@crcollins I'm thrilled for you because I know how exciting it is when things come together 🙂

I started my first book intending for it to be a series. But it never quite got there. But my wife, who's a writer too, loved the univers I created and she started putting her books in the same universe. She's written at least 2 - 3 novels set in the same universe.

My second novel's set in the same universe as well and so I guess it's kind of a series in terms of setting but not quite. I do want the characters in my second novel to appear in more books, but the third novel (which I'm already working on) is about totally differnt characters.

So I'm not sure if I'll ever actually get to a series. But who knows?

But 9 books! I don't know if I can even dream that far ahead 😛

@crcollins I can empathize 🙂I wrote my first novel over 20 years ago and then got busy with life, work, moving around etc. While I wanted to write more, there never seemed to be enough time. Finally getting around to actually trying to finish my second novel and I realize how much I could have written in those 20 years .. maybe.

Hindshight's always fun 😛

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

@BobWilliams Again, I get the stubborn part 🙂 But any experience you can learn from is a good one, right? Or at least, that's what I tell myself when I persist in the kind of adventure I think you're having 😛

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

@BobWilliams But isn't it fun to try? At least, I hope so 🙂I understand the frustration part — I do those too but when it stops being fun (and the bashing your head against the wall factor becomes high) I stop. Sometimes I come back to it later and it's fun again. Sometimes not.

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.

@BobWilliams Agree 🙂At the moment, given where Apple seems to be headed, I'd really like to get out of the Apple eco-system altogether. But unfortunately, I can't do so (at least immediately) because I have a lot of personal software which currently works only on Apple platforms. Guess I need to get re-writing ...

@BobWilliams Sorry to hear about the continuing sleep trouble, Bob. Hope it goes better today .... Sending good thoughts/vibes your way.

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

@AngelaPreston If I remember correctly (this was over 40 years ago) we used to turn them around because you could see a greenish part at the bottom of the body where the light would be. But maybe I'm imagining things? Memory fades with time and I seem to sometimes substitute fake memories 😛

@AngelaPreston That looks like the fireflies I used to see in Sri Lanka as a child based on the markings on the wings. But it's been a long time and I can't be 100% sure ...

@davemark They did mention this during WWDC, if I'm not mistaken. Unless you really don't want the code completion functionality, this probably makes the minimum RAM for a dev machine 16GB.

And I wouldn't be surprised if the 16GB RAM requirement becomes necessary for other features too and not just code completion ...

@BobWilliams I'm glad 🙂

Running on little sleep is no fun. I've had issues with sleep for the last 2 - 3 years but apparently it was mostly because I had been sleeping without a pillow most of my life 😛

I guess you can't do it as you get older? Switching to a pillow has helped me somewhat manage it for the last few months. So here's hoping ...

@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 ... 😛