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I'm picking up an old worldbuilding trick I used a long time ago. I've got a folder in Scrivener called Lore where I write flash fiction establishing little bits of the world.
It's word count, potential foundations for full stories, and helps fill out the details mainline stories are built on. #AmWriting
Getting about 100 words a day. Far from my previous peak of 1k+, but momentum is building along with the world. #AmWriting
I wrote about 400 words. #AmWriting
Currently working on a new Scrivener template and making terrible puns.
The Kimoyo Beads are close to something I've been trying to think of for a far-future general purpose portable personal computing device. My thing will be very different, but it's put me on the right path.
Something like what Google tried to do with Project Ara, but it works and is practical.
George SquaresDoes anybody remember learning about cells organelles and their functions in bio? I know the material well but I want an interesting way to teach it, especially if it's in the context diseases and medicine.
You might think "but that's unrealistic! Surely they would replace it by then!"
Friend, let me tell you something. The first Mars colonies in 100 years are going to have a grizzled young COBOL apprentice keeping things running. They're going to know C++ and Golang and Rust, and your web portal will still use Ruby and Rails.
This is how I plan to do it in my universes. All the fancy VR is going to end up locked down and proprietary, but they're going to have a 10,000 year old OpenSSH version with a weak default password.
Enter: tmux. Found on an ancient probe from the lost homeworld, key to the resistance.
I think the least realistic part of '90s cyberpunk was all the hacking on VR with literal object-orientation instead of on pocket supercomputers running LineageOS with a tmux shell.