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ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'm tackling accessibility and usability in my Twitch chat bot with renewed vigor and I am very happy with recent progress. I added a lightning fast search box to help users find commands. You can now select from a list of redemptions available on your channel as a trigger.

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ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It's Fite Nite Friday. I'll be playing Tekken 8 ranked and if you have enough channel points you can redeem a fite with me. Come fite me! www.twitch.tv/observerherb

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ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

When the hit boxes just ain't hittin'.

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ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

If you love puzzle games and haven't played Hourglass by Cyberwave Games, it's a super solid first-person Portal-like. The environment has some elements of The Sojourn mixed with the recorder mechanic from Talos. They did a very good job with execution. Never got boring.

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ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My topolinos are sleeping through National Sunflower Day this year.

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ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Vivaldi couldn't use Ubuntu 20.04's ffmpeg version anymore, so it was finally time to update Mommabird's PC to Elementary OS 8. Wow. What a dumpster fire. Buggiest Elementary version since Freya.

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ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"Go see the wildflowers," I said to myself. "It'll be worth it. It'll be beautiful." It was.

ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Did I do it right? Am I giving pro-streamer?

ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Purple and Maroon? That's kind of like having an 11 on your guitar amp's volume knob. Why can't we just have Red be the worst? I feel like this air quality scale is like... Good Bad Ugly Death Very Much Death Instant Death Dead On Arrival Death Incarnate

ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Spain and Argentina in the World Cup final! BEST WORLD CUP FINAL EVER!!!!

ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I broke Jack in OG Tekken Tag Tournament tonight. XD

ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Today I learned about vramfs and my mind is blown.

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ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Dammit, Steam! I was in the middle of a fight with a Tekken King ranked Alisa and actually holding my own (I was still going to lose but that's no the point). Why your servers go down now!?!?!

ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Got Heresy switched over to Box3D. Super easy library to integrate! Made an ebuild for it if you're on Gentoo and don't want to clutter up your system with manual builds. github.com/ObserverHerb...

ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Line cooks in training: "Yeah yeah of course obviously oh yeah uh huh of course" Line cooks when they're on their own: "NOBODY TOLD ME I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO THAT NOBODY SAID ANYTHING NOBODY TOLD ME HOW TO DO THAT" Cry me a river.

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ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I really wanted to see the U.S. in the finals but I just learned of Trump's attempt at meddling in the red card situation and that has me feeling like this ass beating from Belgium was a kind of poetic justice.

ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Today I'm scheduled with The Pervert. Just me and him in the back. He absolutely HATES me because I'm the only other male who will call him out and won't let him turn the kitchen into a frat house. What a fun shift this will be. Hopefully I come back alive. 🙃🫠

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ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Jfc can Sully Erna sing. Easily my favorite metal vocalist. Has been for a long, long time.

ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

"How bad is the wind where you live, Herb?" Why it's snap trees right off in the center bad, of course.

ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Spent a day trying to recreate my guitar rig on Linux and the process has taught me a lot about what I'm actually doing. Guitar Rig 7's Ultrasonic amp sim is modeling a Bogner Überschall and with neural amp models and impulse responses, I can recreate it using generic tools.

ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This was quite the sight tonight! This is a picture from Stellarium because I don't have the equipment to capture a picture of the real thing. The sky looked like a canvas everything was painted on and the moon looked like a paper cutout. It was gorgeous.

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ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Wow, guys, rude!!! That glass of whiskey you just died in was from a $50 bottle.

ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Woke up, built a jambalaya in the slow cooker, then went outside and gardened until I couldn't stand gardening anymore. Wish all my days off could be like this.

ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

It's official, I'm back on Linux. I went full Windows because of my stream, but with Copilot and Win11's quality issues it doesn't "Just Work™" anymore. Linux has come a long way in the last 10 years and some games even run better through WINE/DXVK than native.

ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Google changed their icons again, so now I have to relearn how to find all of their apps. I swear they're like a grocery store. As soon as you find your way around they change the layout so you have to waste time in the store relearning how to get work done.

ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

David Halberstam's books on the Korean and Vietnam wars have impressed on me how careerism infects politics and the military. Many men, given a choice between saving lives or getting their next star, will choose the next star, then set someone up to take the fall for the deaths.

ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

If anybody out there somewhere is wondering where my stream has been, it'll be back soon! Life got crazy for a sec. Social battery has been on like 20%.

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ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

If you have to tell someone something is obvious, then obviously it wasn't obvious. You're obviously wrong by merely having to say it was obvious.

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ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Musicians will make music with anything, whether it's AI or a spoon and a pot. Just make stuff.

ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I'm beginning to feel cutting is the prep cook's favorite time wasting strategy. It's easy, it's fun, and you look productive doing it.

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ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Roll credits. I still got it. I can still beat Tekken 3 on "50 cents."

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ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Interesting to me to see that 80s thriller movie title script font become so popular on recent book covers. It's not something I imagined ever seeing again outside of the deliberately retro scene.

ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The can says, "Shake it up." DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT shake it up! Good one, Death Wish Coffee, you got me.

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ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Modern UI... *tries to click the button* *moves mouse away from popup* *moves mouse away from popup* *moves mouse away from popup* *moves mouse away from popup* *tries to click the button* *moves mouse away from popup* *clicks the button*

ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I got lucky. Both of my parents were very reasonable and only strict on a few important things. But I could tell you stories all day about employers.

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ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

You can just do that in PowerShell, you know

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ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Wrong timestamp format, wrong response codes... The Twitch developer docs on ad schedule endpoints are all lies and misinformation. It's like the devs weren't interested in even trying to make it accurate. I get it. I wouldn't want to work on sleaze endpoints either.

ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Hey YouTube, when I'm searching for a video, I'm NEVER looking for a vertical one. K, thx, bye.

ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I just made tortellini in brown butter sage sauce. I don't like sage and never made brown butter but OMG IT WAS SO GOOD OMG!

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ObserverHerb @observerherb.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I always shy away from bends in leads, which is only going to prevent me from getting good at them, so I tried one out this time.