Are you working on a Mac or iOS open source project? Do you want end user documentation written for it? Hit me up 😊

I want to give back to the open source community in a way I can.

I’m a technical writer by trade, and a lot of projects lack good end user documentation. If you have an open source project of a reasonable size, I’d be happy to work on it with you to create documentation for it 😉

I’d really appreciate a boost so developers can see this

#OpenSource #BuildInPublic

Now is your best chance to find my book, "Honest, the Martian Ate Your Dog" available for a promotional price at @Smashwords as part of their Annual Summer/Winter Sale!

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/7491

#SWSale2024 #Smashwords #ScienceFiction #Humour #SciFi #BookPromo #SupportIndieAuthors #FediBooks #Author #Bookstodon #Writing

I have this Fedi-client which does everything that I want that's customized to fit my needs. But it's so molasses-stuck-in-the-mud slow at times 😛

I have a newer Fedi-client which doens't have all the features but is so much faster. While it's great for reading posts on here, if I try to do anything besides read (or write anything besides a post with text) it isn't very useful.

I want to update the new Fedi-client but I'm also trying to write a novel at the same time. Don't you wish you had more time?

I wanted less time as a kid since the days seemed to stretch on to infinity. But now, I want more time all the time 😛

As I completed 10 chpaters on what I thought would be my 2nd novel, I discovered that I had another novel that I had forgotten about which had 20 chapters done 😛

So I started editing that with the hope of finishing it quickly before getting back to what I thought would be my 3rd novel. I got the 20-chapter edit pass done but am now slowing down on getting the last few chapters written.

I probably went too hard at the editing. Need to slow down. It will come when it comes ....

"Monkey Man" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9214772) is I think what John Wick would be if he was Indian 🙂

The movie is bloody, violent, dark, and grimy. But at the same, it expresses the anger of the poor, the downtrodden, and the powerless, so very well. If you can stomach the violence, worth a watching.

#Movies #English #Hindi #Action #Violent

My conference is wrapped up, which means that I have to turn my attention to the serious job-hunting.

I'm a software dev -- generalist, but I've spent a lot of time working on scripting languages, VMs, UIs for VMs, that sort of thing. The past few years I've been in games (Unity/Unreal) but after two big studio layoffs/shutdowns in fourteen months that's not looking rosy. So it's back to general tech for me.

Looking for remote, as that's how I'm most productive.

#GetFediHired

Do you think you might hate my book more than this person did?

Care to try? 😛

https://shop.farook.org

If you do, please let me know what you think? I found this review after 13 years.

#ScienceFiction #Humour #Reviews #SupportIndieAuthors #FediBooks #Author #Bookstodon #Writing

I've been seeing a lot of posts about Apple Vision Pro lately. I waited for the AVP for years thinking that it would change how AR/VR/MR was used, but when it finally arrived, my thought was that it seemed like a cash-grab by Apple.

I stayed away and continue to stay away. The Meta Quest 3 does a lot more than the AVP does and for a fraction of the price. Sure, there are some nice-to-have features on the AVP, but not at that price.

Not sure a model at half the price is going to change my mind, especially given how lukewarm Apple itsefl appears to be on AVP.

An eggcorn is when someone mistakes a word for a different word, often in the context of an idiom. It comes from the surprisingly common mistake of thinking the word "acorn" is actually "eggcorn".

Anyway, my favourite eggcorns are the ones that imply the existence of a powerful and mysterious animal, such as "and their elk" (instead of "and their ilk"), "from the gecko" (instead of "from the get-go"), and, most recently, "locust of control" (instead of "locus of control"). #linguistics

Threat actor claims to have breached Apple, allegedly stealing source code of several internal tools https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/19/threat-actor-claims-to-have-breached-apple-allegedly-stealing-source-code-of-several-internal-tools/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

If anyone is looking for a remote from Canada iOS developer with 15+ years of experience, I am available.

Alright so, a bit of a reach, retoots appreciated. I would love to get in touch with someone in academia who is focused on forest history and research, particularly Scandinavian forests that are more than 150 years old. I want to ask a lot of questions. Help!

