Melissa Avery-Weir 🎮 @melissa@irrsinn.life

I've been playing some truly awesome small indie games in the last few months. I archive my streams over at https://irrsinn.video/video-channels/melissa_channel/videos, and I work to get closed captioning on them within a week of uploading.

If you're looking for some game recs, I'd suggest checking them out. Just about all of them take between 10 min and 3 hours, so these are quite small games by conventional standards. You can subscribe to a Peertube channel w/ a Mastodon account, too.

#indiegame

An #introduction: I'm Melissa (they/them)! Some of my projects are in my bio, but in general I am and do:

#gamedev & #podcasting

#gardening #succulents #cacti

#asexual / #grayace / #queer

#polyamory #relationshipanarchy

I write. I #webdev. I play way too much Fallen London. I collect tattoos. I will not call posts "toots".

I like learning to be more imaginative in devising solutions to difficult problems. 🎊

I'm live on twitch! Come hang out with me while I play looK INside: https://www.twitch.tv/averymd #magic

I've got a weird headache tonight, and instead of rescheduling *again*, I'm just canceling this week's stream. If I have energy later this week/weekend, I'll do something impromptu.

Sundays are hard, and I rarely sleep well on Sunday nights. 😴 I'm rescheduling tonight's stream and the rest of my biweekly streams for Wednesdays going forward. I'll be more awake. 😁

Made a little update to Granny Square Colors this afternoon: https://forum.grannysquarecolors.com/t/update-1-6-4-released/113?u=melissaaveryweir

It should help with some user registration errors I'm seeing in the logs. #crochet

I do want CSP, so I'll definitely get it sorted out, but the fiddly-ass addition of every domain to my backend settings file (meaning a code push!) feels like a real bad way to manage this. I need to do more research.

For now, I'm going to go do all the shit I normally have to do on a Sunday, and let any errors that flow in accumulate until tomorrow. I've had a moderately busted heater for a week and my goddamn fingers hurt from coding in a chilly office for 12 hours.

My setup of CSP (using
https://django-csp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) also became more trouble than it was worth for today's release.

The settings were sticky af, and clearing Django's cache *and* restarting Daphne and nginx weren't enough to update CSP header with changes from settings.py. 🙀 I didn't want to let getting the Paypal donate button to load take more than an hour (...or two) today. 😅

Granny Square Colors update complete. I started about 08:15 (currently 20:30), and took about 3-3.5 hours off for other work that had to be done. But DNS propagation aside, the deed is done.

I ran into all sorts of mildly annoying issues that I didn't catch due to not testing exactly the domain + reverse proxy + SSL combo before release. I checked pairings of those, but not all three at once. C'est la vie. I'll do better next time, for sure.

I'm live on twitch! Come hang out with me while I play Warframe: https://www.twitch.tv/averymd #magic

😫 The itch.io winter sale caught us off-guard (we didn't get the email telling us to set it up), so I just spent a whirlwind couple of hours setting up banners and blog posts for both it and another upcoming holiday sale.

I hate when that stuff sneaks up on us, whether it's because we let it slip or because the storefront didn't send an email out. Seasonal discounts should be super routine (or, I mean, not a thing at all, because fuck steep discount culture and fuck capitalism). #gamedev

I'm live on twitch! Come hang out with me while I play GRIS: https://www.twitch.tv/averymd #magic

Someday I'll get into the habit of posting my dev updates here, too, but: https://forum.grannysquarecolors.com/t/gsc-version-1-6-0-in-progress/61/6?u=melissaaveryweir

tldr; I'm waiting until post-Chrimmus (but pre-New Years) to do the big update so that all the last-minute crafters using the site for patterns won't be caught out without access before their due date. 😂