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transduck · 13 days
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Just found out that the dietary calorie is still measured by burning food in a "bomb calorimeter" and then measuring the heat produced. There's no solid evidence that this method is at all equivalent to how our bodies process food (an entirely different chemical process from combustion), the accuracy of this system has been disputed for as long as it's existed, and there are no available alternatives
There are 4800 calories in a kilogram of dry sawdust even though wood is completely indigestible to humans, because calories don't measure nutritional value, just how well something burns
Nutritional "science" is pure bullshit
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transduck · 3 months
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firefox just started doing this too so remember kids if you want to stream things like netflix or hulu over discord without the video being blacked out you just have to disable hardware acceleration in your browser settings!
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transduck · 4 months
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So, Microsoft is terrible. Yes yes, the oldest claim in the world.
But specifically... I just hate how Windows 10 tries to conflate and confuse web searches with things on one's own computer. The start menu should never do anything related to web-searching, especially if it purports to try to give examples of things that are on my hard drive!
This will make old, computer-illiterate people more malware-vulnerable. You have to maintain a strong distinction between "things that are on this computer (and maybe even included in Windows)" (safe, one hopes, or you already got pwned by it, probably), and "things on the web" (scary, dangerous, not to be trusted at all).
Eroding that barrier in the UI is awful. It just FEELS like a violation every time I start typing into the start bar, and it tries to show me ANYTHING web-related. My computer is NOT just an internet-portal! It has tons of stuff on it, and when I'm interacting with the OS, I ONLY want to see things that are already on here!
If I wanted to see something online, I would go to my browser! All the online stuff should be segregated into the browser!
Specific programs can access the internet; that's fine. But my OS's functions and interface should JUST be about the things that are already on my computer.
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transduck · 4 months
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COFFEE QUEST CONTINUES!
Join our coffee adventure!-  Or at least check out more Art Goodies here:
[Check out Toonimated’s Coffee Quest]  <Take a look!
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transduck · 4 months
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A boy can dream, can't he?
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transduck · 4 months
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I submitted this free app to the Windows Store/Microsoft Store.
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It's a GIF viewer. It lets you take a close look at them.
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You can search for "gif enjoyer" on the Windows Store/Microsoft Store app. It's the one with the icon that looks like this:
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I'm still updating it with a few more stuff but it takes a few days for the store to approve some updates. I'd like to keep the app simple and focused on what it does though.
If you find this app useful in your work, please consider a contribution to my Ko-fi! 🙏
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transduck · 5 months
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The Creator's Guide to Comics Devices is OPEN!!! comicsdevices.com
An online library of visual-narrative devices that are used in the medium of comics and other sequential art.
Happy Halloween! I'm really excited to be finally launching* what is maybe one of my most ambitious, largest work yet. This online library is the next phase of a research project that began in May 2020, when I first mused on how comics as a field doesn't have a resource that catalogues devices used in the medium. Like, theatre has devices, so does literature, and film! So why shouldn't comics? I always had an interest in comics studies and analysis. I love reading, making and thinking comics. However most of my knowledge was intuitive - I learned comics from osmosis and experience. This is true for many of my peers. Speaking about comics as a creator is hard, because we don't have a robust system of language. When we had to speak, many of us tend to reach for the language developed for film by film practitioners. If there is language specific to comics, it's either scattered in multiple blogs or hidden away in academic journals. The Comics Devices library is meant to aggregate everything and everybody into a single hub! After exploring some multiple resources, alongside some original, independent research, here is the first edition! * The Comics Devices project is still a work-in-progress! It's not final, nor will it ever be. This is why I am seeking contributors to help build this library. Translations, comics examples, etc. There is a lot of work to do! If you are interested, reply to this post or submit an expression of interest on this page.  Have fun everyone!! (Now time for me to melt x_x)
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transduck · 5 months
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hi. do you hate the way that social medias are all imploding on themselves and hate being here and being subjected to their whims and want to blast everyone responsible with psychic mind beams?
then take my hand... i can't help with the mind beams but I can guide you into the world of People Having Their Own Personal Websites Again
RSS/Atom Feed Reader
Whether you make your own website or not, if there's one thing you take away from this post it's that you should get a feed reader, which will allow you to subscribe to people's personal websites and even most social media and get updates in one location without needing any accounts! Even if you specifically don't make your own website, this will allow you to follow the people who do :)
There are all sorts of options for this out there, some feed readers are jam packed with a zillion features i couldn't begin to describe. Because I just use feedbro:
Which is extremely simple and free and does support different browsers if you're not using firefox for some reason, and I've never needed anything more complicated, so I don't really know what the more complicated ones do.
