Just a random writer and worldbuilder, don't mind me.

[Pastafarian]

Hi, I'm Pasta!

I write stuff. Web serials, mostly, which I post on a site called Royal Road. I write a fair bit (about a thousand words a day), read a lot, write code for my day job, maintain a pleasant smile while trying to stop my toddler from peeing on her hands and then rubbing her pee-hands on my legs, and argue about public policy and civics at the drop of a hat. I've got a completed ~280k word story called Frameshift and an in-progress serial called Quill & Still; I am apparently A Real Author because people give me money and I spend it on art commissions.

My favorite blog is Bret Devereaux's "A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry", which everyone doing any writing or worldbuilding in a premodern world should definitely read, because everything you imagine about premodern life is wrong. My favorite series of stories is the Graydon Saunders "Commonweal" series. My favorite thing in a map is when a mountain casts a realistic rain shadow. My favorite genre of music is "it has vocal harmony", and I think that anyone writing something in JavaScript instead of TS is 2022 is engaging in professional malpractice, but what do I know, I'm just a devops engineer.

California's proposition system is risible and ridiculous, but the Bay Area is still my least unfavorite place in the world.

[Redrobes]

Welcome pasta, hope you enjoy this place as much as some of the books and blogs. You didn't mention whether you like flying spaghetti monsters, but I assume that you would. And I am also not sure how you might think of me still doing perl on CGI in 2022 then...

[Pastafarian]

Welcome pasta, hope you enjoy this place as much as some of the books and blogs. You didn't mention whether you like flying spaghetti monsters, but I assume that you would. And I am also not sure how you might think of me still doing perl on CGI in 2022 then...

My opinions on Perl are adequately summed up by https://xkcd.com/1171/ .

I'm a fan of His Noodliness as a piece of social commentary. It remains as trenchant now as it was then, even if most folks have forgotten what the point was in the first place.

[Redrobes]

Hah yeah i hear ya, but I am more https://xkcd.com/208/. Seems like Randall couldn't make his mind up !
And I had forgotten what it was all about too.

[Pastafarian]

I admit, if I had a really good grasp of regex, writing PromQL queries would be substantially easier. *sobbing emoji*