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Christmas Update
So everyone is migrating back to Dreamwidth, which means that I remembered that I have one, too. I hate that I'm such a flake about social media attendance--I do this on all platforms at this point, though, so maybe I just need to accept I'm not going to make more than three posts a year. Sorry, readers. :/
Anyway. How has everyone been? I have a couple new people in my circle--come in and say hi!
Things I've been messing around with the past couple weeks:
1) Distributed Fandom
I am very excited about this. Imp made a great post about it here, which you've probably already read if you've been following this discussion at all. The Hubzilla thing I will say I don't entirely understand yet; I've not had much chance to play around with it the past couple of weeks, because Christmas is happening and life is very busy. I'm hoping to be able to poke around some more and explore and discover once Christmas and New Years are over. I have the first week of 2019 off, so that might be a time to do that.
The thing I am even more excited about, though, is the dat thing that lim's been posting about. It's a form of peer-to-peer data sharing that allows you to host your website on your own computer, and have it seeded by visitors and people who enjoy your content (and also have the dat software installed). I'm currently in the process of figuring out how to mirror a dat website to http, and--relatedly--how to make Hashbase work, which is a program that allows you to keep your website online even when you don't have seeders seeding you. This sort of thing would be so great for vidders trying to share their content and, especially, offer download options for their vids. I've never found a good way to host my vids permanently and securely in their actual HD resolution. Something I'm tinkering with. If you're interested in playing, hit me up--I've successfully tried sharing data between two of my own home computers, but I'd love to try it between two different networks.
2) Possible New Job
The job I'm in currently is fine, but at this point I'm not doing what I was hired for anymore, and my salary doesn't reflect what I am doing. Also, I've always wanted to make my way into IT somehow. So I recently applied to an IT agency that I did some work with on a project we've been doing this year, and surprise! They actually invited me to an interview. The job I applied for is called "IT Requirements Engineer", which sounds hella fancy. It's sort of what I've been doing in every job since college, though, in one form or another, so I hope I'll be able to convince them to hire me. Fingers crossed!
3) New Fandom~
I have found a new fandom, and written about 20k of hard-hitting angst like it's 2004. The fandom in question is King Falls AM, which is a podcast that a friend of mine has been telling me about for, well, years at this point. I always say it's the poor man's Nightvale--it's a radio show in a small mountain town whose inhabitants are all batshit insane and only occasionally human. But this podcast has two hosts, not one, and it has a little bit more plot than Nightvale. Later on in the podcast, they put an Alice Isn't Dead spin on the whole thing. Honestly, I'm surprised they haven't been sued for plagiarism yet. It's not a feat of immensely good writing, but it's a podcast of 70-odd episodes that I listened to in like a week, so it's not exactly boring, either. The best thing about it is that it's got character dynamics like those old school bromance shows before bromance was a word people actually used to describe male "friendships". Which--I'm not really saying I want a "no homo" show in 2018 (almost 2019), but I do enjoy the will they/won't they aspect of shows like these, even if it only ever gets realized in fanfic. It feels like I'm back in House fandom; it's very nostalgic.
Well, except for the fact that this fandom has maybe 50 active participants, and so far I've only found three (3) fans who ship my ship. This is the smallest fandom I've been in as of yet, which is saying something. So please, if this sounds at all like something you might enjoy--give it a try! King Falls AM, available on the podcast provider of your choice.
There's other stuff going on, of course, like Christmas and the new season of The Good Place and the fact that I still need to clean my apartment, ahem. I also bought a domain and want to set up a proper website for myself again, because the demise of Tumblr reminded me that you can't trust them to host your art or gifs (or vids, for that matter). What's your experience with this, fandom folk--would you set up a Wordpress backend or just code it from scratch? Both has its own appeal. I shall ponder.
Anyway, happy holidays everyone, and if you feel like it, let me know what you've been up to. :D
Anyway. How has everyone been? I have a couple new people in my circle--come in and say hi!
Things I've been messing around with the past couple weeks:
1) Distributed Fandom
I am very excited about this. Imp made a great post about it here, which you've probably already read if you've been following this discussion at all. The Hubzilla thing I will say I don't entirely understand yet; I've not had much chance to play around with it the past couple of weeks, because Christmas is happening and life is very busy. I'm hoping to be able to poke around some more and explore and discover once Christmas and New Years are over. I have the first week of 2019 off, so that might be a time to do that.
The thing I am even more excited about, though, is the dat thing that lim's been posting about. It's a form of peer-to-peer data sharing that allows you to host your website on your own computer, and have it seeded by visitors and people who enjoy your content (and also have the dat software installed). I'm currently in the process of figuring out how to mirror a dat website to http, and--relatedly--how to make Hashbase work, which is a program that allows you to keep your website online even when you don't have seeders seeding you. This sort of thing would be so great for vidders trying to share their content and, especially, offer download options for their vids. I've never found a good way to host my vids permanently and securely in their actual HD resolution. Something I'm tinkering with. If you're interested in playing, hit me up--I've successfully tried sharing data between two of my own home computers, but I'd love to try it between two different networks.
2) Possible New Job
The job I'm in currently is fine, but at this point I'm not doing what I was hired for anymore, and my salary doesn't reflect what I am doing. Also, I've always wanted to make my way into IT somehow. So I recently applied to an IT agency that I did some work with on a project we've been doing this year, and surprise! They actually invited me to an interview. The job I applied for is called "IT Requirements Engineer", which sounds hella fancy. It's sort of what I've been doing in every job since college, though, in one form or another, so I hope I'll be able to convince them to hire me. Fingers crossed!
3) New Fandom~
I have found a new fandom, and written about 20k of hard-hitting angst like it's 2004. The fandom in question is King Falls AM, which is a podcast that a friend of mine has been telling me about for, well, years at this point. I always say it's the poor man's Nightvale--it's a radio show in a small mountain town whose inhabitants are all batshit insane and only occasionally human. But this podcast has two hosts, not one, and it has a little bit more plot than Nightvale. Later on in the podcast, they put an Alice Isn't Dead spin on the whole thing. Honestly, I'm surprised they haven't been sued for plagiarism yet. It's not a feat of immensely good writing, but it's a podcast of 70-odd episodes that I listened to in like a week, so it's not exactly boring, either. The best thing about it is that it's got character dynamics like those old school bromance shows before bromance was a word people actually used to describe male "friendships". Which--I'm not really saying I want a "no homo" show in 2018 (almost 2019), but I do enjoy the will they/won't they aspect of shows like these, even if it only ever gets realized in fanfic. It feels like I'm back in House fandom; it's very nostalgic.
Well, except for the fact that this fandom has maybe 50 active participants, and so far I've only found three (3) fans who ship my ship. This is the smallest fandom I've been in as of yet, which is saying something. So please, if this sounds at all like something you might enjoy--give it a try! King Falls AM, available on the podcast provider of your choice.
There's other stuff going on, of course, like Christmas and the new season of The Good Place and the fact that I still need to clean my apartment, ahem. I also bought a domain and want to set up a proper website for myself again, because the demise of Tumblr reminded me that you can't trust them to host your art or gifs (or vids, for that matter). What's your experience with this, fandom folk--would you set up a Wordpress backend or just code it from scratch? Both has its own appeal. I shall ponder.
Anyway, happy holidays everyone, and if you feel like it, let me know what you've been up to. :D