You just add the RSS feed to feedbro, and from then on any time that website updates (especially ideal for following webcomics fyi), you'll get a little notification for it!
HTML
Onto the actual making your own website part—HTML, which is really, really simple! If you're intimidated by coding, worry not, as it's not actually coding—it's essentially just written tags that mark blocks of text, describing what that text is. Here's a 5 minute video you can watch that explains exactly what it is and what it's used for:
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Not a video guy, even for 5 minutes? Neocities has a very short and simple interactive introduction to HTML you can run through on this page (not very mobile friendly, however):
Once you're familiar with HTML, the best way to learn what to do with it is simply to just make something.
Open notepad, and just write out the basic html structure of a webpage with a header and a body with the body saying some funny phrase (or hello world if you can't think of one). save it as index.html, and open that up in your browser. Lo, a webpage!!
CSS
Kinda ugly though. Websites haven't looked that plain in a long time, and that's because we decided to make cascading style sheets to make websites look prettier.
Anyway I got another 5 minute video for you, this one explains what CSS is :)
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Learning how to use them
Now that you are familiar with what HTML and CSS is, I recommend that you head on over to the Mozilla Developer Network and follow their completely free Getting Started With The Web course:
And make your own personal website as you follow along! Make that thing personal to you and not some generic tutorial thing and you'll have a lot more fun with it :)
Sharing your website with the internet
As you make your website, you're gonna want to show it off. There are two options I recommend for this, option one has already come up: Neocities
Pros:
On-site text editor and file creator allows you to just open up neocities and create and edit your webpages directly in your browser, no need to download an IDE to edit with.
Big community aspect, neocities is actually a social media! You can follow other websites, people can comment and like your site updates, etc... If that sounds fun to you, its a unique aspect of neocities!
Extremely beginner friendly, no set up required beyond writing the html itself. It even comes with some ready made example files to help you get started!
Cons:
Batch upload options are incredibly limited, and what there is (which is limited to subscribers and not well documented), is shockingly slow—like, taking an hour to move a few megabytes because it reauthenticates for every single file transfer and if youre moving a bunch of tiny 1-2kb files this process takes forever. The alternative is drag and drop uploads, which are very buggy for mass uploads and uploading multiple directories never works right
As a consequence, it is not possible to utilise a static site generator effectively with neocities, which means each page needs to be edited individually, and updating your layout is rather difficult to do as you'll have to edit every page one by one.
So, my general opinion of neocities is it's a wonderful place to begin! But it is entirely possible that your needs, or desire to simplify the editing process, may eventually outgrow it.
If you're not very familiar with HTML and CSS yet, I would start with neocities.
Hot Tip! If you want a url that reads website.neocities.org/about, rather than website.neocities.org/about.html, make a new folder named about, and inside of there make a file named index.html. that file's address is now /about!
ALSO!! You will need to code your own RSS feed, and manually update it. This isn't difficult to do the syntax is very similar to HTML, just google it :)
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If you've a little familiarity with HTML & CSS and feel confident handling some more complicated initial setup to allow for more flexibility, automation, and not having to edit your navbar on every single page on your website every time you want to add a new link, then I recommend option two: Netlify
Pros
You can drag and drop the folder containing every webpage and file and directory on your website and upload that all at once, no issues with batch uploading like neocities :)
You can link your netlify account to a git respository, such as through github, and combine it with a static site generator, such as 11ty, and then it will automatically rebuild your website for you whenever you add, remove, or update a file in the repository. Using something like VSCode, you can edit your website files on your computer, hit save, then send those straight to your repository and automatically update your website.
