Happy things thread!

[Raphael]

Man in Space: May things continue to improve!

Just finished writing the raw version of my book, Rock the Future: Progressive Rock gestern - heute - morgen. Now it comes to proofreading and refining the text, then I'll try to find a publisher.

Good luck!

[Man in Space]

My Crohn’s appears to be in remission!

On a related but tangential note, my fasting and prep are over and I can eat again.

Good to hear!

Man in Space: May things continue to improve!

Thank you!

Just finished writing the raw version of my book, Rock the Future: Progressive Rock gestern - heute - morgen. Now it comes to proofreading and refining the text, then I'll try to find a publisher.

If I may quote you in response to this…

ROCK'N'ROLL!

Please let us know when it's available for purchase!

[WeepingElf]

Man in Space: May things continue to improve!

Just finished writing the raw version of my book, Rock the Future: Progressive Rock gestern - heute - morgen. Now it comes to proofreading and refining the text, then I'll try to find a publisher.

Good luck!

Thank you!

[alice]

At long last - several *years* - my conlang vocabulary-management program, complete with reflex verification and other goodies, is finally usable! Now I can get back to actual conlanging, and you might see some substantial results in the not-too-distant future.

[Raphael]

At long last - several *years* - my conlang vocabulary-management program, complete with reflex verification and other goodies, is finally usable!

Congratulations!

Now I can get back to actual conlanging, and you might see some substantial results in the not-too-distant future.

Unless you're now so used to working on software that you find it difficult to get back into the habit of actually using software for things. (When I've spent a lot of time configuring and fine-tuning my computer, I'm sometimes at a loss about coming up with stuff to do on it once I'm done with that.)

[Ryusenshi]

Just finished writing the raw version of my book, Rock the Future: Progressive Rock gestern - heute - morgen. Now it comes to proofreading and refining the text, then I'll try to find a publisher.

Oooh, this sounds interesting.

[Travis B.]

At long last - several *years* - my conlang vocabulary-management program, complete with reflex verification and other goodies, is finally usable! Now I can get back to actual conlanging, and you might see some substantial results in the not-too-distant future.

Congrats!

[Travis B.]

I finally got SPI and FAT32 with SDHC/SDXC cards working with zeptoforth on all my supported platforms (Raspberry Pi Pico, STM32F407 DISCOVERY, STM32F411 "Black Pill", STM32L476 DISCOVERY, and STM32F746 DISCOVERY), where before last night they were only working on the Raspberry Pi Pico. This will soon be in a new zeptoforth release.

[WeepingElf]

At long last - several *years* - my conlang vocabulary-management program, complete with reflex verification and other goodies, is finally usable! Now I can get back to actual conlanging, and you might see some substantial results in the not-too-distant future.

Congratulations! Was this the reason why we did not hear anything about your conlangs since you took your web site down? Will we see a new and revised version of the Sunovian family anytime soon?

[WeepingElf]

Just finished writing the raw version of my book, Rock the Future: Progressive Rock gestern - heute - morgen. Now it comes to proofreading and refining the text, then I'll try to find a publisher.

Oooh, this sounds interesting.

Thank you!

[bradrn]

At long last - several *years* - my conlang vocabulary-management program, complete with reflex verification and other goodies, is finally usable! Now I can get back to actual conlanging, and you might see some substantial results in the not-too-distant future.

May we try this software too?

[Travis B.]

I finally got SPI and FAT32 with SDHC/SDXC cards working with zeptoforth on all my supported platforms (Raspberry Pi Pico, STM32F407 DISCOVERY, STM32F411 "Black Pill", STM32L476 DISCOVERY, and STM32F746 DISCOVERY), where before last night they were only working on the Raspberry Pi Pico. This will soon be in a new zeptoforth release.

And zeptoforth 0.56.0 is out!

[alice]

Congratulations! Was this the reason why we did not hear anything about your conlangs since you took your web site down?

