Klara, wandering in the shop @klara@wandering.shop

This article is very much aimed at people who aren't already invested in the ancient world-- it reads to me a bit like an Inspiring Scientist Movie-- but holy crap is the prospect of reading so many scrolls exciting: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/buried-ash-vesuvius-scrolls-are-being-read-new-xray-technique-180969358/

(Also, hehe, Diamond Light Source.)

This week's dressing-for-work highlights:

Boldness: wore a skirt today and didn't put leggings on at the office at all this time.

Tiredness: left every other button of my shirt unbuttoned yesterday, but I think no one noticed?

Stylishness: not trying this category until fall.

This weekend I was in an 80s/"Satanic Panic"-themed Dungeon World one-shot by @BMPrager; I was Ember Lash, a rad salamander visiting from the Plane of Fire (and totally not secretly a nerd back home). It was fun!

Still unsure how I feel about PbtA, but Immolator is a neat class.

Say you have a large software project that backs some persistent thing. Maybe a site/app, whatever. And you aren't a Big Five software company.

Is there any way to not resign yourself to config files full of dependency version numbers that you'll never update? Because seriously.

In my head, well-maintained/curated OS-level package repositories and such were supposed to solve this problem, but, like, obviously they did not, judging from every (*shudders*) pom.xml file in existence.

I've reread the Steven Universe comics; there's plenty there that's fun, but it's clear at this point that it can't measure up to the show because it can't set up future events.

Which, I mean, is fine; it makes me appreciate how much the show does.

I remember how novel Arrested Development was in the 00s for this kind of density. And at the time I loved that, but, um, that show hasn't held up. There's something beautiful about seeing Steven Universe do it better, and in a heartfelt kids' show.

Hey writers, @zandravandra@twitter.com is putting together a fiction anthology with a very specific prompt: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxDN70otJHsKvwAfVi_50m6401FJcgNdUroLkLepPiq2MDHQ/viewform

A problem re: my new job: I'm running out of "business casual" clothes fit for summer. I guess I need to acquire some more?

I don't really know what counts as "business casual". All I see when I look at women in the office is that they're petite and impossibly well put together.

I would like to read up on using Docker but I'd also like to not be bored or angry. Is there any solution to my conundrum?

Bonus points if it's by someone who's also written about other open source cloud stuff, because yikes is so much documentation a mix of dull and pandering.

My work laptop this time is a MacBook. How do I make this a good experience, programming-wise?

I have iTerm2 and Brew, I'm willing to consider editors of less ancient lineage than Vim/Emacs (I do feel strongly that text editors should be free), and at home I use XFCE, if that tells you anything.

(Pretty much all of my programming experience has been on Linux, but I know that there are Significant Differences and in particular that X11 applications are very much second-class citizens on MacOS.)

Thinking about how larger Internet fandom is optimized for enjoying media that is... captivating but very often shortsighted?

I knew this meant even friends with similar tastes frequently like something largely as fic fodder that I just can't get into. But it can also makes fandom conversations about mainstream things I do like feel weird to me.

Maybe I should stick to smallish book fandoms, at least for interacting with strangers.

Yes, I'm being vague intentionally.

My friend @BMPrager (aka @bmprager@twitter.com) made me an avatar! So I'm trying out the whole "have a picture of yourself as your avatar" thing, even if it's in drawing form rather than photo form.

This is... sort of a thing I almost never do, especially on public-facing stuff, if I can avoid it? Because, as you know, the dysphoria.

But I figure I need to start somewhere if I'm gonna get over that, and putting art by a friend on a site that not a lot of people check seems like a good place to start.