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@david I thought of making a personal reading list as my little front end project! I have goodreads but I don't update it diligently.

@freemo That explains my struggle with programming at the moment.

Say, I watch a tutorial about double arrays in Javascript. I don't have personal experiences yet that calls for double arrays, so everything flew over my head. Then when I encounter a situation to use double arrays, I felt bonkers because I had seen it in action but don't remember how to implement it.

It's probably a really difficult scenario because much of programming is abstraction...

@switchingsocial@mastodon.at @gregory

An app for my ereader! Amazing. Thank you for sharing.

@libreture Yes DRM free. I'll check it out!

@libreture I love the tactile feeling of physical books, so if I can get my hands on a physical copy for a title I want (usually borrowed from library), I'd read that physical copy.

Most of the time that's not feasible, and I'm travelling, so ebooks are often my fallback.

@libreture Mostly e-books but some physical too.

@MOTT You and me both lul

It just occurred to me that I have read a lot in my life, but I don't remember what I *have* read.

Fediverse, how do you keep track of what you read?

I've been obsessed with reading lately. Not just the act of reading but retaining what I've read. I know there are concepts and tools like "a commonplace book" (basically a personal collection of knowledge and quotes), flash cards, spreadsheets, Goodreads, etc etc. I never seem to stick with any of them.

#reading #books

@freemo
Also slept weird here, but hydration issue rather than cryptocurrency.

@david Oh yeah Reddit is quite easy (to me). There's a famous saying "there's a sub for everything". There are subreddits for origami, traumatised people, cat summoning circles, random acts of postcards/pizza, your city, your music genre, etc. Generally you'll find them when you use Reddit's search, or stumble into them in someone's comments, or a subreddit's introduction info if they link any other places.

You participate by upvoting content, or downvoting them if they're not relevant to the sub (although most people have been using upvote/downvote as more of a personal like/dislike thing instead of that). You can also save a post for your own keepsake, or reply, or contribute to something new by making a new post. It's a bit more like a forum than Twitter.

@david Mastodon is a bit weird for my head to wrap around. I'm generally a lurker so I go to federated timeline and browse toots there, or just browse my follow timeline if I'm not in a wild mood.

Since you are hosting tech.lgbt yourself, the way Fediverse work is that you have to follow people from different instances to start seeing stuff on federated timeline, from other instances that you don't already follow.

That also makes a good block list very important so your federated timeline doesn't have stuff that trigger you mixed in it. I'm not familiar with admining an instance but I've heard there're common suggested block lists out there.

@david Reddit is still good for niche interests and local / city stuff, but all the major subs are drowned in bots and fake content now.

@david I don't even use Twitter myself. This whole microblog culture is honestly new to me, but I came here as my Reddit alternative. It takes some getting used to - having to follow individuals and watch out for tags, instead of just subscribing to subreddits. But it's growing on me and I hope you will have a good time here too.

@david You missed the most important tag #introduction !

I've been enjoying your toots already. Am also learning webdev, stumbling along. Nice to meet you.

@pschwede I was born and raised in Hong Kong for 15 years pre-1997. Hold your horses on the idea of just giving out UK citizenship for free.

Like @freemo said I appreciate the sentiment of this intent. I wouldn't mind having the option of UK citizenship myself, but there's one thing I want to point out in addition to what freemo said:

HK rioters are fighting for HK. A citizenship elsewhere means nothing to them, if HK itself cannot be protected. My brother is living in HK right now and, while not actively rioting, refuses to leave even though he has permanent residency in Australia.

Considering the power China holds over the world right now, I don't blame UK only resorting to "virtual signalling" - they're doing the best they can. Handing out citizenship for free is not a gesture of care, when the one thing that HK rioters really want is not to live somewhere else better, but to save their own home.