Matthew Graybosch @starbreaker@mastodon.sdf.org

I'm about to go back to my day job from my lunch break, but before I do I want to announce a little tool called #blueshift.

It's a lightweight partial replacement for #redshift implemented in POSIX #shell that uses #sct by Ted Unangst to control your display's color temperature based on the time.

It's available on #Sourcehut at <https://git.sr.ht/~demifiend/blueshift> under a 2-clause #BSD license.

You can run it in ~/.xsession, as a cron job, or in /etc/apm/resume.

#FOSS

If you followed me because I said something intelligent, and expect more of the same, you're going to have a bad time.

I'm only human. I'm just a metalhead with delusions of erudition riding the Dunning-Kruger Express like Slim Pickens astride a falling H-bomb.

I frequently make terrible jokes. I don't always have my facts straight. Sometimes I mistake punching down for punching up.

So, when I say something hurtful, please call me on it. I'm a New Yorker; I can take it.

Make no mistake. I'm proud to have written WITHOUT BLOODSHED and equally proud to have published it back in 2013, but it's rough and there's a lot I would have done differently if I were writing it today.

If you want to see what I mean, please read and bookmark this post. It's a WIP, but there's already a fair amount of stuff there.

If you're thinking of writing your first novel, please learn from my mistakes.

#writing #scifi #fantasy #ScienceFantasy #mastoart

https://www.matthewgraybosch.com/starbreaker/2019/09/26/mistakes-without-bloodshed/

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If I follow you, it's for one of the following reasons:

1. You followed me.
2. You said something interesting.
3. You interacted with me.
4. You boosted my post.
5. You faved my post.

I don't do malicious follows. If you don't want me to follow you, just block or mute. I'm a New Yorker and a writer, so I can take rejection.

Trying to post using bitlbee-mastodon. Let's see if it works.

Is anybody else on @SDF accessing this instance via bitlbee-mastodon? I've followed the HowtoMastodon instructions as shown, but am stuck waiting for mastodon_oauth.

23:14 <\@root> mastodon - Logging in: Starting OAuth authentication

Is OAauth down because of the migration to v3?

This was one of the first websites I ever visited way back in the 1990s. Still going strong! \m/

http://www.bnrmetal.com/v5/main/home

This is a set of #FandomRules I put together back in 2013 when I dropped my first novel, it hit #1 on a few Amazon genre lists, and I thought I had a snowball's chance in hell at making it big.

Underlying artwork is by Sara McSorley.

if I want to generate #EPUB from #OrgMode, I suppose I could use ox-epub.

https://github.com/ofosos/ox-epub

I'm tempted to get rid of my smartphone in favor of a Nokia 3310 and a Walkman.

https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_us/nokia-3310-3g

https://www.sony.com/electronics/walkman/nw-a40-series/buy/nwa45-b

Software development isn't science or engineering. It's more akin to a skilled trade, like carpentry, plumbing, electrical work, or HVAC.

Here's a screenshot of my outline for /Never the Heroes/ open in Emacs in two panes showing two different parts of the file.

#amwriting #scifi #fantasy #ShowYourDesktop #Emacs #OrgMode #OpenBSD

If you're running #bitlbee on #OpenBSD, can you please tell me how, and possibly share a config? I've been RTFM'ing, but TFM seems Linux-specific. :)

But I'll deal with that tomorrow. It's late and I need my beauty sleep.

I've put together a half-assed #OpenBSD port for bitlbee-mastodon. Now I just need to get bitlbee running so I can test the damn thing. :)

https://git.sr.ht/~demifiend/openbsd-ports-wip/tree/master/net/bitlbee-mastodon