Exciting were on month 13
slrpnk writers go brrrrrrrr
Long breaks are fine! I think most of us had them. I've gone long months without doing anything, ignoring the initial decade it took me to even realize I had a worthwhile interest in it.
Oh, so like a short story collection? Sounds very exciting!
Wow, sounds like you were incredibly productive! Congratz!
In part thanks to a certain test reader (can I say who it is?) my disabled mage series has gotten a few small but substantial plot fixes since I've had a good reason to tweak it more.
My primary focus has been drama scenes, those where the dialogue revolved a little too purely around the protagonist at the cost of either the scene not feeling relevant enough to the main plot or like the others were revolving a little too much around the protagonist. I injected fun tangents, side conversations, and interesting bits that hint more toward the main plot to break things up. This also helps the pacing and makes these scenes feel less universally depressing.
Other than that, I've still been mostly focused on tech work, and might be for another 1-2 months. But I remain confident I'll get back into more intense writing work moderately soon, in a few weeks.
It's a soft deadline, but yes I want to wrap the draft before the end of 2025.
I've been still kind of lost on a temporary tech adventure as well as had a ton of unusual and unexpected in person events to attend and some paperwork nonsense. But I'm posting here anyway so I feel bad about the writing break and get back into it sooner than later 😆 my current time table is to finish drafting a book that is 25% written by about the end of the year, so while I'm still on time I have to get started with that soon so there's a realistic chance of that working out.
Most offer it, but often not for the regular consumer contracts.
The alternative is to get your ISP to offer you a static IPv6 and a reverse DNS PTR entry for your IPv6, like I asked for in the initial post. Some ISPs do if you offer them more money, some only do if you offer them more money and a legit business registration, apparently a few rare ones do it for free, and some never do it.
Once you got the static IP, you can point DNS directly to yourself, and there's no VPS or anything in between. Browser traffic and so on directly comes to your machine.
While I agree on a practical level, and pragmatism sure is important, long term that workaround still keeps you paying for cloud services and gives cloud companies an easy way to directly man-in-the-middle your traffic. So I'm hoping one day the situation will improve.
I feel like downtimes are a badge of honor for self-hosting in some ways. Being more efficient and minimal means there will be slightly less redundancy and that can be a good thing. Perfect uptime to avoid lost revenue during downtime is a capitalist craze, and not how an ecological project should operate.
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It wasn't one in this case, I definitely could use some more. The fixes were mostly pacing related!