I somehow spent ~4 hours just... writing.

I had what I described to myself as "an absolutely fucking sick idea" for my text adventure game, and decided to sit down and flesh out the universe.

The world it takes place in is something that I had been building at the back of my mind and in scribbled notes for many, many years.

And it suddenly all just gelled together.

Time just flew by and words poured out of me as I watched it come together and I hadn't felt this kind of excitement and inner peace in _years_.

I don't think I realized how large the "write a thing and tell a story" hole in my soul had gotten, honestly. It feels good to be filling it a bit.

#writing

I've been watching my android keyboards on my phone slowly decay into enshittified garbage, and I deeply want an alternative.

Are there any that actually do multilingual input without a switch button? Having the keyboard figure what language I started typing in on its own is something I find hard to downgrade from. Most of my time is spent typing in Franglais Commun/Common Frenglish.

(That and good ca-fr dicts and models, etc)

Please, I beg, if you're posting about a new release of the cool thing you made, include a small description of what it is and what it does.

It's hard to boost "libencarbulator turbo++ 2.8a release is now available! Now supports configuring reticulation of splines" in a vacuum, and I want nothing more than to boost the cool thing you made

After about a year of running both Rocky and Alma Linux on two nearly identical systems, acknowledging that they have different stated goals -- if you are on the fence about which to pick to fill a CentOS shaped hole in your heart, I'd recommend Alma.

They're both good, but Alma:

1) correctly tags their security updates as such (Rocky doesn't - or at least does it in a way that isn't like other redhat flavors)
2) Has timely updates, including things that are urgent, ahead of upstream release

Otherwise, functionally, they remain equivalent so far.

I'm dicking around with my Text Adventure Game prototype again and messed up my new resource loading system.

Wild how in this context, your own error message can feel supremely ominous.