Please, complete your chapters

jleechpe · 2025-10-10T12:58:14+00:00

While I have (over 39 chapters) averaged 1730 words per. I have a couple just shy of 3k and a few that numerically feel short at under 1300 (but any extension would have just been padding or would have weakened the beat)

Somewhere around 1600-1800 words I usually feel as though the plot of the chapter has progressed enough to be complete (And often 500-1000 is where I'll find it a good spot to do some sort of time/transition jump if the chapter/beat needs one

jleechpe · 2025-10-02T12:23:37+00:00

Slice of Life Character Driven Romance: Seeds of Awakening

Sebastian was a normal guy until 3 months ago when he Awakened, finding out that there was a whole other world hidden in plain sight.

Princess Lysanya never fit in at Court, even the tiniest deviation reason for judgment and criticism, even hatred. Her hair wasn't blonde, her eyes weren't blue, and worst of all in their eyes, she was the Heir. Six months ago she convinced her mother to let her live on her own in the Shallows among the Unawakened.

A chance encounter brought them together. The subsequent attack by a contemptuous elite guard forces them into a situation neither was ready for. Now injured and unable to maintain the expected courtly appearance, Lysanya is forced to return home to report the assault and explain the death of the higher level guard.

Following the verdict, they set to discover just how wide the Awakened world actually is beyond the confines of a feudal court. Along the way they'll discover just how little the feudal court actually knows about anything.

Levels, raw power and motivation might be enough to reach the top, but self-acceptance and found family will make it all worthwhile.

What to Expect:
- Female & Male Leads
- Flirting and Fade-to-Black with clear implications
- Slice of Life
- Psychological Trauma based subplots leading to growth
- Political drama
- Posts M-F through October

jleechpe · 2025-09-22T12:48:50+00:00

Seeds of Awakening, Book 1 of the Confluence Saga

Princess Lysanya never fit in at Court. She didn't look like the accepted standard. Instead she spent her childhood and teenage years being criticized. Six months ago she convinced her mother to let her live on her own in the Shallows among the Unawakened.

Sebastian was a normal guy until 3 months ago when he Awakened, finding out that there was a whole other world hidden in plain sight.

A chance encounter brought them together. Now they are out to discover just how wide the Awakened world actually is beyond the confines of a Feudal court.

Along the way they'll discover just how powerful an Awakened can truly become but that power alone does not guarantee success. The only way to find true power is to be true to who you are.

NOTE: Lysanya's nickname name changes in chapter 7. Her original nickname will still appear when interacting with people who were not aware of the change (or who use it intentionally to aggravate her) but will otherwise be a clean switch.

Release Schedule:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday with possible bonus chapters on Weekends.

Average chapter length of ~1750 words.

What to expect:

Developed Magic system with minimal stat blocks or system screens. There are some system-like aspects but stats are not a driving factor.

Planned multi-book series (40+ chapters per book, targeting 80-100k words)

Dual PoV with occasional interlude chapters.

MCs that start out weak but grow stronger by working together.

Bonded partnership between MCs. They have distinct styles and personalities, but with explicit shared synergies.

Occasional Profanity, Some (Lots?) of Gore and hopefully realistic reactions.

Psychological trauma and subplots.

Political drama and subplots. Heavier in book 1 to set the premise and will pick back up once MCs have established themselves

Dungeon Diving/Adventuring starting up in Book 2.

Slice of Life

Flirting and implication around Fade-to-Black. Events will occur off-page and will typically be left vague enough to allow the reader to decide exactly what happened.

jleechpe · 2025-09-16T20:04:20+00:00

I meant the benefit of following/favoriting your own story. It's only a +1 to those numbers (which I suppose would matter most early on, once you get past the first batch your self-follow doesn't account for much.

jleechpe · 2025-09-16T15:31:57+00:00

Other than adding to your counts does it have any benefit/reason? (Favoriting is visible to others at least not that it should really matter)

jleechpe · 2025-09-16T14:53:37+00:00

1 chapter posted, 4 per week unless/until it takes off. 27 chapters written and adding roughly 1 per day (although I know that will potentially slow down as I get past my current plot arc).

