Short but sweet blog post today on tracking hidden consequences in #ink, responding to a question from my #visualnovel writing course.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] right. That's what I mean. I can't really find the right negative/dismissive Italian word for it, especially among food related ones. I guess we just like and respect our food too much.
@[email protected] @[email protected] mia moglie dice sbobba è forse una parole appropriato
The magic of your fingers knowing what keys are under them suddenly goes away if you start to think about it too much.
@[email protected] fun fact I learned from watching a family member: if you have a visual sensory processing disorder, you can become a very competent pianist who immediately loses the ability to play if you look at your hands
@bovaz I'm guessing that Italian is very rich in food words? If so, is there something suggesting that a dish is liquid and tasteless?
@[email protected] @[email protected] There's a place in Italy called Fonteblanda which caught my eye as the name can literally be translated as 'the bland spring'. It's not the only or even the most natural translation, but I love the head canon that the person who named it did so accidentally by declaring how tasteless the local spring was.
Anyway... I wouldn't use the term in this context both because it is actually a real place, and because spring water doesn't have the right negative connotations for translation
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I've seen a bunch of folks talking about "managing energy, not time" and although I've tried to do that for many years, none of it really clicked for me on a visceral level until recently. It's frustrating because every day it feels like "I've still got an hour, I should do 3 more to-do items, ugh, there's so much left". The point where I run out of "energy", hit the wall, and get to the point where *tomorrow's* admin time will be useless wall-staring does not *feel* like my breaking point
@[email protected] yeah, starting to talk openly about my #adhd at conferences suddenly meant I got asked a bunch of questions where it was obvious people needed to hear about and be validated in the 'average' or 'somewhat hard' days, not just the 'this worked great this one time' and 'pit of despair' days. Which also led to writing things like blog.mavnn.eu/2025/09/16/stu...
@[email protected] I once had the misfortune of being present when a sealed blue cheese was discovered behind a fridge. When the discoverer opened it unaware that it had been sitting there being gently warmed for at least 6 months, an immediate unspoken consensus was achieved around the decision to remove the cheese from the premises, as well as as much of the contaminated air as possible. It was French, if the European status of the cheese is relevant.
@[email protected] This coming from someone whose stag party was based around port and Stilton, so I'm not exactly averse to blue cheese
does blue cheese ever actually go bad or does it just get progressively more european until everyone nearby comes to the unspoken consensus that a decision needs to be made
@[email protected] I once had the misfortune of being present when a sealed blue cheese was discovered behind a fridge. When the discoverer opened it unaware that it had been sitting there being gently warmed for at least 6 months, an immediate unspoken consensus was achieved around the decision to remove the cheese from the premises, as well as as much of the contaminated air as possible. It was French, if the European status of the cheese is relevant.
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i think i fixed it? contact cleaner saves the day
@[email protected] The l33t hacker finishes limboing under lazer beams towards a desk, in a room where everything is lit in cyan and teal; they pause briefly before... carefully... drawing a carton of semi-skimmed milk from an improbably large pocket on a bullet proof vest.
splosh
"We're in!"
Text immediately start flashing across the computer screen, which if paused on freeze frame would be revealed to be the source code of curl.
Update of #bonfire complete, and going to 1.0.2 felt smoother than the 1.0.1 update. Nice work, @[email protected] team!
@thomasfuchs (it's definitely no ketchup, but it's great in stews)
@[email protected] @[email protected] I will not have you disparaging hp sauce by comparing it to tomato coloured sugar syrup!
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Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3. We should now be live on #bonfire 1.0.2.
I think I've managed to successfully update #bonfire to v1.0.2. If so, that was a lot smoother than the v1.0.1 update even if I managed to trip myself up at one point. Good work, @[email protected] and team!
@jexner @mavnn Since I seem to be in this picture, I’ll give my example, which is that Nicolas Cage and Christopher Walken occupy the same slot in my head to such an extent that if you name one of them, I cannot come up with the name of the other one.
(I had to google “weapon of choice video" to write this twoot.)
@[email protected] @[email protected] That works as a check, I suppose! And my apologies - I realized about 2 hours after posting that by using tags to give people context I also defaulted to you being pinged by every reply. My brain is not braining particularly smoothly today.
@mavnn @zarfeblong @edwinb Happened to me just a couple weeks ago 😅 It happens to me often. And yes, AuDHD present :)
@[email protected] Does it also persist for extended periods (months/years), or does it reset for you once you have a 'distinction' in mind? The thing which made me curious about whether it's ND related is how 'sticky' it is for me even in the face of clear differences between the parties.
