Industrial #ArtDeco, at its finest! This abandoned powerplant plant control room in Hungary was powered down decades ago.
The oval room is lit by an immense skylight, which casts dramatic light across the original green metal control panels. These walls remain lined with levers, valves, and dials.
Without a doubt, one of my favourite adventures. I have visited three times now!
#Hungary #ArtDeco #UrbanExploration #Photography #Explore #Abandoned
People who try to clone Discord are definitely going to get hung up on reproducing its concept of "servers" and building elaborate federation mechanisms to do it in a distributed way. I don't know a whole lot about Matrix but it certainly sounds like that's what happened there
Here's my hot take: you don't need it. The internet and the web are already decentralized. It has servers built in: they're called servers. If you want to connect to multiple servers you can just open another browser tab.
Rek and I have just returned from a delightful couple of days deep in the wintry Spanish countryside, holed up in a labyrinthine medieval monastery with the Ink & Switch team.
It does my mood something good to sit among peers who are singularly focused on researching how to make the craft of computing more approachable, robust and playful. The activity of hand-crafting software seems unfortunately a rather radical and rebellious practice right now. But a sort of push back, or at least, willingness to challenge the prevailing narrative recurred in nearly every session I attended, at times lasting late into the night.
I especially enjoyed geeking out about Smalltalk & Self with Dan Ingalls, playtesting Lilith Duncan's game, reciting Ivan Reese's interminable list of four-letters words, sharing a day with folks from Merveilles whom I had been meaning to meet in person for the longest time, finding a zipline and calisthenics park among the olive trees, stuffing my face with bread.
It wasn't all good news tho, I experienced sopa de ajo blanco for the first(and last time), and even after days of learning to operate these European light switches where the button is pressed down to light things up, I only ever managed the rocker correctly half the time.
