Reblogs of the day

[potboy]

Since DW doesn't have a reblog function, and yet people are saying important things that other people might want to hear, I'm going to do it like this: Everything I want to reblog, I'm going to put in a daily link post.

So. Here goes for the first one - I hope I can settle on a format if I manage to keep this up for more than a week.

• dragonlady7  talking about the root causes of Tumblr's Fuckening and what to do about them
• acidwitch   omg, it's fractal - this is a link leading to a link post with some cute animals, porg rating, fandom trends and more.
• dragonlady7   on whether you can host your images on Google for free (summary, you can't really)
  
• lady_of_ashes   just some fascinating meta about the Dark Side and pagan coding - filigranka  , you might like this

I'm not 100% sure I've got the hang of how to retrieve saved drafts on here, so I'm going to post this now because I'm going out.

Comments

[dragonlady7]

Yes, private entries to copy and paste out of is really the best way, I think-- I used to do that on LJ back in the day, and it's a good way to make sure the formatting is all correct. That's my real hangup with the post by email thing-- I bet it would have just as much issue with correct formatting as all the Tumblr crossposts I've ever done.

I really wish I were more computer-programming-savvy-- last night I used the Everyone Is Doing It So Easy python script Tumblr exporter, and got such persistent errors I had to reluctantly rope in my long-suffering partner, who is by profession and 20 years' experience an actual software engineer with considerable Python experience, and somehow even though i'd only changed one variable I'd broken it so profoundly that he had to reset it and still wasn't able to get the functionality that all of the randos who'd reblogged the post with the script in it had managed to get.
It's not that I'm bad with computers, it's that I have a particularly challenged interface with reality that doesn't mesh well with programming languages in general.

[hebethen]

...you know, in a way, that is a kind of beauty all on its own :P

[potboy]

Ugh. Someone very kindly commented on my Hux meta on Ao3 to walk me through setting up a Python exporter, and honestly my brain glazed over just reading it. It was very kind of them, but I really don't think it's going to happen :(

[dragonlady7]

yeah nah. it's not obvious.
the only reason my dude even got involved was that i was like, well, i gotta copy this script from github and run it in my terminal and he was like WAIT A MINUTE THAT COULD DO LITERALLY ANYTHING and i was like yes, yes that's how this works, and he was like GIVE THAT HERE.

i think he thought i was going to just randomly run whatever i found on my hard drive without even like, verifying that other people had looked at it and determined that it was what it said it was.

[potboy]

I'm not going to lie - randomly running some stuff without knowing exactly what it will do is totally something I might actually do. Perhaps I'll get my IT guy to look at it too :)