Soooo... Random #adhd related question time. I sometimes get pairs of people 'entangled' where I frequently get them confused, often for no clear reason. For one example, @[email protected] and @[email protected] - both fine gentlemen with interesting things to say, but different enough interesting things that reading a post by one as if by the other is often a bit surreal.
Do you, fair reader, suffer from the same thing, and do you also have #adhd? I'm being curious whether this is a human thing or a ND thing.
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shkspr.mobi/blog/?p=67726 This is such a grounded and well written piece on not getting scared of missing out from @[email protected] . Unless you're an investor, there's not a massive benefit in being a 'first mover' and even if you are, it's a risky strategy. Keep an eye on new stuff, but don't get sucked into the fear narrative.
I'm OK being left behind, thanks!
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/im-ok-being-left-behind-thanks/Many years ago, someone tried to get me into cryptocurrencies. "They're the future of money!" they said. I replied saying that I'd rather wait until they were more useful, less volatile, easier to use, and utterly reliable.
"You don't want to get left behind, do you?" They countered.
That struck me as a bizarre sentiment. What is there to be left behind from? If BitCoin (or whatever) is going to liberate us all from economic drudgery, what's the point of "getting in early"? It'll still be there tomorrow and I can join the journey whenever it is sensible for me.
Part of the crypto grift was telling people to "Have Fun Staying Poor". That weaponisation of FOMO was an insidious way to get people to drop their scepticism.
I feel the same way about the current crop of AI tools. I've tried a bunch of them. Some are good. Most are a bit shit. Few are useful to me as they are now. I'm utterly content to wait until their hype has been realised. Why should I invest in learning the equivalent of WordStar for DOS when Google Docs is coming any-day-now?
If this tech is as amazing as you say it is, I'll be able to pick it up and become productive on a timescale of my choosing not yours.
I didn't use Git when it first came out. Once it was stable and jobs began demanding it, I picked it up. Might I be 7% more effective if I'd suffered through the early years? Maybe. But so what? I could just as easily have wasted my time learning something which never took off.
I wrote my MSc on The Metaverse. Learning to built VR stuff was fun, but a complete waste of time. There was precisely zero utility in having gotten in early.
Perhaps there are some things for which it is sensible to be on the cutting edge. I took part in a vaccine trial because I thought it might personally benefit me and, hopefully, humanity.
But I'm struggling to think of anyone who has earned anything more than bragging rights by being first. Some early investors made money - but an equal and opposite number lost money. For every HTML 2.0 you might have tried, you were just as likely to have got stuck in the dead-end of Flash.
There are a 16,000 new lives being born every hour. They're all starting with a fairly blank slate. Are you genuinely saying that they'll all be left behind because they didn't learn your technology in utero?
No. That's obviously nonsense.
It is 100% OK to wait and see if something is actually useful.
#AI #crypto #future #technology
One of the most frustrating things when learning text based coding for the first time is just knowing whether you have typed what the computer expects. Should that be a { or a [? Do I need a new line here, or must I put this on the same line?
To help out, we've updated the syntax highlighting at VisualInk to really push up the brightness of important syntax structures, without making the whole visual feel too overwhelming.
Is it the most absolutely beautiful, tasteful, and elegant syntax highlighting theme in the world? Possibly not.
But does it make it really, really, obvious whether or not you remembered to close that set of curly brackets, and which lines of the conditional block are the conditions and which are the content? We think so. Hopefully you agree!
One of the most frustrating things when learning text based coding for the first time is just knowing whether you have typed what the computer expects. Should that be a { or a [? Do I need a new line here, or must I put this on the same line?
To help out, we've updated the syntax highlighting at VisualInk to really push up the brightness of important syntax structures, without making the whole visual feel too overwhelming.
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@mavnn No worries. Is it a new thing? I don't remember having to watch my own repos manually before. My most recent repos are unwatched (~last 7 months) but the previous ones are watched.
@[email protected] I'm honestly not sure, and I'm working towards moving all my code to a #forgejo instance anyway so I'm not going to investigate too hard. That said, I probably need to set up github authentication on code.mavnn.eu/ before I move too much out else it's a pain for people to do things like submit but reports.
New version of #ink syntax highlighting for the CodeMirror editor is out, with fixes for the install instructions and highlighting when using a custom theme.
Grab it while its hot!
Special thanks to @[email protected] who when he tried to use the library and found the types missing and an error in the README left a report so it could be fixed.
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