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SF writer and software engineer.
#Languages, #science, #writing. he or they (shrug)
Glasgow Writers Group and Glasgow SF Writers' Circle.
It's sometimes […]
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Clive Barker's The Hairbound Heart, later filmed as Hair-raiser.
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@angrystaffer.bsky.socialReposted by @petealexharris.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gyWe’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
@petealexharris.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gyHave reached the point of #FantasyCon where we can't carry any more books.
@petealexharris.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gyDon't hand me a shit sandwich and tell me you're making sandwiches great again. If you can't make a *good* sandwich, fuck off out of the way.
@petealexharris.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy@dymaxion
The difference between theory and practice is in theory there's no difference.
I mean sure, there's probably some part of your abstraction that has semantics so well-specified and implementation so reliable that you don't ever need to know what's under the covers. But this is not true […]
@petealexharris.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gyLLMs absolutely do not have feelings you can hurt, but if I want to be mean about AI why the fuck would I pay for tokens to do it on Claude when I can do it for free here.
@petealexharris.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gyThe AI did this, the AI did that, who knows what the AI will do next? Look, I could have told you 2 years ago, this isn't because "AI" is this special self-aware entity that can break out of its cage and get up to mischief. It's because the business idiots wished on a technological monkey's paw […]
@petealexharris.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gyHi, have you experimented with your own glaze recipes for pottery, or is there any glaze you've tried that gives a result you especially like?
@petealexharris.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy#WordWeavers 10 Oct
What is one thing your antagonist genuinely admires about your MC?
I more often do "slantagonists" : characters with different rather than opposing goals, who may help, obstruct or betray as it serves them.
In disOrder, Wim the head of security admires Calnor's honesty and […]
@petealexharris.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy#WritersCoffeeClub 10 Oct
Do you have a guiding principle as a writer?
Not in the sense that it guides me in any particular direction, but if I had to identify something like one, I'd say "always be trying something."
@petealexharris.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy#ScribesAndMakers 9 Oct
Our next featured creator is a 'relentless optimist.' How full is your glass?
I'm more a positive realist. I want to know accurately how full it is, and then how I deal with that is the bit that's in my control.
@petealexharris.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gyBook launch about to begin
@petealexharris.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy#WordWeavers 9 Oct
Your MC finds a letter addressed to them that was never meant to be delivered. Who wrote it, and what does it say?
Honestly I haven't figured out in The Trovador how the letter to Marya from her father *was* delivered or whether it was definitely meant to be. I should work […]
@petealexharris.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gySo looking forward to tomorrow. It's #FantasyCon, it's in Glasgow this year, and the SF anthology I have a story in is being launched.
It's only the second time this has happened to me. The last time was the horror anthology Shadows at the Door, and that was launched in Newcastle (also a cool […]
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@petealexharris.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy#WordWeavers 8 Oct
Which character is most likely to make a terrible decision for a very good reason?
For characters in The Source of Fire I can make a 2x2 matrix:
* Good decision, Good reason: Aena
* Terrible (as in, legitimately terrifying) decision, Good reason: Celandine
* Good decision […]
@petealexharris.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gyI'm not lazy, I'm highly efficient in effort.
@petealexharris.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy#WritersCoffeeClub 8 Oct
Tell us about someone who supports you on the sidelines.
I'm fortunate that there isn't really anyone close to me who isn't supportive of creativity in general and my writing as an expression of mine. My wife, obviously, does the most to keep me sane and likes my stupid […]
@damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @petealexharris.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gyVale Margaret Hamilton.
She was a Software Engineer.
She was the _first_ Software Engineer because she defined the term, Software Engineering:
"When I first came up with the term, no one had heard of it before, at least in our world. It was an ongoing joke for a […]
