Lady @Lady@cat.family

« In the last year and a half, we’ve been focused on making a pretty dramatic shift at Mozilla — to make it about not just more than the browser but also more than our kind of activist personality and build out a kind of portfolio » lmao they really said that huh

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/03/whats-next-for-mozilla/

if you have written a parser for yaml 1.2 please reply and tell me if it is easier or harder than x·m·l

“how hard could it be to write a yaml parser? pretty hard right?”

I’m Lady; in fannish spaces I go by a couple of names, predominantly :⁠—

• J’Li, jellyfish_link: Most of my older fannish writing is under this name. It’s technically a pun on Marrus orthocanna, a species of pelagic siphonophore, which is to say a “jellyfish” made up of linked organisms. But it’s also a reference to Metriods and The Legend of Zelda.

• Autumn Leaf, Hojarasca, 红叶 Hongye: I use these aliases when I’m writing Pokémon fanfiction, and sometimes in other fannish spaces as well. They all ultimately derive from the default name for a girl player character in Pokémon FireRed Version (“Leaf”).

As the above description implies, I spend a lot of time in Nintendo fandoms. My first attempt at writing fanfic was in middle school with ‘The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess’ (dating myself here), and I’ve generally thought way too much about Zelda as a franchise. Lately however I haven’t done much which is fannish in an obvious and direct sense, because I’ve been spending all of my time working on technical/infrastructural things re: hosting fannish materials on the internet. I’m a strong believer in fannish decentralization and don’t like the impact that A·O·3 and social media have had on fandom. Professionally, I work in library technology, and I think there are a lot of tools and lessons from that space which fandom could adopt if people were willing to take the problems of digital fannish curation seriously.

#SnowflakeChallenge

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@Rozzychan i am a programmer!

there's an easy and hard answer to “federated fanworks” as a concept; the hard task (building an activitypub service like mastodon) is definitely a bigger task than any one person could ever take on…

… but i think there are simpler technologies like RSS which fandom could be leveraging more. there are old standards like Open Archives Initiative’s ResourceSync which maybe merit another look. there are also ways of doing things with activitystreams but not full activitypub, like the Notify project being developed by the Confederation of Open Access Repositories, which fandom could maybe leverage.

i think it's a real problem that fandom talks about archives and curation and preservation but doesn't use or contribute to any of the technologies used professionally in libraries or archives or digital preservation. why not? we're all trying to solve a lot of the same fundamental problems here

before we moved in together my partner and i had a conversation where we basically both said “i don’t know how you manage to do so much all the time” and then basically both responded “what do you mean i am like, barely functional” and the thing is we were basically both right

@gaditb not listed in the credits as far as i can tell…

is cute & good

• Playlists of good songs from the 2000s. This isn’t obviously fannish at face value, but it would really help me in making fannish playlists keyed to that era to know about more artists beyond just the radio hits.

• Highly‐technicial fanworks. I want fanworks (with fictional authorship!) that read like an R·F·C from the Internet Engineering Task Force establishing the technical underpinnings of a new networked technology, or like an ethnography from a religious studies professor attempting to unwind how colonialism has impacted traditional practices and rituals, or like the doctoral thesis of a linguist attempting to capture a critically‐endangered language before it forever disappears. Do these exist? If you know of any, send me some!

#SnowflakeChallenge

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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

i’m not upset that nerds are wanting to roleplay Ready Player One, i’m upset that they don’t realize they can do that for free with an account on proboards dot com

i have bad news for y’all
https://americandialect.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2023-Word-of-the-Year-PRESS-RELEASE.pdf

i made a little widget
https://www.ladys.computer/calendar/

reminder that you can in fact clone any repository on my gitweb and poke around with it on your own computer