@davemark Yep 🙂You were the main character. The monsters took you to an alternate reality where they want you to teach them how to code for iOS but in their reality, the iPhone is as big as a cart because their technology isn't good enough to miniaturize everything ... Or something along those lines 😛

Good times!

@davemark Those books led to this book 🙂 Don’t know if you remember this one and how you were kidnapped by monsters to teach them iOS 😛

@BobWilliams Sorry to hear about the sleep issues. I sympathize. Hope sleep comes your way!

@BobWilliams I totally get that. Any time I wake up at 2:30am in the morning and can't get back to sleep, I feel like this for most of the morning.

In my case though, things do seem to improve by afternoon. I have no idea why since I would have thought that as the day progresses, I'd get more annoyed due to lack of sleep 🙂

@stroughtonsmith Apple is not a company that anyone can trust ... just like a lot of the other corporations out there. They are all in it for one thing — profit.

Apple just manipulates the media much better and the media lets itself be manipulated. And people buy into this and go on about how great Apple is.

@johnhowesauthor Sometimes it doesn't even have to be arcane but just unfamiliar to other readers and it can create confusion — or a superirority complex 🙂

I used the words "tarred macadam" in one of my novels to describe the road since it is (or used to be) a common term from where I was. But a US reader accused me of "inventing" words after reading. it.

Of course, it's possible that he took my name to mean that I wasn't familiar with English, but that's another story ... 😛

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.

@mattiem @cdf1982 Totally agree that all games need a very easy mode 🙂 We (my wife and I) play because we enjoy the story in a game and want to find out more. But when combat (even in easy mode) makes it impossible to proceed beyond a certain point, we usually give up on the game.

I too don’t understand why it’s so difficult for most game developers to cater to those of us who just don’t enjoy playing the same level over and over just to get through it …

@ruralgloom I've decided that it's not worth worrying about 🙂I don't know if my fiction is there on piracy sites or not, but I do know that my programming books are.

I just decided that it's not worth wondering what to do since then I'd be investing all my energy into that instead of doing the things I enjoy.

@crcollins I'm mostly a "cards where they land" kind of writer 🙂 Similar to you, when doing the first draft, for me it's all about just getting the story down. Then in the second (or third draft) is when I start thinking about how I might be able to add some more colour/description. Of cousre, that means that some of the tell-no-show stuff from the original just gets by in the later drafts ...

@finestructure Yep! I used to have an extension called Lazarus (I think) installed on Firefox just becuase I'd type a lot of text in a web form and then lose it all. It would remember all your form entries ...

Not sure if that's still around and if it is available on the browser you use though ...

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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!

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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 😀

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@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.

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@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 🙂

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