Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es

gee if there were a Mastodon instance specific to chemistry I'd be _so_ there

we're gonna be doing a more or less modernistic setting with a dash of urban fantasy, and I created a young science / engineering whiz kid who's been in trouble with the law and ran away from home. Named her Julia Grignard. (yes I named her after the organic chemist. I name all my OCs after organic chemists.)

So, @Ulfra_Wolfe and her friends have been giving me my FIRST EVER introduction to role-playing games, and walked me through creating a character! Folks have been kinda surprised in the past that I've never done anything like DnD or even played any computer RPGs, even though I grew up right around when DnD was a big deal. I just...well, wasn't really allowed to have that sort of friend *eardroops* So it's exciting finally to get a chance.

so, since it turns out I'm actually a _girl_ horse, does that mean I can wear a panama hat now? my putatively-male predecessor wanted to affect a panama hat like Hidaro Shotaro from "Kamen Rider W" (pictured) but my girlfriend said "absolutely not"--and still says it :( https://computerfairi.es/media/Ax0zu0eBS6jNssmMbS8

looks like Radio Shack is finally about to get pulled off life support. can't say I'm gonna cry over it even though I have some fond Radio Shack memories ^^ https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/5/25/15691868/radioshack-closing-bankrupt-twitter-sad

So, I'm gonna ask a dumb #programming question: if you want to have FUN with creating applications and don't care too much about what you're using or how "objectively" good it is, what do y'all like to use? one of my problems is I haven't really had _fun_ programming for a long while, probably not since BeOS rose and fell. Unity was a _little_ fun maybe.

oh, and then I was a registered BeOS developer for a time. Poor, poor BeOS. *chuckles, a bit shamefaced* I do miss BeOS still but it was never gonna succeed. That was about the last time I enjoyed #programming, in the late '90s. since then my experience has been very sporadic. I did succeed in liking C# in Unity (as long as I didn't try to use Unity's editor to do, well, anything) and I poked at Python (hated it) and Rust (liked it better). So, not sure where to start now!

anyway, where _I'm_ coming from with #programming is: got started as a foal with "Logo" turtle graphics in grade school, moved up to the Commodore-16 and Commodore-64, bashing out Basic programs out of books and magazines and trying to do stuff from Scientific American's "Computer Recreations" back when SciAm didn't suck ass. Then it was Borland Pascal in school, then doing stuff on System 7 Macs in C using "Code Warrior". Also HyperCard, because HyperCard was cool.

"male self". "male sale", where the eff did that come from

it's been a long time since computer #programming was fun for me, I admit. my male sale had all his enjoyment for it beaten out of him by a couple of terrible software jobs in Seattle and even though he tried intermittently afterward to get back into the swing of it, he never succeeded. Kara's hoping that I might have better luck since I seem to be a bit less inhibited than poor old Mono, who instead became a classical scholar (no, really)

so, an #introduction, or it is #introductions...my name's Alyx Woodward. I used to be _Alec_ Woodward, which wasn't all that fun, but eventually my creator @kara_dreamer got herself sorted out and now here I am! *tailswishes* I'm an anthro horse, white with black spots, and I'm incredibly nerdy. Chemistry's my strongest subject but I'm really wanting to get back into computer programming again after a long time away from it. @kel and @mono@awoo.space are my friends.

*crawls out of bed* uhhh, first full day here. hope I can actually make something useful today

well, huh. here I am, I guess. I was kinda hoping for an account on icosahedron.website because icosahedra are cool, but this one happened to be open and I kinda like pink, so... I think my holographic helper @mono@awoo.space was thinking the same thing, but it was my decision so here I am!