Announcing: https://justaqrcode.com.

Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.

My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!

#QRcode #Free #FriendlyWeb #Resistance

Excellent article by Violet Affleck about COVID, climate change and social justice.

She articulates what many of us have been saying for years… the pandemic didn’t end because the threat passed, it ended due to public pressure and denial:

“Public impatience, misinformation about the nature of COVID’s spread & corporate influence over institutional public health, meant that, rather than mitigate ongoing risk by demanding clean-air & accessible healthcare, our leaders announced disabled people would have to fall by the wayside”

She’s an incredible advocate. At the tender age of 19 she’s using her platform and privilege to advocate for the most vulnerable in society.

She fights for the disabled, elderly, children, the marginalized, those living in poverty and imprisoned.

She’s one of the few people consisting calling for clean air in prisons as well as schools and hospitals.

Until we recognize that Covid is a social justice issue, we won’t ever beat it:

https://yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a-chronically-ill-earth-covid-organizing-as-a-model-climate-response-in-los-angeles/

#disability #ableism #eugenics #covidisairborne #covidisnotover #cleanair #wearamask #climatechange

@_elena sure!

@ThreeOhFour The regular pattern does look nicer than the noisier dithering you would often see on scanned images. I mean, it looked fine on its own I guess, but when you mixed it with other graphics it stood out like a sore thumb.

(Images from MobyGames)

Neon Hearts City, my point and click cyberpunk-themed adventure, was released yesterday! 😃

Get it now on Steam 👇
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3316640/Neon_Hearts_City/

Played the game? Do leave a review - they are immensely helpful. 🥰🙏

#indiegame #indiedev #adventuregame #pointandclick

@eniko The way I deal with it (inspired by Thimbleweed Park) is to have parts of the environment that need animating as objects (even if they're not actual objects you can interact with). Objects in my engine have animations associated to them, even when they're static, so when the room is drawn each object is drawn in its current state. Objects have a baseline parameter associated to them (used to decide if characters are in front or behind) and are drawn in baseline-order.

Mona is a cottagecore lesbian who likes her cats and crafting with yarn.

(mastodon exclusive screenshot!)

#QuantumWitch #indiegame

p.s. this is not just a bit of pixel art I did, it's an entire narrative driven choices matter queer game :) https://store.steampowered.com/app/3100650/Quantum_Witch/

Please boost!

Looking for new work in the EU. Right now in the US.
I've been:
👨‍🏫 raising & teaching my kid thru. COVID
👨‍💻 streaming w/ Twitch
✍️ writing
🆒 local politics
🇩🇪 learning German
🤖 writing bots like @randostartrek
🎶making music for fun
🪿 advising game devs
🐝 continuing my involvement in open-source @ioquake3

I can do:
website work, online community management, devrel, video game qa, linux syadmin, etc.

If you're aware of work that might fit my skill set in the EU, please let me know.

I'm uncomfortable when I see uncritical discussions about machine translation - nobody seems to stop to ask "Should I feel entitled to have presence in a cultural context that I am not engaging with?"

Machine translation as an accessibility tool for users seems positive/empowering, but a creator passing MT output off as part of a work feels pretty gross/entitled to me.

I arrived at this outlook while working on a CMS that was going to auto-translate posts. We didn't implement that feature.

I'm super excited to share that the trailer for NEVERWAY, the game I've been working with @saint11 for quite some time now, is finally OUT 💛

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-ZYBv3qzN8

すてられ船
#pixelart #ドット絵

Happy #PointNClickFriday!

We woke up this morning to a big spike on @itchio for our game "The founders of [redacted]".

Find out for yourself if this game is indeed as "fresh" as claimed!
(We think it is, but we're slightly biased)

https://apicici.itch.io/the-founders-of-redacted

#pointAndClick #gameDev #indieDev #adventureGame

Hey, could do with a signal boost for this!

Do you like GAMES? Do you like QUEER, NARRATIVE GAMES?

Do you want to play a Special Edition of the Quantum Witch demo with NEVER BEFORE SEEN stuff?

And stream it to your fans? Or write about it? Or publish something?

Get in touch!! Trying to let folk know your indie game exists is difficult, could use all the help I can get!

Rosewater, the game by my partner @GrundislavGames that we've been working on together for the past six years, is out today. It's a character-driven weird Western adventure about friendship, storytelling, and found family, and it's a delight to see it out in the world at last. It's been a hell of a journey.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1226670/Rosewater/

please boost to help my job search!!! :boost_request:

i'm looking for something remote or local to the seattle area in the realms of social media, web design, video editing, writing, and/or fashion design

i'm vanta rainbow black: known fediverse poster, longtime writer, seasoned video editor, skilled audio/image editor, designer of websites, DIY fashion designer, and all-around creative person :3

here's my portfolio! https://vanta.work

tysm ^_^

#GetFediHired #FediHired #seattle

Jobs paying at minimum wage or a salary equivalent should not be allowed to ask applicants to have experience or qualifications

Meche & Manny of Grim Fandango

#grimfandango #gaming #doublefine #lucasarts #fanart

My Berzerk homage Die for the Economy! is on sale for the first time since launch in the Steam Spring sale! Grab a whoppin' 30% off and get back to work, humanoid!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3266590/Die_for_the_Economy/

#indiegame #indiedev #steam #steamsale #DieForTheEconomy

"I’ve watched this simple act, which protects the health of the wearer and everyone around them, get politicized and distorted into a sign of mental illness or criminal behavior. Anti-mask rhetoric that was met with disdain when it came from the fringe, alt-right in 2020 has made its way across the political spectrum and is now being promoted among even the most left “radical” groups. If there isn’t straight up hostility and vitriol, there’s often avoidance, annoyance, and refusal to accommodate mask requirements that would make spaces and gatherings accessible."

https://misfitmentalhealth.substack.com/p/why-are-people-wearing-masks-in-2025

@eishiya what about snapping to parallel line assistants? I usually have one for horizontal lines and one for vertical lines and turn them on as needed. Pressure sensitivity still works when using the assistants.