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@[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. ​

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.

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!

• Github: github.com/mavnn/codemirror-...
• NPM: npmjs.com/package/@mavnn/cod...

#interactivefiction

Today I was reminded that by default github doesn't make you a watcher of your own repositories. Sorry @[email protected] - I didn't ignore the issues you created on github.com/mavnn/codemirror-... for 3 weeks on purpose.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Yeah, the fact that even people like... fighting game content creators... are getting fed up and publicly tearing apart some of this stuff is actually encouraging.

​youtu.be/Q6VdVd4GVm4?si=2TCI...

@[email protected] ​Meta classes next with built in DLSS - why allow yourself to see anything ugly in real life? Remember; variety and other people's personal expression are just a confusing source of discomfort!

@[email protected] @[email protected] European from one country living in an other European country and who has professional ties to at least two other European countries. I've... never heard of an impressum, so in this particular dude's case I'm just going to assume it must be what happens when you sit on a photocopier and take a copy. ​

@[email protected] This is a beautiful piece!

On a slightly unrelated note, I've been meaning to comment for a while that (having been somewhat involved with publishing over the years) it is so refreshing to hear you talking about your book covers as someone who is obviously inspired by the content of the book so I'll take the opportunity to say that now as well.

I don't know who needs to hear this today, but you're not like everybody else, and the expert advice may not fit you. This brought to you by a reminder I had of talking to one of my son's teachers.

"Don't worry, we've taught plenty of children like your son before!"

When we told the educational psychologist they actually laughed out loud, because the piece of advice that triggered the comment would only be helpful for around 1 in every 5,000 children and would have been actively detrimental to an 'average' pupil his age. 1/2

@[email protected] Thank you! Also, that's a very classy avatar

@[email protected] ​When I was sixteen my drum teacher pulled me in at the last moment for a concert because an orchestra member was ill. I had one job: whack a huge bass drum about six times.

One of those times I whacked it a full beat late, in a moment of complete silence from the rest of the orchestra.

My drum teacher afterwards said "don't worry, the audience will have assumed it was on purpose. Apart from the musicians in the audience - they'll be having a good laugh."

I wonder if you're hitting a similar situation or whether they're just, er, not very good...

Me: You do realise that even Bing have started indexing the new domain, and I didn't even tell them?

Google: We have a button here that does nothing you can click, and we'll tell you your page is in a priority queue!

Me: Okay, so we're really doubling down on the epitaph "Woke up and chose to be worse than Bing". Good to know.

Google: Would you like to see the crawled version?

Me: ...okay?

Google: Ha! The page hasn't been retrieved.

Me: The one you just told me was crawled?

Google: Maybe you need to wait a bit?

Me: ...so, telling you my website has moved means you notice more slowly than if I don't tell you?

Google: Pretty much! Thanks for telling us!

Me, to Google: I'm moving my blog from blog.mavnn.co.uk to blog.mavnn.eu. I've set up redirects and everything. Now I'm submitting a report to tell you.

Google: Okay!

Me, next day: Google, why have unindexed all my mavnn.eu sites, even the unrelated ones?

Google: We've crawled those pages but haven't indexed them yet.

Me: They were already indexed?

Ah, fantastic. I managed to paste the wrong link from the clipboard. If the edit to the post hasn't reached you, the correct link should be: (removed)
Edit: the link has expired now.

Collaborative #interactionfiction editing test take 2. If you're interested in the idea of collaborative editing of #ink scripts or you have 30 seconds to spare, could you try following the link below, editing the file there and then reply here to say you have done so? Thank you!

(The file will be valid for a few hours, I'll edit this post when it goes offline)

Edit: the link has expired now.

Blog: Easy, visual, camera bounds in Godot

I'm building a 2D rogue-like in #godot with one of my students and it was proving a hassle accurately setting camera and world boundaries on levels. This is one way to allow level scenes to set their own boundaries visually in the editor.

#godot #gamedev

blog.mavnn.eu/2026/03/16/cam...

Also, if you want to try out this next version of collaborative #visualnovel writing yourself you can go to visualink.mavnn.eu/script/demo, click the 'Copy edit invite' button and then paste the address you get into a message to send to the person you'd like to collaborate with. The session will end when the initiator closes their tab

@[email protected] @[email protected] You are not alone in that frustration, believe me. And thank you for the actual conversation!​

Edit: Thank you, experiment over and link removed for now. I'll be doing this again soon.

Random request moment! For a limited amount of time, it would do me a huge favour if you could follow this link, make some changes in the text editor you see, and then reply here to let me know you've done so.

I'll edit and update this post when the link becomes inactive, everything you type will be temporary but will also be visible to anybody else who follows the link.

Thank you! (link now removed)