#academia #research #history #forest #scandinavia #writing

I have to confess that I'm still confused by some of the Kindle stuff … I published an EPUB, but didn’t do the paperback version since I didn’t have the correct layouts and stuff.

But Amazon still put up books at exorbitant prices ($30 in the US and a whopping CAD 145 in Canada) for the paperback version. Where did those come from?

I finally went ahead and submitted actual paperback versions to Amazon yesterday and now the Canadian paperback version is down to something like CAD 20, but the US version still shows $30.

Of course, this could be caching or refreshing delays since the paperback version just got approved, but I have to confess that I’m still mystified by some of this stuff since I don’t know if the issue is at my end or theirs …

But if you wanted a paperback copy of my book, now you can get it from Amazon. Not that I’m sure anybody would want to 😛

https://shop.farook.org

You’re probably better off waiting for a couple of weeks for the Smashwords sale. But given how things have gone with promotions so far, I’m a bit leery of even that 😀

#Writing #Publishing #Amazon

Sorry, but no promo on "Honest, the Martian Ate Your Dog" for 0.99 today and I'm totally confused 😞

The full details are here: https://shop.farook.org/2024/06/15/promo-snafus/

Apologies to anybody who might have tried the promo link and were frustrated.

#SciFi #BookPromo #SupportIndieAuthors #FedBooks #Author #Bookstodon #Writing

Ok, where to begin? 😛

Been head down writing for a couple of weeks now, but of course, once I start writing, that’s when I also want to code 😀 So I finish one story arc in my WIP and switch to coding on yet another Fedi client because I was getting tired of my current Swift-based Fedi client starting to slow down after a month or two …

Then, on top of that, I decided to try and actually do some promotion of my first novel. I’ve never been very good at self-promotion — it just feels a little too pushy to me.

I’m trying to be better but still can’t get rid of the nagging feeling that I’m pushing too much.

And then I went and did something today which might be a big boo-boo 😀

I have had this Facebook page for Jim Butcher that I created a very long time ago — probably 10 years or more? I started it when I first started reading Butcher and really liked it but there was no Jim Butcher presence on FB. So I created a page and I made it clear that JB was not involved.

Years passed. FB changed how pages worked and the page moved to the new system. I don’t think I really paid attention since I’d moved on to new stuff …

When I was promoting my book on FB the last few days, I thought, “Hey why not share to the Jim Butcher page too? Somebody there might like my book …” So I did.

But what I didn’t realize was that when I shared to the JB page, it didn’t share as me but as Jim Butcher. Ooops ….

I only realized today when I switched over to that page to see if there were any reaction to my posts. People were starting to freak out wondering why JB would post about somebody else’s book and if the site had been taken over and so on …

I don’t really like to deceive people and this felt bad to me. I did as much as I could to allay fears and to update the page again to indicate that JB wasn’t involved and to correct my mistake.

But I’m really not sure if that was enough. But I can’t think of what else I could do. If I took down any of the original posts, then that might be seen as an attempt to cover up or something. Who really knows? I certainly don’t 🙂

#Life #Facebook #Writing #Coding #Promotions #Mishaps #Misadventures

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Seeing a bunch of posts about how "native" developers are better, during WWDC. All languages are tools, each has its pros/cons.

No need to be a tool about how great your language is (or how bad other developers are) though 😛

#Coding #Languages #Tools

I have terminal cancer and I'm looking for some friends to help me through my loneliness. Can you reblog and give recommendations to help me find a community here?

I’ll be speaking at #OMTConf tomorrow (Tuesday June 11) at 2:30 pm pacific on Testing Swift Concurrency and SwiftUI!

I’ll also be at their tent Thursday morning to discuss testing until noon pacific time!

It’s at the Residence Inn on Main Street in Cupertino, tickets are free. Check them out at https://omt-conf.com

And yes, it’ll be recorded.

Looking forward to meeting folks tomorrow!

#WWDC24