i hear the voices when I'm dreaming

So, uh, I can finally say that I've contributed code to DW.

*pauses to o.O a bit*

...English-stripping is not, in my mind, coding. (It kind of is, but it's a different sort of thing.) The bug I found+filed+fixed (changing </b> to </a> on one page) wasn't really coding either. Bug 432 (update page refreshing the security if there was an error) was nominally coding, but after a lot of frustrated poking I went to #dw for help, and it was Dre that figured out what was going on, why, where, and how to fix it, so I didn't do most of the work.

Bug 158, though? That was all me. I still went to #dw for help -- particularly Afuna and Janine and Mark -- but I did it. And I'm fucking proud.

(158 changes the behaviour of image placeholders to give the user the option of what to do with images that don't have HTML-defined size. Current behaviour is to treat them as large images, so that if you have image placeholders set at all, unknown-dimension images get placeholdered. Modified behaviour is to give the user the option of whether to treat them as large or small images; if placeholders are "all" or "none" it doesn't really matter, but otherwise that option takes effect. And that involved defining and setting a new userprop (and it helped when I remembered to include a line in the code to *save* that userprop), adding a new parameter to the HTML cleaner user options, and then throwing in code such that if the HTML doesn't define size, it uses the userprop option instead. I broke [fixably, of course] my dreamhack account several times, which is pretty common for something like this, but I finally got it working.)

(and given that I haven't really done any programming in ten years, and a lot of the LJ/DW code basically gets filed under "magic" in my brain because I don't have a clue how it works? yeah. really fucking proud. \o/)

I'm not going to become a full-on coder; I don't know enough for that. And 158 wasn't an open-beta-blocking bug, so it wasn't as productive as it might have been. And I probably did it relatively clumsily, and there are ways I can see it being shinier (eg having that option hidden when placeholders are set to all or none) but don't know how.

But still.

\o/

I can has style. Even though it still refers to 'friends' page. Heh. (It's the semi-hacky copied-from-LJ custom-style workaround; core2, which will be AWESOME, isn't ready yet.)

Also, I got a mention in the March 9th news entry (see 18-22).

...I am also fighting off the urge to claim, er, well, real bugs. (there's three separate ones, and then two-and-a-half related ones [two that exist, and one that is either assigned or nonexistant but still part of the same thing]). It's not that I don't have enough to do for DW already, especially once core2 gets finished, and I'm really rusty as a programmer, but argh.

(have I mentioned lately how much awesomecakes DW is? because it *is*. I don't talk about it enough, but I should, because there's so much community-generated enthusiasm about it. LJ has had problems with management that is more concerned with how to make money from the site than with how people use it, and they have their developers spend time on things the userbase doesn't want rather than fixing what's broken or introducing awesome shit. DW? Is doing Awesome Shit.)