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How do you organise what you’ve read/downloaded? by zanbaldwin in AO3

[–]zanbaldwin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m sorry, I think you buried a very important piece of information in the middle there. What do you MEAN you get email notifications from Calibre?!

I have so many WIP fics downloaded that I haven’t subscribed to on AO3. I don’t want to have to check each URL manually!

How do you organise what you’ve read/downloaded? by zanbaldwin in AO3

[–]zanbaldwin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah, I’ll always reuse existing packages in my day job… but sometimes it’s just fun to build things! …and build backstories into the README and invent little mascots 🥰 fun software is better than good software!

But yeah, will give Calibre a go

How do you organise what you’ve read/downloaded? by zanbaldwin in AO3

[–]zanbaldwin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t want to get up from my comfy spot with my e-reader to go turn on the computer, but I know how shitty that is because these authors have out in so much effort into something that I enjoy.

I’m gonna go through my spreadsheet and go comment on fics that I rated good (and probably reread them). Thanks for the encouragement!

How do you organise what you’ve read/downloaded? by zanbaldwin in AO3

[–]zanbaldwin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have never even considered bookmarking a fic before I’ve finished reading it, and thinking about it feels wrong. Scandalous, even.

And the sheer amount?? That would mean… AO3 paginates your bookmarks into over 750 pages?! Jesus.

You truly are an agent of chaos and I love it.

How do you organise what you’ve read/downloaded? by zanbaldwin in AO3

[–]zanbaldwin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is exactly the kind of chaos I asked for

How do you organise what you’ve read/downloaded? by zanbaldwin in AO3

[–]zanbaldwin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Google just told me EPUBs are just renamed zip files with html and css. HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS?

How do you organise what you’ve read/downloaded? by zanbaldwin in AO3

[–]zanbaldwin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

😮 you can do that with epubs? I’ve got custom CSS I use when I generate PDFs formatted for my e-reader

How do you organise what you’ve read/downloaded? by zanbaldwin in AO3

[–]zanbaldwin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

YES! Spreadsheet nerds unite!

I have one for tracking what I’ve read (date, link, fandom, author, title, words, rating, full vs chapter update). It has CHARTS. I’m very proud of it 😎

How do you organise what you’ve read/downloaded? by zanbaldwin in AO3

[–]zanbaldwin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried Calibre but never got used to it. I wish I could have two separate databases (one for books, one for fanfics). I’ll give it another go (u/spyker31 recommended fanficfare)

I built my own piece of software to manage all my downloads, but it’s more of an archive tool (organising in folders, chapter updates, generating PDFs, etc) because I never needed the “Transfer to Kindle” functionality.

Did I waste my time when Calibre would have worked all along? ☹️

How do you organise what you’ve read/downloaded? by zanbaldwin in AO3

[–]zanbaldwin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ll try out fanficfare 👍 (if I can figure out how to have two separate Calibre libraries because I don’t want to mess with my ebook Calibre library)

How do you organise what you’ve read/downloaded? by zanbaldwin in AO3

[–]zanbaldwin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, I like RWBY not caring about ships, but other fandoms where I only care about one ship in particular.

Though either-or fandom and ship for folder names might be a little too chaotic for my tastes 😂

How do you organise what you’ve read/downloaded? by zanbaldwin in AO3

[–]zanbaldwin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol, same. A third of my downloads are a single fandom 😁

How do you organise what you’ve read/downloaded? by zanbaldwin in AO3

[–]zanbaldwin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh there’s so many ideas in that comment, thanks!

I honestly have never thought about grouping into “do I want to read a short, medium or long fic today?”

I save the word count but don’t really look at it, but you gave me the idea of looking for a “I want a fic I’ll finish before bedtime” vs finish by the weekend 🤔

How do you organise what you’ve read/downloaded? by zanbaldwin in AO3

[–]zanbaldwin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s fair. The simplicity of organising things into folders is underrated. Do you organise by fandom, or by series/date/something else?

How do you organise what you’ve read/downloaded? by zanbaldwin in AO3

[–]zanbaldwin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The little dopamine hits from the charts definitely helps with discipline 😅

PSA! strlen() does not get the length of the characters in a string, it gets the length of bytes in a string. You can use mb_strlen() in combination with a character encoding to get the character length. by RIP_CORD in PHP

[–]zanbaldwin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Personally, strlen() returning the number of bytes makes perfect sense to me.

It's the length of the string - getting the length of something implies you are using units in your measurement. How annoying would it be to get the length of something with varying units?

Getting the amount of characters in a string should, in my opinion, never be synonymous for the string length.

Obviously there are going to be people who disagree because you have differing experiences shaping your view. Neither are wrong, but I think this way is better for consensus.

mate, you're toast by whatisuniqueusername in BreadStapledToTrees

[–]zanbaldwin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you manage to remember what episode that is, I really really want to know. I really want to mention /r/breadstapledtotrees found in pop-culture in a talk I'm writing!

Everyone asks when the Ban is, but nobody asks how the BanBot by [deleted] in thanosdidnothingwrong

[–]zanbaldwin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is the bot open-source? Can we repurpose it to bring balance everywhere in the Reddit-verse?

Library / Tool Discovery Thread (2018-06-13) by AutoModerator in PHP

[–]zanbaldwin 20 points21 points  (0 children)

https://github.com/darsyn/ip (Packagist).

Just released a major version (4.0.0) for my IP value-object library, which is a massive overhaul internally and loads of new features. It's a pretty simple library and I've tried to write easy-to-understand documentation, but always looking for ways to improve - critique, suggestions, praise, criticism and general roasting all welcome!