\>You've got to master the rules before it's meaningful for you to break them. A kid shoves a goto into a function and the code is worse; Ken puts a goto into a function and the code is better, and there's a good reason why.

I want to write something to the effect of "all control flow is goto in disguise" but I'll spare you that rant. So yes, you should master the rules before breaking them, but most importantly, you should get shit done, which is something I think we agree upon.

\>Ah, yeah. I think most of the things that make Twitter hellish don't apply here, but I can see it leaving a bad taste in someone's mouth.

I don't think it's necessarily a cultural problem, exactly. It's that they don't like microblogging. They want a chat room, which is a lot closer to a stream of consciousness in certain ways. Chat rooms are more conversational. Also we get on voice chat a lot, which is like a Zoom meeting except we're talking about cool shit and not gay shit.

\>That is seriously awesome.

Thanks fam. IDDQD Magazine is a zine for guys who either use the 4chan blue boards, or would if they knew about them. That's the culture that informs it. It's interest-based, but it's still filled with the right personality types, i.e., ours. Or rather, the parts of our personality types that overlap. There is a particular focus on /tg/, though.

Currently, this publication pays, but it's truly a pittance. An article buys you a nice lunch, basically. The "vision" I have for this is that it has a variety element. The readership should have an above average intelligence, but we put in stuff from all kinds of different backgrounds. So imagine this:

You are a tech sperg, a hacker in the old sense of the term. You might get an article pertaining to that, but when you turn the page, you'll get something else. You'll get an article about something like, I don't know, the Las Vegas underground rap scene. Or some weird math geek shit about dice pools in TTRPGs and the expected number of successes on X dice with Y sides with a success threshold of A and an explosion threshold of B. Then you turn the page and you get some political-theological philosophy shit.

So it's not your, the reader's, wheelhouse, and it's not supposed to be your wheelhouse, but it's supposed to be comprehensible to you in spite of that without insulting your intelligence. If you were to write tech sperg shit, I'd try to get you to write it in a way that a clever automechanic could read and comprehend it without it reading like Newsweek slop. And then when you turn the page you might get something about why Funkwhale is a piece of shit from the perspective of someone who wants to jam on their guitar and upload it without getting a computer science degree's worth of knowledge to do so. Or why Paladins past AD&D 2e are literally demonic and you don't realize it because you're not a theologian.

And none of this is made-up. We already ran all that shit. And who knows what next. I literally paid my mortgage shilling this shit mid-2023 out of Vegas punk rock shows.

\>Yeah, usually when that kind of thing happens, I just leave it. There's enough work to do without wasting time: ultimately, they'll do what they want with the project and I've sent my PR and I'll make adjustments if they want adjustments but if they don't like it and we can't work together, I should probably do my hacking elsewhere. Sounds like you had the same kind of experience.

That's exactly the kind of experience I had, but I will admit I was trying to overcome it in this case specifically so I can get scrobbles off the ground on instances other than my own. And it worked. I won that battle. I'm not sure what client you're using, but if you're using the Baest website, you'll see my scrobbles on SJW's fork of PleromaFE.