The Janet Zone

hi! im janet

About Me

im janet, she/her!

im interested in maths and functional programming (especially functional optics), im a big fan of sirlin games's fantasy strike and yomi 2, and ryan chongoshow's cpu kerfuffle, and i spend a lot of my time looking at wikipedia and wiktionary pages for whatever comes to mind in the moment and telling people about them

i also hold strong opinions about various incredibly minor topics, such as:

• we should have 30 day months and 10 day weeks, similar to the french revolutionary calendar! one of my projects is about this
• we should use the holocene calendar - it adds 10,000 to the year, so the year im typing this is 1_2024 HE, or just 2024 for short (with 0_2024 being 10,000 years ago), fixing the annoying "okay once you reach the year 1 CE, you skip 0 and start counting backwards???" problem
• traditional english units are terrible, the us customary system (1832) sucks a bit less than that, the imperial system (1826) a little less than that, and metric (1790s!) a lot less than that! metric is still very flawed, but ohhh are we better off than we were before it
• the metre should have been a 60th of a 60th of a nautical mile, the distance you travel moving at 1 knot for 1 second, about half the length it is now - this would give us a nice speed unit (knots), and litres of about half a cup (great for drink sizes!)
• tab's "degrees temp" temperature system is cool
• base 6 is cool
• the Gott map projection is cool

My Projects

i run the CPU Kerfuffle NCCT fan archive!

i've also made some small cpuk webfics for gift exchanges:

• Shadow (2022) - a cosmic love fic with a fun mirrored gimmick
• She, Herself, and I (2023) - three sad stories about time
• Alone (2023) - two things: (1) pep meets crimsonaut! uh oh! (2) a cute convo between dani and juni to make up for the first part

i've designed the shilling extension to the metric system, which incorporates the strengths of divisible units (like some imperial ones) for daily quantities

i've also designed a calendar (idk what to name it) inspired by the french revolutionary calendar, with a cool pair of weekend schemes that are out of phase with each other