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@[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

@[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] This coming from someone whose stag party was based around port and Stilton, so I'm not exactly averse to blue cheese

@[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] 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!

@[email protected] @[email protected] I will not have you disparaging hp sauce by comparing it to tomato coloured sugar syrup!

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!

@[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.

@[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.

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.

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!

#InteractiveFiction #CreativeWriting #gamedev

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.

@[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.

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