Joey Ferwerda

I like to make things and do stuff, music, programming, open source, love for speedrunning and way to much projects.

[Joey Ferwerda @JoeyFerwerda]

Hmm lets give it a shot on the #Mastodon side of things @[email protected], maybe this platform will actually stay doing what people made join the platform in the first place (Joined Twitter 13 years ago, problems started a year-ish ago? wonder why...)

[Joey Ferwerda @JoeyFerwerda]

I think I will keep my #Twitter around for a little bit still, though #Mastodon definitely has been straight up better as an experience since I have been using it. Probably will leave once this becomes the 'everything app' that mr musk wants to turn this into.

[Joey Ferwerda @JoeyFerwerda]

Always great when Work gets interrupted with... other work! @BSGMarathon starts tomorrow for me (Stream starts sunday!) setting up and managing audio, halfway the event moving to Germany once again for production at 42 Gear Street! @EytschPi42. Yay event period #nosleep!

[Joey Ferwerda @JoeyFerwerda]

So far #Mastodon seems to be like twitter was over a decade ago.... which is absolutely perfect!! The reason i joined Twitter was to keep up with cool projects and people or have nice conversations about things, without any algorithms or bullshit. So yeah https://t.co/jc8vtRWlAR

[Joey Ferwerda @JoeyFerwerda]

Honestly don't know if Twitter is the place anymore for people who just want a place to keep in contact with projects, people's shenanigans and artists. I don't do anything fb/meta related so maybe need to look into the big old elephant one. Its sad, i liked twitter.....

[Joey Ferwerda @JoeyFerwerda]

https://t.co/39YwZ48YB0
If there ever was a time to keep our freedom on the web, decide for ourselves which websites to visit (and block ad's, at all), stop using Chrome, Brave or chrome based browsers. @firefox Is the only browser that is not owned by an Ad/data company.

[Joey Ferwerda @JoeyFerwerda]

No amount of Money will ever solve problems, only people do. Millions don't move a single atom while a single person can move millions of atoms. If you don't invest in people, don't invest at all. Money is only trivial if you own 'enough' of it, then it looses all value.

[Joey Ferwerda @JoeyFerwerda]

WIth Twitter becoming worse and worse every day for the last months, I am wondering when enough is just enough. Threads is not an alternative (same reason I am not on FB or Insta), Mastodon seems still quite niche. Twitter is my last standing social (not including Discord or YT).

[Joey Ferwerda @JoeyFerwerda]

Most guitar pedals are based on existing designs, reading the schematic and making adjustments or inspiring designs on them. Ergo, guitar pedals have been using the open source mentality non explicitly without anyone realizing.

[Joey Ferwerda @JoeyFerwerda]

Showerthought: Thinking about how the web was more responsive and fast with a fraction of the infrastructure back in the day, It should not be allowed for websites to take up 100s (to 1000s) of megabytes. In the end its just text and images, how did we end up with this bloat....

[Joey Ferwerda @JoeyFerwerda]

Solid combination so far! @Bitwig on #Linux (#Debian Sid, #pipewire), @WeAreNovation Launchpad X and out of screen @AudientWorld iD14! Rocking this setup for the near future!

[Joey Ferwerda @JoeyFerwerda]

Another 'hot take' I keep defending for over a decade. #Playstation should have never moved away from the CELL architecture off the #PS3, PC ports got more available due to x86, but definitely not 'better'. Innovation got thrown out for lazyness and higher publisher profits.

[formerly Size Five Games @danthat]

Your occasional reminder that if giant, multi-billion dollar companies like EA and fucking STAR WARS can't get games to work perfectly across an infinite spectrum of different PC components, maybe go easy on your friendly neighbourhood indie devs if their game has tech issues.

[Joey Ferwerda @JoeyFerwerda]

Maybe hot take? Every time anything turns into a "Us vs Them", the actual issue gets ignored/sidestepped and the the conversation/argument has been lost. This applies to work, politics, personalities, relationships, basically everything.

[Joey Ferwerda @JoeyFerwerda]

Death to false burgers!!!!! @GrillEmAll #LA

[Joey Ferwerda @JoeyFerwerda]

NAMM day 2 lets goooooo #SpectreDigital #lewitt #revv #audient

[Joey Ferwerda @JoeyFerwerda]

Colleague: Joey, why are you on the floor?
Me: Compiling!

[Joey Ferwerda @JoeyFerwerda]

When real life is on low render distance and your phone makes it look like a 2003 era video game

[Joey Ferwerda @JoeyFerwerda]

I am confused, every time I touch the codebase of an audio plugin (VST), it takes me 20-30 Minutes to get a Linux version going, but still a lot of companies don't supply them. I like to support users regardless of their choice of OS. Multi-Platform should be the standard by now.

[Joey Ferwerda @JoeyFerwerda]

My themesong at the moment
https://t.co/ZK0vj7pOxo