The greatest #academia hack I ever learned is to just email the author of a paper if you don't have access to the journal.

I found an article I wanted to read for a project, but the publisher wanted $60. I found the author and got a pdf in my inbox a couple hours later.

When shown the huge list of operating systems curl runs on, people often ask me which is the strangest, or hardest, operating system to keep curl support for. The answer is always, and will probably always remain: Windows.

No other operating system has so many custom, special, weird and quirky ways that require special-case solutions in the code.

If you’re setting up your own fediverse presence at your own domain, don’t make the same mistake I did and call it mastodon.my.domain. Give it a generic name like social.my.domain, activity.my.domain, fedi.my.domain or something similar. You don’t want to tie an endpoint for an open protocol to a single implementation or perpetuate the myth that #Mastodon is the #fediverse.

(Yes, you can migrate to a different subdomain later but it’s not a one-click process.)

#fediTips #instance #admin

Narrascope 2022 had a lot of great talks, and our Narrascope committee has recently finished uploading the talks to Narrascope's Youtube channel!

See all the talks in a single playlist - and why not start with this year's keynote, "5 lessons from 50 years of text games", by @aaronareed.

Link here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aFUFhf-Y4eg&list=PLbTgViUvfchdmLDToDJoHcaFzRkjud5ml&index=21

Enjoy! #InteractiveFiction #GameDev #GameDesign #narrativedesign

Do we have any Web Audio people here? The Processing Foundation is offering a 6 month paid ($12,000 USD) fellowship to make sound for the web more beginner-friendly 😀

Apply here before December 7th: http://bit.ly/p5soundfellow