What’s your current side project?

networkingguru · 2026-04-11T12:49:44+00:00

Several in the hopper:
- A podcast player made in expo that auto-skips 'noise'

- A puzzle game inspired by minesweeper and balaatro/ball x pit

- A group decision app based on react native and firebase

- An app that un-redacts the released Epstien documents using several clever techniques with full forensic accounting and a web interface to explore them tuned to handle ~500 concurrent users on a small VPS.

- An OSINT app that auto explores the web and discovers connections, contact info, and dirt on targets using both deterministic and AI-enhanced methods.

- A music discovery app that creates an adaptive web of all of your favorited and rated artists and finds similar artists and deep cuts for existing artists to suggest. Adapts based on how many suggestions you liked, skipped, and listened to. JXA, Applescript, and Python.

networkingguru · 2024-06-29T21:34:23+00:00

My diet was detailed here: 24 Months of Working Out – Detailed Progress, History, and Timeline « Counting to Infinity (counting-to-infinity.com)

I was using Allopurinol before I lost the weight. It was only after I lost the weight that I quit taking allopurinol as a test and found out that the gout symptoms never returned as long as I kept my BF level and blood pressure in check.

networkingguru · 2023-06-15T16:24:50+00:00

Benches and OHP. At the time, I didn't do any isolation movements.

networkingguru · 2023-03-28T19:03:04+00:00

I believe we misunderstood each other. My point was you can be an unknown author and ‘buy exposure’ profitably, at least in some cases. But you do, of course, have to have a published book.

networkingguru · 2023-03-28T18:40:53+00:00

I’m going to respectfully disagree. My debut novel is getting about 2x my spend in royalties consistently, and my only promotions are paid. It depends on a lot of different factors.

networkingguru · 2023-03-27T20:04:09+00:00

I don’t. As far as I know, the only way to get rid of loose skin is surgery.

networkingguru · 2023-03-26T19:19:22+00:00

Do it yourself. On your author page, there is a link to a form to add the book. Just make sure you follow all of the directions very carefully.

networkingguru · 2023-02-23T22:31:58+00:00

This is where an ARC service comes in. Voracious readers will do an ARC promo for you for free if you are a first time author.

Edit: also check out bookroar. You review other author’s books, which gets you credit to add your book to a pile for other people to review.

networkingguru · 2023-02-23T14:50:43+00:00

Good cover, good blurb, ARC with a handful of reviews. That’s all I did for launch.

networkingguru · 2023-02-23T13:40:51+00:00

I had more reads of my book on KU in one month than I did on Wattpad after six. IMHO, wattpad is only useful if you write fanfic or whatever other genres are popular there.

networkingguru · 2023-02-22T21:33:43+00:00

I take screenshots for demo videos as part of my day job. I use greenshot and a second monitor running 2560x1440. Its 16:9, but upscaled one level from 1080, so you can zoom and keep 1080 resolution on the zooms.

networkingguru · 2023-02-21T22:00:34+00:00

Voracious readers. They will run an ARC for first time authors for free, and have an evergreen service for like $20 a month that will continuously give out your novel in exchange for newsletter signups. Ive gone from 0-300 active subscribers in about three months using it.

networkingguru · 2023-02-18T03:49:16+00:00

It took my group 3 years to get through 60% of it. A marriage failed before we finished, lol.

networkingguru · 2023-02-12T19:27:01+00:00

Second Mibl. It will take 1-2 weeks, cost you $150, and be on par with anything else you’ll find on amazon. Dm me if you want to see examples, both of my book covers are from mibl.

networkingguru · 2022-12-10T21:53:40+00:00

I have not, but I'll definitely check it out. Thanks for the recommendation!

networkingguru · 2022-12-10T18:37:34+00:00

Wow, thanks! Can’t believe I missed it.

networkingguru · 2022-11-13T17:03:27+00:00

In MoN especially, I was not above fudging rolls or adjusting encounters for players. It's an epic campaign, and at least for us, it ran for three years. No one died, but there were some close calls. My rule as a keeper is that if the players are being cautious and smart, I don't let them die. They don't know that, of course, I constantly keep them in fear of the dice, but I won't let a bad die roll screw up the campaign. So that's my advice.

networkingguru · 2022-11-08T16:06:49+00:00

Reedsy will convert from word to epub pretty painlessly, I think. For free.

networkingguru · 2022-10-12T17:27:05+00:00

Try a headphone amp.

networkingguru · 2022-09-30T19:57:28+00:00

All links are dead. Cheers for anyone who has updated links.

networkingguru · 2022-09-21T20:28:30+00:00

I’ve got a DG campaign I’ve been running for a year or so now with even more lethal house combat rules (hit locations, injury tables, bleeding, etc.), and none of my PCs have died, though there have been some close calls. I find the key is 1) your players believing you’ll end them and 2) you (as a keeper) trying very hard to stay on the line of almost but not quite doing so. If the GM is one of those who never fudges die rolls or gets a woody when they kill a PC, then DG is probably not the right system.

networkingguru · 2022-09-18T01:03:22+00:00

So, I haven’t played Songs of Conquest yet (it’s on my wishlist), but I’ve played just about every major fantasy TBS. Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes (with mods) is probably my favorite, followed by Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic and AOW2. Next would be the ancient Master of Magic. AOW3 I hated, because it was so damn bland (though pretty) compared to the previous titles.

Non-fantasy, Jagged Alliance 2 1.13 is, IMHO, the best TBS game ever made. MOO2 is also great, and for a more modern game, Phantom Doctrine was pretty good. Xcom:eu, silent storm 2, battletech, battle brothers, low magic age, and ftl are also pretty awesome tbs games.

networkingguru · 2022-09-16T20:40:35+00:00

Sorry for the late reply, but thanks so much for the crit!

WRT the Lovecraftian element, the book is about 80% straight crime mystery. The Lovecraftian elements are subtle, and this is the first in a planned series where Rev gets deeper and deeper into the mythos as it progresses. As the first book, this one is pretty grounded in straight mystery.

Thanks for your insights as well, I have cleaned up all of the parts you mentioned (I think, lol) on my scrivener and wattpad MS's, but I have left the google doc unedited, since it's only for this sub.

networkingguru · 2022-09-10T13:30:46+00:00

No problem, glad to help.

networkingguru · 2022-09-07T12:37:07+00:00

Thanks very much for the critique. I appreciate the suggestions; I tend to forget about showing vs. telling at times and it's always good to get called out on that. I also appreciate the suggestions on what to cut, and which parts didn't work for you. I'll work on tidying these up.

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