Notices by Parker Higgins (xor@mastodon.xyz), page 2

What are the best examples of hypertextual storytelling? There's this idea I've had for maybe 15 years of converting a novel to "native" hypertext such that it doesn't have any linear structure, but I don't really have the words for what that would mean

printing up a zillion stickers of this to put on every package in the grocery store

I gotta start writing again. I don't think any media people are still on Masto but if you are and you've got tips for who I should be pitching (to write the sort of thing I write) hit me up

As I've gotten more confident as a programmer, I've really started to see the value in looking at the source code underlying APIs I'm using, and I've also learned that most software is hilariously bad

I haven't been good about it lately but blogging is such a Good Thing. I have a few years of my life now where I organized and documented my thoughts, and it's so incredibly valuable to me. (And maybe sometimes other people, too!)

It's also the site of a good Google Maps glitch: it mapped mid-demolition photographs onto a pre-demolition building shape and labeled it with post-demolition business names

This weekend I got a report on the state-of-the-art of exclusive underground p2p sites and I gotta say, if you're looking for the non-depressing cyberpunk future present, that's where it's at

It's wild to me the stereotype of *vegans* being the ones to talk unsolicited about their dietary preferences could survive through the EPIC BACON scourge of the 2000s

Already by discussing this here I've proven I've got the opsec chops of most of the previous darkweb market operators

Am I committed enough to this "joke" that I would actually make a darkweb onion market. I'm afraid I am.

The Kodak KashMiner is both a terrible idea and such a cool weird cyberpunk aesthetic. I want to replicate the case and use it as a lunchbox https://mastodon.xyz/media/QQA7Eyl1adLAbOGvwvw

The fact that an Authors Guild spokesperson says, *unprompted*, that they might support a rollback to life + 50 year terms, is astonishing to me https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/hollywood-says-its-not-planning-another-copyright-extension-push/

What's a piece of programming jargon that could also be the title of a 600-page breakout literary fiction novel? Here are my two contenders so far:
- Signicant Whitespace
- Curlyboys

For about 45 minutes yesterday I thought I had deleted 8 months worth of project data with a mistyped database query. Was able to recover everything (by sheer luck, basically) but take it from me: do backups! Do them!

"The Programmers’ Credo: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy" –Pinboard

Do I know any pywikibot developers (or users) on here? I'm poking around for the first time in a few years and I'd love company

When you create a small solution to a narrow problem, there is a LOT of pressure to try to make it a big solution to a broad problem

Here's a fun TIL: Because the ratio of terms in the Fibonacci sequence approaches phi, and because phi is close to the ratio of km to miles, you can approximate conversion between distances with adjacent Fibonacci numbers.

So 2 km ≈ 1 mile, 3 km ≈ 2 miles, 5 km ≈ 3 miles, 8 km ≈ 5 miles, 13 km ≈ 8 miles, etc, etc