Austin Lanari @[email protected]

👋 Hi, I'm Austin and by trade I'm a full-stack mobile dev #introductions

I also write about comics and, increasingly, labor issues, specifically wrt to cartoonists. When I'm not doing that, I'm setting up random servers (like this one) and tinkering, esp. with free software.

Sometime soon, I see these three things (comics, labor, and libre software) intersecting for me. I'm on twitter @austinlanari but I'd rather just be here.

I need to find the US west coast masto folks, I'm out of sync with like 98% of my federated timeline, except for Germans waking up lol

Might also flip all the progressive web app switches tomorrow. Gatsby just makes it so easy.

In other news, round 2 of styles is done on https://jumanji.io. Going to set up a living changelog on there next I think. Will also write up how I got my Ghost blog to feed me my RSS since it rejects CORS by default.

Californian reps should be leading the way in this stuff but listening to it come up in debates has been disheartening, at best.

It's wild looking at all the things Facebook lied about and seeing nobody do anything about it because we don't hold anybody accountable, AND nobody in Congress understands the issue.

Well, Twitter is off my phone.

It was all leading to this.

The Scooby Doo Supernatural episode is a feat of modern society

Mo had a big advantage in our second game but he saved it for slow-mo. You might think you'll be able to get all the zone shots if you save your slo-mo, but you won't. You need to MAKE zone shots. Force the defense of them.

Biggest tip for online play: if you have an energy advantage, you HAVE to use it.

Big shoutout to Modigga on Mario Tennis Aces for the best online tournament match I've played yet!

Anyway, I don't think people should be looking for Patreon alternatives: I think they should be looking at an alternative way to think about supporting artists entirely, not just a similar platform with better economics.

Libreapay would be a step in the right direction paired with a more ethical culture of delivery (e.g. non-profit comic festivals run by local co-ops)

It's like, bad reverse psychology, that spins out of a good design, but will put people off.

Where it has the ethical and logistical (and even some economical) upsides, tho, the psychology of having to load up your funds to save on transaction fees will dissuade the average person, where Patreon mostly makes it so you never think about them.

Plenty of people subscribe to Patreon tiers that they never take advantage of. I support at least one comic artist who posts pdf's of her work each month and I never read them, and usually end up just buying them lol

Didn't know about libreapay until I got on mastodon. It strikes me as the preferred method of being a legitimate patron, not to mention its viability for creating a web of benefactors.

Just found out OpenRCT2 is a thing so I have an excuse not to work on https://jumanji.io while I take breaks

I've got roller coaster tycoon on my feed so now all I want to do is play roller coaster tycoon

Finished first round of light styles on jumanji.io as I get ready to make it my home on the internets and step away from Twitter.

I changed to a monospace font and I hate it haha, but it's time to call it a night. Going to try out some explicitly Bauhaus-esque stuff with the colors and pieces of the layout.