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pencilvoid

2 years ago

reminder that digital storefronts like Steam and Nintendo's store can stop you from playing games you paid full price for whenever they feel like it thanks to DRM and anti-piracy. just something to think about

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owlroost 2 years ago

And there are DRM-free alternatives out there! Gog.com and Itch.io are both great places to find DRM-free games. Why lock yourself in to the whims of Steam when you can buy a game and keep it even after the storefront shuts down someday?

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pencilvoid 2 years ago

Minor HTML and CSS changes in the interest of accessibility, namely improving keyboard navigation and screen reader usage

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pencilvoid 2 years ago

new post in which i talk about Districts for a bit

pencilvoid 2 years ago

am i being too pretentious??? maybe....... will i stop? definitely not

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pencilvoid

2 years ago

i should probably make a new 88x31 button. one that isn't as flashy and isn't based off an old version of this site's look

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pencilvoid

2 years ago

i wish Obsidian didn't require a payment to sync between devices, it would be PERFECT for drafting blog posts otherwise

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owlroost 2 years ago

I know some folks homebrew syncing with Syncthing, might be an option.

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pencilvoid

2 years ago

does anyone else feel like people who do creative work are expected to rush themselves these days?

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2 years ago

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pencilvoid 2 years ago

display settings SHOULD be fixed now

pencilvoid

2 years ago

so the theme selector BROKE and no one told me

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arandomsite 2 years ago

Oops 😬🤐

pencilvoid

2 years ago

*gripping sink so hard it cracks, eyes bloodshot* i will not write an opinion piece about cohost. i will not write an opinion piece about cohost. i will not write an opinion piece about cohost. i will not write an opinion piece about cohost. i will not wr

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owlroost 2 years ago

I'd read it if you did.

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unartur 2 years ago

I would definitely read it.

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2 years ago

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pencilvoid 2 years ago

put the link to the art page back because i'm actually not ready to start the new version yet

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pencilvoid

2 years ago

if you use Discord to host assets for your website: Don't

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melancholic-entrails 2 years ago

i used to do this, haha

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pencilvoid 2 years ago

OBLITERATED the sync with devide option for now because i'm still trying to figure something out be patient

pencilvoid 2 years ago

*device

pencilvoid

2 years ago

been thinking of redesigning the art page to be a sort of gallery thing. with tags and stuff

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pencilvoid 2 years ago

every day i slowly become more and more aware of the fact that eventually i will need to switch to a host that lets me do stuff server-side

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pencilvoid

2 years ago

my thumbnail keeps switching between light and dark mode ........

owlroost 2 years ago

I'm only seeing dark mode on my end for the thumbnail and profile picture.

owlroost pencilvoid

2 years ago

Thank you for including the checker pattern toggle! Now I can visually enjoy it if I want AND read more easily- definitely helps a lot.

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pencilvoid

2 years ago

hm i would rather it used dark mode for generating page screenshots but i have no idea how to accomplish that

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arandomsite 2 years ago

you could make a custom thumbnail: https://arandomsite.neocities.org/blog/custom-neocities-thumbnail

owlroost 2 years ago

Default colors (outside of the media query) as dark mode- aka set dark mode default by skipping the check for it. Then place a light mode check changing any relevant colors after that. Should do the trick afaik.

pencilvoid 2 years ago

that's actually quite similar to how i'm doing it already and it seems to have the same effect as just checking for dark mode. i love css

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pencilvoid

2 years ago

?????? why does my profile picture look like that

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arandomsite 2 years ago

idk

arandomsite 2 years ago

the screenshot chose light mode lol

pencilvoid 2 years ago

why does it show light mode on the profile picture and dark mode on the feed

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pencilvoid 2 years ago

i hate javascript

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pencilvoid

2 years ago

currently working on light mode colour schemes. i would describe them as "bright"

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pencilvoid 2 years ago

while i was working on them i found out that the fucked up CSS i use to create the checkerboard pattern has been causing the thing on the landing page to appear wrong all this time so that's fun

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owlroost 2 years ago

Shocked that was "wrong", looked intentional. Looks great either way tbh, that's what inspired me to start figuring out CSS animations.

pencilvoid

2 years ago

does anyone who prefers/relies on light mode struggle to read the content on my website? are some pages worse than others?

owlroost 2 years ago

I prefer light mode. It's difficult for me to read text cast against the checkered background- I usually read at the bottom of the page where it's the solid color background. The contrast is great against the solid color. The purple pages are easiest to read. The green/teal ones are so-so on checks but the easiest by far against the solid color- the green on blue makes it pretty easy.

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owlroost 2 years ago

Orange pages are extremely hard to read against the checkered background (lacks contrast w/light orange squares) but fine against the solid color.

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owlroost 2 years ago

Article reader mode works great on pages that have it available, by the way- just checked while I was at it. If I remember right, article reader mode requires article tags and p tags with a certain word or character count to work/show up.

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pencilvoid 2 years ago

thank you for your insight! i've been wanting to add a light mode to the site for a long time but i was struggling to think of a way to go about it, your comment about the checkerboard is actually really helpful

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owlroost 2 years ago

There is a media check for light mode! @media screen and (prefers-color-scheme: light) {} should allow you to set colors for folks set to light mode. I use a dark mode check and CSS variables to set the color scheme for my own site.

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owlroost 2 years ago

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme

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pencilvoid 2 years ago

the media check is a good idea but i might have to combine it with an in-browser toggle because i don't like that "prefers light mode" and "no preference" get lumped together lol

owlroost 2 years ago

Yeah, always did think that was weird. You can make dark mode the no preference default if you structure things right though.

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