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So if you've been wondering where I've been all month... ...well, I've been rather preoccupied with becoming naturalized at last, you see. Good day, my fellow Americans! (And to everyone else, normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.)
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As per edits to the previous post, it seems that for annoying reasons the new ActivityPub feature for Ghost I was planning to use can't publish posts to Mastodon in a convenient manner that doesn't involve dumping entire full-length posts where they shouldn't be.
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And finally we are back up and running on Mastodon, for those of you who prefer to get your nanofic that way: @index@eldraeverse.com Edited: Actually, we are not. I'll be posting links over on my personal account, as mentioned below, because the new feature I hoped
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Those of you who have noticed the little downtime today need not be concerned: we're switching from installed-as-nodejs-packages Ghost 5.x to installed-as-containers Ghost 6.0, and that's required a little futzing.
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A little meta note on worldbuilding, inspired by - well, okay, it's January, so you can guess what the annoying discourse has been for the last four? - four - days. Now there is a thing that while it's hardly been a major theme, here, is
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In today's recommendations, I should like to draw y'all's attention to The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor, over at A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry. Why? Well, apart from being interesting in its own right, it is one of the latest and best posts whose
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Complete back through: November 2017 (This means we have passed the point at which Discourse comments were introduced. Progress can be expected to be slower from this point forward, since I need to copy the WordPress comments across.) (No longer updated.)
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Okay, folks, we're doing this. At midnight tomorrow (that would be midnight following 29 October 2024, Central Daylight Time), we'll be cutting over to the new shiny Ghost-based site instead of this old, busted WordPress one. Not everything is finished, because some things are very hard
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Here, for your edification, is a list of all the things still to be done in migrating over here from WordPress, but which I know about and so which you don't need to remind me of. They'll be struck through as they're done, and
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So, for my birthday, which it is, I have decided to get myself freedom from WordPress. (Why, you ask? Many reasons, like being sick of its breakage and security issues, not to mention that it takes a rather more expensive droplet – it’s hosted on DigitalOcean – to serve this site
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First, the apology. As you’ve noticed, this is the first thing I’ve posted this December, for which I apologize to all my readers and especially to those kind enough to pay me for posting things. To explain – well, it’s a second-order effect of our summer being-raided-by-the-Feds experience.
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So, I won’t reiterate the sad and rage-inducing story of the past few weeks, since I’ve done that in enough places and for enough times already. If by chance you haven’t seen it, you can find it on the Discourse here, forwarded along from Patreon. Anyway. While