling shoes event.
I don't I don't know. Um, anyway, I was, like, isolated, isolating it down.
Yes, there was a pirate party.
Um,
you He was there. Lots of people were there.
There was grog on tap, which was some
ungodly cocktail that tasted great.
Um, so everyone was drinking tonnes of it, and I got quite drunk there.
Went on to a few various other places.
Uh, and then it was 4 a.m. but I wanted to do one more loop around the convention floor,
took a few photos, uh, bumped into some more people.
Um, and I think I bought them,
bought them some drinks, um, water because they were
trapped without, like,
without funds or whatever. So I'm like, Yeah, let's have some drinks.
Let's sit down.
Yeah. 6:30 a.m.
as for
the bowling shoe thing, we have a story there.
Uh, I won't tell you their name because I don't know if they're like,
they want the story known.
Um,
there is a friend who I had for a long, long, long time over in, uh, VR chat.
It turned out that they were at BLFC and we were like,
Let's meet up And we've never met each other.
But it was like we'd met each other like, and we just hanging out.
Um,
they were very drunk.
Um, they had drunk one of the those who don't know that it's a place where you can get,
like, foot long iced margaritas at BLFC.
And, uh, they had one of those and a bunch of other drinks,
and they were just completely, completely gone.
But we ended up in the arcade.
BLFC has an arcade where lots of old retro, um, video game consoles are there,
and you can play them et cetera.
We ended up there.
I was kind of done with there because I was like,
zoning out cos the screens and the controllers, but I was like, Let's do bowling.
We got some friends at bowling.
Um, I think at the time Ozzie was actually at bowling, so we tried to go bowling. Um,
my drunk friend introduced himself to Ozzie in a very sort of drunk ruffian way.
So I apologise for that one, Ozzie. But you you did a good job combating that.
Um, Then we went to the bowling shoes area.
Um, and I'm like, trying to explain to my drunk friend, Hey,
you need to put
bowling shoes on so that you can bowl. He's like, No, I don't.
I'm like you do like, you'll damage the bowling floor otherwise,
and I don't know if they'd not been bowling before or they were just too drunk.
They just didn't understand what bowling shoes were.
So I'm like, Hey, um,
what size shoes are you?
And they haven't really bought that many shoes, so they're like,
two XL I like.
That's not a shoe size, but it is in some places, like target or whatever.
But like I was looking for a number, they couldn't find it.
And so, you know,
I just met this person a few hours ago and I had
my face in their shoes trying to look for the label.
Um, anyway, we found an appropriate size shoe.
At least we thought and I said, Hey, put these on
and, uh, he went to go put them on and they weren't fitting.
And I was like, We can get you a larger size And he went, No, it's OK.
And he did like a sort of like, um,
anime style scream at the shoe as he tried to force his foot into there.
Anyway, so he ended up having one shoe on that had a bowling shoe.
And I told him, Hey,
you need to put the other bowling shoe on
and then we can go bowling and they didn't understand
and they just stood there and made drunk noises,
and after a while I went, OK, you have two choices now
put on two bowling shoes or two human regular shoes.
If you put on two bowling shoes, we'll go bowling.
If you put on two regular shoes, I'll take you back to your hotel room.
Or we can go get more drinks, whatever you wanna do.
And he didn't do it either.
And I'm like, Hey,
you're kinda like in the middle of an A like an option here.
We need to, like, decide one, decide one, like bowling or not bowling.
You need to make that decision.
And the way that you make that decision is what you do with your shoes right now.
And they just weren't responding. And so eventually I'm like, Hey, is this a joke?
First warning. If it's a joke, drop it.
Yeah, it's funny, but you need to put on two shoes of one kind.
Uh, they ignored all my warnings.
Uh, and so I had to leave them there. I should have taken them back to the toi.
Um, I did
later or something. Anyway, um,
I don't really remember, but, um, it turns out
the next day I didn't talk to them because I was busy with other matters.
