Just testing on Firefox, Alt+B and Alt+S open up the Bookmarks and History menus, respectively. I believe if you use e.preventDefault(); in your event handler then that won't happen. Also I prefer Ctrl over Alt for these sorts of things.

Otherwise, great work. Something like this would be super nice because my BBCode skillz are super rusty.

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Gender is hideously complicated, absolutely ruthless, and yet so validating. I have a real love/hate relationship with it.

This isn't the kind of thing I like to talk about publicly because I don't really need transphobic internet bullshit breathing down my neck, but I figure a hidden board on an obscure internet forum is probably an okay place to discuss this. I'm trans femme.

Pre-transition was an absolutely miserable time for me. I was hideously depressed, socially isolated, emotionally numb, and just sort of floating through each day like some sort of ghost. Nobody ever really talks about how mentally taxing it is to be the wrong gender. Gender dysphoria is this unknown nebulous force that gnaws at your soul and it hurts and you don't know why. When I came across the trans subreddits and it clicked in my head that "oh wait I can just be a girl?!", I was all over that shit and fought my way tooth and nail through the system. It was even more painful, the gender dysphoria became laser-focused and kicked me down whenever it could, but I made it through somehow.

And now I'm here, on the titty skittles, and they be good. I feel a lot more tuned into the world, a lot more emotional (in a good way), and a lot happier, in general. Being in love with your own body for once in your life, having people call you by your name and pronouns, all of this is such a freeing feeling. I still get dysphoria from time to time, but I recognize that here is a lot better than there.

Of course now that I'm here I'm starting to have doubts as to whether or not I'm binary female. Frankly it sorta feels like I fluctuate between female and agender? Like, some days (today for instance) I'd be all over wearing a dress and painting my nails and using she/her pronouns and all of that because it feels so good and validating. And yet other days all of that just seems like too much and she/her pronouns and words like "lady" or "woman" don't feel like they quiiiiite fit and I'd rather just wear a T-shirt and jeans and forget about this whole gender nonsense. And I'm wondering if that's a non-binary thing, or if that's internalized transphobia, or societal pressure, disagreement with cultural expectations, etc. etc. Am I a demigirl, a tomboy, just a woman, what?

It's annoying that there aren't any easy answers to any of this. I can't pin down my gender, my sexuality (pan-romantic asexual?), what kind of clothes I like to wear?! Ngaaaaaaah.


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There's https://html5zombo.com/ now, thankfully. I know homestarrunner is also trying to migrate to HTML5 as well.

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Only counting computers that I personally owned.

Windows XP SP2 (2005 - 2010) (computer had no internet connection)
Windows 7 (2010 - 2015)
Windows 10 (2015 - 2016) (until I got fed up with it)
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (2016 - 2018) (ran this until it became so unstable that I couldn't log in anymore)
Windows 10 (2018 - Present) (it's actually quite pleasant now?)

I'm somewhat interested in switching back to Linux, but I don't have the hard disk space for it at the moment.

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In case anyone was wondering I finally finished that article I was writing about my experiences with ADHD.

But yeah, labels are weird. They're helpful if used properly, I feel. Knowing that there's other people out there that have the same struggles that you have and knowing that it's caused by something is such a good feeling. It gives you hope and a path to improve yourself.

But, IMO, you do have to use the labels to improve yourself. I'm generally against giving myself a label so I can say "welp, guess there's nothing I can do about that". Maybe this isn't quite how it's supposed to go, but I don't associate with a label unless I know doing so will help me in the long run.

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I understand the appeal, but as far as I can tell it's against the spirit of Jul. Heck, the FAQ specifically points out that Jul is a place without nagging post notifications.

I think Jul is supposed to be more chill than that. You shouldn't ever feel obligated to come here unless you want to. You should be able to respond to posts on your own schedule, and you should never be interrupted by something else you're doing by a post you may or may not want to read at the moment.

That said, perhaps adding an RSS feed for new posts would be a happy medium? Your RSS client is only as nagging as you want it to be.


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I have a (rather old) 1 TB backup drive, but my laptop's SSD is only 128GB. And I don't really need to run any Windows-specific programs, apart from a few games maybe. So I guess technically speaking nothing's stopping me. But at the same time my laptop works very well right now and I don't feel like possibly breaking it, especially when I need it for my internship right now.

