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Check out the repo here!

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You like this website? You wish to get a website just like this one to advertise your stuff? Super simple, not a pain to manage, tailored to your needs? Look no further, I can help you!

Included in the package:

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DevLog #1: Making the trailer


-#Zarmina
~2 minutes

This article was originally published on Patreon, reposting it here for completeness.

I told you I’m keeping you updated, so I’m keeping a dev log here on Patreon. Everything you need to know, so it sounds like I’m actually active at doing something and you can learn from my errors. Don’t want to decieve anyone who might want to throw money at me here.

First thing on my new plan is to post a trailer on YouTube, redirect people here and hope The Algorithm™ does its job somewhat soon.

Unfortunately, I work on Linux on a semi-ancient iMac (back when they were still somewhat good), the graphic card is crapping its life out and I don’t have money to buy a semi-decent computer that could run my software of choice, Adobe After Effects. And all the alternatives, either they can’t run on my weird setup or I don’t like them.

So, what else could I do? Might do it directly in Ren’Py while I’m at it, that would be pretty cool as an intro in the game itself. Now trying to figure out the Ren’Py language. Which sounds like someone abused and mangled the Python engine during its sleep. Pretty cool language, though.

So yeah, coding a semi-decent intro, finding free images that goes with it (the NASA will be useful here), abusing the heck out of Ren’Py, posting everything everywhere once done and throw a bit of climate change and everything in there in hopes someone gets interested. Can’t go wrong, right? Right.

Wish me luck.

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~2 minutes

This article was originally published on Patreon, reposting it here for completeness.

I told you I’m keeping you updated, so I’m keeping a dev log here on Patreon. Everything you need to know, so it sounds like I’m actually active at doing something and you can learn from my errors. Don’t want to decieve anyone who might want to throw money at me here.

First thing on my new plan is to post a trailer on YouTube, redirect people here and hope The Algorithm™ does its job somewhat soon.

Unfortunately, I work on Linux on a semi-ancient iMac (back when they were still somewhat good), the graphic card is crapping its life out and I don’t have money to buy a semi-decent computer that could run my software of choice, Adobe After Effects. And all the alternatives, either they can’t run on my weird setup or I don’t like them.

So, what else could I do? Might do it directly in Ren’Py while I’m at it, that would be pretty cool as an intro in the game itself. Now trying to figure out the Ren’Py language. Which sounds like someone abused and mangled the Python engine during its sleep. Pretty cool language, though.

So yeah, coding a semi-decent intro, finding free images that goes with it (the NASA will be useful here), abusing the heck out of Ren’Py, posting everything everywhere once done and throw a bit of climate change and everything in there in hopes someone gets interested. Can’t go wrong, right? Right.

Wish me luck.

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Facebook sucks


#Rant -#Tech
~4 minutes

Well, I guess this thing will be a really nice place to vent. Because, allow me to say this, and I think everyone here will agree: Facebook sucks.

I mean, if you ever need to talk to their tech support to either change the name of your page, there’s a problem with it, or you even just want access to their API to integrate with your website (all true stories), let me get this straight, it’s going to be a pain in the ass and take you months to get anywhere. What else, the timeline is not making sense anymore and it’s showing more and more ads (actually, if you scroll too far it’s going to give up, tell you you reached the end and just show you ads). Yet, it’s still basically useful to reach your users and friends (even if it’s going to cost you money to reach just half of your followers). I’d like to quit Facebook anytime, but that would mean moving all of my friends and their friends and their friends to something less terrible. And it’s not going to happen anytime soon. Unless there’s a new Facebook-killer out there… and that might probably be Instagram, and guess what? They got bought out by Facebook.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg, I’d tell you all night long about pretty much every social network out there. Talking about Twitter, YouTube, things like that. Thing is, these social networks have upwards of hundreds of millions of active users. Anything they’ll do, someone is going to be angry. And they won’t care if it’s going to make the company stay afloat. It also makes it almost impossible to moderate because they’re dealing with so much users daily. They’re not going to sit with you and personally explain what’s wrong with you and how you can improve (which is to me something any good moderator should do), they don’t have time for that, instead pointing at their terms of service and make you try to figure it out, at best. They’re too busy to code the perfect thing to make the copyright holders and governments happy, which is to me almost impossible without said good moderation or at least a decent rate of false alarms that would make the users happy. Which is probably also almost impossible without the AIs turning sentient, but eh, who knows?

