shaknais

shaknais, 21 days ago to random

Well, my search engine, aimed at weighting more towards content than recent or SEO, etc, is up!

Who wants to break it...?

https://rustysearch.org/

shaknais, 23 days ago to random

#WritersCoffeeClub OMG! What happened to your MC's parents?

Nothing. Phoebe is just an accountant. I mean, one who fell through a portal to another world, where she happens to be the subject of prophecy after prophecy...
But she's not a witch. She's rather adamant about that. Even if she managed to summon a wolf made of fire. Or fight an actual witch, spell for spell. Not a witch.

Gruna's family... Well... Or Elion's... Uh... That witch from before? She um... Killed them all. A sacrifice...

shaknais, 1 month ago to random

#WritersCoffeeClub 24 April - When older novels use outdated or racist language, should they be edited for the modern world or left alone and viewed in context?

Hiding from the past means you're often doomed to repeat it.

My country, completely fucked up. I've met survivors from the Stolen Generation, and listened intently to them. We give them a platform to speak, because we know that they need to be heard.

Mein Kampf shouldn't be banned. A lot of the arguments in it are good - Meaning...

shaknais, 1 month ago to php

PHP's use of iconv allows for immediate and easy buffer overflows, via a bug in glibc. (Other servers don't tend to use iconv in the same way, so don't appear to be vulnerable yet.)

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2024-2961

#CVE #Bug #PHP

shaknais, 1 month ago to random

Had a seizure in the checkout. Someone, with all the kindest intentions in the world, called the police to do a Wellness Check.

Please... Please! Don't do this. It disappoints, but the cops are not your friends. A Wellness Check isn't to see if you need help or a carer. It isn't to give you anything. It is to take it away.

shaknais, 1 month ago to gaming

If you find yourself rather bored, I have the start to a text adventure game put together.

https://redjourney.netlify.app/

#gaming

shaknais, 1 month ago to random

#WritersCoffeeClub 5 Apr: What's the best thing about being a writer?

I'm all about escaping into another world. My body in this one is a piece of crap. But, today... Well, today, I had a friend's daughter write a note about how she wants to be a writer, and slip it into my mailbox. Asking for me to help.

And that's the best thing - being able to give someone else's dream, life.

shaknais, 1 month ago to acab

Can't make up this crap. Cops pulled over the bus. Arrested a pregnant girl, because
... She stole a loaf of bread.

#ACAB

shaknais, 1 month ago to random

#WritersCoffeeClub 2 April: Do you keep a journal?

Do health journals count? 😆

But... No. I don't keep a journal. I used to, once. I kept a journal about how someone was hurting me, and how I was trying to not be a target. Which, unsurprisingly, was then found.

The result of which was gay camp. You can beat someone straight, can't you? /s

I don't think I could ever really keep one today.

shaknais, 1 month ago to writing

Not knowing how a woman would approach the situation, Taylor threw aside the expectations. She wasn’t going to be some quiet and meek thing. If Vernon was to have her, then it would be on her terms.

She grabbed him bottom of the beard and dragged it in. She breathed his musk of rum and tobacco, before giving him a kiss firm and strong.

Pants or none, he would know she was the one in charge.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/79485/red-treasure/chapter/1574087/thirteen

#writing #RedTreasure

shaknais, 1 month ago to random

I usually avoid brand names in my books, either just not using them, or inventing brands.

Writing either cars or guns, in a modern-ish setting... That doesn't really work.

shaknais, 1 month ago to random

The case of the 500 mile email bug is still one of my favourite stories.

https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

shaknais, 2 months ago to random

I have upset many of my readers, I'm afraid. None of my characters is particularly safe from death, and I have killed off some of my favourites - so long as it works for the plot.

I have regretted some of the angry death threats I have got. Didn't regret killing the character, though.

#WritersCoffeeClub

shaknais, 2 months ago to writing

Fuuuck. Some of my books have been added to GitHub's AI system, because I backed up the code I used to generate them in the private repositories, whilst keeping my copyright and not using any open source license.

https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=https://github.com/shakna-israel/wandsofwizeria

I have filed a manual removal, but they've already trained on the data.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigcode/in-the-stack

#writing #AI

shaknais, 2 months ago to random

Most cafes can't actually make my favourite coffee. Not that it's particularly difficult, but because of words being annoying, and mishearing because of being overworked and run off their feet.

A ristretto coffee is a short shot. A single ristretto tends to be a weak coffee.

My favourite, however, is double ristretto. Which tends to be an extra strong coffee.

#WritersCoffeeClub 19

shaknais, 2 months ago to books

Did I mention that my book, nominated for Indieverse's Best Novella 2024, can be grabbed for free over here...?

I might be excited.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1483026

#Indieverse #reading

shaknais, 2 months ago to random

#PennedPossibilities 256 — Do you have any other writers in your family?

... It's distant, but my second-cousin, once removed, is this little known author by the name of A. A. Milne.

So, there's a bit of a children's author. He did do one murder tale, but mostly the yellow bear. I've only done one kids thing and holy hell I found it so much harder than adult things.

I'm sticking with adult.

shaknais, 2 months ago to australia

Just got a tax debt letter, with one week to pay, from the #ATO. For more than I've ever earnt in my entire life.

Sometimes... Fuck #Australia.

(The ATO is also offline, so I can't quite fight them on it, yet.)

shaknais, 2 months ago to random

ahem. After a little more than seven and a half years, I can walk unaided, without a limp. Last time that lasted a week. The time before that... Was fifteen years ago?

But eh... I CAN MOTHERFUCKING WALK!

shaknais, 2 months ago to templeofelementalevil

Taylor has lived her entire life as a boy. Hiding away as a serving boy at a local inn, but when a pirate comes stumbling into her life, he brings adventure and horror with him. Whether she wants it or not.

https://jamesmilne.org/?id=redtreasure

Amazon: https://bookdir.netlify.app/?id=B0CTX7V5ZM

Royal Road: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/79485/red-treasure

Read for free on Royal Road, or support me by grabbing a copy from Amazon.

#RedTreasure #Book #BookRelease #Pirate #Adventure #Romance #RoyalRoad #Amazon

shaknais, 2 months ago to random

Only three of us at craft today. 🙁

#Ballarat

shaknais, 2 months ago to Canberra

Wasn't quite sure what to call the streets of #Canberra. But apparently it's entirely official to call it "Canberran".

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6045144/canberran-now-a-word-according-to-the-australian-national-dictionary/

#writing

shaknais, 2 months ago to random

Source: https://www.thelatestkate.art/

shaknais, 2 months ago to free

Wanna freely preview my pirate tale that's about to come out?

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/79485/red-treasure/chapter/1468174/one

#RedTreasure #BookRelease #Preview #Pirate #Free

shaknais, 2 months ago to books

The hand curved round to cup her cheek warmly, as the woman leaned in until they were touching, nose to nose. Warm breath that smelled intensely of fish, ale, and tobacco, enveloped Taylor’s head like a small cloud.

The woman made an amused sound, “Je regarderais celui-la, Ed. La peur est quelque chose qu’elle ne connait pas.”

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/79485/red-treasure/chapter/1530707/eight

#RedTreasure #French #Fearless #reading