I seem to be posting a lot right now, but it will slow down at some point! 
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Curious question from me - you’ve got reading modern setting danmei as your main goal for Chinese, but manhua as your stretch. Normally I’d think it’d be less effort to read the manhua, but I suppose the goal is being able to read manhua regardless of genre?
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I just noticed that we haven’t seen that violent chicken lately… We need him to have his own storyline ASAP.
Ohhh, well now that makes me want to read this purely for the chicken. I want to see what that’s about 
excluding genres that require more specialised vocabulary, such as sci-fi and fantasy
That’s the best genres though. I guess it makes sense why I struggle to get into webnovels in Korean, I keep trying to read the stuff with topic specific vocab that I haven’t learned yet
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There are a few reasons I didn’t have manhua as the main goal:
- Looking up vocab is a bit of a pain - I use capture2text, which isn’t as smooth of an experience as mokuro + yomitan for Japanese (and no furigana to help with pronunciation!)
- I’ve read the English translations of manhua based on web novels, and I have a much stronger desire to read the original web novels than I do to reread manhua I’m familiar with or new manhua
- I’m currently reading a lot of Korean translations of manga, so it gives me a bit of variety to focus on web novels
My goals could change, of course, that’s just what I want to focus on right now. 
I tend to prefer regular slice-of-life stuff (I guess omegaverse, too, but there’s not much specialised vocab with that), so I’m simply prioritising what I like. 
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In other news, I’m a regular again! 
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Oooh, a manga a day challenge would be so fun. I have so many books I want to get through I don’t know if my email schedule would ever fit it, sadly; this coming December would be the only option until, like, next December, haha, so I don’t know if it’ll ever happen. Please keep us updated on how that goes, though! I can just read vicariously through you.
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We can all relate
Will do! 
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It’s always interesting to see how different people struggle with different things. I am completely fine with not understanding everything, but hate looking up stuff in a dictionary. I’m actually working on looking up more unknown words now, so it’s funny how you are trying to do the opposite.
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I feel like early on I looked up so much and now it’s common enough to come across a word and be like “I can guess the meaning and the reading from the kanji, so I really need to look it up?” Even when it’s just the meaning but not the reading I’m sure of I’m like “ugh, must I?”
I think this has to do with reading paperback a lot this year though. The dictionary hurdle is higher and I’ve gotten lazy 
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I stumbled across 乾坤袋 Qian Kun Dai a while ago, which is a great resource for finding web novels for your level.
Thanks for the good find! I’m nowhere near being able to read anything in Mandarin, and likely won’t be for a while, but I like hoarding resources when I can find them.
It seemed like the longer the whole debugging cycle continued, the more problems arose, both new and ones that had been previously fixed
Congratulations, you’ve circled back to being a regular code developer. 
But in all seriousness I’m not surprised ChatGPT sucks at code generation, and would say that if you’re really interested, it would be worth learning basic Python to learn how to make your own add-ons. Supplemental/non-essential coding knowledge you pick up can spark new ideas in the future. Honestly it’s like learning a natural language: no one really goes in saying they only want to read Harry Potter book 1 and that’s literally it; reading HP 1 may be their first long-term goal, but learning all the bits in-between that HP doesn’t use isn’t seen as inefficient.
Advice from someone who hasn’t formally learned Python but has worked in plenty of other languages: find some all-inclusive site (https://www.learnpython.org/ or Python Tutorial or https://www.codecademy.com/catalog/language/python or something like that), learn the super basic foundational stuff (so everything in the “Learn the Basics” section in the first link or the first 2/3 of the “Python Tutorial” section in the second), then figure out what more advanced things you need from there for your chosen add-on and go from there.
I’d definitely suggest having some IDE downloaded where you can follow along and write your own code that you can then execute; really helps if you need hands-on practice. (Reading about learning code bores me to death, unfortunately. I have to have a project to go with it.)
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I actually use ChatGPT a lot to write code, with the huge caveat that I already know a fair bit of Python. @bibliothecary you’ve confirmed something that I’ve thought for a while: that it’s a good tool if you already know what you’re doing, but not at a point where it can solve problems without more experienced supervision. I mostly use it since I’d rather tell it error messages that comes up from running its code than wade through 75 comments of why I shouldn’t be doing the thing I need to do on Stack Overflow to get to the downvoted answer I need. 
Also this is not me volunteering to look at your addon project, but this is also not not me volunteering to look at it 
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I can also look! Once you need the extremely expert help of, “wow bibliothecary, your Angular looks awful. Wait, that’s not Angular?”
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Excellent point! You may have just persuaded me to start learning Python. 
I may not not take you up on that at some point.
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Since I saw you mention Youku: If you haven’t watched it yet, may I recommend Guardian (镇魂)? (It has major plot and SFX issues, but the (b)romance is… 
how they got all that past the censors is a mystery.)
I also saw that they seem to have Unkown. Also very much recommended.
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