In the end, it just makes your social network a terrible place to go. You long for the good ol’ days where forums were still a nice place to build a community. It still kind of is, but Facebook groups are way easier to build and invite your friends on. Also easier to attract cancer, I guess. Discord is also a very nice one I’d actually recommend (and also Skype and IRC-killer), but it’s a chat application and not very adapted to easily searchable long-form writing.

Enter the Fediverse. It’s a set of applications that resembles Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, YouTube and the like and have mostly the same functions as them, but they’re broken down in thousands of servers that can talk to each other with a common protocol. And the best thing, you can have one of them! Of course, it’d need a bit of configuration and resources just like hosting a forum, but eh, worth it. That means millions of users you can talk to just like the big, centralized, for-profit ones, except it’s broken down in units you can easily moderate yourself or with a small team. There’s no central admin and you can just ban other people, but also other instances (that’s what we call these units) if you don’t like them. And it’s very manageable.

In conclusion, well, there’s no perfect solution, but it seems to go back to self-host everything. It’s great if you know your way with Linux and you have a $10/month to spend on a VPS, or else you can always ask a friend. Just install the software you want and make your own rules. Even this blog, you can follow it on the fediverse. But yeah, if you’re fed up with the rules, make your own. That’s the internet for you. I really like the feel to be in control of everything, which is why I want to move to things like those, and if you’re like that I really recommend you to do that, but I understand that some people are the complete opposite, they have no technical know-how and they’ll like services that take their hands and do everything for them, so there is where general services like Facebook are useful, and even fediverse sites to a point (the biggest instances are half a million users already). But my point is, there will always be some place on the internet where you can be comfortable.

On that, I run things like codewalr.us (a forum for programmers), calc.news (a Mastodon instance) and this blog, feel free to join us if you want to be in a nice community :)

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~4 minutes

Well, I guess this thing will be a really nice place to vent. Because, allow me to say this, and I think everyone here will agree: Facebook sucks.

I mean, if you ever need to talk to their tech support to either change the name of your page, there’s a problem with it, or you even just want access to their API to integrate with your website (all true stories), let me get this straight, it’s going to be a pain in the ass and take you months to get anywhere. What else, the timeline is not making sense anymore and it’s showing more and more ads (actually, if you scroll too far it’s going to give up, tell you you reached the end and just show you ads). Yet, it’s still basically useful to reach your users and friends (even if it’s going to cost you money to reach just half of your followers). I’d like to quit Facebook anytime, but that would mean moving all of my friends and their friends and their friends to something less terrible. And it’s not going to happen anytime soon. Unless there’s a new Facebook-killer out there… and that might probably be Instagram, and guess what? They got bought out by Facebook.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg, I’d tell you all night long about pretty much every social network out there. Talking about Twitter, YouTube, things like that. Thing is, these social networks have upwards of hundreds of millions of active users. Anything they’ll do, someone is going to be angry. And they won’t care if it’s going to make the company stay afloat. It also makes it almost impossible to moderate because they’re dealing with so much users daily. They’re not going to sit with you and personally explain what’s wrong with you and how you can improve (which is to me something any good moderator should do), they don’t have time for that, instead pointing at their terms of service and make you try to figure it out, at best. They’re too busy to code the perfect thing to make the copyright holders and governments happy, which is to me almost impossible without said good moderation or at least a decent rate of false alarms that would make the users happy. Which is probably also almost impossible without the AIs turning sentient, but eh, who knows?

In the end, it just makes your social network a terrible place to go. You long for the good ol’ days where forums were still a nice place to build a community. It still kind of is, but Facebook groups are way easier to build and invite your friends on. Also easier to attract cancer, I guess. Discord is also a very nice one I’d actually recommend (and also Skype and IRC-killer), but it’s a chat application and not very adapted to easily searchable long-form writing.

Enter the Fediverse. It’s a set of applications that resembles Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, YouTube and the like and have mostly the same functions as them, but they’re broken down in thousands of servers that can talk to each other with a common protocol. And the best thing, you can have one of them! Of course, it’d need a bit of configuration and resources just like hosting a forum, but eh, worth it. That means millions of users you can talk to just like the big, centralized, for-profit ones, except it’s broken down in units you can easily moderate yourself or with a small team. There’s no central admin and you can just ban other people, but also other instances (that’s what we call these units) if you don’t like them. And it’s very manageable.

