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By Greg Mort

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❌ Oh I need to exercise to burn off all these calories I just ate.

✅ Oh I need eat to replenish my energy and nutrients after that work out.

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Hey can we not go to the Beach That Makes You Old?

Seems novel at first, but it gets old real fast.

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OK I think it's time to share one of my stranger pieces of writing advice. It's a little bit nutty and it may not work for everyone, but it has certain merits, so here it is for your consideration:

I do all my writing not in a word processor, but in a code editor (SublimeText) in a plaintext document.

Why do such a crazy thing?

- Originally it was because I did a lot of writing at night and my computer was too old to have dark mode.

- I realized I could use git (command line) or the GitHub desktop app to track all changes to the story and all associated files for world building, character info, etc. Never again would I have to worry about the editing process destroying the work. If I need to restore something, it's all there in the file history.

- Anti generative AI and proof of original work. Because there's a history of the writing from the very start, it shows the line by line evolution of the work. Text generators don't write like this with line by line edits and corrections, so it may provide some proof in the future of original human-generated work (but may god forbid such a thing ever be necessary).

- No spellcheck. No grammar suggestions. Coding apps generally don't have spellcheck as a default feature, so it removes the distractions and "MS-Word-ified language suggestions." Ursula LeGuin's book on writing, "Sailing the Craft" advises turning off the squiggly lines, and this accomplishes that.

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Bad Bots Go Into the Endless Maze

"Instead of simply blocking bots, Cloudflare's new system lures them into a "maze" of realistic-looking but irrelevant pages, wasting the crawler's computing resources. The approach is a notable shift from the standard block-and-defend strategy used by most website protection services. Cloudflare says blocking bots sometimes backfires because it alerts the crawler's operators that they've been detected."

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'Invocation to Venus' by Valentine Hugo, (1887 - 1968)

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Venice, Looking East from the Guidecca, Sunrise (1819) by J.M.W. Turner

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観測者/2022

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狂気を希釈して/2022

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https://twitter.com/has_kuma

https://bsky.app/profile/has-kuma.bsky.social

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Just a cargo mech by Rupam Raaj K

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'The Wink' by Louis Wain, (1860 - 1939)