Probably because it was incomplete for reasons unknown. I’m not sure why, but we get really bad ballot measures. 118 was super terrible, and 117 was seemingly unfinished.

Interestingly, we had extremely low turnout in the local elections. Apparently RCV, or the sheer number of candidates (over 100 for 12 positions), or a combination of both contributed to very low turnout. There were more people voting for POTUS than any of the local candidates, which is a little disappointing. I’ll dig into the numbers this weekend.

I started working on a hobby project recently to meld the utility of Beets with a music and podcast streaming service, like Subsonic. I’m developing this with a contract-first approach, and so far I’ve gotten most of the podcast management code in place, but I’ve not started working on the frontend outside of integrating a skeleton project into build process. I’ll add a note to look into supporting webdav data sources directly.

I plan on doing another big dev push around Christmas, so hopefully I’ll have an MVP app to show off around that time. The frontend is a basic vite/react base and the backend is Spring Boot with Kotlin. I’ll be looking for some contributors for the mobile app side within the next few months.

Reminder that guns don’t just “go off” and anyone that suggests this should be disregarded as the nincompoop they very clearly are.

This was a great video. I’ve done nothing in Godot yet but I watched the video all the way through and I’m super motivated to try it out this week. Perfect timing as I’ve been wanting to pick it up and start learning how to build games.