In conclusion, well, there’s no perfect solution, but it seems to go back to self-host everything. It’s great if you know your way with Linux and you have a $10/month to spend on a VPS, or else you can always ask a friend. Just install the software you want and make your own rules. Even this blog, you can follow it on the fediverse. But yeah, if you’re fed up with the rules, make your own. That’s the internet for you. I really like the feel to be in control of everything, which is why I want to move to things like those, and if you’re like that I really recommend you to do that, but I understand that some people are the complete opposite, they have no technical know-how and they’ll like services that take their hands and do everything for them, so there is where general services like Facebook are useful, and even fediverse sites to a point (the biggest instances are half a million users already). But my point is, there will always be some place on the internet where you can be comfortable.

On that, I run things like codewalr.us (a forum for programmers), calc.news (a Mastodon instance) and this blog, feel free to join us if you want to be in a nice community :)

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Nouvelle bande-annonce


#Zarmina
-English
~1 minute

Cet article a originellement été publié sur Itch.io.

Nouvelle bande-annonce pour le projet, c’est pas le jeu complet mais j’espère que vous aimez :) Entièrement réalisé avec Ren’Py parce que de un, ça va servir comme intro au jeu, et de deux, y’avait aucun logiciel de montage vidéo qui marchait convenablement sur mon ordi… Vous pouvez le voir directement sur la page du jeu, sinon si ça bug je l’ai enregistré sur YouTube.

For you English speakers, don’t worry, there will be an English version soon. Once I figure out how the translation module works. It’s kinda weird.

Anyway. If you liked it, please throw me some money here or on Patreon, that’d be super appreciated. But in all, I hope you have fun!

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~1 minute

Cet article a originellement été publié sur Itch.io.

Nouvelle bande-annonce pour le projet, c’est pas le jeu complet mais j’espère que vous aimez :) Entièrement réalisé avec Ren’Py parce que de un, ça va servir comme intro au jeu, et de deux, y’avait aucun logiciel de montage vidéo qui marchait convenablement sur mon ordi… Vous pouvez le voir directement sur la page du jeu, sinon si ça bug je l’ai enregistré sur YouTube.

For you English speakers, don’t worry, there will be an English version soon. Once I figure out how the translation module works. It’s kinda weird.

Anyway. If you liked it, please throw me some money here or on Patreon, that’d be super appreciated. But in all, I hope you have fun!

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Zarmina 3.0: réécriture (encore).


#Zarmina
-English
~3 minutes

Cet article a originellement été publié surPatreon.

Et c’est à ce point que j’ai perdu ma motivation. Encore une fois. Je n’ai rien écrit depuis l’hiver passé, parce que, vous voyez, je me suis rendu compte que ça n’allait nulle part sous sa forme actuelle. Syndrome de la page blanche. Petite panique. C’est pas la vision du projet que j’avais. Je ne peux pas faire ça tout seul, pas de financement. Et j’ai mis ça en pause, je me suis concentré sur autre chose, d’autres projets, en attendant la suite des choses.

Fast forward à fin septembre. Inktober s’en venait. Je me trouvais pas pire en dessin. Je suis retourné sur l’idée et je me suis dit, pourquoi pas dessiner tous mes personnages?

Malhereusement, non, ça s’est pas fait. J’ai pas eu le temps, ni la motivation, pour plusieurs raisons hors de, mais aussi dans mon contrôle. On est le 28e jour et j’ai fait la moitié d’un dessin de Miyuki. Ouais, ça allait bien, Inktober, cette année. Mais, j’ai planifié mon idée. Comment j’allais m’y prendre cette fois-ci? Ça va prendre plus de planification que ça. Cette fois, j’y vais all in et faire le projet que j’ai toujours rêvé de faire. Aller chercher du financement pour pouvoir faire ça temps plein et monter un studio digne de ce nom. Engager des collaborateurs qui sont meilleurs que moi sur certaines choses. Créer des emplois. Peut-être même obtenir de l’aide du gouvernement, si c’est possible. Ils aiment ça, créer des emplois.

J’ai une vision, quelque peu ambitieuse, certes, mais c’est aujourd’hui que ça se passe. Zarmina version 3.0: Le Visual Novel. Un visual novel 100% québécois comme ça se fait pas vraiment au Québec, ni ailleurs, probablement. Avec de l’art, de la musique, de la programmation, disponible sur Steam et/ou toute autre plateforme de distribution. Un chef-d’oeuvre de fantasy et de science-fiction, rien de moins. Je vous tiens au courant. En attendant, je vous ai posté le reste de ce que j’ai d’écrit à date pour Zarmina 2.0: Le Roman, avant de scrapper ça. Gratuitement. Parce que ça va être plus gros que juste un roman avec de la musique dessus.