They DM ed me on discord a little bit later and they were like,
I like I don't know where my shoe is. I think housekeeping stole it.
They gave me, like, a slipper,
you know, like a bath slipper. Sometimes you get those at fancy hotels,
and it was like,
Hey, um,
can you check the bowling alley for your lost shoe?
And they said What? That doesn't make any sense. And I was like, I know, I understand.
But can you just go to the bowling alley and see if they've got a shoe there?
And then, like, five minutes later, he's like, Hey, the bowling alley had it.
You found it,
But he didn't remember why.
His shoe was at the bowling alley, so he was very confused,
so I had to explain. Hey, we tried to go bowling. You weren't up to it.
Um, you must have just, like, you know,
left with one shoe on.
But I'm glad that you have your shoes back now.
They actually missed the resonate meet up cos they didn't have shoes.
So it's like a huge chade of events that led to the missing their resume.
Anyway,
moving forwards.
Uh, we have some questions now.
Um,
Alex, two places. Do you know if anyone's reported any problems?
The reflection material specifically with normal maps on the material.
Uh, there is a get up issue that specs has launched.
I It's a graphical thing,
so I don't I don't really understand how the reflection material works, but Yeah,
there we go.
Um, And then, uh,
Rhino says favourite irrational number. Uh, E.
Cos I have no idea when you're meant to use it
like it's in every, like, programming language. You do like math or E.
And I'm like, but when am I meant to use it? I don't understand, but it's funny.
Um,
Raid says thought some PK PK is good.
Um, the milk that was served at the milk party could have been done with, like,
being more chilled.
I wanna, like, say, like, PK with ice Might be good. Like milk on the rocks.
Might be good.
Uh, Aris has come in and said, uh, floor seven in the elevator.
Uh, yeah, that was That was hilarious. Like, Oh, I was pissing myself.
That's how funny that was.
Ice does improve it. Specs.
I did.
Um, we haven't come up with a name for this, but there's like,
a a chocolate drink called yahoo.
Um, I did yahoo and Pepsi. So, like yolk. I don't know.
Um,
there we go.
That was good.
Someone's asking about my favourite alcoholic drink. Uh, I like fruit.
Um, and that's because most alcohol is, like
kind of gross, but like fruity alcohol is OK.
I will like murder. Like beer. And like, all sorts of beer, like
pale beer, dark beer.
But like sometimes if I wanna drink alcohol, I just want fruit flavours.
Um, so I particularly like anything that has fruit in it. Um,
uh,
if I had to pick, though, it would be a maitai Mai Thai meit
maitai I. I don't know how to pronounce it. Anyway,
um, it is
It is good, but very strong.
Um, so do you watch out for that one?
Uh, if this is any other stories for BFC. OK, fine. We'll do another story, please.
Someone drop a resonate question so we can
stop sharing embarrassing stories of my life.
Um,
so, uh, I was wearing this shirt on some days for obvious reasons. Um,
in fact, most people that didn't or have not met me before recognised me.
Not because they knew I looked like or that I introduced myself,
but because that giant seven was emblazoned on my chest.
And, um,
one of these nights I was wearing the seven shirt and we were
in an elevator and for those that don't know elevators at conventions,
Um, often get really, really full and go to lots of floors.
Lots of people call it elevator con.
Basically,
you spend much longer in an elevator with many more people than you realise,
and it gets super awkward.
So you start having conversations,
but, um, we're in an elevator and I was sort of pushed towards the back,
and I was facing the wall directly looking at AGIs,
who was facing the door of the elevator.
And for whatever reason, someone had pushed seven on the elevator
and
they didn't intend to or whatever. So we got to floor seven and the doors opened.
And like there's seven written on the wall,
you know the like Braille plaque that's on the the elevator door entry.
Uh, there's seven written on the LED panel of the elevator,
and then someone in the front says, like anyone from floor seven,
I slowly turn around with a giant seven emblazoned on my chest, and I go,
You would think so. But actually, no.
