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[?]Herz++ ยป 🌐
@herzenschein@furry.engineer

I'm streaming KDE docs:

I'm streaming to both Owncast and Twitch right now.

Be sure to join and ask any questions related to KDE and I'll try my best to answer them.

Every single stream I do is an Ask Me Anything KDE Edition โ„ข๏ธ

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    [?]Daryl the Admin ยป 🌐
    @djwfyi@vmst.io

    Avoiding the docs slide into staleness takes some proactive effort. But a lot of that can be automated these days.

    I talk about some suggestions in a blog post here: djw.fyi/portfolio/preventing-d

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      [?]Anthony ยป 🌐
      @abucci@buc.ci

      I've already moved on a bit from this work, which I did through last year. My thinking has too: what I need to write down already feels like old news to me because I've re-imagined it in a different formal framework that has better properties. This is such a trap and something my PhD advisor warned his students (me) to be wary of yet I'm still enthusiastically diving headfirst into it.

      I have to confess that another dimension of this is the piss poor state of publishing. I find APCs deeply offensive and don't want to face them, but I don't intend to sign away copyright to a predatory publisher either. Something like 12 of my papers are in the libgen database and I'm not keen to stuff a 13th into the blender (then again, good luck trying to make sense of this one with an LLM lol). As a graduate student I found publishing a challenging but exciting opportunity to communicate with peers. Now I find it to be an onerous chore of navigating smarmy vampiric middlemen to get at the valuable things they unjustly control (distribution channels mainly). I feel compelled to publish this one in conventional-ish channels because it's reporting on grant-funded work and I think it merits, and I'd like to have, an archival record.

      Wah wah wah. Like I said, doom loop.


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        [?]Anthony ยป 🌐
        @abucci@buc.ci

        I have been poking at writing a paper since late last year and am stuck in a "I know it won't achieve what I want it to achieve" doom loop about it, which is an effective motivation sap. This has happened to me every single time I've written something for publication and I find it very frustrating.

        This is not really a call for advice--I have a thousand and one strategies, both my own and ones suggested to me by mentors and colleagues past--though I love to collect hot tips about how to write more effectively so I'm not opposed either. Mostly just venting because the other window is a blank page.


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