Y’a une certaine personne qui m’avait mentionné l’autre fois dans un meetup dans le Vieux-Québec qu’elle avait hâte de voir la suite. Ceci est pour toi. Et pour tous ceux qui ont crû en moi. Tous ceux qui m’ont dit que ma catgirl était cute quand j’ai posté mes dessins sur leur serveur Discord. À la vôtre, gang. Votre encouragement est précieux.

J’ai besoin de vous. Donnez généreusement. Ou du moins, donnez tous vos encouragements. *It’s gonna be a bumpy ride. *Et je vais essayer de vous mettre à jour quand je peux. Ça va être big. En espérant finalement voir la fin de ce projet. Qui est avec moi?

Sur ce, joyeuse St-Bernard-Legault, gang.

P.S.: Vous pouvez aussi me trouver sur Picarto, Facebook, Twitter ou Discord si ça vous tente de jaser de ça avec moi ;)

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~3 minutes

Cet article a originellement été publié surPatreon.

Et c’est à ce point que j’ai perdu ma motivation. Encore une fois. Je n’ai rien écrit depuis l’hiver passé, parce que, vous voyez, je me suis rendu compte que ça n’allait nulle part sous sa forme actuelle. Syndrome de la page blanche. Petite panique. C’est pas la vision du projet que j’avais. Je ne peux pas faire ça tout seul, pas de financement. Et j’ai mis ça en pause, je me suis concentré sur autre chose, d’autres projets, en attendant la suite des choses.

Fast forward à fin septembre. Inktober s’en venait. Je me trouvais pas pire en dessin. Je suis retourné sur l’idée et je me suis dit, pourquoi pas dessiner tous mes personnages?

Malhereusement, non, ça s’est pas fait. J’ai pas eu le temps, ni la motivation, pour plusieurs raisons hors de, mais aussi dans mon contrôle. On est le 28e jour et j’ai fait la moitié d’un dessin de Miyuki. Ouais, ça allait bien, Inktober, cette année. Mais, j’ai planifié mon idée. Comment j’allais m’y prendre cette fois-ci? Ça va prendre plus de planification que ça. Cette fois, j’y vais all in et faire le projet que j’ai toujours rêvé de faire. Aller chercher du financement pour pouvoir faire ça temps plein et monter un studio digne de ce nom. Engager des collaborateurs qui sont meilleurs que moi sur certaines choses. Créer des emplois. Peut-être même obtenir de l’aide du gouvernement, si c’est possible. Ils aiment ça, créer des emplois.

J’ai une vision, quelque peu ambitieuse, certes, mais c’est aujourd’hui que ça se passe. Zarmina version 3.0: Le Visual Novel. Un visual novel 100% québécois comme ça se fait pas vraiment au Québec, ni ailleurs, probablement. Avec de l’art, de la musique, de la programmation, disponible sur Steam et/ou toute autre plateforme de distribution. Un chef-d’oeuvre de fantasy et de science-fiction, rien de moins. Je vous tiens au courant. En attendant, je vous ai posté le reste de ce que j’ai d’écrit à date pour Zarmina 2.0: Le Roman, avant de scrapper ça. Gratuitement. Parce que ça va être plus gros que juste un roman avec de la musique dessus.

Y’a une certaine personne qui m’avait mentionné l’autre fois dans un meetup dans le Vieux-Québec qu’elle avait hâte de voir la suite. Ceci est pour toi. Et pour tous ceux qui ont crû en moi. Tous ceux qui m’ont dit que ma catgirl était cute quand j’ai posté mes dessins sur leur serveur Discord. À la vôtre, gang. Votre encouragement est précieux.

J’ai besoin de vous. Donnez généreusement. Ou du moins, donnez tous vos encouragements. *It’s gonna be a bumpy ride. *Et je vais essayer de vous mettre à jour quand je peux. Ça va être big. En espérant finalement voir la fin de ce projet. Qui est avec moi?

Sur ce, joyeuse St-Bernard-Legault, gang.

P.S.: Vous pouvez aussi me trouver sur Picarto, Facebook, Twitter ou Discord si ça vous tente de jaser de ça avec moi ;)

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Horse Life 98


-#Writing
~1 minute

Been a while I wanted to make a webcomic, but I never got around at drawing one, and if I do I’m not that good at drawing, so…

I recently started messing up with a Windows 98 VM (for various reasons, including a future redesign of this website), I re-discovered Microsoft Comic Chat, I decided to import my Pony Town avatars in it, and the rest is history. It’s simple to make, it doesn’t take too much of my attention span and it looks good, so yeah, winning formula.

