#write documentation of program

[whentherewerebicycles]

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[ckret2]

think there's a typo in ch1 on AO3:

"Are you shopping for something specific?" Soos asked with his best customer service voice. "Post cards? Snow globes? Weird taxidermy thingamajigs? Pants?"

"Oh, Mr. Pines! The original Mr. Mystery! Heh—he actually retired a few months ago. The Mystery Shack's under new management!" Soos planted his fists on his hips and puffed up his chest. "It's me, I'm the new management."

Think there should be another line between these?

Anonymous asked: i think there's a line missing in the very start of the ao3 mirror, right before "the original mr mystery" bit

Thank you both for saving my ass 🙏

[pagerunner-j]

Thank you.

LET. MAGIC. BE WEIRD.

[fieldtomatoes]

remember kids, just bc something is listed as a strength in your IEP doesn't mean your peers or teachers are going to treat it like a strength lol

[snazzymolasses]

mmmm, no, Microsoft word, I do not think those suggestions are what I meant

In fact I'm pretty sure I spelled it correctly

Time to Add to Dictionary

[jonquilandlace]

Someone should hire me for ideas on building a superior word processor specifically for dissertation writing I have so many good ideas

[baffledapple]

once again i am being subjected to "educational courses on generative AI" (lengthy advertisements that the higher ups want us to watch so they can say that we are trained in AI)

[deathsmallcaps]

GUYS. My Win a Commission project is finished!!!!! I still have four months of posting left to do but I wrote, edited, drew and explained EVERYTHING!!!!!

SEVEN YEARS. I started in August 2017 (I was sixteen!) and in August 2024 I motherfucking finished!

The next time I start a long project, it better fucking be a fetus or some shit because I don’t feel like doing something like this everfucking again.

I AM FREE

(If you’re interested in winning my next couple, look under the readmore for some hints. The majority are just reference drawings for the story, not the actual illustrations)

The two main characters for West of the Sun, East of the Moon, a modern retelling of East of the Sun, West of the Moon set in Alaska. Trans Sapphic love story

The main character Chantha Rasphone, for my gay ‘sequel’ to Childe Rowland. If you like Labyrinth, chances are you’ll like this. It’s the longest story I have ever written, at over 40 printer pages without the explanation, pictures or glass art. It’s even longer with those things.

Gii, the Tatterhood from my Yamana retelling. She has dwarfism and slays a leopard seal with a spear.

Billi, an intersex man and star of the Acacia Tree, my adaptation of The Juniper Tree set in modern Australia. (The picture here is based on Alan Scott’s 1970s picture ‘Face of an Aboriginal* Man, Alice Springs Area’, as shown below)

*Respectful term is the full ‘Aboriginal Australian person’, but I am just quoting the title.

These are not in release order! Next contest starts on September 10th!

[whentherewerebicycles]

man oh man i have so many thoughts about how insistently (and i think kind of blindly/uncritically) my university pushes us to frame absolutely every type of learning experience we offer to students in the language of "career readiness" and "career-connected learning" and "professional development." i totally get that we have a large first-gen student population who are making a big investment of time & money in a college degree and who want to be sure that doing so will grant them access to greater socioeconomic mobility. and i DO think it is important for us to think about like, ok, long-term, what comes after these experiences or after this four years in college, and what can we be doing to set students up for success as they transition out of college and into the rest of their lives. but like. idk man. i find it really bleak sometimes. just this relentless messaging that the only thing that matters in your adult life is how competitive you are on the job market. and i also think it pushes us to just like, kind of warp or distort the things we are offering students to make them fit under that rubric, or that particular framework for valuing things? like if we want to convince a student to study abroad we can't be like, living abroad is one of the most amazing things you can do. it's so fun/scary/exhilarating/awesome and it will expand your horizons in ways you can't even anticipate and it will expose you to different ways of seeing the world and you will get to interact with people whose perspectives have been shaped by totally different cultures & contexts and it will help you become more independent and more confident in your ability to handle unfamiliar situations and it will give you stories you will remember all your life and you will build strong friendships with the people you meet and you will take cool pictures or buy little knickknacks that remind you of those experiences in your daily life forever and it will motivate you to travel more and when/if you have kids of your own you will probably make it a priority to travel with them if you can or to encourage them to study abroad when they're older because you know how amazing that experience is and you want them to have access to those kinds of life-changing opportunities. like instead of saying any of that we have to say oh this will develop your skills in time management and project management and professional communication with your supervisors and it will give you something impressive to talk about on your resume or in job interviews and blah blah blah. or even if you use a more capacious definition of career readiness that focuses more on habits of mind (like, in the workplace you will sometimes have to navigate complex situations where expectations are not fully clear! you will also likely have this experience living abroad!), it's still just like... idk man... i find it so reductive lol like yeah sure but "get a skill that applies to your job as a project manager or an IT professional or whatever" just feels so much... Less... than the more humanistic appeal to like, this will enrich your life in so many ways, and you will, through these experiences, just become an all-around more emotionally mature, confident, and interesting human being who has engaged in an experience that challenged you and helped you grow. but then i am all in on the humanities and humanism in general so maybe i am biased here and someone who wants to be a software engineer or whatever would be wholly unmoved by that kind of appeal. idk. anyway. it looks like our team is going to be subsumed into our career center in the next year or two so like. what can you really do except to inwardly say "wow i kinda hate this"

