Maybe in four years it won't be a terrible idea to tell the government I'm autistic.

if n0,n_1 have the same parity (both odd or both even), then winner is: max{n0,n1}

else, if n0,n_1 have different parity, then the winner is: min{n0,n1}

My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character’s mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it’ll feel in character.

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that’s so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn’t cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much ‘would the character do this?’ and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?’ If you get 'how’ part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn’t feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they’d sound while doing it.

Another story from printer-land of 20 years ago: this time about a seemingly impossible bug.

Strudel is a music live coding environment for the browser, porting the TidalCycles pattern language to JavaScript.

Wavacity is a port of the Audacity audio editor to the web browser. Free and open-source. No install required.

seximal is a positional notation numbering system that uses base six. it's a lot like decimal, only better in basically every way.

In 2189, Earth narrowly won a war against extraterrestrials, but at a tremendous price. Two years later, in a distant patch of space, a mysterious explosion kills nearly the entire crew of the science vessel Starship Iris. The only survivor is Violet Liu, an intrepid, sarcastic, terrified biologist. But as Violet struggles to readjust to life after the Iris, questions abound. Was that explosion really an accident? If not, just what is going on? And why does every answer seem to get more bizarre and more dangerous? If Violet and her newfound allies want to untangle the truth, they'll need courage, brilliance, and luck - and honestly, a couple of drinks.

Ambient music gone a little too far...

Game script for the main scenario of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn

Available on Mac, Windows and Linux