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!

The Blackest Black 3.0 has just arrived!!! Testing it out already and it works quite well :3

Hey all! Over the weekend, as part of an effort to make the server infrastructure available as needed, I'll be taking down the instance for a short while this Saturday at 5pm PST (12am Sunday UTC) for about an hour or so while I transfer the DigitalOcean droplet over to a new account.

I'm expecting this to only take a couple of hours, but I'll keep you all updated with how it goes. Thanks for your patience!

Just merged style updates for v2.9.0 from @drisc! Cheers, the single-column view should look quite nice now :3

Upgrade to v2.9.0 complete! Enjoy y'all :D

Hey all! I'm going to give upgrading to 2.9 a go. There shouldn't be much downtime (if at all) but I'll keep you updated in case anything happens!

This is all on DigitalOcean's end, so it's out of my hands. I'll keep you all updated as things progress!

Hey all! The server on DigitalOcean that the Merveilles.town instance is on will be going under an emergency migration starting at 2019-06-13 01:30 UTC. This may result in some downtime for the instance, but it should be back up soon once the migration is completed.

Welcome, @ragekit and @pepyakin! :D

Hey all! I just launched a Patreon page for the Merveilles instance. I'm hoping to get enough funds to keep the instance going on its own, if possible. Feel free to become a patron if you like, any contribution you can make is much appreciated! https://www.patreon.com/merveillestown

I could get used to my fingernails being this long! They work pretty well for finger-picking. I think this is the way I'll be doing nail polish for the next little while too, I like the dots.

As requested by @floatvoid, here's a graph of our total expenses over time. I also have a graph of the total expenses of just S3 over time as well.

That $50 is for a yearly license to Fastmail. It's part of a thing I'm doing to separate the Merveilles finances from my own.

I'm also noticing that costs are increasing while money is running out. I think I need to make a way to increase funding for this. Expect to see more on this soon!

Total Donations for Month
$5.00 via ko-fi

Infrastructure Costs
Amazon S3: $10.99
DigitalOcean: $24.00
Sparkpost: $0.00
Fastmail: $50.00

Total: $84.99

Donations to Date
$459.00

Infrastructure Costs to Date
$348.40

Money left over
$110.60

I recently got myself an acoustic guitar, with nylon strings, and I've been growing out my nails for finger-picking. It's really nice to get back into playing an instrument, even though it's been so long!

Good day, all! How is everyone?

Super excited to be heading to BLFC starting tomorrow evening! It'll be great to check out Reno again, and it'll be super nice to get some time to relax :D