fasterthanlime

treat it like meeting new people offline.

• go to interest-based meetups (: tag search) (bonus: you can't get covid from tag search, unlike physical meetups)
• get your friends/acquaintances to introduce you to new people (: reblogs)

comment on interesting posts to strike up a conversation! also, assume good faith until proven otherwise, we're mostly all trying our best over here. welcome!

Be generous with your follows! Twitter has conditioned us to be extremely scrupulous about who we follow in order to keep our ever-flowing timelines somewhat manageable, but happily Cohost is a far slower-moving beast. (I know the timeline's popping right now with all the new arrivals, but things will settle down in a few days.) This is a great opportunity for you to follow people who might have a vaguely interesting hobby, or who wrote a neat essay, or who just seem nice (the welcome to cohost tag is great for this). Plus, if you enjoy the site and want more people to stick around, giving folks a follow is a great way to make them feel like they aren't just posting into the void.

Here's some example code for making choose your own adventure style interactions using pure inline CSS that works in Chosts.

Of interest to @everest @nora and @fasterthanlime I imagine.

<div style="position: relative;">
	<details>
		<summary>Hello</summary>
		<div style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0; width: 400px; height: 400px; background: white;">
			<p>Welcome to Fake Twine!</p>
			<details>
				<summary>Option 1</summary>
				<div style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0; width: 400px; height: 400px; background: white;">You have chosen option 1.</div>
			</details>
			<details>
				<summary>Option 2</summary>
				<div style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0; width: 400px; height: 400px; background: white;">You have chosen option 2.</div>
			</details>
		</div>
	</details>
</div>

it would be a shame if someone else were nerdsniped into writing a compiler that takes a twine story and compiles it into that format

the write-up is a good one, explains both the technical details and the context of this run. a fun read.

we imagine most people these days have at least heard of TASes, but we don't really know that. just in case, it stands for tool-assisted speedrun, a way of speedrunning videogames with scripted, machine inputs rather than a human player. it's not performance-based in the way that human speedruns are, but it has its own challenges.

yes. YES!

I've been using async_fn_in_trait (a very unstable feature) and I'm super excited about this.

(I know how loosely related these features are, don't @ me)