@TriflingTree Will do 🙂 And thank you again!

If you can, and don't mind, if you could leave a review on Amazon, it would help greatly. At the moment, I have one review (from about 10 years ago) that is trashing the book. So having a positive review would help 🙏

Also, now that I know there's at least one Dick Turpentine fan out there, I might have to push that book forward a bit.

There's an (incomplete) serialized story with Dick Turpentine here:
https://write.farook.org/the-highwayman/

There are two parts and then I stopped, but that was, if I remember correctly, was supposed to be the start of the Dick Turpentine story 🙂

@jefframes Congrats, Jeff 🙂 I'm glad that you're having a great week!

@MuseumShuffle @stroughtonsmith @cwagdev I've been playing it for years on and off and it's always fun when I pick it up 🙂Last played about 2 years ago and went back to the game this week because of the new update.

All my stuff was there from the last play and I continued on from there. With PS5's second-controller/co-pilot feature, the wife and I can play together and we enjoy it a lot more because neither of us feels like a spectator. We can simply play (kind of) co-op even though it's a single player game 🙂

@TriflingTree Thank you 🙏 Honest to goodness, you are my first unknown (well, not quite unknown but you know what I mean) reader with feedback given to me directly 🙂 All other feedback has either been left on Amazon etc. or has been from people I personally know ....

So this makes me very happy 🙂 Happier than I can tell you.

Book two in the same universe (but not with the same characters) is done. I'm editing it at the moment and hope to release in about a month, if all goes well. Book three is (again different characters but same universe) is ten chapters in but I might release that as a novella becuase I want to work on book 4.

So yes, plan is to write a series of novels set in the same universe but might not be the same characters. Though I did have a book planned with Dick Turpentine but that's not one of the one's I'm actively working on at the moment ...

Most of the missing features and minor annoyances about my custom Fedi client are now fixed. So I think it's at the stage where I say, "I'm (mostly) done" ...

Of course, now I start looking around for another app to work on 😛

There are plenty of candidates since there are several apps I did for my wife that are currently in #Swift and since I'm moving away from #Swift, it might be good to convert them to #Flutter.

But what I keep coming back to is a new #Writing app 🙂

I use Scrivener for writing and I love it. It's very useful for keeping all the informattion about a story together. But I want a few things that are missing from Scrivener. Is it worth creating a whole new app for those? I don't know ... but I'm looking at options right now and trying to decide.

#Coding #Writing #Scrivener #Apps

@HeliaXyana It doesn't bother me when I read it if a character swears, but in my own writing I try to avoid it but mostly because I want my books to be read by all ages and it does bother me if children read it and learn swearing from my books 🙂

But that's a personal preference mostly because I have nephews and niecess that I'd like to read what I write ...

@crcollins This is what used to happen with my family. Couldn't say or do anything much without it turning into some kind of drama. Now, most of the family is literally (and I mean literally) half a world away and no more drama.

Of course, not suggesting that you move 😀

I should be editing a chapter of my second novel before the day starts ... but today is one of those days I just don't feel it.

Started editing, but then I switched over to fixing an issue in my Fedi client to allow better replies/posts.

And then I decided to do some posts on here - nnything but actually do the editing I should be doing 😛

#Writing #IndieAuthor #Procrastination

@SJHoodlet Sometimes I think it's better just to forget about it and move on since I have no idea who did it. And apparently it was like 10 years ago though I only found out about a couple of weeks back when I actually decided to try to do something with my writing 😛

But I then I catch myself wondering who it could have been and what prompted them to do it at odd moments 🙂

But yeah, weird. I should just forget about it and move on.

Hope the bots leave you alone from now on ... unless they are good bots. Are there such a thing as good bots?

@SuperTaliaDX Thank you 🙂I'll guess we'll find out this weekend ...

Apparently, "No Man's Sky" has had a major visual update. That game has been getting updates for years now and each one seems to add something new.

I haven't played in a while. I like the concept of the game, but I generally don't like games that the wife and I can't play together. If one of us is just twiddling their thumbs and watching the other play, it doens't seem so much fun 🙂

But that was before we discovered the PS5 co-pilot feature. That allows both of us to take turns at a game without having to actually pass the controller over. Both controllers are active and it's still a single-player game, but either one of us can take over as neeed. Now we enjoy the single-player games we own a lot more.

