got myself into a pickle at work.

i'm on a project where i had a major piece to deliver.

I put it off deliberately because of other work and because i was slow at making progress on it.

a bunch of other teammates built hacks around its absence.

too late, I finally started getting this piece done.

now i am paying the price having to reimplement this foundational piece and also remove the hacks.

and i'm doing it in a hurry so that more hacks don't accumulate.

the first version of this thing i get checked in is not done the way i would like to do it at all. a lot of code duplication. not built well for mocks/testing. yuck.

but today i at least got an end to end working, so i'm close to getting the basic functionality in that everyone else is depending on.

hoping once i have this in, i've bought myself time to go back and do it the right way. regrets. hindsight.

source tweet https://twitter.com/ShiinaBR/status/1707419347549896905

a year and a half after buying bandcamp, epic is selling bandcamp to a the largest music licensing company in the world known as SongTradr...

surely shoving one of the platforms that gives musicians the best terms being shoved under a b2b company that has a large amount of leverage over the industry and no prior interest in selling music to people will be fine, right? there's no way they decide to do anything harmful to either bandcamp, musicians, or listeners with this deal

It's not perfect or a long term 'replacement' (definitely doesn't have the built-in music buying audience that bandcamp does) but it does support selling music, and with this pretty rad tool from Torcado, you can easily create a bandcamp-like media player for your stuff, complete with album art, lyric pages, credits, etc.

I've had it set up for a while, you can see it in action here:
https://curiousquail.itch.io/twelvemonths

If you're a musician interesting in setting this up and need some help, let me know - I'm happy to!

Did you know I have a patreon? i post lots of things on there including zines, longer comics, in progress stuff, concept art big wallpapers (of which this ufo is a crop of). If you like my stuff and feel like supporting, it this is a great way! www.patreon.com/timecowboy

I hadn't changed my phone lock screen or background for years, and now I've changed it to like 3 or 4 different ones from this. Definitely worth your bucks