It’s going to be rather absurd, kinda like one of these comics that looks the same but with different punch lines. Hope you like it.

Check it out at https://toasters.rocks/horselife

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\ No newline at end of file +#Writing
~1 minute

Been a while I wanted to make a webcomic, but I never got around at drawing one, and if I do I’m not that good at drawing, so…

I recently started messing up with a Windows 98 VM (for various reasons, including a future redesign of this website), I re-discovered Microsoft Comic Chat, I decided to import my Pony Town avatars in it, and the rest is history. It’s simple to make, it doesn’t take too much of my attention span and it looks good, so yeah, winning formula.

It’s going to be rather absurd, kinda like one of these comics that looks the same but with different punch lines. Hope you like it.

Check it out at https://toasters.rocks/horselife

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How to tell your AdBlock users to disable it like a boss


-#Tech
~5 minutes

This article was originally published on Tumblr, reposting it here for completeness.

Boy, I don’t use Tumblr very often nowadays. Well, I wanted to write this article because, first of all, I hate ads and I know everyone else hates ads, myself I have uBlock with the anti-AdBlock killer on, but I also know people depends on it to make some good internet money and they want to do everything so their users can see the ads, even going as far as blocking the site’s content unless AdBlock is disabled… I have reasons to believe you’d piss these users off instead. I want to help fellow webmasters into making a better Internet, so this article attempts to show a way to have ads on and keep your users the most diligent way possible. Here goes the long post…

Choose a good ad network

First of all, one of the first reasons, if not the first, people install AdBlock or similar software is that ads are one of the easiest ways to carry viruses and other malware, with Flash/HTML5 ads and such. So you’ll want to make sure, with the right settings on whichever network you choose, to only serve images, no Flash, no foreign Javascript that could carry malware inserted into the ad. The popular one is Google AdSense, I personally use Project Wonderful, which also lets your users continually bid on your ad boxes instead of the standard CPM/CPC model and only accept image ads, as far as I know. I won’t show you how to place your ads, but it does help if you’re reasonable about them. Think like a normal user who don’t want ads in their way and find a good compromise. Actually, more on that in the next paragraph…

Subscribe to AdBlock Plus’ Acceptable Ads Initiative

If you can convince your users your ads are not annoying and full of viruses, they are probably more likely to disable their AdBlock for you. The fine guys behind AdBlock Plus have published a set of guidelines to follow so your ad won’t be considered annoying. If you follow these guidelines to the letter and if you ask them nicely, they might whitelist your ad in their software, which would give you a bit of a boost in ad views and clicks! And it’s free! (That is, if your site is not a giant and make “more than 10 million additional ad impressions per month due to participation in the Acceptable Ads initiative”…) It’s a bit controversial, but hey, it works. If you contact them, it might take something like 2 weeks before they even get to your case and another 3-4 days before they add your ads to the whitelist, so be patient, it’s worth it.

Read more about it: https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads

Don’t block your content and convince your users

What is more annoying than an intrusive popup telling you to disable AdBlock? Your visitors with AdBlock on might as well leave your site instead of actually disabling AdBlock and you might lose views. So just don’t do that, or you’d give the impression you’re a greedy person and your site exists for the money. You definitely don’t want that. So when you detect your user has AdBlock enabled, you’ll still want to write a nice message above the fold, but nothing intrusive, saying something along the lines, “the website wouldn’t exist without the ad money” (because, well, that’s often why you put ads in there and users will understand that) and/or “I promise the ads are not annoying and full of viruses” (because you did the above like a nice admin). Maybe even mention the Acceptable Ads Initiative, you’ll show them it’s true and you followed guidelines from AdBlock software.

I mean, convince your users, and make as simple as possible

Another thing you can do, and I don’t think anyone did that yet, is to provide a subscription link to an AdBlock filter you made that unblocks your ads with the above message, like, “Click here to disable AdBlock/AdBlock Plus/uBlock for this site”. Your users will click on that link like if it was any other link to, for instance, close that message, it’s that simple for them. Again, I won’t show you how to do that (maybe in another blog post?), I believe there’s a bunch of tutorials on how to write filter lists and provide an abp: URL pointing to it, but I do think it’s infinitely better than providing something like 4 different sets of instructions for each adblock software, browser and operating system out there. If you did the Acceptable Ads step above, they will provide you with a set of filter rules they will put in their list, you can definitely use that, you can also ask them for assistance for making a simple list with those rules to host on your server.

