dgerard

eh, their loss, my account is where it's at for quality tech ranting. hachyderm is a bit like programming.dev but for mastodon.

I'm still surprised, he woulda been a natural

yuh it's basically the stuff Kindle Print or Lulu or Ingram use. (Dunno if they still do, but in the UK Amazon just used Ingram.)

Cheap hack: put your book on Amazon at a swingeing price, order one (1) author copy at cost

it turns out the only staff member, or one of very few, is the interim ED. Everyone else quit a couple of months ago because she was fucking terrible. I suspect she's counting sugar lumps.

No Novel November

NaNoPromptMo

Given the context is that NaNoWriMo just took on a new AI-based sponsor who they're promoting hard to their users, there isn't really much justification to bend this far backwards to concoct an excuse for them.

THE ONLY REWARD IS HAVING WRITTEN SOMETHING

THAT'S IT THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT

that's a broadly applicable burn, but is also clearly about an individual he hates

presumably because awful systems is hosted at Hetzner

goddammit you got to it eight seconds before me

Scott Alexander (Siskind) of SlateStarCodex/AstralCodexTen