And then anyone in the elevator that is from
Reson. I
knew why I was giggling, but it was awkward.
Cos we were like, you know, like, I could practically sort of, like, you know,
nose to nose
Adris. Almost because of how many people were in this elevator.
Because of that, it was super awkward.
And so that just, like,
added to the funny And so as the doors slowly closed on floor seven,
anyone from residents there was just giggling.
And then the floor continued.
Someone else could I seven. I'm I'm not answering that question today.
Um, uh, resin, Easter eggs. Uh, the fruit batches. There are three fruit badges.
I know exactly why they occur. You don't
enjoy.
There's the, um, orange badge, the melon badge and the blueberry badge.
They all have, uh, different meanings.
I do believe there might be a bug, cos I see someone that permanently has them.
The blueberry badge.
So the blueberry badge might not be working, but like it's a low priority bug.
Easter eggs are low priority bugs.
One of the problems with Easter eggs that I
have is like they require maintenance to to do.
I don't know why I've got hiccups all of a sudden, but
they require maintenance.
And if if the Easter egg requires too much maintenance, it should be removed,
not maintained.
Um, that's my stance,
but I do come from working at Microsoft for a long time.
Where they banned globally April Fool's jokes cos
it it co like the legal team basically said
April Fool's jokes cost this amount of dollars in lost revenue per year.
We are banning all April Fool's jokes. So it's like, OK, cool.
Basically too many people got confused or
it was uncertain there wasn't enough approval.
And so there would be lost lost revenue in some
calculable way because of the April fools drove backfiring.
Um, so there you go.
Uh, Josh has an actual resonant question. Fantastic.
Um,
objects generated by screenshots on the record. Jason object.
There's a tray with a string that follows time stamp
and then a time Is that guaranteed to be UTC? It looks like it.
I just want to know if you can confirm it. Um, I would not confirm it to be UTC.
Um, if it, uh, Lex says it uses 8601 format. If it uses 8601 format.
Uh, then it should have a time zone.
Um, specify if it does include one
We're kind of really bad at that stuff. And I'm an expert.
Uh, so it is on my list to fix that.
But that's on the sort of, like
I am bored one day, and I don't have any other work to do,
So I will fix the time zone stuff.
I used to work in racing, so I know, like time. Really? Well, in terms of programming
and I, I guarantee anyone that writes code involving time you're doing it wrong.
Somewhere
like you just you're doing it wrong somewhere.
I don't know where, but somewhere.
Um, Shadow says that there are originally 26 fruits for April fools.
They are, um, and as far as I'm concerned, I'd have to look, um, April next year,
those fruits will probably turn back on again.
I'm not quite sure if we're gonna update that,
but they will automatically happen if, um if April happens,
my dog has woken up and looked at me.
They looked at me, licked their lips and then went back to sleep.
It was hecking adorable.
You know,
sometimes when you wake up in the middle of the night
and like your tongue just feels wrong and you've got,
like, you know, wake it up and, like, waggle it around and be like la la
right? And then you just go back to sleep. That's exactly what that dog just did.
Of course,
everyone is now really aware that they have a tongue inside
their mouth and they don't know where to put it.
Like, where is it?
Notice that you have one
and notice where it is.
I've cursed you for a couple of days.
Um,
let's curse you some more.
So at one point, um,
we were doing that sort of trolling at university where people say stuff like that.
Another one is like, you're aware that you are breathing.
It's not like you're like, Oh, no. But like, um,
I suddenly became
aware of the distance between my toes and that they were
touching too much like my toes were touching too much,
and it got really bothering, um, on this one particular day.
And so I ended up wedging, um,
like pens in between my toes so they would not touch just for like, half an hour,
so I could, like,
forget about that sensation. But there you go.
Notice that your toes are touching.
Count the number of touching toes.
