Fionn O Céilleachair @osslate@mastodon.ie

#introduction #introductions v2.0

Hi, I'm Fionn! 👋 I work on fun tech projects, create electronic music garbage, and capture the odd photograph with my DSLR.

Professionally, I work as a technical writer — and beyond my 9 to 5 — enjoy contributing upstream to open source projects with code and docs.

I'll be posting bits on the above topics here, as well as personal stuff. Giz a follow ❤️

#foss #opensource #technicalwriting #photography #fuji #music #electronicmusic #ireland #cork

My new apartment is beside some roadworks (finishing soon thankfully). I'm very very impressed by RNNoise/EasyEffects's performance on calls.

Deposit paid! I'm so much less stressed. I wish nobody had to go through this, but alas, we're stuck here with FFG/GP.

Oh, I got an apartment! Packing stuff into boxes is surprisingly satisfying.

A second offer! Why does every landlord want me all of a sudden?

Went to view an apartment yesterday, unfortunately it went to someone else, but… viewing offered at 5pm for a different apartment in the same block. Letting agent said if I'm happy, they'll get the paperwork to me early next week.

In other words, I HAVE AN OFFER!

🤞 it's nice, but we're in a housing crisis so I'll accept almost anything at this point

I strongly associate certain songs/albums with the place I was in at the time (both geographically and mentally).

For example, I associate Donuts (J Dilla) with the time I spent working in Dublin. Reminds me of summer, sun, and Workman's (for better of worse).

This album by Danish duo Bremer/McCoy reminds me of the run up to Cork Jazz. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kDibPCAX_sJs_pl2d35T9nBpb-vKds4m8

I'm interested: what music do YOU strongly associate with a place in your life, and why?

(I grabbed mine, it was too good not to pass up)

PSA: Interrail tickets are 50% off for the next few hours. Seriously great deal, especially if you're <27.

https://www.interrail.eu/en/50th-anniversary

I have little interest in following British politics, yet I'm here anticipating the queen's speech. There's not much else exciting on while I continue recovering from post-lurgy symptoms.

What're you all up to?

I've been using DuckDuckGo the past few months and honestly? I rarely ever revert back to Google. And even then, I revert because my brain hasn't ungoogled itself in terms of how I phrase queries. It's pretty solid.

80% recovered from whatever cold/flu this was, finally don't look like Rudolph.

What are your plans for the day, everyone? :)

Just dawned on me that I'm not as far as I'd like to be in learning Spanish. In all likelihood, I won't need a *whole* lot, but I'm heading to Barcelona next month for Sónar.

The application is built in Rust using gtk4-rs, libadwaita-rs, and udev-rs.

Working on a GNOME application that allows you to create MIDI input devices within PipeWire out of arbitrary evdev/udev inputs.

The end goal? Create MIDI controllers out of any random input device. That could be a gamepad, a keyboard, a mouse... or any fancy exotic input mechanism.

I want to control Bitwig devices using cheap gamepads for an art project I'm working on, so here we are!

Blegh. Have a horrible cold/flu on me, had to cancel an apartment viewing today. Now I'm stressed about sickness *and* missing out on — potentially — my future home.