Things have been a little bit spotty around here for the past month or so. Due to a change in circumstances I’ve moved servers again. Loading times have taken a hit since we’re not in Australia anymore, but on a purely personal level I just really hate Jeff Bezos as an individual and it seemed fundamentally wrong to continue utilizing AWS as a direct result of this deeply subjective vendetta.*

That and I wanted full unsupervised access to things I will definitely break. Being an adult is utterly destroying something and having nobody to blame but yourself, after all.

Notable changes since the move:

• SSL has been implemented. While not entirely necessary for this hot nonsense, I’d been noticing social media sites blocking links if they weren’t secure, so figured it wouldn’t hurt.
• Pulled down the comic. As stated last entry, it’s been on hiatus indefinitely for some years and I just don’t know if I’ll ever be in a place to resurrect it.
• Images and links in the blog might be a little broken while I set about the last manual uploads and redirections, please bear with me for the time being.
• Freelancing and commission work are no longer things I do. Please continue to help yourself to the print ready cosplay graphics in my Google Drive, or ask any questions you may have about my projects. I am always a slut for helping people.

These days my job is objectively less interesting but a lot more consistent, and that kind of stability is something my life has probably been needing. Though I would like to start working from a place that is not inside a house, so if you happen to know of any available jobs a socially incompetent potato can do, feel free to hit a spud up.
If you’re a potential employer… uh… please ignore this entire website while simultaneously acknowledging my ongoing dedication to building and maintaining it over the past 15 years. Thanks.

Speaking of; I’ve adjusted the navigation menus so they display horizontally on mobile rather than vertically. It just looks a bit nicer, less scrolling.

_Satisfying.

The gallery has also had a bit of work done so the images are centred on mobile, rather than floating to the left how they do on a desktop screen.

_{Mobile vs. Desktop.}

Gallery images open without any drama, something that, so far, hasn’t required a whole lot of work on my part. Which is nice. The auto rotation between horizontal and vertical display seems to sort itself out without much fanfare too.

_{Gallery image display.}

Lastly, while I still haven’t figured out a “lazy-loading” technique that fits my needs, I have toggled the gallery to populate with a placeholder while the images load. It isn’t perfect by any means, but if something’s worth doing then it’s worth doing badly then coming back to fix later, am I right lads?!

Because that, my friends, is how we learn.

_{*Ultimately I remain as much a slave to capitalism as everybody else and as such will continue to use other Amazon products in the future. All hail the corporate overlords.}