Volpeon :wvrnFlight:

Wyvern-shaped software developer and hobby vector artist. :wvrnMlem:

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volpeon@icy-wyvern-rip.mostr.pub

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2025-02-06 17:26:37

Calling it a11y is inaccessible

2024-12-31 20:52:38

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@nprofile…pngt says the nomtuber :drgn_nom_cat:

2024-12-31 20:51:47

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@nprofile…pngt I'm not going to become a vtuber :drgn_woozy:

2024-12-31 20:49:53

Another reason why the robo wyvern drawing is taking so long is that I decided to compete with 3D renders of robots. That's right, I want to get my vector art quality as close I can reasonably get to 3D renders. My goals are completely reasonable

2024-12-28 16:40:55

I haven't WAAHd in a while
:wvrnScream: WAAH

2024-12-28 12:44:09

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Please, I just want a creature Isekai that doesn't involve horny stuff. I'm begging you :neofox_pleading:

2024-12-28 12:39:39

After dying in a fight against the forces of evil, a knight is shocked to discover that instead of being reborn as a hero of humanity, he starts his new life as a behemoth-one of the most powerful monsters in the world!
:neofox_owo:
Tags: Ecchi
Oh no :neofox_googly_shocked:

2024-12-08 21:58:43

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@nprofile…xryc :wvrnTilt:

2024-12-08 17:12:12

You know what to do :wvrnCute:
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/56207911-f41a-43d4-b6ae-ed87e64c2c43.mp4

2024-12-08 09:18:17

Reminder that cheese
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/a20f38d0-04b7-42d8-b754-e32036e50ed0.webm

2024-12-07 19:50:53

Volpeon Wrapped 2024
:wvrnScream: Your ears have been destroyed by stray EEEEEEEEEs 31 times.
:drgn_flat_heart: You patted the Volpeon 154 times, which places you in the top 5%!
:wvrnNom: You have been nommed 82 times. You called him a goat, didn't you?
:wvrnHug: You couldn't resist fluffy wyvern hugs 21 times.
:drgn_mute: You found the undocumented mute feature.

2024-12-07 13:24:56

Monday be like
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/public-5d903074-44d3-4238-92a2-df02de08c215.webp

2024-12-07 11:01:04

@nprofile…37p4 having a woozy moment :drgn_woozy:
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/9cae6299-73cf-450d-bb8b-f0a5fb13f517.mp4

2024-12-06 10:42:21

I forgot to announce that with my new website, I also made the :wvrn: emojis available for download. Grab them while they're floofy :wvrnBox:
volpeon.ink/emojis/wvrn/
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/public-8e66c691-b44a-4aa7-99f3-7a764e4a88c3.webp

2024-12-06 06:48:39

if (user instanceof Creature) {
pat(user);
}

2024-12-05 12:04:48

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@nprofile…pngt :neofox_googly_shocked:

2024-12-05 11:58:31

When eepy
But colleague says
"I need your help for a problem"

2024-12-05 11:38:20

Someone with zero knowledge about computers is testing my latest work project. He requested a search feature for a list. I asked "but isn't searching in the browser good enough?" He didn't know. He didn't know you could press Ctrl+F to search for text on any website and he said he'd put it on a memo for his colleagues. Ctrl+F.

2024-12-05 09:15:25

I inlined the SVG, does that fix the banner on Safari? (You may have to clear your cache)
RE: icy.wyvern.rip/notes/a1embu21ksafqn60
#nevent1q…crc4

2024-12-05 08:46:06

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@nprofile…pngt Das hier funktioniert auch noch :drgn_nom_cat:

2024-12-05 08:42:54

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@nprofile…pngt Vielleicht :drgn_cute:

2024-12-05 08:37:07

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@nprofile…pngt Weiß ich auch nicht :drgn_cute:

2024-12-05 08:36:46

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@nprofile…0py4 Safari doesn't even support masks? Oh boy :neofox_googly_shocked:

2024-12-05 08:33:56

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@nprofile…pngt Hmm, ich habe heute das Bedürfnis, jemanden zu nommen. Aber darüber muss sich niemand Sorgen machen, der mir keinen Grund gibt :drgn_cute:

2024-12-05 08:30:44

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@nprofile…pngt Wie gehts :drgn_cute:

2024-12-05 08:30:05

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@nprofile…pngt Hi Puni :neocat_boop_cute:

2024-12-05 08:27:33

My new website is now online :drgn_happy_mlem:
➡️ volpeon.ink/

2024-12-04 12:02:22

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@nprofile…pngt Ne, bin ultra deluxe eepy heute :wvrnFlat:

2024-12-04 11:50:54

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@nprofile…pngt :drgn_sip_woozy:

2024-12-04 09:56:48

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@nprofile…pngt Oh doch :neocat_boop_woozy:

