Five updates make a post, right?
Jul. 3rd, 2023 05:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lilfluffLet's see...
1) I've been working through Learn Enough HTML, CSS, and Layout to Be Dangerous. Which you can either buy on paper for the usual OMG! pricing of computer books, as a subscription on the Learn Enough website (starting at $19/m for one course or $39 for the whole collection), or if you have access to the O'Reilly Books learning platform (formerly called Safari Bookshelf, and quite possibly freely available if you are student or staff at a college). I've been using a combination of the ebook and the videos for each section and finding that for whatever reason things seem to be sticking better this time around.
2) The above has also been increasing the itch I first got a couple years ago to take the characters and sketch of a setting I created in late 2013 (you can find them under the character a day tag) and put together a small ebook/e-zine as well as to do another of these character-a-day for a week projects.
3) Vacation! I can sleep again! Sorry, that is to say, one benefit of working for an educational institution (the place that I occasionally refer to online as Mumble College, based on someone else having years ago referred online to the place they worked at as Mumble Pharmacy) is that I get the 4th off and have sufficient vacation days to take the rest of the week off as well. My plans are sleeping, visiting my folks, sleeping, driving relative to an appointment, sleeping, working on the CSS/Layout tutorial mentioned up under heading one, sleeping, and if time permits some extra sleeping.
4) Oh, add on that I will probably spend at least a little time working on the python solo-rpg card deck tool thingy mentioned in my prior post. Maybe even start the journaling game.
5) Yeah, no, not even putting in a project for July Camp NaNo this year. But getting some writing done is on my list for the month (see item four above). I also have some delayed/stuck writing projects I want to unstick and start working on again. Ranging from my idea for last year's NaNoWriMo, revising (or rather probably taking a good hard look at, outlining, and rewriting) my 2017 NaNoWriMo project which is also known as my only NaNoWriMo to actually reach 50K, to continuing the Magic School Doofus's who haven't seen a post since 2017.
6) In annoying news, as I believe I'm approaching the end of DuoLingo Esperanto course I was planning to try posting on one of the Esperanto subreddits and using that place to get some actual (textual) conversational practice to move beyond the limitations of the course. But given the current events of Reddit... Any esperantistoj have advice for online communities? I'll probably check mastodon again as I believe there is at least one Esperanto focused mastodon instance. Lernu has some resources but it looks like not forums. I'll probably post here and see if I can stir up some activity. There are a few Dreamwidth Esperanto communities but do not seem to have been active recently.
Huh. That's six updates, not five. Oh well. I'm not going to update the subject line, you'll just have to put up with having bonus updates :)
1) I've been working through Learn Enough HTML, CSS, and Layout to Be Dangerous. Which you can either buy on paper for the usual OMG! pricing of computer books, as a subscription on the Learn Enough website (starting at $19/m for one course or $39 for the whole collection), or if you have access to the O'Reilly Books learning platform (formerly called Safari Bookshelf, and quite possibly freely available if you are student or staff at a college). I've been using a combination of the ebook and the videos for each section and finding that for whatever reason things seem to be sticking better this time around.
2) The above has also been increasing the itch I first got a couple years ago to take the characters and sketch of a setting I created in late 2013 (you can find them under the character a day tag) and put together a small ebook/e-zine as well as to do another of these character-a-day for a week projects.
3) Vacation! I can sleep again! Sorry, that is to say, one benefit of working for an educational institution (the place that I occasionally refer to online as Mumble College, based on someone else having years ago referred online to the place they worked at as Mumble Pharmacy) is that I get the 4th off and have sufficient vacation days to take the rest of the week off as well. My plans are sleeping, visiting my folks, sleeping, driving relative to an appointment, sleeping, working on the CSS/Layout tutorial mentioned up under heading one, sleeping, and if time permits some extra sleeping.
4) Oh, add on that I will probably spend at least a little time working on the python solo-rpg card deck tool thingy mentioned in my prior post. Maybe even start the journaling game.
5) Yeah, no, not even putting in a project for July Camp NaNo this year. But getting some writing done is on my list for the month (see item four above). I also have some delayed/stuck writing projects I want to unstick and start working on again. Ranging from my idea for last year's NaNoWriMo, revising (or rather probably taking a good hard look at, outlining, and rewriting) my 2017 NaNoWriMo project which is also known as my only NaNoWriMo to actually reach 50K, to continuing the Magic School Doofus's who haven't seen a post since 2017.
6) In annoying news, as I believe I'm approaching the end of DuoLingo Esperanto course I was planning to try posting on one of the Esperanto subreddits and using that place to get some actual (textual) conversational practice to move beyond the limitations of the course. But given the current events of Reddit... Any esperantistoj have advice for online communities? I'll probably check mastodon again as I believe there is at least one Esperanto focused mastodon instance. Lernu has some resources but it looks like not forums. I'll probably post here and see if I can stir up some activity. There are a few Dreamwidth Esperanto communities but do not seem to have been active recently.
Huh. That's six updates, not five. Oh well. I'm not going to update the subject line, you'll just have to put up with having bonus updates :)
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Date: 2023-07-04 04:24 pm (UTC)www.humblebundle.com/books
I've spent FAAAAR too much money there over the past decade+!
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Date: 2023-07-10 11:11 pm (UTC)I've drastically cut back on purchasing individual technical books due to the combination of Humble Bundle and the service formerly known as O'Reilly Safari Bookshelf. Generally these days I'll either read a pdf, use the O'Reilly app, and only for things that I figure are going to work better on paper get a dead tree edition.
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Date: 2023-07-10 11:43 pm (UTC)I just dropped $$$ on The Dark Eye bundle today, I really like that game though I haven't played it yet. It just breathes 'Interesting...' to me. I had the previous bare-bones player bundle and wanted the full stuff. Storybundle doesn't get as much from me these days, especially with the Hugo voting block to drop in the not distant future.