This means you can edit and preview your website locally on your computer before you send those updates to the internet, and it also grants you access to all sorts of tools and extensions that make it easier to make websites than neocities little simple editor!
Cons
There is no on-site file editing or individual file management. If you drag and drop upload your website, I do believe you have to drag and drop the entire website every time you update. This is only a con if you do not set up git integration, if you do then this con is addressed and fixed!
The set up is much more involved and less intuitive. It's not difficult! But you will be downloading all sorts of different things to get the pieces into place, which might be a little overwhelming. Just remember this is a one time set up and once everything is in place you'll be set for the indefinite future, just take your time.
11ty/Eleventy
Now I've mentioned static site generators (SSGs) a couple times now and 11ty once, and you might be wondering what exactly that is.
Now a website, like tumblr for example, has some areas of dynamic content. This post is in one of those areas: the post feed and content area in general changes from page to page and scroll to scroll.
But around this area, we have the header, the sidebar, the footer, all your little navigation and GUI type parts of the website. Those don't, or minimally, change between pages. If you want to edit the content of the footer, on neocities you'd have to edit every individual page to do this which is a slog the bigger your website gets.
But what if, your footer was one single file that you add into a bigger layout file, and then when you make a new page, you assign it that layout? And then you just edited the footer file when you wanted to change the footer, and every page with a layout that uses the footer file gets automatically updated?
That's what a static site generator does babeyyy, there's quite a few different options out there—next.js, hugo, gatsby, jekyll, zola, and more... but I personally use 11ty/Eleventy, because it's very simple and doesn't require any javascript on the final pages that get output like some of the other options do, instead printing out plain html and css files.
To use 11ty effectively you will need installed on your computer: Python, Git, Node.js, and VSCode or another IDE but ill continue to assume you have VSCode in this post. You'll also want a repository for your website set up—I'm only familiar with github which has built in integration with VSCode, but if you want to you can explore alternatives, but again, I'll just assume you're using github! Which is to say, I won't personally be able to offer advice if you go a different route.
Anyway, install python, git, and node in that order, and then open up that link and follow their getting started guide :)
You'll still need to set up the RSS feed, but there are extensions for 11ty to do this automatically, and alternatively you can use the template system to make a semi-manual one.
Javascript
Simple HTML and CSS webpages is great and all, but what if. You click something on your webpage. And then, something happens? Or, you load a webpage, and it gets information from another website, and puts it onto yours? Like maybe pulling your recent tumblr posts and adding them to your website?
That would be fun :)
So to make your pages interactive and do things like that, you need javascript. If you follow the MDN web dev tutorials you'll get to javascript eventually anyway, but my personal recommendation for where to learn JS is here:
SASS/SCSS
Syntatically Awesome Style Sheets, or Sassy CSS, or just SASS, is basically to CSS what SSGs like 11ty are to HTML.
Macros in nunjucks and liquid (the templating languages used by 11ty), functions in javascript, these little blocks of repeatable code in these languages are made possible in CSS via mixins. There's a parent selector! And a bunch of other stuff I could talk forever about—point is, if you're well acquainted with CSS and would like access to some more advanced functionality, SASS is well worth a look into. There's a plugin for 11ty you can install to your project directory which will automatically build .sass files into .css files for you when your site gets built :)
Front-end Frameworks
Maybe web design isn't your greatest strength, maybe it is but you'd like to have some of the menial work automated for you, either way it might be worth having a little look into some frameworks to see if they'll make life easier for you. Now, I'm a toyhouse coding regular, so the framework I'm most familiar with and indeed use on my own websites and blogs is Bootstrap:
If you set up SASS, you can edit it to look however you want it to :)
Another framework that I'm loosely familiar with but haven't used a great deal that which is more CSS focused is tailwind:
It never really clicked with me but it might with you who knows!
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And that's all I have I think, the various links I've shared will go into things in more depth and link to other resources and guides that you might need!
The only other thing I'll say is this:
Coding is not about knowing how to do something, but knowing how to look up how to do something.
