It’s around 9:30am on Thursday, 8 February, in Portland, Oregon. Everyone here has just had, is having, or is about to have, a winter cold, because those happen again now.
\nHallway Track 009: Self-Publishing, and You Can, Too is on Thursday, 15 February, at 11am Pacific, 2pm Eastern, and 7pm London.
\nRegistration opens at ~12:30pm PT today, Thursday 8 February 2024.
\nOur guests will be:
\nHere’s the blurb:
\nSelf-publishing! It’s a legitimate path to not just making your work available, but being compensated for it, too. It’s understandable, and hopefully after this Hallway Track, a little bit more accessible.
\nCome to this Hallway Track if you want to chat with three wonderful people and their adventures in self-publishing about things like:
\nWhat’s Hallway Track, if you’ve forgotten or I never told you?
\nHallway Track is a series of free, ad-hoc gatherings, where we pretend to be in the hallway chatting with each other after a great conference session. It’s for small groups of only 25 people so it’s not too big people can’t talk and not too small there’s dead air; they run for 90 minutes; they’re not recorded, to encourage free conversation.
\nRegister for Hallway Track 009: Self-Publishing, and You Can, Too and find out more.
\nJust a few short things today. Promise.
\nChuck Jordan wrote about the Apple Vision Pro in the context of what it was like when the Mac came out[1], and now he’s written about his experience with the embryonic purported next stage of computing[2].
\nCaught my attention because: the first piece was a wonderful bit of writing about the feel of potential. The second piece is a nuanced perspective (ha) (not like you need any more?) from someone who’s done a bunch of VR work. And for whom Personas just didn’t work at all.
\nOne of two things I remembered I wrote:
\n\n\nAfter surviving a horrific encounter with a new development methodology that left her entire development team dead, RIPLEY is on her way to MASLOW’S HOPE.
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Have you ever wanted to read a software development parody of James Camerons’ Aliens? Are there parts of that film you can quote? If you’re subscribed to this newsletter then that chance is greater than zero!
\nAnyway, I randomly remembered this this morning and it put a much-needed smile on my face: A stand-up deployment, or just another bug hunt?[3]
\nWith the addition of Isabel J. Kim’s Why Don’t We Just Kill The Kid In The Omelas Hole (Kim, 2024), the Ursula K Le Guin Omelas Cinematic Universe oeuvre is now:
\nWhile dicking about in Medium after re-discovering my Aliens/Agile Development nightmare fic, I also rediscovered The Ones Who Advocated for a Casus Belli Intervention in Omelas, and Nineteen More (me, 2022).
\nI have no idea what caused me to write that listicle. I am sorry.
\nOK that’s it. I’ve got today’s Hallway Track to prepare for. How’ve you been? I still need to finish part two of that How To Steal An Open Social Network heist bit.
\nBest,
\nDan
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\nInfinite Blank Canvas – Spectre Collie (archive.is), Chuck Jordan, 17 January 2024, Spectre Collie ↩︎
\nMy Passthrough Era – Spectre Collie (archive.is), Chuck Jordan, 7 February 2024, Spectre Collie ↩︎
\nA stand-up deployment, or just another bug hunt? | by Dan Hon | Medium (archive.is), me, 29 August 2017, Medium ↩︎
\nToward a unified taxonomy of text-based social media use - The Verge (archive.is), Elizabeth Lopatto, 1 February 2024, The Verge ↩︎
\nImprobable Island Message of the Day (MoTD) 2020-05-01 (archive.is) and Improbable Island Message of the Day (MoTD) 2020-05-30 (archive.is) ↩︎
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