Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

@chemelia a mathematical function is a map from an input (the arguments) to an output (the return value); it's a transformation

functional programming is programming that uses these transformations to complete tasks, like "given this blob of data, give me a webpage"

because a significant amount of programming is mapping data from one form to another, this is a useful programming style to know

“she was… precious to me”

« Both sides, still, were consumed with fiery love for her, the princess. My princess. My obsession for her, even now, was troubling. » is Link supposed to sound like Isildur here

i guess they still use “Japanese” as a noun in Canada

« Just this week, one of the party’s top leaders was caught giving a fascist salute and one of its candidates was suspended for flatteringly comparing Ms. Meloni with Hitler. In the past, members have held a dinner celebrating the March on Rome that brought Mussolini to power 100 years ago.

Ms. Meloni has tried to distance herself from what she calls those “nostalgic” elements of her party » swell

Gary Paulsen??

@KitRedgrave i really really want somebody to do something interesting with legends arceus but i've been watching the tag on AO3 since the game came out and there is just nothing there

there are some older fics which are good (for some reason johto fics tend to be better than the rest) but i think a lot of older fans don't write fic anymore and younger fandom just isn't as creative

do they not make kids read My Side of the Mountain in school these days anymore

nothing like a video game series about nature and ecology to demonstrate that fanfic writers really only know how to write character dramas

i would love it if pokémon fans would actually engage with the text instead of doing normal fandom character tropefic

« Oh to be a wild woman living amongst wooper and having their smiley faces greet me upon waking. »

@maya mostly for me; the links and search engines are all things i use regularly

in particular i think it would be a bit weird and unexpected for somebody else to make that page their browser home page, even though it is mine. in an age of neocities and github pages they can easily just fork it and give it the links which would be useful to them

however i think you can learn interesting things about people by looking at the tools they use. so while i don't think other people will necessarily make extensive use of my homepage, i do think they can learn interesting things about me through it

@maya along the lines of Tim BL’s “the homepage doesn't need to be the landing page” i’ve been thinking of splitting off the useful components, maybe into a /Portal/, and making the root more fun/informative with things like current status, random quotes, maybe a word of the day, eventually small games, and that sort of thing

but it's not really a priority for me so i haven't fully mapped out exactly what it will look like

@maya i've been thinking about making changes to it but before i do, you may be interested in my homepage, https://go.kibi.family, in that it literally is what pops up when i open a new tab

cutest part of cat

“i don't really like her; i just feel if i stopped following her my timeline would get substantially less interesting”