The Author's Nest

I've mentioned that Twitter annoys me. Not just the 140 character limit (which doesn't work well for people like myself), but the fact that I can't easily mute drama without muting or unfollowing entire users has gotten on my nerves.

I know a lot of people complain about Facebook's algorithmic news feed, but being able to mute topics by saying "Don't show this post" is such a useful and amazing feature for keeping away fights and politics that I don't want filling my feed. Not having to watch people complain about a politician in another country is such a nice feeling, as is getting rid of the negativity of daily drama.

Admittedly, the best way to get rid of drama would be to drop Twitter entirely, but with family and friends using it as a primary means of communication, that's rather difficult. I'm just going to avoid using it as much as possible. I have a Facebook account for news and the like.

Every time I turn around, I see someone in the tech industry say that developers "shouldn't even try to handle passwords themselves", and to rely on things like Google SSO, Facebook Connect, and Login with Twitter. Sadly, that's insecure as well. In fact, they're as bad as using nothing but email to authenticate someone.

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First of all, I plan on going through my Dreamwidth journal within the next few days and properly tagging most—if not all—of my past journal entries. I've needed to do this for a while, but never had time.

Second, on the subject of social networks. I still use Twitter as starseerdrgn (as well as a hidden private account), but just barely. I don't use Facebook anymore, rarely use Quora or Diaspora (which I still like), only glance through GitHub.

I keep to myself most days, as I'm often too tired to do much aside from writing and design/programming.

Instead, I plan on writing more entries in my DW journal (which I'm now mirroring on GitHub for the sake of redundancy. I can write entires over the course of a day, rather than plopping down random thoughts as they come. Fewer distractions can be a good thing, and the social web already scares me.

I also have my [Arcegaō microblog], which is what I'm using to help me work on my conlang, Arcegaō.

Finally, I'm working on a refresh of my personal website, PrismDragon.Net (PDN). Yes, I'm well aware that there's no HTTPS, that's due to the hosting provider and hosting package, which may be getting changed before too long. One of my mates, Calyo Delphi, controls the hosting (I control the domain), so I'll be waiting for him to make such a decision.

I'll likely stick to simple HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, since everything I need is in those three languages. I'll need a database for my Arcegaō Dictionary , and for my eventual personal microblogs (English, and Arcegaō), so those may have to wait, since I won't know whether to use MySQL, MongoDB, or something else.

I'll likely go ahead and make my dictionary out of something, but I don't know what yet.

Hmm...