Not that we've had a lot of time recently for gaming, but I'm hoping to give "No Man's Sky" a try over the weekend with the wife. Let's see how it goes ...

#Gaming #PS5 #NoMansSky

@SJHoodlet I had somebody leave a 1-star rating for my book on Amazon. I had done no promotion for the book at all and as far as I knew, the only people who bought the book were friends/relatives.

This person says that they read 10% of the book and that sounds like the Amazon provided free preview. But they still felt compelled to trash it and say not recommended 🙂

And that's the only review ever on that book. So I'm told by some that it's hurting sales, but then again, what sales? 😛

Some weird people (or bots) out there. I can only commiserate.

@sebastianmalloy Sure thing 🙂

At the lowest level, the link you post is just a text link. Whether it shows a preview or not depends on what is displaying the post.

So, if you want to be sure that others get an idea as to what's in the link (without following the link) a brief description might be helpful in case there is no preview 🙂

@sebastianmalloy I believe it depends on the server/client. Some servers are set up to show a preview for links but if the server is slow it might not show for a while ... or not at all.

I have my custom client (that I wrote) which I configured to show a web preview for the first web link if there are no images in the post and it shows it like in the attached image.

@pretensesoup @mythopoetica In Sri Lanka, I don't think anybody's ever said "xerox" ... at least anybody Sri Lankan 🙂It's "photocopy" over there and still is what is ussed.

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Since 2016 I've been working on iOS-apps in both #swift and #objc, I prefer UIKit over SwiftUI, I value good craftsmanship and simple, yet elegant solutions. In 2022 I went freelance, you might know me as the author of release notes for Mastodon for iOS.

In case someone is looking for an iOS contractor now or in the near future: let's have a chat!

Thanks for sharing <3 #GetFediHired

A friend from school whom I'd contacted long ago on FB suddenly accepted my friend request.

I check their FB feed and the top post looked rather suspicious, a phone screenshot showing an SMS message saying that they'd had a large amount of money deposited to their account from bitcoin mining.

I couldn't resist. I messaged them 😛

Within the hour, I get a response back and one of the first things they did (even though I had not heard from them in over 40 years) was to send me the same phone screenshot and tell me that their life was good and they got a lot of money.

I was now fairly sure that their account was hacked. Especially since the way they wrote didn't sound like a Sri Lankan, but more like somebody from a different part of the world 😛

I congratulated them on the money and asked about some fake friends (just names at random). They were non-committal but immediately told me about some personal stuff and sent me more images (gathered from their FB photo album, I assume) to convince me.

Then they start pushing me again about bitcoin and whether I'd be interested.

I ask them what class we were in back at school. He says that it's so long ago and that they can't remember. This is definitely not true since I can remember and I'd just talked to two other school friends a couple of days ago, who also remembered.

So I say, "I think you are a scammer and not my friend X".

They say, "You can believe what you want but I leave you with this" and send me another photo from the guy's FB album.

I contacted a mutual friend in Sri Lanka (since I had no way to contact him directly) and asked him to check with the other friend. And yes, his FB account is hacked.

Not that this needs to be said, but people who contact you on social media might not be who they claim to be. Always verify. Even when it seems totally legit — unlike in this particular case 😀

And if somebody tells you that they have a great way for you to make money with little/no effort ... but you need to pay them something first to do so, be very, very wary 🤔

#Scams #SocialMedia #LifeTheseDays #Facebook

@crcollins Congratulations 🙂May your editing be swift and the publishing painless 😀

@keira_reckons You might like my "Honest, the Martian Ate Your Dog" It's a humorous sci-fi novel about a man on the run from his wife's wrath after selling her dog to a Martian and the various scrapes he gets into as he tries to get the dog back 🙂

It's very happy and no hospitals involved at all 😛

You can see a bit more info and shopping links here:
https://shop.farook.org/

Does anyone have a recruiter or agency they can recommend for iOS work (1099 or W2)? The job market is absolutely terrible and I'm still looking.

#iOSDev #FediHire #jobsearch