2024-12-04 09:46:29

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@nprofile…pngt Das weißt du genau :neocat_boop_woozy:

2024-12-04 09:32:31

PUNIIIIIIIIIIIIIII :wvrnScream:

2024-12-02 22:08:49

Oh right, and here are the 88x31 buttons for my website in SVG format. I'm posting them here because I don't know when my new website will go online :wvrnFlat:
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/82126cac-b405-4511-a386-1aaceb019087.svg
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/09de300e-3e79-4caa-8afa-5d03ff07fa20.svg

2024-12-02 22:00:31

I'm doing anything I can to avoid working on the "about me" page :drgn_woozy:
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/public-72bd605b-ac99-4b7c-91af-65f356178fa9.webp

2024-12-02 09:19:55

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@nprofile…pngt A Puni being nommed :wvrnNom:

2024-12-02 09:18:26

:wvrnBox:
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/public-951ad35b-6aae-4bf5-9302-e62dfc99616d.webp

2024-12-02 07:53:35

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@nprofile…pngt Montag halt :wvrnFlat:

2024-12-02 07:37:42

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@nprofile…pngt Henlo :neocat_boop_woozy:

2024-12-02 06:41:55

MONDAY AAAAAAAAAAAA
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/public-54b77e2a-7b48-41a6-8bf8-95a3c1e4e084.webp

2024-12-01 11:45:41

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@nprofile…5k85 Sure!
daudix.one/home/
dragon-vi.be/
pebble.pet/
pixelde.su/
beeps.website/
tuxedodragon.art/

2024-12-01 09:42:25

I started browsing websites for inspiration using Fediring as starting point and then other webrings and links. There are lots of cool websites out there. :neofox_heart:

2024-11-28 20:02:21

:wvrnDrink:

2024-11-28 17:58:00

If you're cold, they're cold. Plug them into your computer.
(Don't)
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/public-4bf7d964-41d3-4d08-b0ae-563e0787b3fc.webp

2024-11-28 12:43:38

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@nprofile…dh80 :neofox_3c:
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/8cc2f86d-4085-4701-a5ef-ee1ea0ac0bbf.mp4

2024-11-28 12:23:40

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@nprofile…dh80
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/27a34069-97a9-4fbe-9507-6c18c902141d.mp4

2024-11-27 13:47:48

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@nprofile…pngt :wvrnHug:

2024-11-27 13:44:18

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@nprofile…pngt EEEEEEEeeeeeeee :wvrnFlat:

2024-11-27 13:39:45

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@nprofile…pngt :wvrnScream: MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Too

2024-11-27 11:18:06

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At least tooting makes sense with Mastodon's branding, but skeet is just Sky + Tweet? That's lame

2024-11-27 11:15:26

To toot or to skeet, that is the question :drgn_woozy:

2024-11-27 07:10:11

This wyvern is engagement bait. Boop it and it will mlem

2024-11-27 05:58:52

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@nprofile…pngt Ne :wvrnFlat:

2024-11-27 05:52:46

:wvrnCofe:

2024-11-26 10:52:40

The terminal emulator I wrote was surprisingly good.
It was built into a Tron-like animated user interface I developed with OpenFrameworks, and I wanted the project to be at least somewhat useful. Since it was an OpenGL application, the terminal was also GPU-accelerated and beat quite a a few others in my benchmarks. It had some weird glitches, though, that I was never able to fix.

2024-11-26 10:16:44

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@nprofile…m80s I developed a terminal emulator once. Dealing with "what is a character" was by far the hardest part :neofox_googly_shocked:

2024-11-26 10:12:26

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inb4 people techsplaining why it works the way it does: I know. It still is counterintuitive.

2024-11-26 10:10:56

"Mom, can we have a functioning character limit?"
"We have a functioning character limit at home."
Functioning character limit at home:
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/public-86fa5750-2fc4-4fcb-839f-24f65119ea4a.webp

2024-11-26 09:26:15

The character limit as a concept kinda falls apart when Japanese can express way more with way less characters

2024-11-26 08:18:14

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@nprofile…rty5 Ich bin älter, was bedeutet, dass ich keine Ziege bin. Q.E.D. :drgn_happy_mlem:

2024-11-26 08:15:03

My brain can't brain lately. :wvrnFlat:

2024-11-25 15:28:05

Wow, Gulp received updates until March of this year. Do people even remember Gulp or Grunt?