I've given a mighty kick start here as best I could, but get familiar with googling things like "How to do champfered corners CSS," "how to execute an if statement inside a template literal JS stackoverflow," "how to install node packages reddit", "CSS grid generator," "CSS clip path generator," and so on and so forth! Stackoverflow, reddit, MDN, w3schools, and csstricks are your best friends for finding information. Good luck!!
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transduck · 5 months
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"it's okay, i can peel back the layers of you until i find the soft and gentle core of you you've had to work so hard to hide"? no. no, it's okay, i know you're hollow; i'm here anyway. you don't have to pretend it isn't masks the whole way down. whatever face you want to wear, i still love you. i don't need you to be good or unflinching or the antonym of violence. if i did, i wouldn't be here. i wouldn't ask that of you.
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transduck · 5 months
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A little [free!] brush pack I made, made up of four brushes currently. Think of v.0 as a rough draft of sorts for these brushes. :]
Download here: www.tombofnull.art/gallery/archive/2023/stipple-beast.html
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transduck · 6 months
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Won’t Someone Think of the d100 Polearms?
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Won’t Someone Think of the d100 Polearms? is a free toolkit for crafting unique polearms for use in tabletop roleplaying games. It is system neutral, and it will be up to you to assign stats that make sense for the polearms in your system of choice.
In this toolkit you will find three tables to roll on to create a polearm:
1. A table of 100 blade designs based on historical polearms!
2. A table of 100 special qualities (Angry, Wise, Invisible, Cabbage)!
3. A table of 100 (mostly) decorative shafts!
Now, go forth and fill your games with a bounty of the most useful yet most underappreciated type of weapon ever to grace the pages of our hobby!
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transduck · 6 months
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actually im just gonna make my own post about it: please read more webcomics. please try them. every time people make posts about “aw man i wish SOMEone would WRITE about FLAVOR OF QUEER THING/TRAUMA OR ABUSE BUT IN SPECIFIC WAYS I CAN RELATE TO/WHATEVER” and then it gets reblogged into a giant thread of people agreeing with it and demanding Content i die because whatever it is is definitely being painstakingly created by an indie author who would really like for people to consume it and every time i point this out people suddenly can’t read lmao
it is out there it is free it is being made from firsthand experiences by people who care very very deeply who would be DELIGHTED to hear that it’s resonating with anybody at all, please throw some of that enthusiasm and support at people who will actually appreciate it
if you’re an indie comic person and any of this applies to you i encourage you to reblog this with a link to your comic and a short synopsis so people can browse the notes and find shit they’re looking for. or make your own post on your own blog if you don’t want to fool with other people i don’t care this is a sign from the universe that you should be louder about what you’re working on because people can’t fucking find it apparently.
i’ll go first i make kidd commander and it’s about an ensemble cast of queers on their way to kill god, they live on an airship and they’re all too pissed off to die. it’s free to read and it’s in the middle of its third arc right now. it lives here http://kiddcommander.com/
go go go
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transduck · 11 months
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happy mother’s day btw the adult children of emotionally immature parents book is free to read on archive.org
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transduck · 1 year
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Screaming crying because I hate every piracy guide I come across on here.
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transduck · 1 year
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Do you like vintage scientific illustrations?
Do you like not spending huge amounts of money on them?
This website has a huge collection of high quality vintage illustrations that you can download FOR FREE
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They got pretty much everything!! Vintage maps, mushrooms, flowers, trees, bugs, birds, corals, fish, palm trees, feathers, tropical fruits, you name it!!
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They even got some works of my dude Ernst Haeckel on there!!!!
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I could go on and on but I suggest you check it out yourself. Personally, I will be covering my entire apartment with these once copyshops are open again. But even if you don’t want to do that, just browsing all these beautiful illustrations is a great way to spend your time. 
Have fun and stay save!
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transduck · 1 year
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What makes us human is the Nintendo 3DS
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transduck · 1 year
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figure this might be of interest to folks here, a mutual of mine who doesnt have tumblr (i believe) just released a super handy extension called Indie Wiki Buddy. does a lot more than just redirects, itll filter out search results and add a banner to fandom wikis youre viewing, and it goes hand-in-hand with Breezewiki if you're already using it :)
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