Let's move on to some questions rather than trolling your, uh, your nervous system.
Um, Trinity says, What's the most fun thing that, uh, you've made for Resonate? Um,
I don't know, like my memes for
is Is there like, I'm so busy these days? I don't have time to make anything big.
I've got so many projects For those of you that have found some of my secret keys,
there's meant to be eight secret keys, but like I've only ever made. Four.
No one's found the fourth, but like, you know, I've only ever made four.
I need to make four more. I'm probably never going to cos I'm so busy.
So my Memes folder is to like stand in there.
The Memes folder is usually like an hour or two
hours where I'm just like committing to the bit,
and I am dropping everything
and, like, I don't know, like a bullet out of a gun.
I am trying to make that a bit happen. Most recent one.
There is Activate or Deactivate Iguana, which is a part from Star Trek Voyager,
where someone memed it by making it into a
single Tik tok or whatever that was deactivate iguana.
And then someone edited the audio to make it activate iguana
and then reversed the clip so that the iguana activates.
I made that in Resonate. It's in my memes hoarder. I love it. Um,
that was a situation where it was like, I want to do this.
I will now spend three hours trying to find a permissively downloaded, well rigged,
well textured iguana.
It's just like, what has life become? I'm looking for an iguana on sketch
fab at, like, 4 a.m. on a Tuesday.
But that's Resino for you. And that's my means for for you,
right? It says 12 hour, 24 hour time. I use 24 hour time.
It ignores Americans to no end. Um, and they say like, Oh, God, do the calculation.
And I'm like, Well,
at one point,
you had to, like, learn how to tie your shoes, but now you don't think about it.
And I don't think about
the calculations of of 12 hour to 24 hours.
I just look at the clock and I go like, Oh, yeah,
right.
Um oh, yeah.
Um,
you are here of asking the wrong person about time stuff because
I think we should abolish time zones and people go like,
Oh,
I like it doesn't matter.
Like let's say we have a static UTC across the entirety of the planet.
You would just change the time that you wake up the time that you
go to bed the time that you eat dinner to align to that.
So, like it's 4 p.m. right now, I know that's sort of
8 a.m.
ish.
Maybe in like some time zones just say it's 4 p.m. and, like,
you don't need to have a time zone.
It doesn't mean anything. Just have everyone on the same time zone.
And then instead of you going to bed,
I don't know 11 and waking up at 7 a.m. for your job.
You go to bed at whatever the hell time it is and wake up at whatever the hell time it is,
it doesn't matter and it doesn't need to align to your systems.
It makes it so much easier as well.
Like if you're doing a meeting with someone else, you're like, I will see you at
five o'clock and they're like Oh, that's too late for me. I go to bed at four
and you're like, OK, that makes sense.
We don't need to have, like, a conversation about time zones. It's it's stupid. Just
get rid of them.
Um,
there's Internet time called like beats.
That was good, but like that is problematic because, like, it's called the wa
Internet time.
Um, but the problematic part about that is it stops like it. It's a different system.
He doesn't use clock hands.
My my proposal where we abolish time zones all of your watches, clocks, um,
et cetera. They'll all work the same way.
Um, so you wouldn't have to, like, go out and buy a new clock or anything.
You would just you would you would set it to UTC. And you just live on UTC.
Um, it doesn't matter, you know. It's like, Oh, it's it's It's like
you know, I wake up at midnight. UTC time doesn't matter. The daylight is at UTC.
Midnight time doesn't matter. Who the fuck is
moving forwards? Um,
Spec says I'm infinitely excited for consistent logging. Good time stamps.
I want to say that out loud because we don't hear it
and I'll be hope when you get to it. Yeah, I will, too.
Uh, red kitter says,
how many jobs have you had outside of anything connected to Rick?
Um,
you missed an iron there, but anyway, um,
do you want a number? Like your number is, like, really useful? Like useless.
I'm gonna add it up now. And if it's seven, then we can all pat ourselves on the back.
