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Mildly irritated that chrome is willing to autofill 'linkspam' as a title but not 'linkdump', which I have used more times. Autofill is an arcane mystery.
Markdown Simplifies Formatting Your DW Posts--the only thing I have trouble remembering how to do in HTML is username links, so maybe I'll try markdown for that? Otherwise I just don't want to be bothered having to remember another type of formatting mostly. I know how to code a link in html! I sincerely doubt I can reliably remember how to do so in markdown. (I am notably terrible at remembering how to do things involving text commands, it's a large part of why I stopped using linux. GUIs are my friends. My DW posts I code the links and italics and bold manually, because that's something I can reliably remember, but I use the rich text editor to inset images because I can never remember how to code in the width restrictions, and also to include username links because how to do it just keeps falling out of my head.) Anyway, this being a 'silent feature' seems kinda... hm. Why do you have a formatting method that you have to hear about by word of mouth, that's weirdly exclusionary. I'd actually been looking for a page on what markdown DW supports because my friend lethe mentioned she thought it was supported, and I straight up could not find one or even any indication that it was supported. I mean, maybe I'm just bad at google now, but... nothing on the new post page itself mentions the feature or links to a page on being able to use the feature, soooo. Hm.
A lovely post about Buttercup (of The Princess Bride) as a poet, and how it improves the story
A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions is a disturbing investigation into an author who apparently lies constantly, about everything, and typing this has made my brain start playing why the fuck you lyin, why you always lyin, mmmm oh my god, stop fuckin lyin! Anyway this Dan Mallory dude sounds fuuuucking terrifying. Also, the fake emails from his "brother" about him being in hospital are so... this is a dude who would have stirred up drama and pseucided on lj, except he somehow managed to make masses of money doing it. Yikes. God, this story just keeps GOING. Also like, wow, this dude's novel was bought by the publishing house at whish he worked--I wonder just how much promotion money was poured into that book and how much that affected its #1 debut. Or if he pulled a more competent version of the Handbook for Mortals NYT scam--he's certainly got the money for it, christ.
via hellofriendsiminthedark, Why Sign-Language Gloves Don't Help Deaf People is an interesting article about terrible translation attempts. ("It translates the alphabet!" Oh my god do you have any idea how slow and annoying it would be to fingerspell everything you wanted to say. No one talks like that.) (Reference point: I've taken ASL 1 and ASL 2; Alex, my housemate and best friend, is in the third year of a degree in ASL/English interpreting. I've gone to a fair few interpreting social events with him, even though my sign is pretty rudimentary.)
Hunger Makes Me, on women being expected to want nothing
On Fandom and the "culture of selling"--money quote, which I read aloud to Alex: If you look at the proliferation of gofundmes and patreons and think, "ugh, why do people keep asking me for money?" and not "how can we burn late capitalism to the ground and salt the remains?" then I think you're not seeing the big picture.
Markdown Simplifies Formatting Your DW Posts--the only thing I have trouble remembering how to do in HTML is username links, so maybe I'll try markdown for that? Otherwise I just don't want to be bothered having to remember another type of formatting mostly. I know how to code a link in html! I sincerely doubt I can reliably remember how to do so in markdown. (I am notably terrible at remembering how to do things involving text commands, it's a large part of why I stopped using linux. GUIs are my friends. My DW posts I code the links and italics and bold manually, because that's something I can reliably remember, but I use the rich text editor to inset images because I can never remember how to code in the width restrictions, and also to include username links because how to do it just keeps falling out of my head.) Anyway, this being a 'silent feature' seems kinda... hm. Why do you have a formatting method that you have to hear about by word of mouth, that's weirdly exclusionary. I'd actually been looking for a page on what markdown DW supports because my friend lethe mentioned she thought it was supported, and I straight up could not find one or even any indication that it was supported. I mean, maybe I'm just bad at google now, but... nothing on the new post page itself mentions the feature or links to a page on being able to use the feature, soooo. Hm.
A lovely post about Buttercup (of The Princess Bride) as a poet, and how it improves the story
A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions is a disturbing investigation into an author who apparently lies constantly, about everything, and typing this has made my brain start playing why the fuck you lyin, why you always lyin, mmmm oh my god, stop fuckin lyin! Anyway this Dan Mallory dude sounds fuuuucking terrifying. Also, the fake emails from his "brother" about him being in hospital are so... this is a dude who would have stirred up drama and pseucided on lj, except he somehow managed to make masses of money doing it. Yikes. God, this story just keeps GOING. Also like, wow, this dude's novel was bought by the publishing house at whish he worked--I wonder just how much promotion money was poured into that book and how much that affected its #1 debut. Or if he pulled a more competent version of the Handbook for Mortals NYT scam--he's certainly got the money for it, christ.
via hellofriendsiminthedark, Why Sign-Language Gloves Don't Help Deaf People is an interesting article about terrible translation attempts. ("It translates the alphabet!" Oh my god do you have any idea how slow and annoying it would be to fingerspell everything you wanted to say. No one talks like that.) (Reference point: I've taken ASL 1 and ASL 2; Alex, my housemate and best friend, is in the third year of a degree in ASL/English interpreting. I've gone to a fair few interpreting social events with him, even though my sign is pretty rudimentary.)
Hunger Makes Me, on women being expected to want nothing
On Fandom and the "culture of selling"--money quote, which I read aloud to Alex: If you look at the proliferation of gofundmes and patreons and think, "ugh, why do people keep asking me for money?" and not "how can we burn late capitalism to the ground and salt the remains?" then I think you're not seeing the big picture.
