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Yoon Ha Lee (he/him)

@deuceofgears.bsky.social

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Sf/f writer (NINEFOX GAMBIT, DRAGON PEARL). MFA student in media composition. Hobbies: 2D animation, game design, destroying readers. Rep'd by @sethasfishman.bsky.social. https://www.yoonhalee.com/ https://ninefoxgambit.com/ https://candlearc.com/

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Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 6d

After foxing up WordPress last year, I've finally gotten the Ninefox Gambit webcomic back online. Echoes the Candle Arc *comic* although the *2D animation* (preproduction) is over at the sister site candlearc.com. Signed, still buried under orchestration homework, back to work!

ninefoxgambit.com

Ink and wash portrait of General Shuos Jedao from Ninefox Gambit

Ink and wash portrait of Captain Kel Cheris from Ninefox Gambit

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Failbetter Games - Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 13h

The Fallen London Arcana.

(Very) Soon.

A tarot card entitled The Chariot, depicting a large bat in silhouette, flying over a London skyline against teal water and a teal sky. It is balanced against a leatherbound book.

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Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 20h

Genuinely cannot ascertain whether catten is about to taste-test the graphic novel or the husband... 😅

Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 20h

classical orchestra conductor, mixing engineer, speakeasy jazz pianist

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 21h

I'm increasingly in agreement with @niq.aeli.net that probably the point-of-no-return error in the entire life form thing was multicellularism... /o\

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 22h

I love retrospectives like this. We are obsessed with the same imaginary problems, generation after generation

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 1d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 21h

My favorite example is VEGETIUS in IIRC De Re Militari kvetching about the ~effeteness of Roman men vs. those strapping Germanic barbarians...

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Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 1d

I hope you get good recs!...was wildly confused for a second thinking of the -musical instrument- mandolin...

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Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, one more for the road: There's a Forth implementation for the Z-Machine! #interactivefiction

github.com/llasram/zmfo...

GitHub - llasram/zmforth: ZmForth! is an ANS Forth implementation for the Z-machine

ZmForth! is an ANS Forth implementation for the Z-machine - llasram/zmforth

github.com

Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 1d

This is literally why I took up handspinning. It's hard to doomscroll while you're repairing/swearing at your treadle wheel. Speaking of which, back to spinning cotton for no good reason!

Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 1d

Today's readings in progress:
- Gforth Manual (www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth...)
- Ed. J. Robinson, MUSIC AND MEANING
- Naomi Novik's THE SUMMER WAR
- Martin Van Creveld's COMMAND IN WAR
- McShaffry & Graham's GAME CODING COMPLETE 4th ed (a 2013 discussion of A* is still useful!)

Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 1d

I'm biased because I am contributing a story-adventure to this. :3 But I would have wanted a copy of this even if not!

Josh Fox 🔜 Ex Tenebris coming to Kickstarter @armadajosh.bsky.social · 1d

There's 48 hours (ish) left on the Ex Tenebris Kickstarter - if you're on the fence and have questions, now's the time to ask them!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

Ex Tenebris: A star-spanning gothic investigation TTRPG

Unravel mysteries, battle horrors, protect the stars

www.kickstarter.com

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Miss V 👻 @incitata.bsky.social · 1d

I'm adopting this immediately

Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 1d

I could be running a Forth-based OS on a Raspberry Pi!

forth-standard.org/systems

Obvs the most important task in a trash fire timeline is dumbass hobbyist coding. My marginally less stupid dumbass survival plan involves trading janky COBBLERY for food.

github.com/organix/pijF...

GitHub - organix/pijFORTHos: A bare-metal FORTH operating system for Raspberry Pi

A bare-metal FORTH operating system for Raspberry Pi - organix/pijFORTHos

github.com

Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 1d

For fun:
www.cpm.z80.de/source.html

Digital Research Source Code

Source codes of Digital Research Software Products, including CP/M Operating Systems

www.cpm.z80.de

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Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 1d

www.wired.com/story/openai...

You have no idea how fast I reached for my copy of Arpaci-Dusseau & Arpaci-Dusseau's OPERATING SYSTEMS: THREE EASY PIECES and Siegel's UNDERSTANDING DIGITAL COMPUTERS. Alternately, it's a great time to contemplate hobbyist CP/M on a Raspberry Pi (in emulation)!

OpenAI Wants ChatGPT to Be Your Future Operating System

At OpenAI’s Developer Day, CEO Sam Altman showed off apps that run entirely inside the chat window—a new effort to turn ChatGPT into a platform.

www.wired.com

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Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 1d

A gift from Balatro?!

I'm boggled that my husband and I are both, simultaneously, Balatro widowers. :) It only took him a YEAR to convince me to play Slay the Spire so this feels like a fitting revenge.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 1d

Working on a Journalist RPG where the player who is experiencing most emotional crossover with their character takes control of the group's direction. It's called IF IT BLEEDS IT LEADS.

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Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 2d

A totally normal confluence of hobbies/interests :3

Strong Female Protagonist (Brennan Lee Mulligan and Molly Ostertag), Balatro on Nintendo Switch, handspun ramie, handspun tow flax

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Miss V 👻 @incitata.bsky.social · 2d

So I've been joking on and off for a while about starting a newsletter?

I don't think it's a joke anymore.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 2d

You’ll now be able to get an updated coronavirus shot in every state without a prescription, according to the American Pharmacists Association.

CVS and Walgreens have stated you won’t need to attest to any underlying conditions and the questions will be removed from their online booking system.

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Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 2d

Also found instructions for a DIY coffee can mimeograph machine ("Tin Can Wonder," www.mimeographrevival.com/posts/the-ti...), possibly the only time in my life I have wanted to buy coffee beans!

The Tin-Can Wonder - a low-tech, DIY mimeograph machine – Mimeograph Revival

Thanks to a lucky find — a stash of 1940s and 50s fanzines hidden in a trunk for safekeeping in a Riverside attic — donated to the University of Iowa library, instructions for making mimeography’s mos...

www.mimeographrevival.com

Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I keep joking about doing the world's tiniest laser printer snail mail newsletter-zine for a few friends with flash fiction or aggro goose cartoons or Unpopular Opinions About Sf/f and it's...not a joke anymore either.

Miss V 👻 @incitata.bsky.social · 2d

So I've been joking on and off for a while about starting a newsletter?

I don't think it's a joke anymore.

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Josh Fox 🔜 Ex Tenebris coming to Kickstarter @armadajosh.bsky.social · 2d

3 DAYS LEFT on Ex Tenebris. AMA?

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

Ex Tenebris: A star-spanning gothic investigation TTRPG

Unravel mysteries, battle horrors, protect the stars

www.kickstarter.com

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Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 2d

I feel personally attacked by this proof note and it isn't even for me... /o\

Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 2d

Today’s rather grim proof note:

P415 line 24: delete “people”

Sorry, people.

Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 2d

Today's emotional support spinning WIP: cotton. Pilot Vanishing Point for scale.

cotton handspun on a treadle wheel bobbin (fountain pen for scale)