>Computer science only accidentally makes money for me.

I like building things with computers, and I'm much less ideological about it than your average tech sperg. I often joke that a lot of the software actually worth using and vidya worth playing is a bunch of dogshit spaghetti code written by some literal 12yo, and it's because said 12yo is motivated by accomplishing an outcome and not motivated by "clean" or "good" code. It's a perspective I stand by, not because my code is incoherent spaghetti garbage, but because I know the difference between inspired and uninspired work, and inspired work has a habit of not following rules.

>That's cool shit. I hadn't heard of it.

It's actually the original reason why I got this domain name. IDDQD was supposed to be a publishing house, but the early 2020s happened and I ended up just being here. It was initially a paid blog in 2019 but we shifted from that into print media, and only got our first real issue out in early 2023. I wanted my own instance not just to have one but as a stomping ground for my readership, who never got on fedi. They never got on fedi because they regard it as a Twitter clone, and they all hate Twitter. So my entrenchment in fedi is kind of an accident in other efforts.

I attached a few covers of the zine, which you can find here: https://iddqd.pub/

I'm considering doing a digital version because people are worried about doxing/opsec.

>The trick is to just not argue with them and if they insist on it anyway, have a robot disincentivize them.

Well, in this case, it was because they were a project maintainer and I was PRing them. I had the spec on my side but they had the merge button in theirs. I think you can see how this works out. Logos cedes to ethos in this fallen world. RIP in pepperonis mi amigo.