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Chris J Wallace
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Post-dadcore he/him.

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https://standard.dev
Pinned
I think quality matters, and I think the only way to create really good things is to care a whole awful lot and work really hard on them.
A few months ago I found this band too punishing to be listenable, and now I keep spinning this EP. I'm still not sure I _like_ it per se, but there is something drawing me back. I am surely having an unsettling experience of art.

frontierer.bandcamp.com/album/the-sk...
The Skull Burned Wearing Hell Like A Life Vest As The Night Wept, by Frontierer
4 track album
frontierer.bandcamp.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Live footage of me reviewing my own code.

youtu.be/j7J9NS3ggxw
Eeyore: "Not Much of a House, Just Right for Not Much of a Donkey"
YouTube video by Ben Simon a.k.a. Cartoon Man Central
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This started as a series of bluesky posts here and quickly grew enough it deserved its own markdown. It's a rambling about a book I'm excited for, and caring to read.

standard.dev/posts/a-cros...

#booksky I guess?
A crossing
Heading west.
standard.dev
November 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
New Slow Crush album is great.

slowcrush.bandcamp.com/album/thirst
Thirst, by SLOW CRUSH
10 track album
slowcrush.bandcamp.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
New Rolo Tomassi EP, new Conjurer album, new Astronoid track.

It’s a good day to like loud guitars.
October 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I'm having a lot of three coffee days lately.
October 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
There are two flavours of backend victory: number go down, and number go up.

Just scored a big win for number go down at work.

Please clap.
October 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Nick is a lovely human with whom I am privileged to work.

Unfortunately for him, I am an irreverent and incorrigible prankster who has been feverish for several days, and as such have pent up devilry. Ergo…
September 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
A wild thing about having children is you can be doing some ephemeral software bullshit like debugging database timeouts in the morning, then take the kids to the local pool in the afternoon and oops surprise you just formed core memories that you’ll cherish for the rest of your life.
September 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Name one lyric that goes harder than

> Untimely ripped into this world
> I was born again as a girl

This may be the heaviest line ever written. Low Teens is a contender for my favourite album of the past decade.

youtu.be/I1kRMGs7UuQ?...
Petal
YouTube video by Every Time I Die - Topic
youtu.be
September 5, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Nobody tell Henry from online that he’s Already A Writer because I’m stoked for these endeavours.
unfortunately i really would like to try my hand at Being A Writer — y’all had any success doing lit mag submissions, and any advice if so? i’ve got a handful of prose poems i think are decent and i’m feeling earnest enough to give it a try
September 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I run a linear, there and back again, route for #couch25k and my free dopamine tip is to offer high fives to people coming in the other direction.

Like hell yeah we got this.
September 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
TIL I am “sustain moderate shoulder injury by sleeping” years old.
August 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Mildly incensed by all the CEOs lionising long hours at the office, I peeled back a small corner of my filter and wrote a short, slightly unhinged, and likely incoherent post. The kind of raw cringe post I can only conjure in a state of child-induced sleep deprivation.
Work-life balance
There will be time for work later.
standard.dev
August 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Yes.

> I’ve felt unmoored by all of this … by a “get that bag” culture that seems to have accepted these tools without much consideration as to the repercussions; by the discourse.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I will not be done until my sites go this hard.
Web design trends in 2001

– Afterlab
– Bionic Systems
– Designgraphik
– HSE7EN3

#WebDesignHistory
August 18, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I have a home with a garden that has a few trees, and the house is full of plants, and books, and children and their paraphernalia, and I am appreciating it. This is water, as it goes.
August 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Really not clear what mood you’re trying to put me in here Spotify.
August 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I can deliver no insult more cutting, no quip more witty, no affront more brazen than making the “insightful” reaction to your linkedin post.
August 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Extremely proud of myself to be listening to Long Live on a run and go “oh hey that’s Listener!” which is not a secret, but I guess I didn’t know Listener last time I was into The Chariot.

Anyway the video is fun too.

youtu.be/mwwW7cVCJ0A?...
The Chariot - David De La Hoz
YouTube video by Good Fight Music
youtu.be
August 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I’ve done like three posts about AI which is plenty so here’s a documentary about hardcore band The Chariot.

Watching it, I long to:
1. Be in bands again.
2. Create _anything_ that people love this much.

youtu.be/i1OvObODenw?...
"Forget Not" The Chariot Documentary
YouTube video by imagerystorm
youtu.be
August 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
They’re gonna cure canccer.
August 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I do not enjoy a pile on, but it is appropriate to mock this. 🤷🏻‍♂️

To wit, this is the stupidest "look we're doing AI too" thing I've seen in a long while, and today I accidentally went on LinkedIn so the bar was pretty fucking stupid.
Introducing the first AI prototype of a British MP🇬🇧🤖

When constituent and local business owner, Jeremy Smith, approached me with this idea, I was very excited to work with him. The AI revolution is happening and we must embrace it to see how it can be useful, in all sectors.
Speak to Mark Sewards 24/7
Connect with Mark Sewards, your AI assistant, anytime.
www.neural-voice.ai
August 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Opened LinkedIn*.

*(Huge mistake, vomited immediately, mea culpa. A non-recruiter had messaged me, which explains but does not excuse it).
August 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Outside of you there are two wolves…

…roll initiative.

#ttrpg
August 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM