Somnius @somnius@merveilles.town

#introductions

Hey there! I'm Somnius, a white tiger living in SF. I code websites, play indie & rhythm games, love all kinds of music, and turned vegan in the middle of this year.

Things I advocate for: furries, non-monogamy, sex positivity, gender identity, LGBT+ rights, democratic socialism.

All of you here inspire me so much with the amazing things you create. I have so much to learn!

I've been getting back into guitar, and one of the songs I've learned is "Ravens", on ⁦‪@azu's album "We Were Once Called Spring". I hope you enjoy listening to this as much as I enjoyed playing it! :D

My version of Ravens: https://youtu.be/dhSO2zBBSlU

Download Azu's album: https://azuria-sky.bandcamp.com/album/we-were-once-called-spring

#theWorkshop #theStudio

It's been a peaceful day so far today :3

Good morning, all! It's a ☁️ day in the Bay Area today.

Dang, I've been getting a ton of mileage out of my scooter too! Been certainly putting this guy to work. (I named the scooter REVOLUTION because, uh, the wheels revolve. Really fast. Really imaginative, I know.)

Nice, removed about 171GB worth of super old remote attachments for the instance, so hopefully this should help our S3 costs significantly >w> #theWorkshop

Update: I found out about the tootctl command "usage" and uh wow, this is the output:

Attachments: 181 GB (5.58 GB local)
Custom emoji: 413 MB (317 KB local)
Preview cards: 5.7 GB
Avatars: 2.81 GB (9.85 MB local)
Headers: 6.15 GB (46.5 MB local)
Backups: 7.08 MB
Imports: 0 Bytes
Settings: 190 KB

Note the vast difference between the full number of attachments and how small the number of local-only ones there are >w>

Time to remove the old remote media!

It looks like S3 costs are kind of ballooning as the instance grows in size, however, and while we're not quite going over budget yet by any means, it may be worth it to see how a comparable image host costs.

It was a fantastic last month though! I hope you all are doing super well, and that you also had a lovely November. Merveilles.town turns 1 later this month, too. I can't believe it's already been around for this long.

Cheers, and have fun! :D

The DigitalOcean costs spiked a bit because of the memory issue we were having in the middle of the month that I didn't resolve until about a week later. However, that's all fixed now and we should see our costs go back down to the $24/month that it was before for the following month.

Donations
$72.54 via Patreon

Total: $72.54

Infrastructure Costs
Amazon S3: $39.86
DigitalOcean: $44.54

Total: $84.40

Donations to Date
$872.95

Infrastructure Costs to Date
$668.29

Money left over
$204.66

Made some vegan shepherd's pie too! Got some great vegan sausages to line the bottom of this. #theGalley

Baked some vegan pumpkin cookies for Friendsgiving tomorrow! They look and taste real good, pretty happy with how they came out. #theGalley

Oh snap, with the recent influx of invites, we now have 300 total users, with 262 active ones, on Merveilles! Welcome to all you lovely new people :3

It's funny, I think some bots who submit invite requests here think that the big text field for "why do you want to join" is a password field. I keep getting garbled text results in their applications, it's silly!

Nothing to show just yet, but I got NextJS set up with TypeScript, Emotion, and ESLint! Started some basic styling but I haven’t gotten to the big stuff just yet. Will continue working on this later in the week! #theWorkshop

Weekend goals: going to finally get started on my own personal wiki. Already got a repo set up: https://github.com/somniusTiger/tigrex

So there’s a little bit of tie-in with the tooling at my current job, I’m going to give http://nextjs.org/ a try. We’ll see how it goes, and we’ll see what exactly I’ll be using this to record! #theWorkshop