weird fandom take, ready player one et cetera
r·p is like the lowest tech thing imaginable you can just do it you don’t need to buy somebody else’s vision in v·r
A·D·S Word of the Year 2023
i have bad news for y’all
https://americandialect.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2023-Word-of-the-Year-PRESS-RELEASE.pdf
non‐gregorian calendar
i made a little widget
https://www.ladys.computer/calendar/
re: Status update: New build system for www.ladys.computer
reminder that you can in fact clone any repository on my gitweb and poke around with it on your own computer
Status update: New build system for www.ladys.computer
I’ve just switched over to using <https://git.ladys.computer/Shushe>="⛩️📰 书社" to build my main site, which formerly was handcoded. At present, this hasn’t offered me much aside from the chance to fix a few bugs, altho it has made including images as data u·r·i’s a bit easier. However, i’m planning on adding some more dataful areas to the site which would have been very cumbersome to manage manually. More on those once i finish developing them.
The process of setting it up was easy; it is designed to work well with git submodules and be easily callable from within another make·file. Check the `build´ target of <https://git.ladys.computer/WWW/blob/86942bda88e834ee9fd5129483d38be15fe5950f:/GNUmakefile>="the `GNUmakefile´ for the site" to see what little it entails.
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@kinluwi follower-only replies from people that people on your instance follow is the most subtle way for posts to unexpectedly federate to you; it's not easy to check for in masto
re: roman numerals?
@aescling that’s why the subject field ends in a question mark
re: roman numerals?
@aescling that’s ok the post doesn’t make sense
re: roman numerals?
@aescling what
not a vote re: calendar poll
@aescling no, because a fortnight needs 14 nights, and that only has 10
also because it is only one week
calendar poll
@Satsuma i would get annoyed if the names of the days cycled that fast
my thoughts re: calendar poll
i think the 6-day week is fucked but included it for good measure; i’ve historically leaned 10-day but i’m starting to feel like 8-day might be better
calendar poll
which is better?
1) a 10-day week which alternates 3 days of labour and 2 days of rest
2) a 10-day week with 6 straight days of labour and a 4-day weekend
3) an 8-day week with 5 days of labour and a 3-day weekend
4) a 6-day week with 4 days of labour and a 2-day weekend
reply) some other week configuration which evenly divides 40 or 30
#SnowflakeChallenge update: Snowflake Challenge 2024№2 – “Set yourself some goals for the coming year.”
My goals for 2024 are split between the creative and the curatorial.
On the curatorial side, I want to build a better online home for my fannish presence—including a place (or two) to host my fanworks, but also including homes for other activities like webshrines, meta, ⁊·c. I’ve been steadily trying to build the technological infrastructure for this, with the most recent attempt being <https://git.ladys.computer/Shushe>="⛩️📰 书社".
It’s very easy to get bogged down with technological aspirations (federated tagging, update tracking, linked data), but there is also low‐hanging fruit, and I have been pretty good about making slow, steady progress in this area. It is difficult going alone! I wish I knew more technically‐minded fans with similar inclinations, but in fact it feels like most of both the tech world and the fannish world are trying to solve very different problems from me right now.
On the creative side, I really would like to write more. I hardly wrote at all in the past year, partially because I moved across the country to live with my girlfriend and partially because I spent so much time on the above technical work. I have so many wips that I haven’t been able to devote the time to finish and I feel like my writing craft has somewhat fallen by the wayside of late.
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Administrator / Public Relations for GlitchCat. Not actually glitchy, nor a cat. I wrote the rules for this instance.
“Constitutionally incapable of not going hard” — @aescling
“Fedi Cassandra” – @Satsuma
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I work for a library but I post about Zelda fanfiction.