Random question for techy profession people; I was one of two software engineers brought on during the founding of a start up and wrote the initial implementation of the serverside infrastructure for the product (the other engineer was writing client code). I was not "a founder" - I had no involvement with investment, financing, etc.

Obviously, with two engineers I didn't have a fancy job title, but the work I was doing required at least the level of technical skill as my preceeding "staff engineer" post. Would it be accurate to use "founding engineer" to describe the post, or would you associate that with an engineer who is an actual "founder"?

I've worked remotely for US firms for years, but I must admit I'm still frequently confused by what different job titles mean to different people.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Oh, I like your idea too. Looking at my own education in the UK and seeing how much about British colonial history I would have missed without first hand commentary from family members because school just happened not to mention those parts, I can't help feeling that human governments would really not like elves in a politically realistic setting...

@[email protected] Sort of adjacent to what you're asking, but I've been very pleased with my Boox e-ink tablet. BUT it isn't an ereader, it is an actual android device with a good stylus. Pros: good built in ebook reader for drm free docs, runs the Kindle android app, good for note taking and even art (mine runs Krita fine, although judging colour saturation on eink is still hit and miss). Cons: enormously overkill in both price and performance if you're only going to use it as an ereader.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Conversely, played straight this one of the only ways I've seen the 'fantasy world in eternal tech stasis' trope work; if you assume scientific progress is hard for some reason (maybe physics/chemistry work just slightly differently) then it begins to make sense that religions, nations, and schools of magic can persist for enormous spans of time when you have people living for hundreds or thousands of years holding it together by just remembering stuff. Of course, if you then try and add 'hasn't been seen for centuries' at the same time the whole thing falls flat on its face.

@[email protected] @[email protected] raises eyebrow inscrutably giving the impression of vast knowledge and encouraging continued investigation; a technique that fortunately works for the teacher regardless of any actual knowledge on their part

@[email protected] @[email protected] Within you are two wolves, a chicken, a head of grain, and a pauldron...

@[email protected] @[email protected] ah, no you hadn't. That clarifies everything - I had been assuming the traditional four faces which rotated as their split personalities transitioned.

@[email protected] @[email protected] To be fair, if your cauldron has a pauldron has something very wrong with it. Or it is a curséd knight who needs kissing.

(final option only available to heirs to the throne with correct sexual orientation unless local equality laws apply)

@[email protected] Oops. Still, mild embarrassment aside - using the correct title gets the same issue.

Searching for "glyph Futzing fraction" gets me an AI summary and a bunch of commentary links, but no link to the post. Searching for "glyph blog" brings up a link to the blog index page.

@[email protected] @[email protected] My grandmother used to train great danes, an other type of large dog with a generally good temperament. Nearly all small little dogs (puppies or just smaller breeds) seemed entirely happy to play with, try to threaten and/or, for the adult dogs, romantically engage with the danes despite it being obviously physically impossible for them to impact the danes at all (many of the smaller dogs were shorter than the danes' knees). That did rather immediately change on the one occasion I saw a dane get actually angry with a smaller dog, but even then the caution only lasted as long as the growling did.

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We have some bite sized introduction to #ink posts for writing #interactivefiction / #visualnovels up on YouTube and I’m hoping to do a few more next week. I’ll definitely be doing a follow on about conditions (the different comparison operators and “switch” statements) and I’ll probably also do a video version of this blog post.

If you’ve got requests or ideas for other focused mini-videos let me know commenting here or over at the IntFiction forums (intfiction.org/t/ink-introdu...)

@[email protected] Thanks. One of the things I hate about the combination of #chronicfatigue brain fog and #adhd impulsivity is that I know there's a huge danger of my brain just randomly starting sealioning and mansplaining across the people I follow as my brain just starts spewing random responses to stimuli. At least on this occasion I noticed...

@[email protected] Also, I just read your post and that wasn't what you were asking at all. Sorry, replying to posts with a sleep dep headache is never a wise move.

@[email protected] I happened to be looking at the hashtag code in Mastodon and I think it normalises the hashtags to all lower case for comparison/following. So it should, hopefully, work with any of them.

Me: searches for @[email protected] 's Futzing Function blog post by name

Google: here's an AI summary of the post and links to three other sites discussing it

Me: really? Google decided not to index Glyph's blog? Are they summarising based on the discussions about the post or something? goes and checks

Google: nope! We indexed it, you can search for the blog itself, we just decided that if you search for a specific post we'll put in the AI summary and remove the link to the actual article from the results

@[email protected] I'm guessing either cheap outsourced humans or pipe the audio in short sections to a pirated copy of Dragon Naturally Speaking from 1998 to feed into a swear word regex. I mean - it doesn't actually need to be accurate, just trigger often enough people get scared and (most importantly) management think it's working. The very idea is pretty gruesome though.

tags.pub/ is a useful service as well.

@[email protected] @[email protected] you can follow tags from across multiple servers by following @ [hashtag you want to follow] @ tags.pub (without the spaces). The service was set up by @[email protected] who helped write the specifications that underpin the Fediverse, so it is trustworthy. If you follow @[email protected], it will broadcast your own hashtagged posts.

@[email protected] Hi! Would you be the right person to ask if tags.pub is currently having issues? It doesn't seem to be boosting any of my posts at the moment, but I updated my own server so I'm not entirely sure which side the issue is on. I'm suspicious though, as I haven't seen anything from any of the tags I follow for a while either.

@[email protected] these are great.

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Using #krita practice to avoid vitamin D deficiency part 2.

Turns out that when you're suffering from #chronicfatigue and don't have the energy to walk anywhere, it's really easy to get vitamin D deficiency because of the lack of sunlight. Last year I ended up needing to inject myself with extra vitamin D to get back to workable levels, this year I'm trying to be deliberate not repeating that experience.

Public service announcement over, tl;dr get some sunlight, don't give yourself skin cancer either