Notices by Gergely Nagy 🐁 (algernon@trunk.mad-scientist.club), page 8

@funkeh Azurill!

@Wolf480pl Also, http://idlerpg.net/ (I'm playing on #IdleRPG on #FreeNode)

@Wolf480pl https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Idle%20RPG

Basically, it's an RPG played on IRC where you gain XP by being idle. Quitting, talking, etc will result in penalties. The characters still wander around the map, pick up items, and so on, but without interaction. You just sit back and idle.

It's a fun game.

I should play #IdleRPG on IRC again. My FreeNode client has been idle for 109+ days now.

@feonixrift Thanks for the good example, by the way!

@schlink Looks nice! Limelight.vim (linked from the repo) too. I use something similar with Emacs, but it doesn't work too well for the code I'm mostly working with nowadays (it's kinda useless when it'd highlight the whole screen).

@codesections Been using a similar setup for almost a year now, very happy with it. It's definitely unconventional, and colleagues were always looking at me funnily when I was working in an office. :)

(Mind you, my choice of keyboards, or a standing desk, might have been contributing factors too...)

@codesections There is a wide gutter (see attached screenshot), it's just the same color as the background. But no line numbers, minimal syntax highlighting, and no mode line either (I can toggle all of those on if need be, but I very rarely do apart from navigating, when I have relative line numbers shown temporarily).

And yes, this is how I program, how I write prose, deal with email and read my RSS feeds. I wrote a short blog post about it last September: https://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2018/09/06/the-brutalist-path/

@szbalint I've used DigitalOcean for a number of years, very, very satisfied. Good service, helpful staff, reasonable prices. I ended up migrating to Hetzner due to them having better prices at the time (only for DO to lower their prices a month later...)

Can recommend.

@codesections 27", 90 chars with a fixed-width font in Emacs, wide margins on the side.

@tootbrute It would be tempting to say yes, and pretend I am better read than I really am - but alas, no. I haven't heard of Lu Xun before - something to fix soon.

The title came from the hostname (asylum.madhouse-project.org), and the MadHouse Project is something I call my own projects (the name traces back to my high-school years, late-1996/early-1997). The Project initially involved more people, and we were creating some stuff we believed to be mad enough to feel the name's appropriate.

And now we have a name!

It was a family effort, but I'm liking it. Blog post coming soon.

@ckeen That'd be an option, but I'm gonna use the name for the Thing too. As easy as it would be, I don't want to call a physical "product" "Unnamed Thing". It would be funny and easy, but the Thing deserves a proper name.

Naming things is still hard. I have a blog post written, but I don't have a name for the Thing yet. Been pondering about names for the past hour and a half.

@dansup Federated Nightmare.

@orekix It is, indeed.