Cos I've done a cool thing. Let me go have a look.
I've gotta load my resume. You're making me load my resume. I
don't wanna do this.
Uh, my profile.
Alright, so let's count,
um, Yellow dog man stuff, like all is one. So we'll call that 1234,
560, my God. It's seven.
it actually is seven.
yeah, it's seven
for a perspective. Uh, I first had a job in 2011.
Um, so you know,
I've been working a long time.
Uh, someone has linked me something about chickens.
This is great, by the way.
I hate the fact that scientific papers use the two column format.
I know it's because scientific papers used to be
published in magazines which you had to flick through.
But now, on the Internet,
if they could use larger font sizes or a portable
document that format that allows for different rendering styles,
I think PDF does.
They just don't do it.
But like I would love to, like, Render this in one column.
The problem is, I can't read two columns cos sometimes my,
my my eyes jump to the next column and I get confused.
Like if you look at the first page of
this chicken paper like you'll see Section one chicken.
But then to the right of it, you've still got Section one chicken content up until
two chicken, which is the second chicken, Um
uh, content down there.
So it's
It's problematic. I wish that, you know, if I don't
like pa Scientific papers shouldn't have a a format that is, They should have,
like information that is required, yes,
but they should not have formatting requirements.
The formatting requirements should be.
I mean, I'm biassed but marked down right cos then I can render them how I want.
Like I want them to be like neon green or black because that's how my eyes work best.
I can do it.
Uh, Rena says thoughts on 28 6 time. Uh, I.
I don't have enough to look at the maths on that right now. Anyway, let's move.
Forwards. Um,
Trinity says, knowing how you feel about time zones,
how do you feel about the 30 15 minute variation Time zones?
Those are usually to do with, like, ships or, like transit or trade.
Um, for example, some of the like,
outlying island communities they changed time zones
so that they would be awake When,
um, people brought, uh, like their boats with, like,
you know, goods to trade to them.
And it's just like, Why is that like a
guys just like UTC it
and then agree on a time to meet? And they'd be like, Oh, that's too late.
I'm in bed by then. Oh,
that's too soon. I'm I'm I'm I'm awake by then, et cetera. Right?
And then you'd be like, Which time zone am I? And you'd just be like it's UTC guys.
So, like, you know,
5 a.m. UTC sounds good
to the ship. One to ship two. It's like, yeah, that sounds good. Great.
There's no conversation of like, oh, what time zone. Are you in?
Oh, you're all east of the Rocky Mountains. So you're not on mountain time.
You're on Eastern time.
So complicated.
Does the doggo have a name now? Yes. The Doggo does have a name.
Now we have We have landed on, um,
we've landed on feta, as in feta cheese.
It was a toss up between mozzarella and feta.
Um, mozzarella would be shortened to like Moz
or Mozzie, which sounded too similar to mosquito,
uh, and also sounded like a name for, like, an old dog that smokes cigarettes,
if you know what I mean.
Like, if you go to like,
a dive bar in the middle of the street like
there'd be a dog in there that smokes cigarettes,
uh, like, has a bunch of tattoos, and it's like, Oh, yeah, I'll get you a whiskey. I'm
Oz, you know. Right. So we went for fetta, which is a bit cute.
People, um, have told me that they're like, Oh, that sounds like a girl's name.
And I'm like, it's a It's a fucking dog.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's a male dog. For, like, its names
like I.
I couldn't like it's It's difficult Cos Right now
I have to basically like a attract its like attention
using other things. But now it has a name I can, um,
I can like train it that its name is It's better.
I do need to get a new dog tag.
Unfortunately,
I had to buy a dog tag with its old name because the rescue
wouldn't let me pick it up without putting a dog tag on it.
Uh, and I had to get that engraved, and that was like, I don't know.
That was like, 15 bucks I won't see, but whatever
I thought about, just like sharpie it out. But like, it's engraved so I can't, like,
edit the existing name tag.
