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I 💖 @orrery
I 🕹️ retrogaming
I 🔊 chiptunes
I 🦄 ponies
I ☁️ cannabis
I � Unicode
and yes to 🤖 but #nobot
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Joined Apr 2017
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Now that it's officially out, we should plug it in #ttrpg - we made a tabletop roleplaying game for a podcast jam! https://packbat.itch.io/ltmawp
The series premise is that we're doing an actual-play where, every episode, we create and play a new mini roleplaying game to act as the next chapter of the story. In this pilot episode, us and our cohost Em make a game for the prologue/pre-credits scene of a YA creature horror story, and the result is fascinatingly creepy - I hope y'all enjoy it!
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LaTeX woes – resolved for now!
I got it working! At least, it's working for my initial test case. We'll see how it holds up, but... I got it working!
LaTeX woes.
I got the thing to not gobble up spaces... so now it pretends the non-breaking space token (the tilde) is a regular space.
Can I confidently typeset a book without non-breaking spaces? Guess we'll find out.
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Filk, Marvel characters, all caps, very bad ideas
BIG AND GREEN AND STRONG AND HORNY
THE HULK FROM IPANEMA GOES WALKING
AND WHEN HE WALKS NEAR PUNY HUMANS
HULK SMASH
LaTeX woes.
So l3regex doesn't work like I'd expect, and it looks like fixing the whole "all spaces disappear" thing will take some programming chops because the one example I've found of how to fix it doesn't seem to work and I can't figure out why.
This is going to be a theme for LaTeX and I kinda hate it. I want reliable regex-based formatting without having to hire a programmer.
But I fucking well will hire a programmer if that's what it takes. I need this.
Ah-ha! Got the `l3regex` stuff working!
Now to figure out why it's stripping all the plain spaces out of the search text.
The fast way to turn me off of a software package:
"For help, join our Discord!"
The slow way to turn me off of a software package:
"For help, join our mailing list!"
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RT @ZweiDouble@twitter.com
🖤🤍💜 It's #AceWeek2022! 🖤🤍💜
Don't mind if I bring this back up! And kind reminder that asexuality in itself is, like many other things, a spectrum! 😁
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ZweiDouble/status/1584353297753776128
The l3regex package (integrated into expl3, I know) gives me InDesign's "GREP styles" functionality for LaTeX!
...or it would if I could everything to stop erroring out on not finding l3regex.sty. What the heck? I know expl3 is installed....
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One of the most frustrating things about wildlife photography is you're entirely at the whims of nature regarding lighting.
Which makes moments like these all the more wonderful. ^_^
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The podcast jam we joined just wrapped up! https://itch.io/jam/one-mic-stand
The episodes go up on The Podcast Mines - https://the-podcast-mines.pinecast.co/ - this coming Friday, but they're up on Itch right now if you wanna dig in! Ours is "Laying the Mechanics As We Play" - https://packbat.itch.io/ltmawp - and we're really proud of it: us and our cohost make and play an RPG to create the prologue to a YA creature horror novel.
...but also, y'know what? We're gonna post about the ones we listen to in this thread. :D
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Return of the Custom Symbol Font Troubles.
Remember how LibreOffice was mutating OpenType CFF glyphs on export to PDF? And how saving the font as TTF reduced the precision to where the details became a wibbly mess?
When LaTeX builds a PDF, it reduces the precision of the CFF font to about the level of the TTF.
I give up! I'll use SVG files!
...turns out it really matters which way slashes go. *headdesk*
me: Hey, I'm gonna buck tradition and actually go through the tutorial that came with this software to learn to use it!
software: *throws errors on tutorial, refuses to continue*
me: Welp, guess it's back to the old me. *fucks around*
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ptsd? how '90s. I've got pt4k
"Good to have executive function, isn't it?"
"Yeah, I'd do anything to get it."
You know, I really strongly considered learning LaTeX so I could bail on InDesign, but it just might be too crunchy for me. Don't wanna give up before I've started, but I'm starting to feel like I'm merely trading one expensive set of problems for a different sort of expensive.
The hookshot, or as we like to call it...
I-frames on a stick
Today's visually startling LibreOffice bug.
On the left, we have a logo from a OpenType font – using PostScript outlines for accuracy – as it appears in LibreOffice.
On the right, we have the results of an export to PDF. And yes, it's still selectable as if it were plain text, and Acrobat insists the font is embedded with Postscript outlines, so... what the heck?
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US student debt relief, soft launch
The US federal government has its form for applying for student loan relief up. It's officially marked as a beta launch, ahead of the form's official launch, but the banner promises that 'if you submit an application, it will be processed, and you won't need to resubmit'.
https://studentaid.gov/debt-relief/application
The form is a model of clarity. You need your Law Papers Name, Social Security Number, birth date, phone number and e-mail address.
- shortname
- Keet
- pronouns
- they/them
- species
- some kind of pony thing?
I 💖 @orrery
I 🕹️ retrogaming
I 🔊 chiptunes
I 🦄 ponies
I ☁️ cannabis
I � Unicode
and yes to 🤖 but #nobot
avatar art by Dana Simpson (danasimpson.com)
Joined Apr 2017
