Two years ago, a group of older men told me that “everything on the history of women in science has already been published” 🙃🤦‍♀️

Two papers on Rosalind Franklin is “research completed”…

But there’s no problem producing the 1000th paper on Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein…

Written partly out of spite, but mostly out of passion for making women’s stories visible, this is my new paper on the early history of women in Australian #scicomm.

https://jcom.sissa.it/article/pubid/JCOM_2506_2026_A04/

#historyofscience #womeninSTEM

I wrote up tips for saving and loading games durably in Godot. It's stuff I wish I'd known before shipping games on PC:

https://eviltrout.com/blog/2026-08-21-tips-for-saving-game-data-in-godot/

@[email protected] Could be worse. You could have used 'simple', immediately cursing you to create a thesis of insanity inducing unnecessary complexity and a type system represented in xml.

@[email protected] @[email protected] It's honestly unclear to me whether King has any idea what he's doing. Not in the sense he's a bad writer - by any metric I can think of that would be a stupid claim to make. But in the sense that he always gives the impression of not really understanding what's going on in his own writing process. That said: many, many people have found his book on writing helpful and I've never been published so...

There's a motivational thing people say that I find quite helpful: "one day or day one." Lord almighty, I understand it's incredibly cheesy. But after 4+ years of chronic illness, injuries, increasing chronic pain, scary misdiagnoses and mistreatments, and blows to how I've experienced being a physical body in the world, I guess I need a little cheese. I have so many brutal barriers to work around, I've been slipping more and more into giving up on working out.

Today is: Day One, again.

@[email protected] Oh yes, this. Chronic fatigue means that I've just lost an entire day (and broken my deliberate exercise pattern) to my wife needing a neck massage to release a trapped nerve, because the 20 minutes it took used all my energy for the day.

Do I regret it? Nope. Has it taken 18+ months to reach the stage where this sort of interrupt is closer to 'tomorrow will need to be a new day one' rather than spiralling into a week plus of black thoughts and depression? Yes. Yes, it has.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Not sure if the first one is true, but I love the rumour that one of the tests listed for the original 2CV was "can be picked up and carried out of a field by no more than four farmers if it gets stuck in mud". "Can drive across a dry ploughed field without breaking a case of eggs on the back seat" was an actual documented requirement.