Of course, though I suppose it's time for a re-read. I have Snow Crash queued up for what I think is the first re-read since I originally read somewhere in the early-mid 1990's. And I suppose I should re-read some Sterling as well.
Wow, I just got polled on a political poll by phone. It took almost 50 years, but now my voice will be heard! (as static, because yes I'm going to vote, but not for any of the candidates you named)
I have to admit I'm a bit disappointed by the response I got when I asked about cyberpunk books yesterday, so I'll try a different angle.
I'm looking for books to read for a 2 week hike I'm going on next month, so I want to have enough stored up on my kindle for 1-2 hours of reading every day, plus two transatlantic flights.
So today I'll be talking about #urbanfantasy.
I've just finished reading the Rivers of London
series by Ben Aaronovich, which I thoroughly enjoyed (and, incidentally, started because of a hiking trip through England), and I've kept up with
Last year I read The Quarter Storm by Veronica Henry, and enjoyed it. I should probably pick up the second in the series.
I've also kept up with the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher, and way back when I read some of the Walker Papers novels by C.E. Murphy, and enjoyed that. I should probably try to figure out where I stopped and see if I can read some of the more recent ones.
I also stumbled on a free read on Amazon that was *way* too much romance novel for me. I don't mind sex and romance in them, but I'd rather the story be more than setting for the romance.
Oh, and I read The Witch of Criswell, by John Michael Greer recently, and really enjoyed that, especially because the supernatural elements were well done. Oh, and River Magic by M. A. Phillips, which was also really well done, and I suppose I should read the rest of. Plus I sorta know the author.
So anyway, if anyone's looking for some urban fantasy reading, there's my recent recommendations, and if anyone has any suggestions for me, hit me up.
#grownostr #fiction #books
What Android Nostr clients (if any) support notifications? I could have sworn Amethyst said they were in the next release, but that was weeks or months ago.
Look into options around Lightning, and maybe some of the other L2 options on top of Bitcoin?
Similar position, though my golden handcuffs are pretty tight. So I'm looking for side projects related to Nostr, mostly, because Bitcoin seems like something I'd need to do full time to really have impact.
Yeah, two thoughts I guess.
1) Abstract saving output as much as possible, via a plugin type architecture.
2) Abstract how it communicates with you (prompts via timer, etc.) the same way.
However, 2 may be less relevant if we're talking about a ChatGPT interface as the primary interaction.
In any case, both of those can/should have a default option, which is pretty much whatever works best for the developer, but it should have extensibility built in from the start, because if it was hard-coded to write out to Obsidian, with no way for me to add other options, I'd walk on past it rather than helping.
Yep, it's just a pre-collapsed Arcology.
Says the guy who lives in the BAMA.
If it were me, I'd abstract the communication as much as possible. At the time, I was using OneNote primarily, now I use Markdown in Visual Studio Code (through a system called Dendron, which works a lot like Obsidian, Roam Research, etc., but lives in the editor I'm in all day anyway)
Way back when, I wanted it to be able to use OneNote or Evernote to save, and prompt via Discord, Telegram, Matrix, Teams, Slack, Facebook, Skype, Alexa, and Cortana. Obviously there are other systems that would be in there now, including Nostr, Twitter, and Mastadon, at least.
Probably. I have an old project idea, pre-AI, to just have something timed to prompt me to write in my journal and record what I'm doing for work periodically so I'd take better notes, and I use Pomodoro timers already.
Interesting, the idea that Japan is the cutting edge like you see in lots of the older stuff doesn't age well, though I'm pretty good at stepping back and just accepting it for what it is/was. (like fax machines being pretty front-and-center in, was it Neuromancer?) I do want some new stuff to read, but it's been so long, I should go back and read the classics again.
I was really in to cyberpunk novels back in the late 1980's through around 2000, then sort of fell out of the habit of reading them. So I have a poll and a request.
What happened to cyberpunk?
1. It's still going strong
2. It's vision of the future split from consensus reality enough that it faded away
3. It was replaced by a new genre of dystopian-future fiction
And the question - If you answered 1 or 3 above, who should I read in that vein?
(repost from yesterday, but I think Amethyst on my phone didn't quite work right, and can't find it elsewhere)
#grownostr #books #fiction #cyberpunk
Well, the reason I made the post is because the only ones I remember are the classics of the genre. William Gibson, Bruce Sterling , early Neal Stephenson. I'm looking for more, and newer authors, myself.
Yeah, lag I was expecting, I still don't see it from any of the other apps on my phone or from Iris or Primal on my PC. Though... I realized that the reason I posted from Amethyst is that it includes a poll. I wonder if that's related?
Hmmm. I ignore Nostr for a month, now it stops answering my calls?
(that's a post I made from Amethyst on my phone, about an hour ago, that I haven't found on PC or other apps)
#grownostr?
https://twitter.com/wartranslated is pretty good and, as far as I can tell, straight translation of various parts of it.
I'm in Virginia just south and west of DC. Pretty bad here, I had caught the news, so wasn't horribly surprised, but I didn't expect it to smell... I don't know, chemical-like? In the past when I've gotten whiffs of distant forest fires, it's still smelled vaguely of campfires.
Also, I'm totally using it as an excuse for why I had a brief unplanned walk during my run this morning.
