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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

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weird fandom take, ready player one et cetera 

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

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

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Status update: New build system for www.ladys.computer 

I’ve just switched over to using <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 <git.ladys.computer/WWW/blob/86>="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

roman numerals? 

more like “grown men rue my calls”

re: not a vote re: calendar poll 

@aescling @Satsuma a week is a repeating cycle of named days. the number of named days in the cycle determines the length of the week. so a week of ten days has ten different names which repeat. which of those days are rest days doesn't change the cycle length

re: not a vote re: calendar poll 

@aescling @Satsuma well the many humans who used weeks prior to the invention of the sabbath would disagree with you

not a vote re: calendar poll 

@Satsuma @aescling what do you people think a week is

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

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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

goals for january 

i *really* need to make my calendar

#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 <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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