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@blog We should now have working comments on the blog as well.

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@[email protected] one conference asked me to provide slides a month in advance so they could put them on a USB stick for attendees, as if having slides done a month in advance was the kind of thing that happened to normal, sane, human beings. Fortunately my talk was mostly live coding so I had an excuse.

@[email protected] as an experienced conference talk giver, I'm assuming the same as every other train journey to a conference: break your perfectly good slides/code/examples by thinking of something even better and trying to implement it with 1 hour and 15% battery

There's something very surreal about living in a world where you just post things like 'hey, I wrote a nice little script' despite the news cycle including war, potential economic collapse, etc some of which may directly affect you or people you know, because if you wait for a "more appropriate" moment you're never gong to post anything and putting life on hold isn't going to help anyone in any way.

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Excellent! I now have my blog rss feed pushed to Bonfire by a nice little #fsharp program I'll be open sourcing soonish. It also runs a mini-webserver to allow embedding comments into the blog, but that still requires a bit of sysops work that I haven't finished yet.

Still: if you want to follow my blog via #activitypub, now you can.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] I'm running forgejo on a pi that's also running several other services (including the postgres instance forgejo is using). Only time it's used noticeable resources is when meta's ai bot tried to scrape every commit of every file on the git history of my blog with 20-30 concurrent connections at a time, I think in a loop as it didn't ever seem to finish.

Which was annoying, but I don't blame forgejo for it...

@[email protected] I hear you, I've been known to use super hero games as a similar way of hoovering up adventure ideas from all sorts of places. It's not like anyone is going to bat an eyelid at vikings raiding New York in a supers setting 🤷‍♂️

@[email protected] thank you! And actually, I've run pawnshop as well but I believe that was... er... some number of years I won't think about too hard and before I met my wife.

Nice start: Gumshoe now has a dedicated 1-1 line, apparently. Thank you Bryant for the heads up. pelgranepress.com/product-ca...

I'm on the look out for good ttrpg adventures for a single player and GM (my wife and I, specifically). Anyone got good suggestions? Preference for fantasy but doesn't need to be DnD (maybe even prefer it not to be), other genres definitely worth suggesting if the adventure is good. Any suggestions on things designed with this in mind or easy to convert?

@[email protected] @[email protected], you seem to be gentlemen of impeccable taste who might have thoughts?

@[email protected] yeah, input can be a challenge. Even here in Italy teaching primary age kids I've hit a few things I didn't expect ('~' just doesn't exist on the standard Italian key layout, for instance). I don't have direct experience with non Latin alphabet learners but like you I'm guessing it's a painful extra hurdle.

@[email protected] Sort of, although see efforts like hedy.org/ sharing naive language programming.

That said, I've been told it's not quite as bad as it sounds. A lot of code uses abbreviations, terms outside of normal language, or words in unusual ways anyway ('bool', 'for', 'def') so it doesn't help but it isn't any worse than car and cdr.

I can't say that it doesn't feel unfair though.

@[email protected] It appears that the magical girl genre has changed since my childhood. Still seems to be about the fighting evil though, so I'll take it.

"With the power of schadenfreude and the means of production, we will defeat you Skynet knockoff 47!"

@[email protected] More honestly, if I'm writing for public consumption I've always been surprised at how what ever level I write to, somebody finds it useful so I tend to write towards 'knowing slightly less than myself'. If I'm trying to write to persuade or reach a specific audience, that's a much harder challenge and I can only commiserate.

@[email protected] I've found that it's nearly always quite a bit more than when they say "okay, got it" and a reasonable amount less than when they say "please stop, my brains are oozing out of my ears".

I hope this email shit post has found you in need of low impact humour, as opposed to actionable advice...

@[email protected] @[email protected] that second tag should be - not sure what happened there! Wandering shop in general seems to be a mastodon instance with quite a few writers.

@[email protected] there's definitely some authors around; I'm aware of @[email protected] and @[email protected] of the top of my head they both regularly post to writing related hash tags that will help find other authors.