Not sure if I want to know what's in there, but then I don't want to not know, either
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Nils M Holm
@AverageDog@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Writer of books about computer programming and, more recently, about compassion, love, and meditation.
No being can be happy at the cost of another.
Avatar: self-portrait. Background: from the cover of Hyper 7.
#love, #compassion, #writing, #books, #advaita, #NoAI, #LISP, #compilers
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Anybody here who knows anything about book marketing? I mean real marketing, not writing a blurb and setting up a blog. I know how to do that.
Where do you send your blurb? Where do you announce your book? Where do you send review copies? Are there any book sales reps who work for independent authors? What else am I missing?
Anyone?
#fedihelp #marketing #books
Can we please fast-forward to a post-AI, post-billionaires, post-surveillance, post-war age?
Dear web publishers,
when I can't reject all tracking within five seconds, I just won't read your article. Goodbye.
I have recently been told that a previous employer had found me to be complicated, difficult, and hard to work with. What a pleasant surprise! Being considered a good fit for the corporate world would really have saddened my heart.
I have translated (with some liberties) my 1987 short novel Star Tramp. It features a simple-minded, action-packed plot and a pretty unlikable main character. Most people who read it did not enjoy it (but some did).
I may or may not (re)publish it this year.
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@dsp@social.sdf.org
Thanks for the praise and I'm glad to hear to hear that you enjoy the book!
The switch for implementing control flow is not originally my idea, though! I think I discovered it in Marc Feeley's "90-minute Scheme compiler".
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@rudytheelder@mastodon.social Happy Birthday and all the best to you from a fellow (but rather unknown) writer in the Heidelberg area! I think you lived there a long time ago.
Look what I have in my bookshelf!
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@Rastal@mastodon.social
Every violent conflict so far has only replaced one problem with another in the long run.
As long as we accept the premise that some people have power over others, people will abuse that power.
@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt So the jobs of the VP and CFO were useless to begin with? I'm not surprised.
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@Larvitz
I'd take a few if there are any left and parking is not too hard at your place! (I'm not exactly a great driver.) Feel free to answer via private message or email (my initials at t3x.org).
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@Larvitz
Thanks, again, for giving that big stack of boxes to me! :) I would have stayed a moment to exchange a few words with a fellow FreeBSD user, but was under the impression that you were rather busy. Maybe another time!
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@Larvitz
Nothing like a good nap in the afternoon! :) Boxes are great, so many small ones for books. Can't have enough of those! All the best to you, too!
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@mwl@io.mwl.io @csepp@merveilles.town
That's what I've been doing in the past 30 years. CS books are going okay, but someone cleaning the toilets probably make twice as much.
I've also written a few novels, but they sell maybe 30 copies per year.
Will that stop me from writing? Hell, no. But there has to be something I can do, other than just putting the announcement on a homepage with maybe 20 visitors per day.
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@restorante@social.linux.pizza Thanks! Looked promising up to the first ad break, which is where I stop watching Youtube videos.