Edited 3,200 words on the novella. Today's chapter is "Gnome Alone".

1,000 words written on the Flutter book. Got around the coding issue but didn't make as much progress as usual.

Taking a break for the weekend.

#AmWriting #Writing

✨ The rebellion will be federated & self-hosted ✨

On Dec 5, 2024 I published this blog post https://elenarossini.com/2024/11/the-rebellion-will-be-federated/ on @ele@elenarossini.com

On Dec 17 I signed up for a #VPS.

On Dec 22 I installed #GoToSocial and began personalizing my little corner of the #Fediverse: @elena

On Jan 14 I installed #Pixelfed on my server: @ele@photos.elenarossini.com

Yesterday I installed #LinkStack on https://elena.social

All this feels really empowering and I wanna help others do the same! 🚀

#selfhosting #FOSS

Edited 3,900 words today on the novella and then wrote 2,900 words on the Flutter book for kids.

Got stuck on another coding problem. Never get those with fiction since I can plot my way out of it 😛

#AmWriting #Writing

"Skeleton Crew" and a lot of other Star Wars stories make me think that this stuff is being written by kids. The lack of security protocols, trusting anybody who walks in claiming to be something or other.

Is any of this believable?

#StarWars #TV #Writing

Today's writing was a bit curtailed due to the late rising .. and the fact that I have to plan the next chapter out a bit more.

Progress:
2,500 Editing
1,100 Writing

#AmWriting #Writing

Had to help a friend yesterday with converting their book for Amazon and Draft2Digital and was reminded how confusing the mix of apps, formats, and publishers could be.

If any Indie author needs help with this stuff, I'd be happy to help — free of charge, of course 🙂

#Writing #Help #IndieAuthors

Woke up just an hour later than usual and my morning routine is shot to pieces 😛

Still haven't gotten to doing my morning writing and editing while the world is quiet. Probably won't get as much done today. But ah, well ... that's how it goes, right?

#Writing

Today's writing total is:
2,500 words edited for the humorous sci-fi novella
2,200 words written for the kids' Flutter book

Just a week or so to go to finish the first round of editing on the novella at this pace ... if I can sustain it.

#AmWriting #Writing

While it's a bit violent, "Black Warrant" (or at least the first episode) has the bones of a good story.

I'm curious as to if the story continues to be good in the next episodes, or if it goes downhill ...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35064818

#TV #Hindi #Netflix

Did 1,600 words of writing on the Flutter programming book and 2,500 words of editing on the novella about sentient raisins.

So not too shabby a day, I guess?

#AmWriting #Writing

I couldn't continue with the Vulture article on Gaiman. I've never been a Gaiman fan. Only work of his I've read is "Good Omens" and that was due to the collaboration with PTerry.

But he's a monster. And it surprises me still how well people hide their vileness.

#Reflections

Edited about 3200 words and wrote 2400 for my Flutter programming for kids book.

Unfortunately, I've written myself into a corner for this particular chapter. Now need to backtrack to figure a way around 😛

#amwriting #writing

So my current employer has joined the "let's get rid of the senior people and build our product on rookies and AI" bandwagon. Not laid off, but that looks like it's coming.

If any of you know someone who needs a senior software engineer with a strong background in apps security, knows OAuth/OIDC, and speaks Java and Python, HMU. #FediHire

I am looking for a new #iOS or #swift dev/engineer position. The only major sticking point is that it has to be remote-friendly. I bought a house less than a year ago and I can't move again so soon.

Happy to share work history and such with anyone who is interested. Also if anyone has an indie or personal project and needs some contract or even volunteer dev help I'd be happy to pitch in.

Edit: I am on the US East Coast (specifically Baltimore, MD) so a US time zone based position is preferred.

#FediHire

I seem to be out of my coding phase and into the drawing phase 🙂

While it isn't that good, this is based on a dream about a space yatch and a space yak ... but the yak is yet to be drawn 😛

But I really want to draw more and so this is good?

Incidentally, I learnt English mostly by reading. So for a long time I pronounced "yatch" as it's written (like "latch") in my head.

So maybe that's why in my dream it was funny to have a yatch meet a yak. But now, awake, it doesn't make as much sense to me 😛

#Art
A drawing of a space yatch trav…

Somebody remarked that if you say "e-mail" (with the hyphen) that it shows that "you aren't with the times".

While I don't think they aren't "with the times" (or the Daily Mirror or the Sunday Observer), people who end sentences with "lol" grate on me 😛

Apparently, it's a new norm, but it grates.

#Language #Trends

When I try to think of something to draw/paint, my mind goes totally blank 😛

So decided to take inspiration from something that Ira Marcks did in one of his videos and draw something similar. This is the result.

Guess I keep drawing till the wellsprings of the imagination open up?

#Art
A drawing of a yellow/orange sn…

I have these random people who contact me on Instagram saying, "I have the same name as you, can you give me your username and use another?"

My question is, if it's advice they offer, then why can't they use another username instead? 🙂

What's the magic in one user name over another?

#Reflections

A solar beach umbrella, a solar powered cooler — these are the kind of gadgets coming out of CES this year.

But with climate change issues on one hand and the AI apocalypse on the other, do people have time to go to the beach?

#Tech #Gadgets #Reflections

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