Oh! Robbie! 📖🐝 @Alamantus@cybre.space

It's very early days, and I have a lot of design work to do, but #Readlebee is on its way to becoming a reality!

If you'd like to #contribute to making this #Goodreads alternative as good as possible, check out the project on GitLab. Ideas and designs will help just as much as code:

https://gitlab.com/Alamantus/Readlebee

If you have questions or want to discuss the project or contribute, check out the Gitter link, which lets you log in with a GitHub, GitLab, or Twitter account:

https://gitter.im/Readlebee

📖🐝 #openSource

I just uploaded new features and bug fixes for #Lexiconga (https://lexicon.ga)! There's custom alphabetical order, custom CSS, and more!

Check out the release notes for all the details:
https://github.com/Alamantus/Lexiconga/releases/tag/new-features-wave-1

(Hey, custom CSS means you can use #conscript fonts in your dictionary! Check this blog post to learn how to set it up: https://blog.lexicon.ga/post/186302976725/how-to-use-custom-fonts-on-lexiconga)

#conlanging #glossopoeia #constructedLangauge #dictionaries #tools

✨ FLASH POLL! ✨

Only 15 minutes to answer!

I'm gonna finally redo my whole portfolio site from scratch! What should I use?

#webdev

I just spent all of tonight and most of this morning contributing to and improving the `sequelize-erd` project specifically so I could visualize the database structure I've set up for #Readlebee so far:

https://gitlab.com/Alamantus/Readlebee/blob/master/server/sequelize/db-diagram.svg

In the end, it was very worth it because it showed not just the /structure/, but also how Sequelize /interprets/ what I set up, so I was able to fix a bunch of errors because of it! 🥳

Japanese curry with chicken katsu is the best possible way to end a long, annoying week 🥰😍🤤

(Image is of said curry)

This is getting ridiculous. But it's so delicious!

It's rediculicious!

Being a cool uncle is exhausting 😪

Pokémon is not a good game for kids younger than 8 years old, and my nephew is 4 but obsessed with playing Pokémon with me 😬

I'm officially a cool uncle!

MICROSOFT HAS EMAILED ME NINE TIMES TODAY ABOUT REMEMBERING TO RENEW OR CANCEL MY XBOX GAME PASS IN 1 MONTH STOOOOOOOPPPP

My local Costco has this peanut butter #whiskey in stock right now and hoooooooooooo boy, it is amazing!

If you like flavored whiskey, enjoy peanut butter, and ever come across this #Skrewball stuff, definitely check it out if you're able!!

Just learned that the .mom top-level domain exists. ICANN is knocking it out of the park these days!

And you expect me to believe that there's /no/ company using Magento that uses /any/ external images? Not a SINGLE COMPANY on Magento uses a CDN to host their images and they're all perfectly content just uploading every single image to their pos Magento server and nowhere else?! NO FUCKING WAY!!!

Even WORDPRESS lets you search your media folder!! This is UNACCEPTABLE, and it's IMPOSSIBLE that Magento is as popular and widely used as they say!!!!

I swear to god, Magento /must/ be a fucking scam. It MUST be! You expect me to believe that /any/ marketing company *anywhere* would be perfectly happy not being able to manage their marketing materials at all?? Im-fucking-possible! There's /no way/ Magento is anywhere near as popular as people say. It can't be!!

The ONLY way to manage images is via the "Select image from gallery" button in the content editor! There is NO OTHER WAY to even VIEW what images are on your own system!!!

There's /no way/ that there's no better image management plugin for Magento. You can't search, it takes ages to load, and it's completely unmanageable!

Also, there's NO WAY that NOBODY has made a plugin to add arbitrary image URLs to the page builder! I refuse to believe that everyone using Magento is happy to just upload their own images to their Magento server and never link out! Nobody using Magento uses a CDN? Im-fucking-possible!

There MUST be a better way to do this out there!!!!

I started actually reading through the Sequelize docs so I could learn how it actually worked, and it turns out that knowing how to use things is helpful for using them!

Moving forward with #Readlebee should be much nicer now that I actually know how to query the data correctly...

...not super easy to understand the difference between them sometimes... I'm debating just doing an empty field so you can just write "audiobook version" or "1953 paperback" or something like that , but that'll lead to even more confusion since there are many different audiobook versions etc... I'm not sure. I guess using Editions is the best way to go?

I just don't want to bog people down with having to choose an edition unless they want to, like how GoodReads does but without the giant db.

Ok, my current idea for #Readlebee data structure is to split the unified "Status" table into two double-duty tables that store Ratings+Reviews and Updates+Progress. That way it'll be a little bit easier to manage than just trying to split from one table.

I still need to figure out what to do about books, though... I want to be able to target specific editions for reviews, but I don't want a ton of repetition in the database... using editions from Inventaire could work, but it's...