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

@stroughtonsmith I feel the same as you as an Apple Developer. I had over 20+ apps on the store at one point in time, but now I can't even be bothered to update the ones I have. After this year's WWDC, I am firmly in the camp of writing future apps in something like Flutter so that I can move on to a different platform if need be ...

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

@crcollins Thank you 🙂 And you are right, I guess we can never please everybody …

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

🚀✨ Please help me reach #1 in Amazon's Humorous Science Fiction category (currently #397 has been #169)! Grab my book for just $0.99 TODAY. The price will go up by $1 every two days. Don't miss this out-of-this-world deal! 🪐

Store links at: https://shop.farook.org

The promo is only on Amazon, but if you don't like Amazon, there are other places to buy from — see link above for complete list of sites 🙂

Please boost and like for reach ❤️

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

🚀✨ Please help me reach #1 in Amazon's Humorous Science Fiction category (currently #397 has been #169)! Grab my book for just $0.99 TOMORROW at 8:00am PDT. The price wBookstodonby $1 every other day after that. Don't miss this out-of-this-world deal! 🪐

https://shop.farook.org

The promo is only on Amazon, but if you don't like Amazon, there are other places to buy from — see link above 🙂

Please boost and like ❤️

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

@davemark Unless I’m confusing things, I believe on Mac you need 16GB of RAM to run at least some of the new “AI” functionality … So I believe the RAM capacity will be a factor even if you have M1 Macs …

The new ContainerValues is also really appreciated, a huge missing piece when developing custom SwiftUI components. Really feels like Apple is bridging the gap between API surface and the "black box magic" of SwiftUI this year!

@invalidname UK panel shows in general are the best — once you get hooked, there’s no going back 😛 If you want quiz shows, then you might want to give “Richard Osman’s House of Games” a try too. I believe there are lots of episodes on YouTube …

But if you are looking for non-quiz shows, give “TaskMaster” or “Would I Lie to You” a try. Hilarious and we generally re-watch the seasons over and over when we run out of stuff to watch 🙂

@dimsumthinking

@AndreasThinks I used to post about new machine learning papers daily but as you mention, there isn’t a lot of conversation over here these days.

Plus, the growing tar and feather everything remotely connected to “AI” (and I use the term loosely since I don’t like using that term since what we have now isn’t AI) sentiment doesn’t really lead to open conversation …

So I’ve just stopped talking about the stuff I’m working on. But there are at least some people on here who still talk about ML related stuff on and off ….

Depending on what you are interested in, whether it’s practical implementations, new advances, a particular field etc. I might be able to point you to some …

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

I'm looking for a new remote mobile development position. I have 15 years of iOS and 5 years of Android development experience. I'm learning SwiftUI, but I haven't used it in production yet. Please boost! DM me for my resume.

#fedihired #swift #kotlin

Happy to share that "Honest, the Martian Ate Your Dog" will be on sale through Smashwords all July long for their Summer/Winter Sale! Stay tuned for the discount link and more exciting updates!

https://shop.farook.org/

#SWSale2024 #readers #books #SciFi #Writing #FediBooks

After having given it a day for everything to sink in, this year’s WWDC feels … anticlimactic.

The features I’d really like to try out are not going to be available for a while. I don’t really care about a lot of the new features. And there seems to be nothing that I really want to try out in terms of Swift changes that I really want to code on …

Tried watching some WWDC videos from yesterday and today and I’m mostly just unmoved (and unmotivated ) by them.

I think I’m going to take a break from WWDC and go work on some Flutter stuff … which I’m at least excited by — at least, right now 🙂

#WWDC #Apple #Swift #SwiftUI #Flutter #Coding

@bardi Your project sounds very interesting to me given that I don’t like scrambling to keep up — and it feels as if you do too 🙂

Let me know if you need any beta testers … I’m always up for more beta testing, especially if it’s a Fedi client 🙂 I’ve created 4 - 5 different clients based on open source projects to suit my own needs but eventually move on to a new iteration …

@bardi I figured it might be post-WWDC but didn’t want to assume 🙂

I have this customised client where I can colour code posts from people in different lists. So I have all my “Swift people” under one list and the colour coding has been very helpful in keeping up with the WWDC stuff. I just ignore non-coloured (or not of the specific colour I want) posts and just move on to the next Swift/WWDC related one.

I didn’t realize how helpful that was till I switched to the new client I’m working on which doesn’t have that feature 😛