Look, if I get #1 on daily posts twice in a row you know there's a problem.

What's there to elaborate about? You can see how it went, and I said that how it went is how I expected it to. What could I possibly add to that?

In order: I saw activity on the board as a whole going down and not recovering, first reduced to mostly status update threads, then not even those, with minor burps of activity. I have nothing in particular to say about the story forum specifically, considering I don't follow the mission, and I've likewise nothing to say about the players and characters.

So yeah it's mostly the entire board in general that I speak of.

Because the story forum is/was/can be one such high-activity area.

...what newbies?

An exception, NaN, or a fire. Take your pick.

Why would you ask such a thing?

Just did a programming thing for my roguelike. Feels nice.

No, I made a wrapper for the Lua part to allow a thing.

My laptop's right arrow key has been lame for a good while now. It works, but there's no bounce to it like on the other keys, no tactile feedback. It's in chiclet mode, as it were.

And I just found out, my left arrow key recently joined it.

So those who follow me on Twitter might've noticed a fair inundation from my general vicinity earlier.

There's a funny story behind that.

No takers on the Twitter story?

Okay so I have my game project... a few actually, but one of them is on source control.

It's also set up so that every time I commit, it posts a tweet with that commit's message to my account. That's why they're all prefixed "Commit:" -- to tell them apart from my own words.

A guest coder who's been doing good work so far is incredibly paranoid about not being identified as working on a game like that. I can dig it. So he found out that if you look at the raw commit data, his email address was attached to every one that he'd pushed.

So we rewrote history to purge his email address. It was quite a process. At one point I disabled the twitter integration so it wouldn't post 700+ things at once, then turned it back on.

And then the guy found out he'd mistyped something on one particular commit. I gave him admin rights for a half hour -- it was his turn to do that whole thing.

Not only did he rewrite the entire commit history, as opposed to the recent point where he joined, but he forgot to disable the twitter thing. Thought it was a program I'd made, apparently.

You know those bylines, "sent from TweetDeck", "sent from Twitter for iPhone", such?

"Sent from Bitbucket Service Broker" doesn't sound like a product name I'd use.

So yeah, about 200 commit tweets suddenly flowed in, and I had to delete

every

single

one

manually

I wasn't even mad -- even now -- since I was too busy laughing at the whole thing.

Not unlike quoting a large post when it'd already be clear what you're replying to.

You're not a very good ninja if you announce your presence like that.

Y'know what tastes bad?

Covfefe.

And now that I've made that joke, I'll never do it again.

I much prefer cola anyway.