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Home For Fiction – The End

November 24, 2024

Yes, that’s exactly what it sounds like: It’s the end for Home for Fiction. I’m giving up. I feel I have nothing of value left to say.

More still, I’m at a place right now that I feel as if I’d never had anything of value to share. In other words, the entirety of all my posts, novels, music, apps, drawings, and anything else, feels entirely pointless.

It’s then more honest – to me, first and foremost – to simply stop here; sort of pretend none of this ever happened.

In more practical terms, I’ll leave the site online, at least for a while. The domain and hosting are already paid for some time into 2025, so we’ll see what happens next. If I’m still around, I might renew it…

«Η επιτυχία της αποτυχίας μ’ έχει τρελάνει» – Λεξ

the end. image of cat.

Walrus Insulter: a Fun Little JavaScript Program

September 9, 2024

Does the word “insulter” exist in a standard dictionary? I don’t know and I’m too bored to search. But the name Walrus Insulter definitely does, in my dictionary. Obviously for those who know him, Walrus Insulter refers to none other than the supreme overlard [sic] of puns, my cartoon character Punning Walrus. If you haven’t met him yet, just click the “Free Walrus” link on the top menu. Or here’s the direct link for the lazy ones among you…

The whole thing, as they usually do, began on a boring cloudy afternoon. I was playing with my home network, trying to find new ways to annoy my neighbors (more of this in a while), when I realized that the best… walrus for the job is of course Punning Walrus.

Walrus Insulter. Screenshot from the program
Walrus Insulter: Don’t mess with the Walrus 😛
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Recent Changes on Home for Fiction

August 5, 2024

You might have noticed some minor changes on Home for Fiction lately. Or then again, you might have not, and the only person reading this is me. Ironically enough, this very element (meta- time!) is part of the reason there have been such changes.

Among these recent changes, the most conspicuous must be the disappearance of comments and the lack of a link to the support page that used to decorate the header.

Moreover, if you’ve found this post coming from the common app interface (just try to visit any of the Home for Fiction apps), you have realized that all Home for Fiction apps are nowadays limited to a fixed number of users per day. Each user is also limited to a few boots per hour.

I want to explain all this – though, somewhat egotistically, not to you; the intended audience is I alone, as it has always been. Writing this post is only meant as a vehicle for putting my own thoughts in order and understanding something new. But if it’s informative to you, great!

recent changes Home for Fiction. Image of unimpressed cat.
Here’s an unimpressed cat to go with this post…
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