[yurilad]

— TERRAS TOWN (3/?) | ask to be +/- from tag list.

[redacted]... it's me, i'm [redacted] i'm so cold...

[balkanlila]

i think the solution is to just... process whatever happened this year. so basically i have to stick around and live through it

[icedteaandoldlace]

I had a long, detailed post written out and Tumblr ate it. But anyways, if anyone knows why copying a document from LibreOffice and pasting it into Google Docs changes the appearance of the opening quotation marks at the start of a paragraph, and whether it's a bug in Libre's automatic formatting or some weird setting in Docs that I need to turn off, I'd like to know what I can do to make it stop doing that.

Literally all my quotation marks match properly except for the ones at the beginning of a paragraph, specifically in paragraphs that start with a quote. And no, it's not a matter of straight quotes vs. smart quotes, because they're all smart quotes. They just look like they're in a different font, even though they're not, and adjusting the font/size does nothing. Neither does using find-and-replace. The only way to correct the appearance is by creating a new paragraph above it and retyping the quotation mark, then backspacing the original into the new paragraph, and that's time consuming and annoying.

If my Internet connection ever gets strong enough, I'll attach a picture so you can see what I'm working with here. It's the weirdest problem, and I have no idea what's causing it.

EDIT: I figured it out. See notes for the solution.

[shwoo]

I've been fighting Windows' API trying to make a simple program before tomorrow night because I volunteered to do a trivia thing for my family, and I thought it would help with organising the questions and scores. I already have the questions, so it's not a huge problem if it's not finished in time.

I just wanted some form controls, like buttons and stuff, but I'm not that familiar with doing that in Visual Studio with C++. And the information on Microsoft's site is extensive, but... convenient (missing a lot of important information). I learned Win32 programming about a year ago, so I might have also forgotten something important that wasn't mentioned in the documentation I'm using at the moment.

And I could not get a control defined in the code to show up. I didn't want to use the resources for a lot of reasons, even once I figured out how to bypass the kind of stripped down visual editor, but I also couldn't seem to program a button in directly and have it appear in the window when I ran the program. It seemed to be created fine, but I couldn't see it anywhere.

I finally found some example code on Stack Overflow or somewhere, and the reason the button wasn't showing up was because... I hadn't specified the WS_VISIBLE flag when I created it. (WS stands for Window Style. Win32 has a very broad definition of a window that includes buttons) Apparently it's programmed in a way that assumes that an object invisible until you tell it that it's not? I would've done it the other way around.

I had to sit there for a few seconds after I added it in and the button finally showed up. At least it's progress?

[dravidious]

How's the writing going? Well I've written over 2000 words and I'm questioning if I'm spelling "our" correctly, so you know

[dorudo-36]

Can i finish my programming finals project that I was supposed to start a month ago but started it last night, before the deadline?

We are about to find out lmao

[sheena-is-a-punk-rocker]

Seconding LibreOffice as a writing program! I've been using it since high school when it was still OpenOffice and I refuse to use anything else

Hello, Mr. Gaiman. Which program do you use to write? I’d really like recommendations that are safe for writers to use. I just don’t trust Google Docs anymore. Thanks!

I've been using Libre Office for a long time, and really like it. I use Final Draft for scripts.