#recreational coding

[simply-sithel]

New job means the brain's been a' churning with code lately. Putting some cycles towards @renegadeguild this month-- signature order spine lines are (languishing) in review (as Draft) and I threw together a typeset assembly tool in hopes of finally (collaboratively) tackling the idea of a Renegade cookbook.

Launched in honor/anticipation of Edible Book Day (April 1st), the Renegade PDF Potluck tool is currently accepting entries. Currently only available to Renegade Bindery folks (thems on the Discord) -- you can find the link & info in the Event on the server.

Deadline for entries is tomorrow (Saturday, March 22nd 2024) @ midnight PST but seeing as only 2 entries have been submitted so far, might be extending that a bit.

[macaronitrash]

krisnix reunion!! <3

[poomphuripan]

Poom Phuripan and Up Poompat of My Stand-In (2024) for IM Magazine - [3/6]

[ivysos2001]

Thinking about how a jaded, cynical Ben Wyatt walked into the pawnee parks department for the first time and told Leslie Knope that there was nothing special about her town, having absolutely no idea that in just a few years he’d be standing in essentially that same spot on their wedding day talking about how fate had led him there to her 🥺😭

[ladyramora]

Why is Zoraal Ja kinda cute 😳

[sysig]

Maybe requestober prompt of soft?

Day 5 - Pile o' plushies

[endlesslytired]

to finish this absolute madness I'm dealing with trying to put these together I give you the ones I forgot to add bc I lost them or didn't feel like worked right yet I still like, plus ones that I just had no place for at all. (aka solo topaz stuff)

bonusss, I wrote this very early on into playing hsr and realised this would be really neat to make in the maker. it's not much of a meme but a funny idea on stuff Kafka could have done.

prevus poast:

[kangaruthi]

[hangingoffence]

a guy who takes everything too seriously vs a guy who makes everything into a joke

[beatcroc]

hi mecha, what would you do if you went to penacony

[simply-sithel]

My dudes... I don't know if I'm the last one to learn this, but I come bearing good news! Google's Apps Script is amazing and makes Spreadsheets & Slides so much more powerful!

Tumblr is hardly the best platform to talk about code on but this was a game changer! As a minor helper on @renegadepublishing's yearly exchange, my scripts let me keep up with the growing quantity of entries and while I only figured it out at the end of this year's labors, it will be so very, very, very helpful for next year's.

Will tuck further ravings under the cut but the short of it is that it (A) let me programmatically pull deets from AO3 to enrich final report and (B) let me programmatically fill the results slide show with data.

Coherently flowing prose often fail me when shifting to a technical discussion, so to break down the work:

this was all in JavaScript. I obviously love Kotlin more these days, but it felt painless/rather accessible being in JS

the primary 'key' passed around for the entries (when participents submitted updates and final entries) tended to just be the fic URL (plus gifter/giftee names) - a good UUID but carries no meta info

almost (tho not all) of the entries were hosted on AO3 which made programatic scraping possible

we definitely needed the author & fic name... which required visiting the page. And once you're on the page, why not grab more details? In the end we wound up scraping: title, author, last update, word count, fandom, rating. And while there's more one could collect, we lacked the space to visually display it along with the results. Remember-- the point is the typesetting!

Apps Script let you make URL requests [getContent]

I used the Cheerio library to process the page's contents and let me comb through it using jQuery. Link goes to GitHub page, which has the Script ID you'll need to import it in the Libraries section.

I found the Google Sheets APIs easy enough to read/work with -- just lots of arrays, really. Also, the quotas that you get seem generous to me (for a free product)

AO3 specific note : had to append "?view_adult=true" to the URLs if I wanted to bypass that check screen, but I also had to handle locked fic, which keep you at a reduced info lock screen. Be sure to test E rated & locked fic when drafting your script (Incognito Window is your friend)

Here is the Gist of the pictured script-- it was a 'round 2' edit where I went back and pulled Rating & Locked status : [LINK]

The above refers mostly to the Sheets side of things. The other most magical feature was the population of Slides w/ sheet data!

Notes as follows:

images are my current weakness-- had to go in later and adjust/layout/upload images manually. SUPER LAME. Next time I'm going to dig into pulling images from the drive...

I was able to embed links programmatically into the slides but it was VERY HACKY code. The generation of the PDF links was still a manual task, and while I imagine I could script that, sounds hairy (I want to avoid all things Auth)

The {{name_pattern}} was/is only a stylistic choice. Doing a find & replace on something so distinct is safest tho.

I did not use Alt Text on my things but I think going forward, it would be how I'd ID/address the non-string replacement actions (finding the right shape to anchor a URL link on was finicky the way I did it)

Here is my (very messy!) script for populating the slides: [LINK]

For next time:

using a script to pull tags/fandoms/pairings will make the gifter/giftee pairing process sooooo much smoother (so far it's been very manual!! Bless @aetherseer's tenacity!)

I need to figure out image imports/population of the slides... ignoring any aspect ratio/size issues

[mooonbae]

[ my favorite neurodivergent coded characters 27/♾️ ]

[viktoriakomova]

I am literally begging you to understand that increasing difficulty requirements will not do anything to fix ncaa scoring because the issue is shit judging.

Scores being too high is a problem because there is no separation among top teams, not because it’s too easy to get a 10. It’s NOT easy to get a 10, if the judges are following their own fucking rules faithfully and consistently! Take the fucking execution deductions! Make 3 tenths of deductions a decent score again!

[suzakus-canon-wife]

[justicecaballer]

metahuman is a great tool if you want to make a 3d person that is not a likeness of a real life person <- guy who is trying to make a likeness of a real life person

[theygender]

Certified autism moment. I finally got through all the training modules in my new job and got to move on to the FUN part of messing around with excel. I've spent the last 7 hours coding excel sheets and I am over the fucking moon happy about it. This is like the equivalent of playing in a sandbox for me