https://t.co/yyuA8EI8e5 The Favorite Pokémon Picker now has a default gender setting (2000% more of a headache than you think) and the options have been organized a bit.
Two more Favorite Pokémon Picker options have been added: you can now include or exclude e.g. legendaries, and you can have forms count as the base Pokémon's generation. https://t.co/88gXpV7Unr
https://t.co/CXAxbpQ1V0 TCoD's URLs are now a bit nicer and more consistent, and I accidentally rewrote a couple of guides (most importantly, the reviewing guide).
https://t.co/rVMBK8LolX The site is now finally running on Python 3 instead of 2.7. Ideally this means nothing you would notice, but I feel a lot better now.
https://t.co/iy0lno1mHG The Cave of Dragonflies is twenty-three years old today, and to celebrate I went and added some related pages to the bottom of every page within the layout - picked by hand for each one, because I am slightly mad.
You produce content shilling a client to whatever standard meets the minimum threshold to not get rejected by the unscrupulous blogger who is being paid to publish it. I produce thousands of words about Game Boy glitches for free because I am a giant nerd. We are not the same
As someone who makes actual research-backed high-quality content (that sometimes provides actionable insights and at other times is just fun for nerds), I'm always peeved by the implication that whatever marketing slop these spam farms want to push would actually qualify.
@mattgcn The frustration is more that they *are* sending this out en masse - taking as a given that *in general* you can just reach out to contact e-mail addresses harvested from websites and go "Hey, I'd like to publish a post on your site, what's your price."
@mattgcn They're definitely automated, yeah - not expecting any human being looked at my site in particular and figured I'd publish their slop. Looking at my inbox, I got this same one with a different name and company name back in July.