i really admire the coding youve done with projects like your dollsim, and was wondering how you put those together (i miiiiight be thinking on making my own version if thats okay :33)
Absolutely, everyone should code!
Everything I make is open source: https://github.com/FarragoFiction
But code is a maze as always.
Older stuff is written in dart (which compiles to javascript), newer stuff is pure javascript.
In general my advice is to learn coding via picking small little tasks you wanna experiment with.
Before DollSim existed I had little experimental god tiers on a p simple page:
Then I integrated them into SBURBSim (which was text only back then).
Then I took what I learned from that and rewrote it from scratch, with @paradoxlands help, so it was easier to add more parts and have more complex layers, cuz those were things the simple version showed me was annoying to work around. Kept the bits i got right, fix the bits I got wrong
Does anyone know anything about making your own wiki? Preferably as open-source and ad-free as possible, but, i'll admit i'm not the most keen coder yet, so hopefully nothing TOO technical (i dont need straight-up WYSIWYG but i would prefer something easier than like. Linux) It SOUNDS like Xwiki is a good option, but I'd just like to confirm if anyone could lol
AO3 base HTML or advice with learning more CSS specifically for it?
So apparently, being fed AO3 recs on Tiktok with an adorable site skin leads to me finding and applying said skin, and then proceeding to expand upon my limited knowledge of HTML and CSS.
TLDR; I want to expand my HTML and CSS knowledge specifically for creating AO3 site skins but am stumped at the moment. advice requested.
Let me explain; when I was a child, (think summers from 2nd/3rd grade up until I went to middle school and an after school club in 4th/5th grade) I was in camps/clubs where I learned how to code.
it started with block coding when they introduced it in the computer lab In early elementary but I took a liking and asked my parents if I could keep doing it. I eventually learned how to actually type up some code, understand what a good amount of it meant, and got to the point where I knew how to make Minecraft and Roblox mods (they were the most popular at the time). once I hit middle school, a lot changed in my life and I kinda fell off the coding enjoyment. I tried to take a class for it in my 8th grade year but it was Boeing and covering basically a bunch of stuff I already knew. now, here I am, 5 years later, reading fan fiction with an altered site look due to applying a bunch of CSS code to my account.
Now, the current skin I have was copied and pasted code from another creator on here and even though I didn't write it myself, it got me thinking about how much I actually understood.
when I opened up the various CSS files, some made more sense than others. the ones that have lines like:
body {
font-size: var(--txt-size-main);
color: var(--txt-main);
}
make sense to me to an extent. this is the kind of thing that I did over and over again in these camps and classes, altering either some or most of it and expanding as time want on. digging deeper, I found things I hadn't seen either ever, or it'd been a long time. so I did some digging. found a few sources for articles that explained various commands, detailed how to string them together, and showed how they looked when applied to HTML.
the issue now is, I need to understand the HTML I'd be applying CSS to before I can know exactly what it is I need to do research on. I'm currently looking for AO3's basic HTML behind their site, but it's more difficult than I expected lol. I'm testing with basic HTML and CSS in a playground program right now and it's helping refresh my memory on the punctuation and language that's being used but that's about it.
if anyone has any advice on what to research or look up in order to find the original HTML source or anything else that's helpful to specifically making AO3 skins, please lmk! any advice is welcome!
do you have any tips or advice for someone wanting to learn coding alone?
start with the foundation—logical operations (&&, ||, !, !=…)
most enterprise systems, in its core only does a combination of create data, modify data, delete data, read data. learn to do all of them with a database.
start with procedural programming before moving to object oriented.
completely unrelated to the story you're writing and stuff bUt i've really liked your writing style for a while and since i'm finally getting around to writing an IF of my own i'm wondering if you have any tips? i'm almost completely new to writing btw, so anything from coding tips and tricks to writing in general would help. thanks in advance and hope you're having a nice day!!
hello!! so sorry for the late reply, I just wanted to gather some useful resources before answering it! thank you btw <3
coding via choice of games
beginners guide
noob coding (very useful)
master list for beginners (check this out for everything basically)
gender choice
relationship stats
coding via twine
template
nicer interface
twine 101
unofficial twine guide
writing
show vs tell
character consistency
when to stop planning (actually used for books but also applies heavily to ifs)
different words for said
describing people of colour
describing people in general
more descriptions, this time of things
very useful blogs are @/writingwithcolor & @/wordsnstuff. both have posts that cover every aspect of writing and I've been checking their posts out a lot when I first started writing on english.
the best advice I really have is: keep practising. I know everyone says it but it's really true. if you don't try new stuff or write every couple of days you won't improve! and also dont be discouraged if your writing does not turn out the way you hoped it would. the first few tries are always bad but you'll improve with time and some useful feedback!
another piece of advice I personally stick to is write every single idea down. doesn't matter if it's 1am or you're in the middle of something and you think you'll remember it later. chances are you won't and then you'll be sad you forgot about it. I personally send myself an email with my notes because that's the first thing I check each day and so I tend to see my ideas right away and can put it into my writing file for later use. I also tend to write with music as that usually sets the mood for me. if i write an action scene, I listen to fast paced music that fits the vibe of my story, which is almost always electro or songs that sound futuristic etc.
I hope I was able to help a little bit at least! and always remember to have fun. writing your story should not feel like a chore, which means since you're the writer you can change any aspect you want to make it more fun for yourself. I wish you all the best with your game!!!
The giant squid is an amazing and intelligent animal, but its near-perfect body design has one fatal flaw: it has a donut-shaped brain that wraps around its esophagus. So if it swallows too much food at once, it gets brain damage.
The art of readable code. Programming textbooks get *weird*
Does anyone know how to make a personalized random list generator? Specifically, one that can handle multiple variants with different rarities?
For example, let’s say I want it to randomize different breeds of horses. But I don’t just want it to pick a breed from a list, I want it to have a 50% chance of throwing breed A, a 30% chance of breed B, and a 10% chance each for breeds C and D. In addition to that, each breed has certain colors, patterns, and variations (mane length, hair texture, etc) that should only be fed back to me if the corresponding breed is chosen, and each of those has a rarity value as well. I.e. if the generator picks breed A, it should choose between piebald, paint, or appaloosa, but if it picks C, it should choose between paint, zebra stripes, or solid.
That’s absolutely nothing like what I need it to randomize, but hopefully you get the point.
I have almost no coding experience atm, but if you have any idea about: what this sort of program would be called, where I can find an existing one (that lets me set my own parameters), or links to tutorials on creating one, please let me know! It would make my life so much easier in the days to come. D:
