Follow Friday 6-5-26

Jun. 5th, 2026 12:10 am
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Got any Follow Friday-related posts to share this week? Comment here with the link(s).

Here's the plan: every Friday, let's recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth. That's it. No complicated rules, no "pass this on to 7.328 friends or your cat will die".

friday 5: books & reading

Jun. 4th, 2026 05:00 pm
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[personal profile] archersangel
These questions were written by [livejournal.com profile] canadiangirl16 .

1. Do you enjoy reading?
yes.

2. What is the first book you remember reading?
no idea. it was probably one of those little golden books.

3. Who is your favourite author?
i don't really have one. i like certain series by elizabeth peters, carole nelson douglas, rita mae brown, charlotte macleod, steven saylor & laura joh rowland.

4. What is your favourite book?
don't really have one. check out the links in the sticky post to see some i've enjoyed reading.

5. What is the last book you read and the first you'll read next?
the last one was mission to paris by alan furst. the current one is twilight man: love and ruin in the shadows of hollywood and the clark empire by liz brown.
no idea what the next one will be. i try to alternate between fiction & non-fiction, but it depends on what the library i get my e-books from has available at the time.


other people's answers are over here.

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These questions were written by [livejournal.com profile] canadiangirl16.

1. Do you enjoy reading?

2. What is the first book you remember reading?

3. Who is your favourite author?

4. What is your favourite book?

5. What is the last book you read and the first you'll read next?

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another birthday

Jun. 3rd, 2026 10:57 pm
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[personal profile] archersangel
in the past few years i have commented that "i know what year i was born & what year it is now, but it's the years in between that i am not sure about." because i rarely think about what age i am. but on birthdays i am too well aware of it.

i'll spare you all the rambling i was going to do about aging, the passage of time, etc & just comment that i went to panera bread (with one of the coupons that was sent in the mail), had a nice salad (but still on the expensive side), with a piece of baguette (smaller than it used to be, but still good). my brother had some kind of bowl thing with rice and arugula. they forgot an add-in he requested, and paid extra for, so according to the receipt if the order is not accurate you get a free treat (cookie, brownie, etc.) so he got a cherry danish.


also; happy birthday to [personal profile] schadenfreude who has a june 3 birthday as well.

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Jun. 1st, 2026 10:56 pm
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[staff profile] denise posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance
Quick note that post-by-email and comment-by-email is (sometimes?) failing silently without actually posting right now! I'm pretty sure this is related to last night's shenanigans and will be fixed once Mark can finish the full fix for it, which he's working on, but if you've posted or replied by email in the last 24 hours, fish it out of your sent folder to check if it posted!

EDIT: This should be fixed as of around 7AM EDT! We *believe* everything that was stuck in the plumbing has been sent along to your journal or the comment thread it was meant for; it's definitely not where it was stuck anymore, at least.

another random poll

Jun. 1st, 2026 10:41 pm
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i've read that people do not know their own phone number because they don't call it. i suppose it's worse these days because people just have a list of contacts on their phone & they just click one when needed, for the most part.

but if a person has to put down their phone number on forms for new doctors, online orders, and whatnot you'd think people would remember it. i do. i even remember old numbers that my family doesn't have any more.



Poll #34679 phone numbers
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 9


do you know your own phone number?

View Answers

yes
8 (88.9%)

if i think about it
1 (11.1%)

no
0 (0.0%)

do you remember any old phone numbers?

View Answers

yes, my own
7 (77.8%)

yes, family members
7 (77.8%)

yes, friends or former friends
3 (33.3%)

no
0 (0.0%)


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May. 31st, 2026 10:00 pm
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[staff profile] denise posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance

Robby has managed to put in a temporary fix for the site errors and things failing to refresh or not showing up where they should! The permanent fix is going to need Mark's experience, and unfortunately -- seriously, this literally never fails -- Mark has been on an international flight all day, because of course he has. (Never. Fails. He and I are not allowed to both take vacation at once.)

The site will work just fine with the temporary fix in place, things just might be a little slow here and there. We'll keep you updated.

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May. 31st, 2026 08:59 pm
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[staff profile] denise posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance
We're aware of site traffic issues and are working to fix them for the people who are having problems! (The tactics the damn bot traffic uses are endlessly shifting, and they're really good at looking like real traffic, sigh.)

Follow Friday 5-29-26

May. 29th, 2026 08:33 pm
ysabetwordsmith: Cartoon of me in Wordsmith persona (Default)
[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith posting in [community profile] followfriday
Got any Follow Friday-related posts to share this week? Comment here with the link(s).

Here's the plan: every Friday, let's recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth. That's it. No complicated rules, no "pass this on to 7.328 friends or your cat will die".

friday 5: meals

May. 28th, 2026 08:26 pm
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[personal profile] archersangel
1. In an average week, how many nights do you eat home-cooked dinners?
all 7. rarely an old-friend/former neighbor will take us out to eat.

2. Do you plan your meals out in advance, or just wing it?
kind of in advance. we usually have a general schedule, but it's not set in stone.

3. How many nights per week do you eat out or order food delivered?
usually 0. but if we had more money, it would probably be at least once per week.

4. Do you keep a stock of nonperishable foods from which you could whip up a meal or two if you needed to?
no.

5. Have you ever tried preparing meals for the week all at once, say, on the weekend?
no. that's too much cooking, too much food in the fridge/freezer & probably too many post/pans to wash.


other people's answers are over here
denise: Image: Me, facing away from camera, on top of the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome (Default)
[staff profile] denise posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance
It's been a while since we've done a full code push rather than just hotfixes for bugs, so we are well overdue! Depending on availability, we're aiming to do one sometime soon; we'll let you know specifics once we've worked out good timing for everyone who needs to be available.

However! The reason it's been so long is we kept trying to get some of the stuff that's pending to "really finished" instead of just "mostly finished", and then we once again looked around and went "oh no, this is a really big code push with a lot of changes". Those make us nervous, because while we do a lot of testing ourselves, y'all are really creative in how you use the site and we inevitably find a bunch of edge cases when we let you loose on new code with your real-world data!

So, if folks have some spare time in the next few days, it would be a huge help if you could spend half an hour or so using the site the same way you normally do but with the "Site-Wide Canary" beta features flag turned on. Canary mode is a sort of "live testing" mode: it's your real data, but running the most up-to-date code.

Canary mode always does have a few glitches -- there may be missing text strings or errors about missing database properties, which is a limitation of how we run it. We don't need to know about those, but anything else weird that you run into, leave a comment with what you were trying to do and the error message you got.

I'll repeat that the "here be dragons" caution that's on the beta features page: some things may be broken, so don't use it for when you're doing something important. But a few more eyeballs on it before the push will help the push go more smoothly for everyone.

For folks who want to concentrate on what's changing, we haven't finished the second code tour of what's going to be in this push, but the ffirst one has a good chunk of what's going to be going live. (We'll get the second half done ASAP!)

The Friday Five for 29 May 2026

May. 28th, 2026 03:00 pm
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[personal profile] anais_pf posting in [community profile] thefridayfive
1. In an average week, how many nights do you eat home-cooked dinners?

2. Do you plan your meals out in advance, or just wing it?

3. How many nights per week do you eat out or order food delivered?

4. Do you keep a stock of nonperishable foods from which you could whip up a meal or two if you needed to?

5. Have you ever tried preparing meals for the week all at once, say, on the weekend?

Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers. If your journal is private or friends-only, you can post your full answers in the comments below.

If you'd like to suggest questions for a future Friday Five, then do so on DreamWidth or LiveJournal. Old sets that were used have been deleted, so we encourage you to suggest some more!

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