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It's Ten Ten! That's October tenth and on the tenth of October 2010, a momentous occasion: the first broadcast of Friendship is Magic. So today, to celebrate 16 years of Lauren Faust's My Little Pony sandbox and the unending creativity it inspires, I went for a walk in the woods.

There is no botanical gardens in this town of about 70,000, the public artwork is for the most part abstract chunks of exposed concrete and rusting metal, there are no DVD's in the library, but there is a winding walking trail in a rocky forested area surprisingly spared from becoming a housing development. It's about 45 minutes by bicycle from my house but there's no admission charge so I went to see the state of the changing colours of the autumn leaves. They were nice.

The sky was blue, it was morning and the light was great. Looking up was like looking at an impressionistic painting. I stood and looked up most of the way. Other people going by seemed focused on walking, not looking up. They missed out. Walking is overrated.

coffeeandink

Quick drive-by rec: The Ultimate Gene Wolfe Library, 38 books for $20.

I think this may be every book Wolfe ever wrote, except for the disowned and reportedly awful Operation Ares.

The one item selection is solid; the four-item selection is half things I haven't read. Honestly I would have followed the evil logic of putting only one half of the Book of the Sun in the solo bundle by replacing The Wizard with another solo pick, like Peace or The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories, or the opening of another series, like Soldier of the Mist.

Humble Bundle really killing it lately with SF authors who started in the 70s and wrote their most famous work in the 80s and 90s, huh. Possibly because those are writers who've had enough time to build up a substantial enough body of work for a bundle.

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It's only been... okay, I don't want to think how long.

We are preparing to take the beta update page and the beta inbox out of beta with the next code release. We don't have an exact date yet, but this is your last chance to tell us about problems!

To enable the beta versions: go to Beta Features and enable the "new Create Entries" beta test for the new update page and the "New Inbox Page" for the, well, new inbox page.

If this is your first time using the beta update page: nearly everything on it can be adjusted, moved, or removed to some degree. The upper right side of the update form has a " ⚙️ Rearrange Panels" link.

Not every panel is enabled by default! If you don't see something you're used to finding, look in the disabled panels. While in Rearrange mode, you can enable or disable panels, drag them to whatever position you want, and generally customize it to your heart's content.

Once we push the button and switch to the new update and inbox pages for everyone, we cannot keep the old ones available. We are so close to finishing the decade-long "get rid of the undocumented custom templating language from 1996 that no one else uses" modernization project that's been sapping our collective will to live that we can taste it, and we can't convert the old update page and the updated inbox page is the converted version. This is your last chance to alert us of problems. If you let us know after the switch goes live, we'll still fix it, but we can't guarantee how fast. Prevent future problems and test drive them now!

marthawells

I got the surgery a couple weeks ago and it went great, but it's been a really painful process, even with painkillers, etc.

The surgeon gave me options for what kind of anathesia and I opted for the nerve block on my arm and a lighter anathesia so I could sleep through the surgery, which I think was the best way to go. Apparently without the nerve block you have to have deeper anasthesia to keep from waking up during the surgery because it hurts so much.

Getting the nerve block was interesting in that it didn't hurt, but that was because before they started they gave me the drugs they give people on The Pitt when they can't stop screaming. Which sort of implied that I would have been screaming if I got it without medication.

I'm still typing one-handed but gradually getting movement back in my fingers.

ETA And I won the Ember Award yesterday, which really blew me away.

https://bsky.app/profile/theignyteawards.bsky.social/post/3mwycfv6wz22o

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Hi all,

I had to push some code live today to fix something, and that brought with it a couple of new things like if you have two-factor authentication (2FA/MFA) enabled, you got automatically logged out and it is now required to log in. If you don't, you can set it up if you want (you don't have to.)

This also means that if you have 2FA enabled, you will not be able to use 3P clients using your username and password anymore. You should be able to use API keys in most cases, but there's some nuance to that (and tbh, I just am not precisely sure what clients anybody even uses.)

Please do comment if you're seeing anything weird, as per usual, and we'll work on it. Thank you!

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