OK, we have a question from Specs about Gemini Protocol. A document featuring
I'd have to look into this more. I have no idea what it is. Um, cool.
I mean, like, I I mark down.
It's like if you look at the policy page, um, on the resonate
website,
the index, not the actual policies themselves.
They're a mess for HTML for a very good reason. But like, um,
the actual index page, that's how like
HTML should look right
There's heading tags, There's section tags, there's paragraph tags.
There are a couple of Div Sight cos of course they're needed.
But like it's not like Div Soup, like every other website is like.
It's just like Div, div Div, div, div!
And if you look at the office hours website as well that like it tries to use like
HTML five semantic so again there should be less
div there because I'm able to use better things.
Hey, just link the video about the, uh, date timeline looking stupid and like,
there's like a weird hammer or like a leg sticking out in the middle there.
Yeah, that's one of the the trading um, communities I mentioned.
Um, Trinity says, How many monitors do you have and how do you organise? I have two?
Um, I have three. There's one behind the couch. I just haven't put up.
My second monitor is dying. There's like a darker spot.
That is, um, is like appearing and and and and growing with time, but it still works.
I would love to have three, but I don't know what I would do for one.
usually the second monitor is a mixture of reference or a random, um,
random Netflix TV show or Hulu show.
Everyone that sees that is like, Oh, you aren't you, like,
not productive cos you've got, like, a random TV show and I'm like, No,
I'm more productive.
It gives me a constant anchor to the passage of time.
It gives me enough that, like parts of my brain, can be like, um,
not focused on the task, which is somehow rewarding.
I don't really know why.
Um,
and it sort of, like, helps me through the day in a way that, like
sitting there in silence or having music
um, doesn't
like I sometimes do switch to music.
That's usually if I really, really need to focus.
Um, I've tried podcasts. Those don't work. It has to be some random TV show I.
I don't know why it doesn't make any sense.
Um,
I never got looks of it When I had an office,
I went to the office cos my office at the office wasn't in a shared living space,
so people didn't know that.
And I worked for a streaming company where
I was always having streams on the background.
That's probably where I picked up the habit
like I used to just have twitch or or mixer streams open on
my second monitor just as a sort of part of my job.
Because I worked on Mixer,
Um, but now Twitch has, like, 17 adverts before you can watch a stream.
And so it's like 17 adverts into a BRB stream stream. Uh, BRE screen.
That's the word I was looking for.
Then the BRE screen lifts, and it's just someone reading donation comments. Um,
unpopular opinion
donations, subscriptions and follow alerts should not be a thing.
Um,
the stance I take on this is because it devolves the meaning behind those actions.
So following, which are most streamers profiles, will create a a loud sound effect.
And it'd be like
F funny 69 is now following your channel, and then they're like, Thank you for your
father. F
funny 69.
It actually removes the the like information from the follow that is important,
which is I am following that stream because I might want to watch it in the future.
It's like me saying like I'll watch that on the TV guide back in
the days when we had paper TV guides and circling it as a highlighter.
Right? That's what follow should mean. It shouldn't be an interaction point.
It should be a content sourcing point for you.
Um,
the same with subscriptions. It's like I like you. So I'm going to give you money
because I like you a bit like Netflix, right?
Um, in some cases, twitch subscriptions can be as expensive as Netflix, but again,
it's just like
far funny. 69 has subscribed, and they've been subscribed for 60 months.
It's like maybe send them that note privately after the stream.
Don't let it take over your content.
I'm here for your content, not for donation trains,
um, and then donation trains again. It's just like
it encourages money to be spent
when the streamer isn't able to pay attention. Like in the really big streams,
you have to donate for your message to be read,
and that feels paras social and I don't like it.
So if I ever get back into streaming, there'll be no follow alerts,
no donation alerts and no subscription alerts.
Those features will still be enabled, and if you use them, I love you for using them,
and I thank you for that.