The biggest reasons I'd want to go back to Linux would be more customization options (because I'm getting a little tired of the Windows 10 look), a better programming environment, and KDE Connect, which is so freaking nice.

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'9x' refers to Windows 95, 98, and ME.

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Can I just give a special shout-out to the 2003 Cat in the Hat movie with Mike Meyers? I still genuinely can't believe that exists. It just feels like the living embodiment of soulless capitalism took The Cat in the Hat and made a raunchy movie about Mike Meyers being a goofball. Sure, it had some really neat visual design and a couple of funny scenes, but it just feels like it's profiting off of you.

There's that infamous scene where the Cat literally stops the movie to try and sell the viewer on going to the Universal Studios themepark, but there's also the merchandise. There was so much merchandise (video games, board games, plushies, blankets, I once saw a The Cat in the Hat: The Movie: The Book?!) that came out when that movie came out, and they made sure to put on a tacky "official movie merchandise" logo on all of it.

It just feels like they don't care about the source material at all and they're just milking the name for money.

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There's a thing like that for mouse movements called IOGraphica.

And re: the braces, you can put them anywhere and it expands the stack so you can put more variables in, and takes them out of scope at the end. In switch cases, in the middle of a function, it doesn't matter. It's neat for C89 programs where you can only declare variables right after an opening brace.

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Soul Void

It's a short, free game made in GB Studio that has some absolutely gorgeous art, lovable characters, a small dose of creepiness, and a really nice moral behind it. It's great.

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I just want to point out that the "hacker" you met was almost certainly a scammer. No rules means no rules, and people will gladly lie to milk some dough out of you.

Don't get too enchanted with it. Besides shady illegal stuff and scammers there's no real reason to go on it. It's neat and cool and it feels forbidden but it's also a loaded shotgun pointed at your foot. Be careful, if you do continue.

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You might find it useful to look up resources for assembly language programming on the Commodore 64 or the Apple II, both of which used the 6502. There's some decent books on the Internet Archive, but I couldn't point out a specific good one.

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Originally posted by Shining Wing

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Sonic the Hedgehog, except that the way angles affect momentum and jumping is reversed (so that you go faster uphill)

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This turned out to be rather simple (well, the walking bit, I can't wrap my head around how the jumping would work while still making it possible to jump from flat ground) so I did it. Here you go. It's.. an interesting experience.

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I really want to pronounce acmlm as "alk-um" (like the first half of the word alchemy), which is almost certainly wrong but I also never gave it much thought until now. Ak-mulum makes more sense?

Anywho, happy belated birthday.

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the first glass beach album

It's a hella good punk/emo/i don't even know album. I don't really know what else to write here other than it's good and I can't get enough of it right now.

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herpa derp

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The easiest way would be to use an emulator like FCEUX, play to the part of the game with the enemy, and use the PPU viewer to get the tiles. You could also probably use a tool like YY-CHR to get the tiles from the game itself, but that might be harder.

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I've been thinking about the future and my whole career trajectory quite a bit and I'm realizing I'm not entirely happy with it.

Right now, I'm studying to become an electrical engineer. Doing hardware design or embedded programming or something. And I'm being hit with the realization that this is NOT what I want to do for the rest of my life. I don't like the job options (defense? blegh. making consumer electronic crap? no thanks.) and while I sometimes enjoy the work I didn't care much for the embedded programming internship I had this past summer. Too much pressure, too much tedium, and I'm getting a bit tired of this whole computer thing really.

So a friend of mine has given me the idea of being a librarian. Get a masters in library science, help people research things, catalog and search for and archive papers and such, work for a research firm or a university or the like. I'm liking this idea. It jives a lot more with my values and my strengths. I like the idea of making more of what we already have instead of making new crap. I like helping people. Plus with my experience with databases and programming and such I'd be super duper helpful and in demand. Maybe. I need to do more research on this.

I think being a librarian would be a much better fit for me than engineering, although I'm saying this probably with a romanticized view of the profession and blatantly ignoring how difficult jobs are to find in the field, how much work the Master's degree would be, how low the pay is, etc.

Any thoughts on this? Anyone know librarians who can talk about their experiences? (Oh, and if anyone else also hates their jobs and wants to speculate about other options feel free to jump in! I'd love to help you hash out ideas.)

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