Oh, all right, I'll pin a useful toot:
Some amount of this account will refer to my comic, The Dementia of Magic, at https://dementiaofmagic.net. Others may refer to nothing really at all.
I think I know a good first step in tweaks to the DoM website: Changing all the download links in the Gallery to look more like buttons. Not, y'know, actually make them buttons, but use CSS trickery to make them biglier and more rectanglier, easier to click/tap.
Also, that'll give me a chance to consolidate the multiple sizes of wallpapers down to just one per aspect ratio. Which in turn will also give 4K-ish 16:10 wallpapers, despite such monitors being stupidly rare and/or expensive.
Are they finally, FINALLY going to do it? For real? Like, seriously?
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/
Now that the chapter's done at long last, I've got Chapter Nine to plan out. I leave way too many plots dangling about, and I need to make sure they all tie together the way I want (or at least come back in to the main plot somehow).
In the meantime, I should also see if I can rig up a different set of site CSS for mobile devices. I'm not forcing the comic format to be mobile-centric, but the site itself still looks really ugly on a phone.
There we go, all six new mobile wallpapers (the Color Background Tests) are now up on the DoM site in the Gallery in their full-sized glory. Enjoy!
I know I added a JSON interface to my comic's website a while back so that there would be a decent way to fetch comic data programatically, and yet I'm sort of hoping nobody really needs it yet as I keep changing parts of the format whenever I realize better ways to present stuff. Oops.
On the plus side, I've got an idea of how to finally make an old feature in the Autofox code work for me. It's not wise to keep arbitrary HTML in the data files anyway...
You may have noticed in the previously-posted mobile wallpaper that Alex's outfit was, in fact, yellow, when it is usually blue. This may seem exceptionally strange, especially since the Stephanie wallpaper in purple had her in her normally-colored Goddess of the Wasteland outfit.
To that end, here's a wallpaper of Matt dressed in red.
The short story is that recent Android versions can set a systemwide color tinting theme based on your wallpaper. The Stephanie wallpaper I tooted last sets that color as purple. Except, I only set it on the lock screen (not the home screen), and that's overriding the color from the home screen's wallpaper. That doesn't seem right.
Thus, in the interests of testing, I decided to make a yellow-prominent wallpaper. I'm going to need a green one next.
Following up the last toot, in addition to the new desktop wallpapers for the latest comic (https://dementiaofmagic.net/beans/gallery.html), I tried a vertically-oriented, 9:20 mobile version of the wallpaper (for the laughing variant). I dunno, I think it works out well.
One of these days I'll consider making more vertically-oriented DoM wallpapers for phones and such.
Except, at least on the phone I use, wider wallpapers are parallax-scrolled as you swipe around the home screen, which is pretty nifty, which is why I don't really think about it much.
(well, okay, and I use other wallpapers on my phone anyway)
So in theory Mastodon v3.5.x now supports editing toots (I think?), with edit histories viewable, or at least stashed away in the db somewhere. I'll need to figure out how I should represent this in Mastowidget.
The upshot of this is you'll likely see a few pointless, edited posts here once I start futzing about with that (and I think once the UI actually exists?). I should really make a decoy testing account at some point. That point is not now.
I know some cultures REALLY get into cherry blossoms, but I don't think it's for the *flavor*...
I program some things and also I draw other things.