at the very least, can some one give me the rundown on what behaviour exactly would give away that our instance has been defederated? instance in question doesn’t have a public moderation list https://rosemade.art/@maddie/statuses/01K6YG4BQTHMMV7D1BSBB40CB3

also i think we’ve been defederated from tilde.zone bc we’re not receiving new posts from one of our friends, they aren’t receiving replies from us or our likes. we don’t get any 403s when making actions though, weirdly enough.

updated GTS. but still having the same issues with mastodon.social posts unable to boost or like.

(also we just switched to object storage and some of our media is broken because of permission issues.. some of our older media will be momentarily broken)

it seems like i’m unable to boost and favourite posts from mastodon.social. i get a 403. what’s going on here?

is our instanced banned? we still receive posts in our feed

What are good microframeworks to look at for Ruby these days? I still regularly use Ruby but I haven't for anything web dev in a long time.

Seems like lexical might be worth looking at

Dare I ask… what are the best rich text editing libraries today, for web? React, not React, I don't mind. Just want to know what's out there now. Last time I was deep into this stuff was 2 years ago

I believe the last thing I was working in was ProseMirror

anyway, since people are doing the #introduction rounds again, and we just recently came back to fedi with the intention of being somewhat active again, thought we might do one again as well :) beware, its a lil long lol.

we’re Maddie! we’re actually plural, so you’ll see us use plural pronouns like we/our/us/etc, but we might use singular ones here too. we’re generally not as openly out outside of fedi and a few discords (and we were out plural on cohost too), and to some friends. each of us actually have individual accounts here too you can find linked on our bio.

we're composers. recently we released intersections through Infloresce Records. we also have composed for cartoons and video games. recent ones being Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution, Advance Wars 1+2: Reboot Camp, and OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes

we're also ROM hackers and reverse engineers. we've done some commercial work, namely localization work for games like River City Girls Zero, Clock Tower: Rewind, and some that are still in the works.

you may have known us by our previous name of DJ Bouche, both as composer/remixer, and in the 2000s ROM hacking scene. we made several level editors and MIDI related tools. i say "previous", but we do still use that name from time to time, usually for things like hard dance music like happy hardcore and eurobeat, it's what the name is mostly known for, after all.

we're also software engineers in general and have worked in several tech companies, both startups and large ones. we're currently taking a break from tech, but may return to it soon. we find it's a field that's easy to burn out in, probably for reasons you can imagine. we try to do more than just engineering, and sometimes that results in fighting and standing up for things that are sadly neglected or even contentious. even should it happen that we don't end up contributing significantly there again, we have our heart set on open source for the long term.

in a past life we worked in supply chain and logistics, which is perhaps a story for another day. it's still an interest of ours, tho largely abandoned these days.

we've been dabbling in some forms of digital art, like pixel art, and 3D art, we might post more about that as that develops. we're trying to work on our game dev skills too, and hope to share more of that process too! we've been sitting on ideas for things like music/creative tools as well. but there's only so much time in the world, and so much that a single human body (even one filled with multiple ppl) can do.

anyhow, it's nice to meet y'all~ and to those already familiar with us, nice to see you again :)

#Composer #ROMHacking #ReverseEngineering #Art #music #gamedev #digitalfusion #Plurality

and now for something a little older, but something i’m still very proud of!

our album, intersections, is also on Bandcamp, with cover art AND an amazing digital comic, both by
@sailorhg

get it here!! https://maddievision.bandcamp.com/album/intersections

it's about coming to terms with all the pieces that make you, you~ with fun sparkly music inspired by video games & pop

it again features Michaela Nachtigall (mklachu) on violin/viola, as well as Zantilla on guitar, miles morkri on bass, Laura Serafine on vocals, and Brian Burwell on drums. the album was mastered by aivi & surasshu, and released on Infloresce Records!

i feel very honoured to be able to get to work with Amy and Michaela on multiple collaborations, and the new ppl i got to work with for this release were absolutely amazing.

#Music #Visualizer #art #DigitalFusion #Composer #Comic

in usual fasion we forgot to post on bandcamp friday here again, lol. but hey! there is never a wrong time to share your art, imo. so here we go.

recently, our single Perseids 🌠 got re-released with beautiful new artwork by @sailorhg ! a cozy song for a night out under the stars

it also features the wonderful Michaela Nachtigall (aka mklachu), on violin, viola, and cello!!

super honoured to have Michaela and Amy on this release <3

https://maddievision.bandcamp.com/album/perseids

#Music #Visualizer #Art #DigitalFusion #Composer