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ArjinFerman  Tinfoil Gigachad  2d ago (text post)   283 thread views

Tinker Tuesday for March 24, 2026

This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.

Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.

If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service.

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I am finally writing my trip report to China. There is so much ground to cover and things to discuss that I have barely described my first 2-and-a-half days in the country and the word count is 6,571, somewhere about half the word count of my entire Vietnam trip report. This is going to take forever to write, and I've already cut out a ton of interesting historical detours and personal musings I could have written about.

I'm curious if it would be better to post here in instalments (say, one post per city, four posts in total) or in one go. With the level of detail I'm going into, a full post is going to be somewhere around 36,000 words.

Installments, for sure. If it was good enough for Dickens and Dumas, it is not such a terrible idea :)

I would love to see serial publications come back in. It's the engine that drives all the wildly popular Japanese stuff: manga and web novels are the source of everything and both are serialised. Main downside is that most of them don't have a planned ending and just die or decay into reruns.

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