2024-11-25 13:37:00

It's baffling that for typical night mode implementations, tinting the screen and maybe also changing the whole system UI theme between light and dark is supported, but the screen brightness? The obvious thing? Nah, let's blast that shit with the same intensity into your eyes as during the day

2024-11-25 12:47:50

More colorful banner :wvrnBox:
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/public-7b374068-d545-4782-a42f-74a3b745d353.webp

2024-11-25 06:33:18

MONDAY AAAAAAAAA
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/public-54b77e2a-7b48-41a6-8bf8-95a3c1e4e084.webp

2024-11-24 10:25:08

I may have an idea that helps me with both the website footer and the "about me" page at once :drgn_think_cool:

2024-11-24 09:09:51

This is why I love custom emojis :neofox_googly_woozy:
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/public-0902bb6f-8926-4d59-a0e7-c81f04fb72a6.webp

2024-11-23 21:27:03

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@nprofile…h6f2 I would love if tagging was the default here instead of CWs. Oh well

2024-11-23 21:12:45

I overhauled my post about social media design. I improved phrasings and changed the focus to include both posters and followers equally.
volpeon.ink/notebook/modern-social-media/
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I grew up with forums. Forums were focused on an overarching topic, split into categories with threads about more specific topics. If you were interested in participating in a forum, you registered. If you were interested in reading about certain topics, you visited the right threads and checked them out. You could subscribe to threads, too.
It's a design centered around topics — and it's absolutely nothing like modern platforms such as Twitter, Bluesky, or the microblogging side of the fediverse. They put the focus on individual people by establishing profiles as everyone's own space where they can express themselves and interact with others as they wish. This freedom doesn't exist on other kinds of platforms where you are bound by an overarching theme, a context, rules, and so on.
The main mechanism these platforms have in common is a personal feed comprised of posts by people you're following.
You're given some possibilities to curate it, such as lists, tag filters, keyword filters and muting/blocking.
Usually, there's support for private communication via direct messages, but apart from that, everything takes place in one global space.
This design disregards everything about how relationships and interactions normally work.
People only share certain aspects of themselves with others, depending on their relationship with everyone involved in an interaction.
For instance, you're probably willing to share personal information in a conversation among friends, but not so much on a public medium such as a podcast.
The context of our interactions plays an important role.
On social media, conversations are usually displayed as a structured view separated from the global context. Your replies will typically not show up in the feeds of people who aren't directly involved, and usually there are DMs as a truly private channel. This makes these local contexts a well-supported use-case.
Communities don't get this privilege. They do form implicitly through everyone's connections, but there's no external structure to support them. You can't enforce community rules and they aren't separated from the global context.
Sure, there are hashtags, lists and other features, but these are just filters over the global context that won't establish new, isolated contexts. The consequence:
- As a follower, you'll be exposed to every interaction in communities you aren't part of and may even dislike. Options to curate your feed are there, but not reliable or too severe.
- As a poster, you're lead to believe that all interactions work like outside of social media. You make posts intended for specific audiences while acting within the global context, allowing your posts to "escape containent". This leads to responses that feel intrusive and inappropriate.
As I said above, reality doesn't work like that at all. It's extremely rare for you to know every single aspect of someone and likewise to share all of your aspects with someone.
On social media, however, it's an all-or-nothing deal.
This results in conflicts following the same pattern over and over again. Followers are annoyed because they keep seeing posts bothering them with no good means to fix it, and posters are annoyed because strangers keep barging in and telling them what to do.
Once you know about this pattern, you will notice it all the time.
For example, on the fediverse, a user from an insect-themed instance once expressed his fristration at people telling them to put photographs behind a content warning. From their perspective, this doesn't make sense because they specifically joined this instance to be among like-minded people. It would be absurd to hide photographs primarily intended for other enthusiasts. And why care about outsiders you didn't invite in the first place?
However, it's true that these posts can easily reach people with a phobia of insects. Just one repost by someone they follow is enough.
Needless to say that no side in these conflicts is objectively wrong.
Each community has a different set of rules and conventions so that certain behaviors can be acceptable in some places, but not in others.
This works fine outside of the microblogging sphere, but here, communities are just a vague construct living in the global context where all of these rules and conventions clash. And because a "correct use" can't even be determined, it's impossible to come up with consistent social measures.
This situation is a complete mess.
## Appendix 1: Feed curation features and their flaws
Lists are subfeeds capturing posts by specific people. Unfortunately, lists ingest all posts by their members, so they share all of the same problems as the main feed, limiting their use.
Tag filters require appropriate and consistent use of tags by others. On a platform where tags are optional and nobody enforces their proper use, this is simply not happening.
Keyword filters can match posts that are actually fine while also missing posts that aren't. Sometimes it's outright impossible to find useful keywords, and they won't work for media-only posts either.
Muting or blocking is the nuclear option. It's the most reliable in terms of getting rid of unwanted content, but it also isolates you from people and conversations you may care about. It's like cutting friends out of your life over the smallest of disagreements.

