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Winston


The original Sunburst!

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  • 2 weeks
    Seashell paperback incoming!

    Once again, the proof copy is out for delivery right now.

    The hardcover edition proof copy turned out great - some text mistakes to fix, but no printing errors that aren't mine! Lulu can print a book to specifications! Yay!

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  • 4 weeks
    It's coming!

    OMG OMG OMG
    it's out for delivery

    I can't wait I'm so amped up I can't type good so I've rewritten this bunch of times and I'm giving up now because it's just

    :pinkiegasp:
    :yay:

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  • 5 weeks
    Seashell is hitting print!

    That's right. We're there.
    Writing is complete, interior layout is complete, cover is complete.
    Time to print a proof copy! :pinkiegasp:

    I'm super-nervouscited right now. :pinkiehappy:

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  • 9 weeks
    Seashell: getting closer to print!

    Here's where we are on the Seashell print book:
    83 pages all told, including front matter and a preface. 75 of them so far are story. Anticipating about 10-20 more pages to be finished. Almost there!
    Cover's done (for the hardcover edition dust-jacket, at least, will probably have to be redone for the paperback but whatever).

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  • 20 weeks
    Jinglemas 2023, done!

    I wrote this thing for Penguifyer, and today is my assigned day to deliver the gift, so I guess this is when the story drops:

    TLost
    Twilight, on her new wings, couldn't find her way around Cloudsdale. It may have left more of mark on her than she wants to admit. Written for Jinglemas 2023.
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    I hope they enjoy it, and I hope all of you will too!

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Jul
11th
2021

Did I mention I have my MS in computer science? · 5:12am Jul 11th, 2021

Well, I do. I earned it last year. I don't think I made a blog post about graduating here on FimFic, but it's a thing that happened. I have a diploma hanging on my wall in a tastefully minimalistic frame and everything. It's pretty neat.

Relevant, because in my spare time in the last few days, pretty much on a whim, I programmed this:
https://github.com/wdeleon/JuliaJS

It's a multi-threaded fractal image generator. It runs in your web browser. It's free and open-source. It needs more features, and I have a few planned, but the essentials all work right now, and I'm proud of it, so here you go. It makes cool pictures that look something like this:

I write computer programs. It's what I do when I'm not making plushies for customers, or writing stories, which I haven't been lately, because after finishing up Sunrise I'm taking a little break while I wait to hear back from EqD regarding it.

...Also, while I'm taking a break, I need to find a real job. That's kind of important. Graduating right around the time that 2020's Covid lockdowns went earnestly into freaking end-of-the-world mode didn't do me any favors. Leads welcomed. Anyone know a place that's hiring software engineers / devs / programmers / IT / more or less whatever having to do with computers? Maybe it's gauche to ask here, but... well, whatever, you never know unless you ask, do you?

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I’m no help there. I took a four year degree in 1988 and wound up in tech support, which is far less stress but not programming. I’d die in the programming world now.

That is an amazing program! I wish you luck in your job search. Have you considered looking on USAJobs? I know the federal goverment is always looking for programmers and people with IT experience.

Good luck!

Interesting.
If you know java, then maybe you could learn C# and help me program my game because it's slowly making me lose my mind. :applejackunsure:

Edit: I'm afraid I don't know anyone that can hire you. Sorry. :twilightblush:

My employer has openings; but only in front-line tech support, which I would not recommend unless you're a serious masochist.

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