Notices by JP 🌈 (pixelpaperyarn@icosahedron.website)

hi everyone! i run a literary magazine & we’re looking for volunteer editors!

we’ve got at least three open positions for the Luna Station Quarterly editorial team. if you or someone you know would like to get involved, here’s the link to the application:
https://goo.gl/forms/D14JK2kLWGq5WbEx2

feel free to ask me questions!

quick notes on LSQ:
- women-identified authors
- sci-fi/fantasy
- we're going into year 10!
- supportive team
- 1st time editors welcome

#editing #magazines #writing #publishing

The start is so perfectly cyberpunk and iconic.

#MaxHeadroom #LiveToot #20MinutesIntoTheFuture

hold on! i shall contribute to a MEME!

*slaps roof of programming* this bad boy can fit so many new ways to experience failure

so, my dad is a mechanical engineer and i've been thinking about doing some kind of formal conversation with him to see what software engineers and mechanical engineers have in common. best practices, approaches to technology, tackling new projects, that kind of thing. i'm gathering questions and pinging my networks for some ideas.

if you could sit down with an engineer, what would you ask?

retoots encouraged!

#programming #software #engineering #development #tech

@erosdiscordia @bob

i also wouldn't mind moving away from calling the things we're building "apps".

they're tools built on software. they need to be solid and dependable, like a hammer or screwdriver.

they're not "sexy". they don't "disrupt" things. they are tools people use to accomplish a task.

heh. i'm a little opinionated on this. :D

geez this field is a mess. tutorials 6 months old are out of date. i'm dependent on stack overflow for answers to everything.

i wouldn't want to scare anyone away, but i would be tempted to give dire warnings to folks looking to get into web dev.

there is a shit ton of bs involved that has nothing to do with building apps or changing tech culture. our tools are busted & confusing as fuck.

it's only because i've been at this so long that i can calmly navigate this quagmire.

i listen to this album often enough that bandcamp prompted me it was time to pay for it. i heartily agreed.

https://fm84.bandcamp.com/album/atlas

#np #nowplaying #music

could use feedback from the masto community.

i run a lit journal & thinking about making an acct for it here but i'm not sure if it would be welcome or not.

our social presence is currently quotes by women, announcements about blog posts, updates on publishing deadlines, calls for submissions, a bit of "hey join our patreon", and a few other bits of internal announcement stuff.

we don't run ads so social is how we get readers/fund stuff.

#masto #notsurewhattotagthis #community

wondering if a fancy kind of aggregator for blog posts could be a viable alternative to Medium.

i know wordpress.com sort of does this. could be a great use of RSS?

i'm breaking down my conditioning that gaining reach & followers is the be all end all & thinking about how organic discovery has been lost.

Mastodon is rewiring me to think smaller again, which is lovely & good. what would a federated blogging software look like?

something guided by IndieWeb principles? http://altplatform.org/2017/07/28/an-introduction-to-the-indieweb/

hmm. okay one thing birbsite has that masto doesn't right now is lists. there are a lot of folks i'd like to casually follow, but not necessarily have EVERYONE in my timeline.

could work even in a limited capacity of having "favorite" follows and being able to pin that column and then yeah, follow EVERYONE in my timeline.

since it seems to be of use today more than usual, i'll hand out two links for stuff i work on:

i did some stuff for https://www.if-me.org/ for Hacktoberfest and they're a great #mentalhealth project with an awesome community.

i also run http://selfcare.tech which has loads of excellent resources for #selfcare.

@djsundog the singularity occurs when we achieve a constant state of rebooting.