2024-11-23 08:15:51

A story
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/public-e1395ac1-9c18-4ffa-a659-15f357a1cfd4.webp

2024-11-22 20:32:44

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@nprofile…vrgz It's generating a lot of publicity, though, so in the end this may even work out for them. :neofox_think:

2024-11-21 09:51:46

🍾
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/-faa4b065-b39c-4526-b708-bfe7c75d6485.mp4

2024-11-21 08:47:43

The evil cycle of
- Going to bed late
- Being eepy the next day
- Quick nap after work
- Not being all that eepy in the evening
- Going to bed late
- …

2024-11-21 06:30:23

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@nprofile…9uhu Who knows :drgn__w_:

2024-11-21 06:22:40

Today is the last workday before an extra long weekend (for me) :wvrnBox:

2024-11-20 21:13:07

I'm not rabidly against self-promotion, but the self-reposting and chain posting are a bit much on my Bluesky timeline. I was hoping to follow artists that aren't on fedi, but if that's what they're doing all the time then it bothers me too much

2024-11-20 08:14:34

The best part of winter is animals becoming extra floofy :wvrnCute:
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/-4881e6e6-c703-4056-b826-cbbe8faf3033.webm

2024-11-20 06:01:16

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@nprofile…pngt
:blank: ⚪⚪⚪⚪
⚪⚪ :wvrnFlat: ⚪⚪

2024-11-20 05:59:55

Gib snow :neofox_pleading_reach:

2024-11-18 22:15:01

Monday is over, and Mame posted a cute Tofu photo. The week is already getting better

2024-11-18 21:34:57

Being described as foxxo software running on wyvern hardware is accurate because that's exactly what I was going for. :wvrnBox:

2024-11-18 21:32:56

:wvrnScream: WAAH

2024-11-18 20:15:22

A blazingly fast web frontend for git repositoriesDo Rust developers all have to sign a contract that forces them to describe their projects as "blazingly fast"?

2024-11-18 18:29:06

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@nprofile…pngt stboop :neocat_boop_woozy:

2024-11-18 17:44:46

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@nprofile…pngt stylish wyvern, yes I know :drgn_cool_fingergun:

2024-11-18 15:32:55

My logo is now formally complete :drgn_uwu:
#logo
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/public-eae9a57b-0ea3-44aa-8b62-232a011f21c9.webp

2024-11-18 12:41:11

[FOXXO has invited you to join the party!]
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/public-8f94662c-7b03-4dcc-99ad-c3fcde957b84.webp

2024-11-18 12:16:06

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@nprofile…gtz2 DeutschlandGPT :woozy_baa:

2024-11-18 09:26:06

The problem is that these projects aren't easily discoverable and integrated into the user interface, unlike Bluesky. You can't convince me that they're even remotely as usable or convenient as this: (see attachments)
Fedi has a tendency to handwave legitimate usability concerns because a lot of people here are more technically inclined than the average person. It's frustrating because it only blocks the way for better solutions.
RE social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/113469817542409948
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/public-93667693-b48c-4c08-8b07-ed0957d66d12.webp
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/public-59ba5164-158e-4fca-9d3e-8646ee121677.webp
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/public-29b8ce6c-3a69-43ca-9310-ddea1317bbaa.webp

2024-11-18 07:53:01

It's about to be that time again
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/-14c11ca3-9b89-4479-a919-055bd541c215.webm

2024-11-17 16:21:48

If the logo mlems, it's a good omen
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/public-6aa31961-9c51-499f-ad96-60ea2a0ebfce.webp
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/public-39f40ce0-acf6-46d2-a785-161b2893f879.webp

2024-11-15 13:33:56

Need For Sleep: Most Eepy :wvrnFlat:

2024-11-15 06:56:14

:wvrnBox:
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/public-9a400090-1039-44f7-b09d-b0a2866f20b9.webp
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/public-f8335dd6-926b-4135-8b77-fee82765b964.webp

2024-11-14 14:11:10

OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AIWell yeah, the strategy so far was to feed it more and more data, but if even "the entirety of human knowledge on the internet" isn't enough things get a bit spicy. :woozy_baa:

2024-11-14 13:58:39

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@nprofile…pngt :wvrnHug:

2024-11-14 12:44:08

:blank: me
:blank: ↓
🖥️ :drgn: :blank: :neofox_peek_knife: ← the post-lunch eepy

2024-11-14 09:53:20

Volpeon will go :wvrnScream: WAAH in 2025.

2024-11-14 07:10:19

🔇
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/public-a0e04250-41e8-4394-b7f4-a3f9cf99a9da.webp

2024-11-13 08:49:22

You feeling alright man? Floof? Wanna touch floof? :wvrnCute:

2024-11-13 07:52:31

:wvrnScream: 🤚
Do not the Volpeon

2024-11-12 21:48:06

:wvrnDrink:
https://icy.wyvern.rip/files/public-090307f9-2c87-430e-8cd0-2cfeaf66b34c.webp