What I've been up to: Taxes, coding, gaming

[ljwrites]

You know you're officially Grown Up(TM) when you're actually excited about taxes and insurance, specifically achieving savings. No, I don't have an offshore paper company funneling billions of dollars: I saved the equivalent of a few hundred bucks in liability by tracking down discrepancies between figures and making use of all my available deductions. It's a tiny fraction of the total sum owed but significant in the day-to-day, so it was a good moment when I finally tracked down a missing deduction. I got a lead on insurance premiums savings, too, and plan to follow up on that with my insurer and maybe change insurers altogether if necessary.

When not being a sensible adult (which is most of time, lbr) I've been going down fun rabbit holes like building a Dreamwidth posting app in Emacs, the Lisp interpreter that comes with a text editor. I've set it up to auto-complete tags and icons and stuff, and I'm pretty satisfied with how it works though I have more testing to do before it works fully as envisioned. This post itself made use of these auto-complete functions, in fact.

I've also gone through two playthroughs of Volcano Princess (火山的女兒), the Chinese roleplaying/simulation game about raising a beloved daughter and also having her solve human-monster relations if that's how you want to play it. I saw the "true ending" on my second playthrough and have many thoughts about the gameplay, which I'll probably talk about in another post. It's also a queer and polyamory-friendly game so I had fun romancing characters of different genders and multiple partners.

July has been slow work-wise after a very busy June, but I've been getting inquiries from several places about future availability so keeping fingers crossed. It's been a slow year overall for work, what with the political crisis we've been through and the recovering economy. I'm also trying to take advantage of the free time while I have it, though. That's just life, I guess.

Comments

[anehan]

A posting app with auto-complete tags! That's pretty cool!

[ljwrites]

Yeah auto-completing tags is something that the default editing interface could use, IMO! My tag system would probably have been less of an overlapping mess that way xD

[loopy777]

Emacs and Lisp! Ah, that takes me back to my college days. I've considered creating either some kind of tag validator or something that strips excess html from fancy editors for my fanfic, but in the end I've always been too lazy.

[ljwrites]

Emacs is the blast from the past that just won't stop! The good news is that about 52,135 people have probably posted something similar to that project. The bad news is that researching them and choosing one also takes energy :P