Proud multicrafter, making cool stuff and all over the Fediverse like a rash. Find my various stuff at https://linksta.cc/@thegiddystitcher

Gamedev alter ego: @[email protected]

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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Making things, mostly.

    Lots of crafts like knitting, crochet, cross stitch, sewing, felting, origami, faffing about with clay, etc etc. And gamedev which I basically think of as the same sort of hobby because it’s just making a different sort of thing.

    Making YouTube videos about all of the above, in defiance of the algorithm gods.

    Reading any and all scifi I can get my hands on, plus the Discworld series just over and over again endlessly on a loop.

    Also the amount of time I spend on Mastodon and Lemmy probably means it counts as a rather lame hobby at this point…








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    9 months ago

    This time last year, the night before our wedding, we stayed at a cheap hotel 15 minutes away from home, ate pizza in the room and watched Top of the Pops with Mastodon. So tonight to celebrate the fact that we somehow survived the year we’ll be staying in a cheap hotel 15 minutes away from home, eating pizza in the room and watching Top of the Pops with Mastodon.

    Also despite me being middle aged now, my mam and grandma sent us a ton of chocolate. So that’s the rest of the weekend accounted for.

    Happy Easter everyone!

    Edit: haul



  • It probably depends on which language you’re learning and whether there’s a good deck available but I’ve moved onto flashcards with Anki.

    The main problem with Duo (before all of its current problems) used to be that it didn’t really give much context unless you were on the full website and clicked through to read the grammar rules, but the card deck I’m using for basic Spanish has all of that built in and visible from the start so it’s been a good foundation on the language.

    I’ve also heard excellent things about something called the “pimsleur” method but that seems expensive to access through official means. I’m sure there are other ways to try it out, of course…




  • thegiddystitcher@lemm.eetoComic Strips@lemmy.worldXXX
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    9 months ago

    Kept it going for a while, making sure to take a day off once a month to avoid building another stressful streak. But I kinda got to the end of its usefulness and wandered off to other things.

    Just started learning Spanish and I thought about firing it up again but the app is such a mess these days I actually can’t face it.

    Edit: Remember getting rid of the streak doesn’t actually lose your “progress” in learning the language, which is presumably the important part. It’s just a meaningless number. You can do it!