capybeby

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The T can be… well the way the T is, but today I had such a nice interaction with one of the bus drivers! I was running late on my daily commute and was a full block away from the bus stop when I saw the bus approaching. There was no chance I was making it, even at a full out sprint, so I was accepting my fate of having to take my alternate route as the bus drove by, but the driver honked to ask if I was getting on! He recognized me and let me board at not even a little bit the bus stop! I am so touched and can’t stop smiling at the driver’s kindness.

[–] capybeby 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Thank you for your thoughtful response! I will definitely use your feedback! For instance I hadn’t thought much about non-ISBNed content and will totally work on that!

[–] capybeby 6 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you for your perspective!

Definitely a reasonable critique but honestly I don’t plan to ever release it to the public, it’s really just for me.

 

Hello! I am currently making a reading tracking website (a la Goodreads, StoryGraph, and LibraryThing) as a personal project and have hit a bit of a wall, so I've come to the internet for ideas.

What do y'all like about your tracking service of choice. What features do you think are cool or important? Are there any things that your service doesn't do that you wish it did?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!

[–] capybeby 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst

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Get in bitch (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] capybeby 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

love love LOVE the mark read on scroll! And the inbox is beautiful with a particularly amazing job done on the selector!

[–] capybeby 5 points 6 months ago

Holy cow the app is so much faster and noticeably snappier!!!!!! Excellent job, friends!

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Fancy shelter cat (sh.itjust.works)
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My shelter cat who we are 99% is a Turkish angora!

[–] capybeby 7 points 6 months ago

Amazing work!!

[–] capybeby 1 points 7 months ago

Very possible that they buy them from the same company

[–] capybeby 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yes, confirmed!!

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[–] capybeby 2 points 7 months ago

I second Project Hail Mary

[–] capybeby 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

That is so valid and I’ve been considering doing something similar. What books API do you use? I tried various ones for a project a little while ago and was a bit disappointed in the data quality.

 

Hello all! I mostly use StoryGraph (my name is creadstoomuch if you wanna be friends), but I was wondering what other options y'all have found that work for you. There are many things I like about it (the fact that it is not an Amazon product, the design, the stats, the currently reading tracking abilities) but there are also some things I don't like (the drop down menus behaving irregularly and, in some places, very poorly being my biggest issue). I also use LibraryThing to find my next reads but it doesn't have the currently reading tracking of StoryGraph.

So what do you use? I'd love to hear your thoughts!

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Call a bondulance (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] capybeby 8 points 8 months ago
[–] capybeby 1 points 8 months ago

You could try asking your local Youth Services Librarian. They see so many books and often have some amount of research backgrounds. They also tend to LOVE this kind of mystery.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by capybeby to c/[email protected]
 

Hey all! I think at one point I changed the balance of my audio output (an earbud was a little dead so I shifted the amount of sound coming out of the left and right to compensate). I’ve long since gotten a new pair of headphones but sometimes I connect them and the balance has reverted back! It drives me bananas (I’m the sort of person who must turn on the mono sound accessibility feature bc stereo effects make me dizzy) and I have no idea if it’s something I’m doing to trigger the behavior or if I’m stuck with it until this computer dies.

Anyone else experiencing this or have any ideas about how to fix it?

 

Hello everyone! Just here to say that I am truly blown away by the difference having nice needles makes! I am a crocheter branching into knitting, so I got a silly little cheap pair of needles to see if knitting was something I’d like. I enjoyed it but there was something frustrating about it that I couldn’t quite identify. I decide that I want to try to make a pair of socks, and thus ordered some dpn (Knitter’s pride Karbonz) and I am having so much fun just knitting the swatch! They flow and click in such a satisfying way, making it abundantly clear how terrible my other needles are. That’s all, just sharing my excitement :)

 

Since 2017!

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