I’m once again regretting not booking an extra week off work before EMF as I contend with an extra full time job on top of having a child and my usual full time job.
12 years ago we asked people to book workshops at EMF by emailing. Dealing with the immense volume of messages was so traumatic we swore we would never, ever do that again.
It is 2026. EMF is now >3x larger and attendees 10x more rabid. The blacksmiths *insist* they want to book workshops via email.
We tried to warn them. We really tried.
@tibimac @nikitonsky I’ve owned many laptops over the years and MacBooks are the only ones which smear whatever was on the keyboard all over the screen.
The level of chaotic energy in an EMF leads meeting in inversely proportional to the number of weeks remaining before the event. Tonight’s had the energy of a classroom the day before summer holidays start.
I feel like there’s a significant chance I know whoever did this, and if I don’t I’d like to.
https://mastodon.social/users/fesshole/statuses/116840438532598415
Definitely losing my mind a bit, I just typed the phrase “backpack mounted fax machine”.
@mttaggart there are so many businesses that make more sense as a coop (or even a network of coops) than as a Silicon Valley style startup. The one I want to try and get going someday is grocery delivery from locally owned stores, owned by a coop of the stores, the delivery drivers, and the team building the ordering infrastructure.
@farah counterpoint: pretty sure it’s the person who’s reading things into which plant you give them as a gift who’s the weird one rather than the person who just went “hey, this looks like a nice thing to get my friend”.
Spent the evening making lights flash in pretty colours in time to some music. There’s definitely an alternate timeline in which I ended up being a lighting engineer instead of a software developer and I’m a little jealous of alternate universe Jon.
You can tell EMF is approaching because the list of card payments on my account is getting ever more eclectic. Today it’s been an Xbox controller wireless adapter, a custom ink stamp (this year whoever controls the stamp controls EMF volunteering, Chinese style, run a heist if you want a bunch of people to do your village washing up), and some large shipping crates.
@jonty do you in fact mean you’d be driving your colleagues mad by saying that every morning?
@fxchip @whitequark @ch33sus@mstdn.social please remain where you are and await the Multiversal Leakage Prevention Team which has been despatched to your location.
I don’t know how but Tesco have somehow made a grocery shopping app which brings an iPhone 15 to its knees. Constant freezes in the UI and my phone became uncomfortably warm to hold on to while using it.
Comedy end to humanity: Everybody involved in the UK’s nuclear deterrence program assumes somebody else told the sub captains about Radio 4 long wave being turned off.
Shout out to @gimblll who’s gone above and beyond in providing a custom build of Sektori that we can hook it up to the lighting.
A while ago I put a throwaway thought in the EMF Arcade team’s channel. As all things EMF do its escalated somewhat and there’s now a schedule of evening entertainment, including this, a nightclub soundtracked by people playing music focused games: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026/294-synaesthesia
Something for the #EMFCamp first-timers: it's impossible to see everything *and that's OK*
https://sam.pikesley.org/blog/2024/06/11/the-best-weekend-you-can-have/
@0xabad1dea Altman probably heard about this and said he liked its hustle.
Ahhh, the relaxing sound of angle grinders on a Saturday morning as the buy-to-let landlords either side of me strip out newly purchased properties.
@jmacarthur I wouldn’t mind so much if it weren’t for the fact looking at a window seal funny will cause this place to immediately leak all the heat I’ve put into it during winter.