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  • Joined: Jan 31, 2005, 3:19:26 PM
  • Last Seen: Dec 4, 2023, 9:25:00 PM
  • Preferred Language: en
  • Location: Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada

Biography

I was never stationary during my childhood. I moved every couple years. No, I wasn't a military brat. I was the son of a single mother, one who moved a lot to try and find job opportunities and happiness. While I'll never regret it, my childhood was very different from others. I have never known a childhood friend that has just always been there, and I never had a long term friend until I was 10. Even then it was still 5 more years before I ever settled down for more than 2 years in an area. As a result I spent 75% of my childhood being the new kid and always learning about new people from different areas in order to fit in. I ended up spending most of my childhood learning how to make others happy, and it wasn't always easy.

At the end of the day, books were my best friend. They made me laugh, cry, they frightened me; they just generally made me happy. It was logical then that I was always an ace student in English when it came to matters of spelling, grammar and vocabulary. This also didn't make me very popular in high school as I often just 'knew' the answer. I spent a good portion of my day reading and learning new subjects. As many as I could, in fact.

When I became a teenager, I began using poetry to vent my frustrations. I was dealing with things I had never dealt with before in my life. I moved in with my dad, after meeting him for the first time at 15. I moved to Brockville, Ontario and learned to live in a city the likes of which I had never experienced before. I encountered a lot of narrow minded country folk in this area who automatically judged you if you were not part of their well established cliques. It took me longer to make friends in Brockville than it had anywhere before.. ever.

However I made friends slowly, on the internet and in school. As we grew to know each other, we found common interests. When I started a personal website and put up some poetry, I found my friends wanting to join me in posting their works as well. Seanwhat and Taz_Is_Dynasty would become the first to members of a website I named 'The Den of Amateur Poetry'.

That concept has grown, and my internet friends from those days Dante and Mythbhavd joined the site as well, along with other high school friends such as Si-Shen and Paradox. Words cannot describe the value of this site in my heart. It is a culmination of all the best things I ever sought in my life. Sharing, knowledge, helping, friendship and community.

I write, because it is the very heart and soul of who I am.

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Routh replied to their discussion titled Several bugs identified, Oct 13/2023
Nov 23, 2023, 5:01:30 AM

Session persistence is fixed, along with all issues except whatever is causing about 1 in 20 verification tokens to crash the app after verification completes. That last one is a bit hard to...

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Routh commented on the article titled Don Roble by kt6550
Nov 21, 2023, 3:24:28 AM

I truly have been spending my head down in code when I am able to get to my computer far too often; given that I have not read or commented on this before now.

I cannot really put words...

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Routh replied to their discussion titled Several bugs identified, Oct 13/2023
Nov 21, 2023, 1:26:48 AM

I’ve noted that since the updates that came with these fixes, mobile sessions in Firefox and Edge on Android are not able to stay alive for the full 24 hours, but I’ve not yet understood why...

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Routh replied to their discussion titled Several bugs identified, Oct 13/2023
Nov 20, 2023, 6:35:03 AM

The following bugs are now fixed:

  • Users getting 403 errors on messages endpoints, causing them to be unable to view messages.

  • Unverified users being removed before...

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Routh replied to their discussion titled Several bugs identified, Oct 13/2023
Nov 14, 2023, 5:35:30 AM

Finally through the slog of getting the infra re-architecture done and now able to move on to these fixes.

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Routh replied to their discussion titled Several bugs identified, Oct 13/2023
Nov 6, 2023, 4:04:22 PM

I want to apologise for the delay here; I ripped down the staging site and it’s infra space on the production cluster as part of a cost savings effort just before the discovery of the source of...

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Routh started the discussion titled Several bugs identified, Oct 13/2023
Oct 13, 2023, 3:47:47 PM

Hi folks,

Digging into issues with messages today, a few bugs were identified and will be being addressed ASAP. For information you can check the issues opened at the Helpdesk...

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Routh commented on the story titled New day, same place by Olive
Aug 20, 2023, 7:58:16 PM

Welcome to The Den!

I love this little reflection and think it’s overall pretty good. The last paragraph goes a little off course with run on thoughts. A few edits to make things clearer...

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Routh commented on the poem titled On her deathbed, my sister told me so many people have no death beds... by Saad El-Asha
Jul 20, 2023, 7:59:06 PM

Found the issue, dumb mistake on my part. Patch release is coming in a few minutes.

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Routh commented on the poem titled On her deathbed, my sister told me so many people have no death beds... by Saad El-Asha
Jul 20, 2023, 5:34:46 PM

Saad, noticed the arabic text is no longer rendering right aligned, I'm looking into this.

Looks like it's not a problem with new content from the new editor but I'm not sure why the old...

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Routh replied to their discussion titled Welcome to Version 5.0.0!
Jul 20, 2023, 4:38:16 AM

In a new update today (version 5.0.33) I have released a new custom built editor based on TipTap, which is used across many popular sites.

Performance and privacy wise, this allows us to...

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Routh commented on the poem titled Lost Seedlings by Lonelyhearts1224
Jul 12, 2023, 5:56:54 AM

I do appreciate the imagery you get into your poems. This one has some great ones like “Douse kaleidoscope, cool droplets”.

 

Submitted Writings

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Solitary Resolve
A general fiction roleplay by Routh
The Story continues from Chronometric Complications.
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Chronometric Complications
A general fiction roleplay by Routh
The Story continues from The Genesis.
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The Genesis
A general fiction roleplay by Routh
The Story continues from a Years Reflection.
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A Years Reflection
A general fiction roleplay by Routh
This story is picked back up a year later, and this explains what has happened to Cernaek over this time.
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Explosions, Economics, and Entertainment
A general fiction roleplay by Routh
This story continues from 'A Fuckup For The Ages', explaining how Cernaek ends up entering wrestling...
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A Fuckup For The Ages
A general fiction roleplay by Routh
An Introduction to the character of Cernaek Routh... as I played the character in GFed; an online wrestling RPG site. This explains how the he ends up in their time.
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Spring
A haiku poem by Routh
A third go at a Haiku..
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The Itch
A prose poem by Routh
I've changed, even I can see that now...
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I've Made Up Mine
A prose poem by Routh
Ten years later, I have written a response to my original poem, "Make up your Minds"
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Determined
A rap poem by Routh
Undeterred by the dark side of life...
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Winter
A haiku poem by Routh
My second haiku....
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Desert
A haiku poem by Routh
My first attempt at Haiku.