Alex makes autism fun
WizardOfDocs@wandering.shop
<p>Technical writer by day, novelist and yarn dragon by night. Spoonie knitter, hopepunk poet, queer Jew avoiding the news. Multiclassed into warlock for a living wage. Married to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@Canageek" class="u-url mention">@<span>Canageek</span></a></span>. I am the hearth fire, not the Molotov cocktail. <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/nobot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>nobot</span></a></p>
Posts
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Post #2219738
#LoveMakeShare 5. Scope creep affects us all. Have you ever managed to perfectly scope a project that could easily have gotten out of control? I think a lot of knitting projects are self-scoping. It can be easy to get distracted browsing patterns, or shopping for yarn, and you can get into the weeds designing patterns, but for the most part, you want a pair of gloves, you find a pattern, you make a pair of gloves, and then you have gloves. Writing projects get away from me a lot more easily.
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Post #2219735
#LoveMakeShare 6: Share a recent book or article that you loved! well, I gotta go with the one that&#39;s going around today: The Boring Internet by @tg is making me feel better about the future of Being Online https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet
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Post #2219729
#LoveMakeShare 7: We&#39;ve all got a white whale of a project. What&#39;s yours? Getting that goddamn secondhand sewing machine threaded and running. Yes, I have the manual. No, it doesn&#39;t make sense. Yes, I&#39;ve had a friend teach me how to use a sewing machine. No, the parts of the process she thought were universal don&#39;t apply to this particular model. And no, I can&#39;t figure it out now with my wife&#39;s help because it&#39;s in the fucking s...
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Post #1036713
I don&#39;t watch Helluva Boss; the art disagrees with me and it&#39;s a little heavy on grievous bodily harm. But I learned a really cool thing about the music today (from a reaction video) that I&#39;ve kind of been rotating in my head ever since.
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Post #856056
#Seattle folks: I&#39;m moving out soon, and looking to give away a bed and a couch to somebody/ies who can come pick them up the week of April 6. What are the generally accepted hashtags for #BuyNothing sorts of deals? (adding them as I learn them) #free #FreeCycle
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Post #779601
so I got laid off again, for stupid AI-pilled reasons. Anybody need a writer or editor with: - 8+ years of technical writer/content strategist experience, mostly in software - One published short fiction anthology (as editor) - A master&#39;s degree in sociolinguistics - A knack for learning new content management systems - A love of working with invested SMEs - A basic understanding of web dev - Strong boundaries - An aversion to generative AI? Prioritizing remote work in Canada. #GetFedi...