A large part of the reason. It's very difficult to keep several sets of descendent vocabulary consistent with your sound-changes when you keep changing your mind. The alternative is to embrace the chaos, like Tolkien did, but that way lies madness.

Will we see a new and revised version of the Sunovian family anytime soon?

Not soon, but maybe in the medium term. I have to get Dekuvren out of the way first.

May we try this software too?

Hahaha! It's *very* idiosyncratic to my personal needs, so I wouldn't recommend it.

[bradrn]

May we try this software too?

Hahaha! It's *very* idiosyncratic to my personal needs, so I wouldn't recommend it.

Even so, I’d at least like to see what it can do!

[WeepingElf]

Congratulations! Was this the reason why we did not hear anything about your conlangs since you took your web site down?

A large part of the reason. It's very difficult to keep several sets of descendent vocabulary consistent with your sound-changes when you keep changing your mind. The alternative is to embrace the chaos, like Tolkien did, but that way lies madness.

Yes. Recently, I fouled up my list of Proto-Hesperic roots when I attempted to adapt it to the new phonology. Now I have to do it all over.

[alice]

Not so happy is that the word for "dwarf" comes out the same as the word for "mountain" in Dekuvren, which is funny on at least two levels but annoying nonetheless.

[Raphael]

Not so happy is that the word for "dwarf" comes out the same as the word for "mountain" in Dekuvren, which is funny on at least two levels but annoying nonetheless.

Hey, in a lot of more-or-less Tolkienesque fantasy, dwarfs are stereotyped as people who live in the mountains...

(I just discovered that my spellcheck actually knows the word "Tolkienesque". I wouldn't have predicted that.)

[alice]

May we try this software too?

Hahaha! It's *very* idiosyncratic to my personal needs, so I wouldn't recommend it.

Even so, I’d at least like to see what it can do!

FWIW, you can define hierarchies of languages, each with its own set of syntactic categories (parts of speech), lexical roots, and sound changes, generate reflexes in daughter languages, and flag discrepancies when you change your sound changes. And you can search, and tag words with related semantic meanings.

The backend isn't very complicated, aside from the GraphQL implementation, which is a pain in any language. Much of the hassle was in doing the UI, which took several iterations and at least two attempts to write my own GUI library (no, seriously). Even now there's doubtless plenty of room for improvement, BUT AT LEAST IT DOES ITS JOB AND I CAN GET BACK TO PROPER CONLANGING.

[bradrn]

Hahaha! It's *very* idiosyncratic to my personal needs, so I wouldn't recommend it.

Even so, I’d at least like to see what it can do!

FWIW, you can define hierarchies of languages, each with its own set of syntactic categories (parts of speech), lexical roots, and sound changes, generate reflexes in daughter languages, and flag discrepancies when you change your sound changes. And you can search, and tag words with related semantic meanings.

Now I really want to see it!

[Ares Land]

Hahaha! It's *very* idiosyncratic to my personal needs, so I wouldn't recommend it.

Even so, I’d at least like to see what it can do!

FWIW, you can define hierarchies of languages, each with its own set of syntactic categories (parts of speech), lexical roots, and sound changes, generate reflexes in daughter languages, and flag discrepancies when you change your sound changes. And you can search, and tag words with related semantic meanings.

The backend isn't very complicated, aside from the GraphQL implementation, which is a pain in any language. Much of the hassle was in doing the UI, which took several iterations and at least two attempts to write my own GUI library (no, seriously). Even now there's doubtless plenty of room for improvement, BUT AT LEAST IT DOES ITS JOB AND I CAN GET BACK TO PROPER CONLANGING.

That deserves congratulations!

Just finished writing the raw version of my book, Rock the Future: Progressive Rock gestern - heute - morgen. Now it comes to proofreading and refining the text, then I'll try to find a publisher.

That sounds very interesting! Congratulations, and good luck in finding a publisher!