⚠️ THIS BLOG HAS MOVED ⚠️ find a link to the new blog at magpie.monster ...
yeah, uh. remember that little "might move this to something self-hosted at some point" disclaimer from the blog's index??? yeah... so. I'm not doing that right now. instead I'm moving it somewhere else not self-hosted :) you can now catch me on my blog on smol.pub why?? mostly just because I thought it was fun!! it uses gemtext for markup, and I really like gemtext!! at $5 sign-up and optional…
god, pffhaha; I swear, every time I go to Futrołajki, I walk away thinking "wow, that was probably my best con so far" it's silly, but it's true, it was!! ...though last year was quite tough competition `,:3 all that said, wherever they are in the top 10, this year's Futrołajki were fucking great. just hanging around and chatting with the furries -- friends and strangers alike -- is just such a…
i fucking hate how the cringe culture-infested, encyclopedia dramatica/4chan-influenced internet i grew up in shaped me i hate that i feel like i have to be good at a topic to tell anyone i like it, and how much of a panic-inducing ordeal that used to make sharing my work i hate how much it robbed me of the joy of just making a thing, without the care of who's looking i hate how afraid it made me…
Looking for modern IRC clients is a bit of a crapshoot. Almost every client seems to either: be console-only, require a bouncer, be abandoned, have awful UI, barely support IRCv3, ...or some combination of the lot. ...okay, usually most of the lot. For the longest time, I just kinda stuck with Srain -- it's a very pretty, GNOME-y client that is simple, yet powerful and supports... at least some…
I have a lot of avenues to reach me. Arguably too many - I struggle to keep track of (much less reply to) everything. Some friends are on Matrix, some are on Telegram, a couple are on Discord. Sometimes I'll even get an odd notification from FB Messenger, or Instagram chat, or an SMS, or a call. And that's just friends -- my public profiles have separate IM inboxes on the Fediverse, or Twitter, or…
oh damn, I guess I forgot I had this? haha. I've been thinking of giving blogging another try, lately. ...well, "lately". okay, more like "ever since I'd set myself up with a website", aha. Though, I'd originally just envisioned having my blog on there, directly, as generated by my static site generator. That being said,,, I'd been thinking that maaaaybe I should give things a less,,…
Why does CSS make it impossible to pick when you want to stop collapsing margins? Margins are a great tool that allows developers to write more universal, reusable classes easily. It seems like a huge oversight that we don't yet have a simple “stop collapsing margins within the bounds of this element” property yet,when the way the “overflow” property works already demonstrates that it is possible!…
Having recently been revisiting old Warriors MAPs and animation memes from my childhood, I was pleasantly surprised to find Windows 11's version of MS Paint finally has keyboard shortcuts! ...and was promptly disappointed when I couldn't find them listed anywhere. So I decided to take matters into my own hands. Here are the more helpful shortcuts you may not be aware of, coming from older versions…
Aseprite is by far the best pixel art tool I've ever had the pleasure of using. I've been happily using it for quite a few years without any issue. That's until I decided to move to fedora. You see, while Aseprite's creator - David Capello - does theoretically provide linux builds of Aseprite ( at some added cost ), he - annoyingly enough - only builds .deb packages. Luckily, thanks to Aseprite's…