Polymaths.social

LittleFedi supports emoji responses? If it does Markdown also, I'll be tempted.

Minecraft Dungeons II was fun. They patched it to work with Linux and Child.0 and I played for a few hours and 29 levels.

I should be writing though.

We are a classy family.

Today, I've done twelve code reviews and finished four PRs that were estimated by the team to take 150 hours. I did them in five, one of them while listening to our marketing team get excited about a website.

I'm going to write a digital garden plot just about commenting code so I can point every code review to it.

I keep forgetting Obsidian keeps its CSS snippets in the vault, so I just made all my bolds and italics pretty colors.

Well, lunch hour was driving to the county dump and a Target run because one of my quirks is that I don't deal well when my breakfast is available, it hits my food insecurity. So, I always had a backup supply of emergency oatmeal when I was eating that, but with fresh veggies, I don't have that.

"Lots of you have been asking me about the new website."

No, I have a serious difficult believing the development team is really excited about a new branding site.

I'm hoping to finish last month's writing obligation in the next day or so, which means I need to do a programming project. I'm thinking a choice of three of them and I'm doing it as a multiple choice, biggest one wins.

Leicmin: My patron aggregation site which lets me combine different vendors into a single list so I can generate a .htpasswd for my static site. I need to work on install story (something other than NixOS, probably docker-compose and/or Docker) and more work on login processes (maybe... emails and recovery passwords). Maybe audits. (https://src.mfgames.com/leicmin/leicmin)

MfGames Nitride: Someone asked about my C# static site generator. It has almost no useful documentation, so do I spent a week working on documenting what I already have? And probably some fixes here and there. (https://src.mfgames.com/mfgames-cil/mfgames-cil/)

MfGames Culture: My fantasy calendar program. I'm rewriting a ten year old version in TypeScript to be WASM with OCI Container support (through Podman) to handle represent my constructed calendars in their components, formatting the results into something pretty, and then parsing the pretty format back into it. This is mainly going to lead to me having a timeline on my website again. (https://src.mfgames.com/mfgames-culture/mfgames-culture-rs)

Multiple choice, check whatever interests you. Ties go to me, no answers will be probably Leicmin. Boosts are always welcome

#WritersCoffeeClub October 1:

What are you hoping to achieve this month?

Get a couple more chapters of Allegro through the writing group and maybe do another pass of editing.

And, if I have a chance, do some documenting. I usually write at least a paragraph about every character, novel, story, play, and epigraph in the book and add it to my wiki. It's a fair amount of work, but I like building up the secondary materials in the world.

Unfortunately for me, I think there are about sixty plays and songs referenced in Allegro. The problem of writing a fan-fiction of a music video and someone who primarily views the world through plays she's seen.

I hate when I accidently boost a post with images without alt text.

Minecraft Dungeons 2 is very pretty and I'm annoyed it doesn't run on Linux.

Yesterday, Partner painted one of the doors yellow on the house (we have a dark blue house but they love sunflowers). They asked me if they missed anything.

I pointed to the lower right panel.

Partner: "What did I miss?"

Me: "No idea, it's just wrong."

They got much closer and realized they had a lot of little speckles that were almost impossible to see from a few feet away and with my blurry vision. I didn't know that, I just knew that my head said there was something wrong with that section.

Senior Developer: There was an error. How do I fix it?

Me: Did you look at the error that tells you what file to edit and what the change should look like? It's right on the image you just pasted.

A little bit of spiraling this morning.

I did write 6k words last night so that felt pretty good. And, during those moments of me going "uh..." where I normally switch to the browser to doom scroll (which I get bored doing because I purposefully made my social feed not scroll friendly), I had a Leicmin coding session to work on switching it to use design tokens (I hate that word) using Style Dictionary and following the same palette as my Fedran, D. Moonfire, and MfGames sites, which also has a bonus of introducing light mode for those who don't live in a cave. (That was a long sentence.)

I'm thinking about working on Leicmin when I finish my writing obligations. Not entirely sure what to do, because I'm feeling a bit nihilistic about it, but I can easily see the CSS changes eating up a few more days and then maybe either work on an install story (you know, something besides use a NixOS flake import), documentation, or get email working while registrating accounts.

... I don't know. There is a lot of grit using the application and it is really in the "jump on one foot while chanting in Lojban while drawing symbols in the air" phase of getting it working.

I might also integrate it into fedran.com and just set it up so a free account can hide the naughty stories.

Aww, Radicle has a disclosure bug that Nix refuses to install without warnings.

https://radicle.dev/2026/09/23/disclosure-of-vulnerability-in-network-protocol

I only have public nodes up at the moment, but I'm glad I haven't tried to put my private stories up to give them a little backup.

If I get a Slate truck like Partner wants, it's gonna be as close to Barbie pink as I can get it.

*whine* I don't want to review pull requests today.

I love my kids, but when Child.0 comes down to play, I can't write. Every five seconds, I hear "look at this!" or "check this out!"