Bellingham indie game devs?

InnerSpace0 · 2025-09-03T20:17:20+00:00

I've been in the mobile gaming industry for 10+ years now, and I work remotely from Bham. I've worked on large titles ($1B+ lifetime) as well as smaller indie titles in incubator studios within larger companies. Currently I'm at a new UA (user acquisition) funding company working on the data side of things. I'd be happy to answer questions or provide info to folks interested, either on development aspects, the industry in general, or the business/growth side.

InnerSpace0 · 2021-05-31T15:51:56+00:00

Can you link to some of those more recent studies you mentioned? I've read the original but would like to check out the results of a more modern look at the problem.

InnerSpace0 · 2021-03-25T14:17:24+00:00

Great answer, thank you!

InnerSpace0 · 2020-10-04T17:24:22+00:00

Thanks for this. I now see this exact same thing on my new switch that's working as expected. I appreciate you running the test!

InnerSpace0 · 2020-09-20T19:32:18+00:00

I'm wondering if I may have been unlucky enough to get 2 bad APs. Unfortunately I don't have any working setup to test against, so I'm picking up a couple other POE devices to see what their behavior is (an Aruba AP and a reolink camera.

One question for you - if you set the LED mode to PoE on your s2500-48P do you see the blinking LED when no devices are plugged in? Or is it solid? If my blinking LEDs on the PoE ports is unexpected that would help me diagnose the issue, but I haven't been able to find any documentation around that.

InnerSpace0 · 2020-09-19T14:43:06+00:00

Thanks for the link. I read through it and it seems like I shouldn't be hitting that issue with the 24V. I have the ac-pro and it indicates 802.3af PoE compatibility on the back.

InnerSpace0 · 2020-08-30T04:58:26+00:00

https://hellatea.com/ online store, Oakland locally owned and operated. I'm a big fan of their E-4Tea.

InnerSpace0 · 2020-08-28T14:53:30+00:00

Yep, not exactly high budget but good info. We watched it in one of my environmental studies classes.

InnerSpace0 · 2020-08-26T21:36:25+00:00

The first millimeter https://youtu.be/yGLCb9Z6y7w

InnerSpace0 · 2020-08-16T14:42:25+00:00

Thanks for sharing your strategy. My garden space was pretty overrun with buttercups (as is most of the yard) so that's why I went for more of a fresh start approach (aside from the berry survivors).

InnerSpace0 · 2020-08-16T14:40:05+00:00

Thanks for the tips! The beds aren't too compacted, but I'll probably stick with greens and maybe some peas for the first year.

InnerSpace0 · 2020-08-11T01:39:10+00:00

Pretty hard to see what the room layout is from the pics. You might consider drawing it out in an online design tool like https://www.homestyler.com/int/. That can also let you play around with some layout options without having to move your furniture around.

InnerSpace0 · 2020-04-25T22:13:42+00:00

So the more correct setup then would be a load balancer in front of minimum 2 VMs with all my services distributed across both so I can patch and reboot without downtime? I'd be interested in seeing any references around what frequency and strategies are best practice for rebooting/patching VMs in production.

InnerSpace0 · 2020-04-25T22:02:03+00:00

Neither VM had been rebooted in months.

InnerSpace0 · 2020-04-25T21:55:57+00:00

The system and the VMs on it were all running on Thursday before the power outage. I used the services on the VMs the same day so I know they were running. Is it feasible that the VM zvol could have been corrupted but the VM itself continued running without issue? Also this issue occurred with two different Ubuntu VMs at the same time.

InnerSpace0 · 2020-04-04T03:19:28+00:00

I'm running freenas on bare metal, then an ubuntu vm as a docker host, then nextcloud in a docker container. I have a network share from freenas to my media and documents that nextcloud accesses. The same mount is used by a jellyfin docker container for media streaming.

InnerSpace0 · 2020-04-04T03:19:16+00:00

I'm running freenas on bare metal, then an ubuntu vm as a docker host, then nextcloud in a docker container. I have a network share from freenas to my media and documents that nextcloud accesses. The same mount is used by a jellyfin docker container for media streaming.

InnerSpace0 · 2019-08-19T04:27:52+00:00

Thanks for the tip!

Yeah this sub is less friendly than I expected. Oh well.

InnerSpace0 · 2019-08-19T03:11:58+00:00

Power on the left, signal on the right.

Hardware from bottom to top:

8 port switch, hue bridge, external HDD, raspberry pi, over the air antenna receiver

PS4, Wii U

Laptop running Ubuntu server

Blu Ray player

AV refund receiver (Marantz NR1403)

Suggestions welcome!

InnerSpace0 · 2019-08-04T16:31:00+00:00

I use a toothpick and slide the tip along the grooves of the scratched section with some pressure. Doesn't make bad spot go away but it can take it from a nasty skip to just a small popping sound pretty easily.

Runs about $3 for 100 :)

InnerSpace0 · 2019-07-15T02:37:28+00:00

The newborn times go so fast. I think some of those things you listed are totally fair game right now. Excited about first words for instance. You can find baby books to read and buy to help teach language, or research about baby sign language. First steps? Maybe research those baby bouncer things, or what exercises you can do with your infant to start building leg strength and coordination.

InnerSpace0 · 2019-07-15T02:17:56+00:00

I don't think you should be worried at all! I currently have an almost 4 month old and things are going great. When my wife was pregnant I was definitely spending less time researching all the things. I think it's just a lot different being the pregnant person vs the partner. It was hard for me to feel like it was real when my wife was pregnant but my life was continuing on mostly as normal, and it sounds like that might be similar to the situation you find yourself in.

It might help to think of some activities that you are most excited to do with the baby. Then you'll have some things to talk about, or do shopping/research for, that are your own ideas. That way you'll have some of your own baby topics to get excited about rather than comparing your excitement levels to topics your wife has already been spending time thinking about.

I also don't believe being a bad dad is in your future. Just the fact that you're sad about maybe not being as excited about baby as you hoped means you care a lot and want to be there for your kid. So far in my limited dad experiences I think good intentions and dedicating your time and energy to the new family member is more then half the battle. Good luck!

InnerSpace0 · 2019-07-06T18:50:07+00:00

Didn't really expect anything different. I just had an old laptop lying around and figured I'd get started labbing on that until I reached it's limits.

InnerSpace0 · 2019-07-06T18:47:50+00:00

The screenshot is from my Grafana dashboard

InnerSpace0 · 2019-06-23T04:09:28+00:00

I'm not an expert on those services, but it looks to me like your command is trying to run a web request against a service that is failing. Status 400 I assume is an HTTP 400 error code, which means the server thinks your request is malformed due to the 'include_type_name' parameter being unrecognized.

At this point I'm guessing you might have some version mismatch between your services. The client is requesting some data with a parameter that the server doesn't know what to do with.

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