And I'll probably send you a message privately after the stream.
But I'm not going to make it a part of my broadcast because it devolves my content
into, like, monkey See Monkey do. It's like
subscription.
Yay!
I
don't like it. So, you know, there we go.
All right. I think we're out of questions.
It isn't a common take and I.
I completely understand that people don't like it, but, like, um,
I think it's I think it's like I I've been watching a lot of German lately.
The reason why I see, because, um, his streams just get like,
put onto YouTube and they can be very relaxing.
Um, it's when I run out of Netflix shows. I just put them on. Um,
his comedy is very similar to my comedy as well. Um, and
he has turned them off as well cos he doesn't.
He doesn't like how much money he gets from people.
He doesn't like it that they feel like they need to spend $60 to do stuff.
But there was one stream I was watching, um, where he was not being bad at the game.
But just having a hard time with the game and someone ended up donating,
like $600 just to like be,
uh, you're bad at the game and it's just like II.
I understand why you would turn those off on those occasions,
but, like,
I just I wanna change the culture of streaming back towards like what it should be,
which is Remember when you had sky Plus and you looked
to what was available to watch and you you watched it
and you know, the sky plus TV show didn't immediately tell you like Oh,
thanks for watching, like you just watched it like I want to watch
like streams as like a
a
an art form. Almost. I don't want them to be interrupted by my angle.
Now chat is different because chat is actually like,
I don't want to call the word genuine engagement, but like it's more,
more genuine engagement, I guess I would say,
like you are participating in the stream room.
I was also thinking of like, I don't know if anyone's done this, but, like
well, for the larger channels, you could hook up sentiment, analysis and see,
like if most of the,
um
me messages are good. Bad? What's the emotions that are coming up?
And then you could just display those.
Like if you can't follow the chat cos it's just going too fast,
the sentiment analysis might be a good thing.
Uh, Trinity said it'd be nice if we could silently follow.
Uh, yeah, I follow when they go offline.
Like I leave the tab open. When I'm watching them, they go offline. I follow them.
I even saw, like when I follow them when they're offline,
like their twitch chat bot will be like Thanks for the follow blah, blah, blah, blah.
And I'm like,
That's OK cos it means like there isn't a clip of me online somewhere
like following them cos II I don't think it should be a thing.
Uh, Tiki has a rest night question.
It will be the last question because I'm just like, ranting at this point. Um,
is there a way to put a button that appears on
a slot in the inspector like the cool button in flux,
for example, a cleaner button before publishing something.
For now, I use B
dynamic driver with an unchanged flow.
Uh,
no, there is not a way to do that. Currently,
it's a good feature request.
That reminds me I need to speak to the content team
about something to do with the discs in the cloud home.
I'll make an issue, and and,
uh, you'll see an update about that later.
Once, uh, one of the content team has has done the deed.
Um, that will be it for today.
If you have any additional questions, please do chuck them on the, uh, github
feel free to direct Message me.
I know, like everyone is like, don't direct message the team or don't at tag them.
I don't mind it
now. He says, equip. We unequipped? Yeah, there's a A local, um, issue opened, um,
where Enver exchanged, uh, unequipped to
equip. And like, we we don't know which one it should be.
So, like,
we're ju we're leaving it open whilst we think for a little
bit we will close it at some point with a decision.
But right now,
it's just like you look at it so long you're
just like I don't know what English is anymore.
Like equip.
But like, none of these words sound like they're actually English.
Thank you for licking the linking licking. Yes,
NAMI, Thank you for licking the hub issue. I hope it tasted good.
Um, but thank you for linking that, Um, feel free to throw in your own two cents.
I'd be happy to hear it.
Particularly if there's any people that, like, you know,
know linguistics or language.
Very well, um, that have a take on it?
Um, it's unlikely we'll change it until, like, we have a concrete idea.
Um, and I will speak to you guys.
Bye bye.