<spanstyle=color:#fe3801>SoundCloud</span></a><br></nav></aside><article><h2>Welcome.</h2><p>Oh. I didn’t see you there. My name is J. P. Savard - but you can call me Yuki - and welcome to my abode. This is a repository of silly things, poetry, rants, ideas and experiments I made on my free time, I hope you will like them, and that the information will be useful.</p><p>Here be dragons below, have fun.</p></article><article><div><h2><aclass=titlehref=/twitter-tips/>Twitter tips and tricks I'm reasonably sure I came up with but I kinda wish more people should use</a></h2><p>Warning: Those are kinda involved and features characters you won't find on your keyboard. If you're too lazy to fetch them from a random website I don't blame you I guess</p><iclass="far fa-calendar-alt"></i>
#<aclass="btn btn-sm btn-outline-dark tag-btn"href=http://toasters.rocks/tags/rant>Rant</a><br><iclass="fas fa-hourglass"></i> ~2 minutes</div><p>1. How to evade bots and algorithmic censorship Use Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols and you’ll be none the wiser.
Example: 𝖼𝗋𝗒𝗉𝗍𝗈𝖭𝖥𝖳
It’s indisguishable from basic ASCII, except if you’re blind and you use a screen reader. In which case I hope you won’t mind for the sake of avoiding bots. Which is why Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.</p><p><ahref=/twitter-tips/>Read More...</a></p></article><articlestyle=background-image:url(/images/2021/12/a39logo.png)><divclass=metadatastyle="height:calc((var(--height) - 2em) * .5212264150943396 - 3.5em)"><h2><aclass=titlehref=/a39/>Introducing a39.ca</a></h2><p>New project. New goals. Same old thing.</p><iclass="far fa-calendar-alt"></i>
#<aclass="btn btn-sm btn-outline-dark tag-btn"href=http://toasters.rocks/tags/meta>Meta</a><br><iclass="fas fa-hourglass"></i> ~2 minutes</div><p>Hey, been a while. 2021 was weird. Probably as much as 2020 was, and as much as 2022 probably will. I kind of took 2021 leisurely, mostly because of family illness, the Backstreet Boys Reunion Tour*, my day job, and helping family and friends that all took most of my time. I hope it gets better in 2022, so I kinda want to set some goals for now on.
Introducing here a39.</p><p><ahref=/a39/>Read More...</a></p></article><articlestyle=background-image:url(/images/2020/11/bg.png)><divclass=metadatastyle="height:calc((var(--height) - 2em) * .5625 - 3.5em)"><h2><aclass=titlehref=/toasters-rocks-4/>Toasters Rocks 4.0</a></h2><p>Brand new blog, again.</p><iclass="far fa-calendar-alt"></i>
#<aclass="btn btn-sm btn-outline-dark tag-btn"href=http://toasters.rocks/tags/meta>Meta</a><br><iclass="fas fa-hourglass"></i> ~6 minutes</div><p>Well, it seems to be a tradition around this time of the year, every 368 days or so. A brand new blog. But this time, the story is quite interesting.
Genesis The first iteration of this blog was basically my Tumblr blog. By November 2018, I became largely disinterested by Tumblr due to various reasons, and I found this blog engine called WriteFreely, written in Go, could do federation so the blog posts would show up in people’s Mastodon feeds, effectively replicating some of Tumblr’s social features.</p><p><ahref=/toasters-rocks-4/>Read More...</a></p></article><article><div><h2><aclass=titlehref=/november-updates/>November updates</a></h2><p></p><iclass="far fa-calendar-alt"></i>
#<aclass="btn btn-sm btn-outline-dark tag-btn"href=http://toasters.rocks/tags/zarmina>Zarmina</a><br><iclass="fas fa-hourglass"></i> ~2 minutes</div><p>This article was originally published on Patreon, reposting it here for completeness.
So I’m working on and off on this show bible for Zarmina, gathering pages of notes and failed scripts I wrote for myself into one concise document meant to show other people who dare help… As I probably said in every post so far, the worst thing is motivation, I have a 9 to 5 job in the way and I have a family to care of, but eh, I’d say I’m half through the synopsis so far.</p><p><ahref=/november-updates/>Read More...</a></p></article><article><div><h2><aclass=titlehref=/zarmina-updates/>Zarmina updates</a></h2><p></p><iclass="far fa-calendar-alt"></i>
#<aclass="btn btn-sm btn-outline-dark tag-btn"href=http://toasters.rocks/tags/zarmina>Zarmina</a><br><iclass="fas fa-hourglass"></i> ~2 minutes</div><p>This article was originally published on Patreon, reposting it here for completeness.
Anyway, here’s some updates… It’s been years I’m talking about Zarmina and not much came up out of it. I had some work done this summer, the outline of the story is now finally complete, and I now started writing a bible, organizing all my notes together so someone else can look at it and have a good idea of the whole picture.</p><p><ahref=/zarmina-updates/>Read More...</a></p></article><articlestyle=background-image:url(/images/2020/10/tumblr_nf5ohq1Tn01qexvxeo2_1280.png)><divclass=metadatastyle="height:calc((var(--height) - 2em) * .8320693391115926 - 3.5em)"><h2><aclass=titlehref=/why-is-my-oc-a-girl/>Why is my OC a girl</a></h2><p>An essay about gender and ponies.</p><iclass="far fa-calendar-alt"></i>
#<aclass="btn btn-sm btn-outline-dark tag-btn"href=http://toasters.rocks/tags/rant>Rant</a><br><iclass="fas fa-hourglass"></i> ~5 minutes</div><p>An OC, short for “original character”, is often used, especially in the brony and furry fandoms, as an avatar of oneself, and in those fandoms you’re encouraged to create one for yourself. And so is what I did as a brony around 2012, as a fan of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, this show that somehow went hugely popular outside its intended target audience due to being overly cute and wholesome, while not trying too much so the kids’ parents could get behind as well.</p><p><ahref=/why-is-my-oc-a-girl/>Read More...</a></p></article><articlestyle=background-image:url(/images/2020/06/Screenshot_20200601-150643.png)><divclass=metadatastyle="height:calc((var(--height) - 2em) * 1.7777777777777777 - 3.5em)"><h2><aclass=titlehref=/i-left-social-networks/>I left social networks</a></h2><p>Some sort of virtual quarantine? How long will it last, this time?</p><iclass="far fa-calendar-alt"></i>
#<aclass="btn btn-sm btn-outline-dark tag-btn"href=http://toasters.rocks/tags/experiments>Experiments</a><br><iclass="fas fa-hourglass"></i> ~5 minutes</div><p>I have a love-hate relationship with Facebook and Twitter. On one hand, it’s a big forum with millions of people, all my friends are there, I meet new friends, they say some funny stuff, some cute stuff, I get all of my news there. It’s super useful to share my work, and to reach people who might like it. I love just saying randomly what’s on my mind for comedy, at the attention to whoever might hear it and find this funny.</p><p><ahref=/i-left-social-networks/>Read More...</a></p></article><article><div><h2><aclass=titlehref=/pandemic-story/>Pandemic Story</a></h2><p></p><iclass="far fa-calendar-alt"></i>
#<aclass="btn btn-sm btn-outline-dark tag-btn"href=http://toasters.rocks/tags/tech>Tech</a><br><iclass="fas fa-hourglass"></i> ~5 minutes</div><p>Here’s a bit of my life story. For starters, I’ve always had trouble finding a proper job, probably because I’m on the autism spectrum (of course, not something I’d like to explicitely tell everyone, for reasons), and/or I’ve had a very pelicular story on my resumé (in short, you know, the whole you need to have experience to have experience thing, the classic catch-22), I don’t know for sure. I’ve always worked freelance on some small projects with friends, friends of friends or for myself, comfortably at home, and I wanted to work in a big company that could provide me with a stable job and work in an office, for a change.</p><p><ahref=/pandemic-story/>Read More...</a></p></article><article><div><h2><aclass=titlehref=/arch-linux-packages/>My Arch Linux packages: how to create your own repo</a></h2><p></p><iclass="far fa-calendar-alt"></i>
#<aclass="btn btn-sm btn-outline-dark tag-btn"href=http://toasters.rocks/tags/tech>Tech</a><br><iclass="fas fa-hourglass"></i> ~2 minutes</div><p>As I use Arch Linux as my daily driver on my main machine now and I use a lot the AUR nowadays (most notably I maintain the packages for The 8-Bit Guy’s Commander X16), figured I might create my own repository, right?
So there you go, after figuring it out on the Arch Wiki, here’s a collection of software I maintain on the AUR, some of my own things I bothered to make a PKGBUILD for, or just software not found in other binary repos I know the users of my communities will like.</p><p><ahref=/arch-linux-packages/>Read More...</a></p></article><articlestyle=background-image:url(/images/2020/01/CA-QC-2.png)><divclass=metadatastyle="height:calc((var(--height) - 2em) * .6666666666666666 - 3.5em)"><h2><aclass=titlehref=/emoji-region-flags/>Emoji region flags</a></h2><p>All of the emoji flags in one convenient font?</p><iclass="far fa-calendar-alt"></i>
