Today is going to suck in so many bad ways.
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D. Moonfire
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A large repository of useless knowledge and consummate polymath. I love learning new skills and knowledge and try to apply them throughout my life.
I have recovered my dictionary for Miwāfu. I'm happy now.
https://fedran.com/miwafu/dictionary/
I also got the grammar files too.
Hopefully, this will get me the minimum to get my conlang's back up. It doesn't have a per-page dictionary entry like I envisioned, but at least it lists all the words in the dictionary in a print dictionary like format.
I hope to show it off "soon" because I want some validation and want to be told I'm pretty.
Got through most of the bit-rotting by just commenting out the CLi logic. I have plans for that, but I also want it to be more generic, which means carving it out of the Fedran pipelines and make it a dedicated process.
(I really should learn how to make cachix or something like that works so I don't have to constantly rebuild it though.)
I hit the next rock in the deployment... I've never had to check out the language files for the website deployment before, so there are five more repos in a different Foregejo group that I need to clone and integrate.
It's a good thing I didn't stay up to finish watching it run... I would have been devastated and obsessed about it.
Fedran's website generation has bit-rotted. :(
I miss the code when I spent a month writing IEFT tag parsing in C#.
I have done one of the most shameful things I have had to do in months:
... I had to look up a regular expression syntax for something.
... I don't know if I could look at myself in the mirror right now.
Juliet E McKennaI dislike passive protagonists in fiction. I can give reasons, starting with the Greek root of the word meaning 'first to act', and personal response to being deprived of agency.
I had not previously considered how prevailing traditions in white, Western story telling might also be a factor.
I have just discovered an essay by Vida Cruz-Borja with a very different perspective which has given me a great deal to think about.
Recommended reading.
We Are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive Protagonist - Fantasy Magazine
Let me take you through the anatomy of an active protagonist, one that everyone can relate to. We’ll make our protagonist—we’ll call him John—young and healthy, male, of humble origins (perhaps he’s from a farming village). But his status will not be humble for long, for John is dreaming of greatness someday, or adventuring across the world, or perhaps winning the heart of the most beautiful princess throughout the faux medieval European continent he hails from.
Put up the inflatable Christmas decorations, put snow hats on the skeletal flamingo riders, and zip tied a fan to a bed. Time to code until Child.0 makes me play Core Keeper.
The only thing left to do is integrate the dictionary into the website, but need a break first.