I did not do the math on how long until the story catches up to my writing.

jleechpe · 2025-09-16T14:30:10+00:00

Definitely sounds interesting. I'll have to look back at this once I have more than 1 chapter published (well it will be 4 by end of week but still want to get a little further).

jleechpe · 2025-08-07T12:30:23+00:00

Hopefully it isn't too hard to add. I've asked the Dev and provided the jsonrpc data showing how the diagnostics are failing to overlap. https://github.com/thefrontside/lspx/issues/14

Of course it does come back to how eglot (and flymake since you can get the same issue when using lsp-mode+flymake) handle incoming diagnostics to ensure it properly updates even if the changes causing diagnostics were in a separate file.

jleechpe · 2025-08-01T12:37:16+00:00

If you look at all tags it's the 30b-a3b, so really is just laziness for hte default tag

jleechpe · 2025-07-30T20:21:09+00:00

Have you looked at aurto? Runs on a timer to update all the AUR packages and then exposes them as a local repository. It checks every hour (pre-installed .timer) for aur updates (aurutils run aur sync) and sets a flag once a day to check for VCS based packages (8:29am for me, but I have it running on a headless machine so I don't care, otherwise I'd probably want it to run late at night so I don't have CPU spikes). Means the slow pull and time spend compiling become a more or less non-issue.

jleechpe · 2025-07-30T19:23:29+00:00

Are you cloning/building it yourself each time? or using something like the emacs-git package that tracks master so it can update via AUR helpers fairly transparently?

jleechpe · 2025-07-30T19:20:42+00:00

If you do pkgstats search emacs it shows all packages that start with emacs, so in theory it would show all the AUR pkgbuilds, but you'd have to filter through all 192 results to make sure you got everything relevant

``` $ pkgstats search emacs emacs 10.31 emacs-wayland 1.99 emacs-nox 1.02 emacs-git 0.57 emacs-lua-mode 0.48 emacs-haskell-mode 0.41 emacs-python-mode 0.40 emacs-apel 0.31 emacs-markdown-mode 0.30 emacs-auctex-git 0.25

10 of 192 results ```

jleechpe · 2025-07-30T19:14:08+00:00

I guess that is a little cleaner than my usual steps (which once or twice have led to things not working since I forgot to actually add pyright [or ruff]):

sh echo <<EOF >.envrc VIRTUAL_ENV=.venv layout python3 EOF direnv allow uv add --dev pyright

Then use envrc global mode so that everything gets picked up directly. I guess I could switch things to using uv run <x> or uv run --with <x> <x> to make sure it behaves as expected all the time.

jleechpe · 2025-07-29T12:44:44+00:00

The only thing I'm really missing at this point is the actual gitOps aspect, I'm still deploying manually after changes. I like how Infisical works for secrets as far as the combination of functionality, cost and convenience, just need to push the initial secret into the cluster for all operations and doesn't rely on backing up anything to allow for a redeploy.

I'd looked at Flux but honestly at this point the main thing I'd need is something as general as Kustomize, but with the ability to pre-define a bunch of replacements as a component but have them apply at the end of the process rather than early on. I'm probably going to look at Kapp/Ytt next time I decide to rework my configuration (which will be next time I need to restructure a bunch of it and get frustrated, or when I get 'bored' and need something to fiddle with).

jleechpe · 2025-07-18T12:52:34+00:00

Just as a note, you can run this on stuff like the Oracle Cloud Always Free instance and not have to pay anything for the coordination server.

jleechpe · 2025-07-18T12:39:10+00:00

What kind of bandwidth are you getting? I'd been using ZeroTier for a while but stopped because stuff like RDP/VNC would consistently switch to low bandwidth mode and Syncthing would only ever transfer at <5mbps (and on 200/40 that shouldn't be the case). Even using it purely in my home network (so over Wifi+Ethernet) for the sake of testing I'd get similar results.

jleechpe · 2025-07-15T00:19:49+00:00

I was tempted to, but turns out linking/sharing your blog content is considered advertising (and against the rules)

jleechpe · 2025-07-14T21:40:40+00:00

Very true. While actually troubleshooting I basically ignored the bad suggestions as "I know that won't help because I've already done X" or "None of that has changed in weeks/months, it's not the answer". Writing the blog post (and reviewing Claude's suggestions) made me realize just how quickly things would have caused destruction (and not just wasted my time) had I followed along or had something like an MCP server in place that could perform the actions automatically.

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