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Shared here today by Matthew Boroson on Facebook. (ETA: Gaining inspiration from other authors is great. Lifting passages and avoiding giving credit isn’t.)

Here’s a link to Night’s Master, the first book in the Flat Earth series.

And they were like "What?"

And I was like, "Agility isn't the ultimate form of preparedness. Contingency is. Agility still requires you to flounder and figure out a solution in the moment, but if you have a contingency plan, all you have to do is implement it."

And they were like "But you can't make contingency plans for every situation!"

And I was like, "Yeah, you basically can if you just identify all of your basic dependencies and contingency plan around the loss of any dependency," and then I gave a few examples.

And they all stared at me like I'm an alien.

As he described to the interviewer a moment of panic and how he he overcame, the interviewer said, in one of those, summarise-last-answer-given-with-appropriate-levels-of-respect-in-order-to-proceed-to-next-question phrasing’s, “Wow, so you rose to the occasion -“

The logo is genuinely just the texte POOB, which you may already have noticed, but I still think it's a fun thing

There is a div that is just a hamburger, and then a hamburger thingy, and I think you just. Cannot see that on the site??? It's. It's not there??? Where burger??? burgor? burger? buggie? bugbug?? wher

They may not be in a nav tag, but hell that's kinda what I did when I still didn't know of the nav tag (except there is the usage of FLEX, fucking FLEX to make it look like a nav, all horizontal and without the dots and stuff). Also that the links literally all go to the same page, which is the only page. Worse, that does not go to a page, it goes to a section of a page. And it's all to The One Section from The One Page.

Then we have another fake nav done with a div and with a flex. Maybe this is why there are fake navs? To have two? Also all of them just being emojis. They are also clickable, even if it's not shown there as links. You can guess where they all go.

We also have a couple divs named hero and derivations, which are for our dear Goncharov. Nothing bad about this simply because IT'S GONCHAROV, FULL STOP.

We've also got make-poob-happy, which is simply the free trial. It's a clickable button, what else do you want? A boop? On Poob? Come on, it's awesome. It's silly, it's fun!

And now, the part I really wanna see...

WAIT THAT'S A FUCKING GREED? I WAS EXPECTING LIKE, A TABLE WITHOUT SOLID BORDERS OR SOMETHING, I am genuinely terrified. Also how to get a job on Poob...

i don’t know why nav isn’t using the nav tag i know better than that. also i ❤️ grid i use grid for everything

but yes i hand wrote poob with love and stress. it’s hosted on neocities. everyone make personal websites now

I instantly remembered when he said that.

While we were all at the local park doing legal things that teenagers would do back in the late 2000s, my friend here found a rock at our old smoke spot that was unusually smooth and flat. He liked it so much that he took it to the woodwork classrooms at school, drilled a hole in it, and hung it on a necklace.

When we asked why he weanwearing this dinky-ass pebble on his neck, he claimed it prevented him from ever getting food-related illnesses: wouldn't get food poisoning, couldn't over-eat, was able to ingest anything (prior to him finding The Amulet, a few of us used to play a game called "Devil's Piss" where we would take turns shoving random food bits into a bottle of coke, and the first person to take a sip would get two dollars from the other players).

When we all asked him for the proof that this rock is magical—because nobody believed him, obviously—he said to meet him behind the History block at lunch, where he said he would drink two litres (or half a gallon) of milk in one go and not puke.

We met him there, and about ten of us all watched him down a whole bottle of strawberry milk in two or three breaths.

He didn't puke.

He jumped up and down and punched his stomach to prove it.

He still didn't puke.

outside, something like this could

never be scripted