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Because, to quote Andy, sometimes I have more ambition than common sense. See my 2022 decant circle post for basics, though prices might be slightly higher - I'll run the math if there's enough interest.

(People without DW accounts are welcome as well, but you'll have to drop a comment to express interest as there's no option for unregistered user votes on polls)

Not a huge release, feature/bugfix-wise (though there's a few!), but lots of nice backend cleanup, and I'm trying to be more organized about documenting changes and whatnot, so we've got a fancy github release page this time! The zip file attached to that should be unzipped into an existing ao3-reader install folder - I will see about getting a new OCP package built and added to that, but I really want to automate the process a bit more.

Many thanks to shootthelightsout, qwertynerd97, and diantox for contributing bug reports, QA, code and docs! I'm really excited that other people are interested in this project, which is very motivating :)

Request: Favorite non-fiction audiobooks, ideally not something super-long (and not too much of a downer, lol). My brain Cannot with fiction audiobooks, but I'm interested in seeing if I have the same problem with non-fiction.

Rec: For people who like non-fiction podcasts, I'm one episode away from finishing GBH's The Big Dig, which is essentially a documentary of the eponymous project, and it's been excellent - great use of interviews and archival material, and it feels really balanced in it's view of all the players. I'm a little biased in that I grew up in Massachusetts during the construction phase and I remember bits and pieces of the news along the way, but I do think it would be interesting to people interested in urban infrastructure and how it gets built in general.

Major features/bugfixes
- No longer crashes on rotation! Though custom views haven't had rotation code written for them mostly, so there will be weird rendering bugs in landscape mode.
- Support for devices through the Clara BW (so not the Clara Color or Libre Color, but everything else) - thanks upstream!
- The 'jump to page' feature of indexes (accesesed by tapping on the page count in the bottom right) now actually jumps you to the page instead of hanging
- The work details overlay (accessed by long-pressing on a work in the list) now actually shows all the tags and summary instead of cutting off partway into the second page.
- AO3 login! For now, you need to put your username and password in the .adds/ao3reader/Settings.toml file - in the future I'd like to have that info be enterable in the UI but we're not there yet.
- The above means 1) you can access archive-locked works, and 2) you can access your 'Marked For Later' list (currently at the end of the home page faves list) - that last one was a big thing I wanted, heh.
- A few bugfixes here and there - work listings with more than 1k works will now show the count properly, if a tag has been synned to another tag it'll handle the redirect instead of saying it's unwrangled, etc.
- Relevant only to people who want to do development on this, I figured out how to get the desktop emulator working (but it requires a bunch of system lib installs so not something I can just distribute for now, sigh)

Known Issues
- The summary view doesn't understand linebreaks, or HTML, so all the text is just one long paragraph. That's one of the next big goals
- Kudos are not working. Or working intermittantly? idk there's some weird session check stuff I was trying to debug today but I finally gave up
- About a million things remain unimplemented, lol

The installation instructions remain the same - the new 'one-click' package is here, and if you've already got an older version installed and just want to update the ao3reader install, the zip file is here (there's some library updates so it needs the whole folder, not just the binary this time).

I said I'd share eclipse photos and then got bogged down in a cycle of 'I should do a write-up to go with this' -> 'I do not have the energy to do a write-up' so uhhhh posting these sans write-up, heh. Taken using a Canon 70-300 at max zoom, on my Rebel T7i. I wrote some automation to control it via a RPi3 and my phone, so I got shots once a minute during the partial phases, and then six different exposures in a row every five seconds during totality (and in retrospect I should've dropped the delay entirely but eh). Some Lightroom tweaks to bring out contrast etc, though the sequence image is a composite.

( under the cut because they're BIG )

More later because I left my house shortly before 9am and got home shortly before 9pm, so I am beat, but we had a miraculously clear day after a week straight of rain here in New England, and my dad and I managed to get into the area of totality in northern Vermont! Everyone who said that totality was a whole different level to partial: you were absolutely right. I can also see why people thousands of years ago thought that they were a sign from the gods or the end of the world or something - that was definitely one of the eeriest 75 seconds of my life.

So I was not really paying attention to solar eclipse stuff other than a vague sense that it was happening sometime this year somewhere in the US, and then I looked up the path and realized I'm less than a three hour drive from the path of totality (it's like, 3-4 hours to get really close to the center line), and I have now become the obnoxious person checking driving times and trying to get my local friends to do a road trip with me, etc etc, because my two settings are 'indifference' and '200% in'.

(it is also a week after Anime Boston and like three days after a concert that was supposed to be last fall and got postponed, so that'll be exciting, lol)

From the site that brought you webfonts as DRM, and also some very cursed obfuscated Javascript cryptography that I haven't written up here yet.



"Are they... composing the chapter text partially out of snippets in ::before and ::after CSS pseudo-elements?" Yes they are.

"Doesn't that fuck with auto-translate and/or screenreaders?" It sure does! But so does their webfont shit so no surprise there.

"But why?" As an anti-copying measure and because they hate me, probably.

(I am ditching my year-range format for the date because I just end up confusing myself when I look back at past ones)

- learned how to lay brick (and decided, as soon as I'd finished the little 3.5' x 6' landing, I am never doing it again)
- first visit to the vet ER which worked out fine in the end but was very stressful for all involved
- learned how to do metalwork for jewelry!
- actually had a resist-dyed silk project work out properly
- finally built the media PC I've been wanting to build for YEARS.
- passed the rough-in electrical inspection for my basement reno!!!
- kept my Duolingo streak
- learned how much throwing your back out sucks (answer: a lot)
- was part of the dev team for a new product launch at work
- Fiona has occasionally let me touch her without bribery! After a couple of pets she tends to be like 'no I don't like this actually' and gets up, but - progress!
- finally filled up the notebook I started at the beginning of 2021 as one-spot note storage.

Goals for the next year:
- get insulation and drywall done on the basement reno
- read something in Japanese at least once a month - I'm hitting the point where I know I need to be reading more to cement stuff, but it's always kind of a slog.
- practice something creative at least once a week. There's a bunch of stuff I'd like to learn or get better at, but I am Too Aware of how trash I am at them, which makes me not want to do them, even though I will only get better by doing the thing. I am going to try to brute-force bootstrap this until I can get a habit going like I did with Duolingo and kanji practice. We'll see how it goes, I guess?