Not sure if I'm alone in this, but I can't stand the default 1x zoom on the iPhone camera, I feel like its focal length is too short and adds too much perspective distortion to pictures I always use the 2x setting by default, it looks a lot better IMO

Also, one of my purchases at microcenter today was a blu-ray drive for my PC So I can get cheap movies from secondhand stores and add them to my Jellyfin server :3

Doing important work while trying out my project board

Time for a post Christmas microcenter trip. How much will I end up spending this time

Slowly getting back on track and catching up on things Getting ready for the new year; got lots of things planned for it!!

Does anyone know of any good lawyers/resources to talk to in terms of starting a business? I have questions about it and I’ve looked up local lawyers, but I also don’t want to end up with some shady billboard lawyer giving me advice

Been debating if I should make an LLC when I start offering the scheduling app to cons Like, I’m planning to offer it at-cost so there won’t be any profit to be had, so all fees would be out of pocket. But I also don’t want to put myself at risk of personal lawsuits…

The series of events every time I start a new programming project

Lately I’ve become a sucker for the coffee bar at quiktrip hhhh It’s not the most incredible coffee in the world but it’s a guilty pleasure when I fill up on gas >w>

Since this year was my 6th MFF, have a picture of the 6 Hyatt key cards I’ve collected from them x3

When I was driving back from MFF yesterday there was a white civic that took the same route as me from springfield Ill all the way to within a few streets of my house They probably thought I was crazy and following them jdkdjdkf

MFF number 6 is in the books! Here are just a few photos I took, I'll be going through the rest of them soon ^^

MFF number 6 is in the books! Here are just a few photos I took, I'll be going through the rest of them soon ^^

Snow con snow con

First night of dances at MFF! Already bumpin on Thursday

Got my signed indigo park poster hung up finally x3

Got some more photos from GFM to post! I've uploaded photos up through floor wars on my FurTrack, just waiting on them to be approved!

@kinachi.lugiaberry.art this you?

I got my own self-hosted PDS working! Basically, this dev account's data is hosted on my own server at home instead of Bluesky's servers. But it's still readable by others using bsky like normal! Gonna eventually migrate this account there too

Was working on theming customization stuff the other day!

Now that I have my fediverse instance running, I’m getting curious about running my own AT proto stack too Since it’s newer and projects are still being built out for an entire self hosted stack, I think it would be a fun project

So this year I was on photography staff for Gateway Furmeet! Finally got done processing all the photos, here are just a few of them ^^

Turning the heat on in my house? Nah, export 2000 photos and let my desktop heat up the room

Cloud computing hits different when you don’t pay for it at work

Excited for new programming projects aaaaa Early-ish next year hopefully things will ease up a bit in life, I've got a couple projects that I'm excited to work on / expand upon ^^

Does anyone here have fediverse/mastodon accounts I can follow? I think I have things set up enough on my instance lol

Wait, so I’m not going crazy in that the steam machine existed before right? Like yeah the first time they weren’t made by valve and were more like partnerships with PC manufacturers but, this is more of a reboot of the hardware than a totally new release right?

Got my fedi instance up and running! I'm still setting things up but once things are good to go I'll share the link ^^

So I'm not super well versed on music genres, but does anyone know what genre that the bands Chon and Floral would be considered? I was thinking math rock, but not all their music has complex time signatures like I thought math rock had, so I'm not sure what it would fall under

I edited photos like all day today I am so tired lol

Finally got a proper server rack! I was also able to reorganize to make a nice sort of mini maker space in the basement My plan now is to get a second server and host a personal mastodon instance

Ordered a server rack today! Finally gonna properly mount my networking stuff and server, so I have room for a second server kjshdfkhj

A wild Lugia appeared...

aaaaa, there's 200 people with my integration installed! Still ironing out a couple bugs that had been reported but I'm excited!

Been thinking about another personal project to work on Basically recreating 8-tracks, but as a cartridge instead of tape You can plug it into your computer via a reader I'd make and drop an album of MP3s onto it like a flash drive, then just insert the cartridge into a player to play the music

Been working on adding a wiki to my python library to dump the info I got when reverse engineering my smart light's TCP protocol. It was a pain to figure it all out myself so hopefully documenting it will make it easier for someone else in the future if they wanna mess with it

Are there any furry programming discord servers out there? I’ve joined a couple in the past, but they both sorta died off after a while

Roof is getting replaced today. The constant banging reminds me of when I lived in my apartment 💀

Does anyone have any good alternatives to Adobe Lightroom for photo editing? I'm tired of paying every month for a program that I have to keep restarting because it gets slower / laggier the longer you leave it open

I’m the only Scala user on this so far let’s goooo lol

Dang, my new coffee scale is so accurate that you can see the weight slowly dropping as the hot water evaporates

Thank you everyone for a truly enchanting weekend of fun and friends. All 1,288 of you wonderful attendees helped raise $19,254.74 for our amazing charity in our biggest year yet! (We'll have a high res photo available soon)

Before heading back home today, me and some friends went and took pictures with @jaxthecoyote.bsky.social and Bora at the arch!

Back from gateway furmeet! I’m exhausted but I had a really fun weekend! Lots of pictures too :3

Have some friends @kinachi.lugiaberry.art @coyotearcade.bsky.social @dogybark.feral.army @pintra.bsky.social @scarletjanefox.bsky.social

As much as mastodon was a huge pain to use last time I tried running my own single-user instance, I might try and set up an instance again and host it myself Only thing is I'd need to buy another server, since my current one is already running quite a few applications and I'd need the power/storage

Does anyone know a good place to get decently priced refurbished servers? There used to be a local place that sold them but they closed :(

Aaaa, I got my indigo park backer rewards today!!

My Home Assistant code got merged today, heck yeah :D It's gonna be in the october release! Includes support for Cync lights for now, but I plan on adding more device support!