Dustin Wilson @dustin@dustinwilson.com

Work in progress. A mostly hawksbill turtle head. It's not exactly like one, but eh it's my world. #mastoart #creativetoots

Quiet weekend, just trying to relax. Up too late tonight. Oh well. #mastoArt #wip

I love how Netflix keeps giving me reasons to never subscribe.

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.

I hope student loans are forgiven, and damn the economic repercussions of doing so. Two generations have been lied to saying good paying jobs are at the end of that rainbow, and that paying off loans would be trivial. These are loans many sign when 17 — when they’re minors.

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/

Something's fishy. #sketch #wip #mastoart #creativetoots

First time painting something that isn't for work in what feels like a long time. I streamed working on it for a bit last Saturday, but all the clouds the few people who were there to help me test my settings saw were painted over. WIP. Hope to finish it before armageddon.

echo $(shuf -n1 -e cyndaquil rowlet oshawatt)

I don’t use sass in projects that often, but every few months when I do I am astounded by how they’re able to completely change it and make it worse in the process.

Another day, another npm implosion. Guy pushes malicious code on his own repositories and then expects no repercussions. Alright.

Shoulda just deleted the repos, man.

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.