Footbridge at Blaise
This painting was a challenge to get the shades and values right but it sort of worked in the end. Gouache and watercolour on Saunders Waterford paper. #gouache #watercolor #stream
Work in progress. A mostly hawksbill turtle head. It's not exactly like one, but eh it's my world. #mastoart #creativetoots
@mastobikes Since the main article is written in Norwegian and "paywalled" (thus most here will not be able to read it) I have a short alternative.
I touched on a couple of the same topics (in a more limited fashion) on this old (2018) blog post on my employer's ( #VivaldiBrowser ) website.
Some thing have changed since then. Most noticeably I bought more cycles, including the Penny Farthing featured above. 😉 (and the Halfbike… and footbike, plus more unicycles… 🤷🏼).
I now work a job getting paid what would be less than minimum wage in most western developed economies. Job applications are ignored. I couldn’t imagine the struggle if I had student loans. I am still facing the real possibility of bankruptcy anyway within the next year or two.
I am one of the lucky ones. I graduated HS with a scholarship that paid my tuition. However, my parents bankrupted themselves and my sister nearly so paying for everything else. It took me seven years to land a good job, and only three after that to lose it.
To the few people my post here will reach:
Welcome to the fediverse. If anyone’s old enough to remember Twitter as it was when it started, this place is a bit like that. Your timeline is chronological, and you have to make an effort yourself to discover other people. There’s no algorithm designed to make you engage. What makes it different is that people from different servers can still communicate from one another.
A small bit of progress on what I was working on last. I haven't worked on it much since then, but progress is progress I suppose. #WIP
We should be creating an alternative to MDN. It won’t remain free much longer.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/03/introducing-mdn-plus-make-mdn-your-own/
I run my Mastodon instance in a Docker container because Mastodon’s code is such a rat’s nest it won’t install on my bare server because it’s not ubuntu. This morning its database container decided to shit the bed for no reason and corrupted the database. Thankfully I had backups, but it’s not exactly what I wanted to do this morning.
Developer, washed-up designer, and occasional Illustrator. Ook!