So there you go, I think I went around the subject, I hope these guidelines worked on your website and boosted your ads a bit! Of course, you can’t convince everyone, some people are convinced ads are bad no matter what (that’s why the Acceptable Ads Initiative is controversial), but you still can add some nice users with these guidelines. Obviously, I’m not your visitors, so I don’t guarantee this will work at all, but eh, at least you tried and made your site better.

Read it all? Have a walrus, you can thank me later. Don’t forget to share it with all your friends who have websites!

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~5 minutes

This article was originally published on Tumblr, reposting it here for completeness.

Boy, I don’t use Tumblr very often nowadays. Well, I wanted to write this article because, first of all, I hate ads and I know everyone else hates ads, myself I have uBlock with the anti-AdBlock killer on, but I also know people depends on it to make some good internet money and they want to do everything so their users can see the ads, even going as far as blocking the site’s content unless AdBlock is disabled… I have reasons to believe you’d piss these users off instead. I want to help fellow webmasters into making a better Internet, so this article attempts to show a way to have ads on and keep your users the most diligent way possible. Here goes the long post…

Choose a good ad network

First of all, one of the first reasons, if not the first, people install AdBlock or similar software is that ads are one of the easiest ways to carry viruses and other malware, with Flash/HTML5 ads and such. So you’ll want to make sure, with the right settings on whichever network you choose, to only serve images, no Flash, no foreign Javascript that could carry malware inserted into the ad. The popular one is Google AdSense, I personally use Project Wonderful, which also lets your users continually bid on your ad boxes instead of the standard CPM/CPC model and only accept image ads, as far as I know. I won’t show you how to place your ads, but it does help if you’re reasonable about them. Think like a normal user who don’t want ads in their way and find a good compromise. Actually, more on that in the next paragraph…

Subscribe to AdBlock Plus’ Acceptable Ads Initiative

If you can convince your users your ads are not annoying and full of viruses, they are probably more likely to disable their AdBlock for you. The fine guys behind AdBlock Plus have published a set of guidelines to follow so your ad won’t be considered annoying. If you follow these guidelines to the letter and if you ask them nicely, they might whitelist your ad in their software, which would give you a bit of a boost in ad views and clicks! And it’s free! (That is, if your site is not a giant and make “more than 10 million additional ad impressions per month due to participation in the Acceptable Ads initiative”…) It’s a bit controversial, but hey, it works. If you contact them, it might take something like 2 weeks before they even get to your case and another 3-4 days before they add your ads to the whitelist, so be patient, it’s worth it.

Read more about it: https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads

Don’t block your content and convince your users

What is more annoying than an intrusive popup telling you to disable AdBlock? Your visitors with AdBlock on might as well leave your site instead of actually disabling AdBlock and you might lose views. So just don’t do that, or you’d give the impression you’re a greedy person and your site exists for the money. You definitely don’t want that. So when you detect your user has AdBlock enabled, you’ll still want to write a nice message above the fold, but nothing intrusive, saying something along the lines, “the website wouldn’t exist without the ad money” (because, well, that’s often why you put ads in there and users will understand that) and/or “I promise the ads are not annoying and full of viruses” (because you did the above like a nice admin). Maybe even mention the Acceptable Ads Initiative, you’ll show them it’s true and you followed guidelines from AdBlock software.

I mean, convince your users, and make as simple as possible

Another thing you can do, and I don’t think anyone did that yet, is to provide a subscription link to an AdBlock filter you made that unblocks your ads with the above message, like, “Click here to disable AdBlock/AdBlock Plus/uBlock for this site”. Your users will click on that link like if it was any other link to, for instance, close that message, it’s that simple for them. Again, I won’t show you how to do that (maybe in another blog post?), I believe there’s a bunch of tutorials on how to write filter lists and provide an abp: URL pointing to it, but I do think it’s infinitely better than providing something like 4 different sets of instructions for each adblock software, browser and operating system out there. If you did the Acceptable Ads step above, they will provide you with a set of filter rules they will put in their list, you can definitely use that, you can also ask them for assistance for making a simple list with those rules to host on your server.

So there you go, I think I went around the subject, I hope these guidelines worked on your website and boosted your ads a bit! Of course, you can’t convince everyone, some people are convinced ads are bad no matter what (that’s why the Acceptable Ads Initiative is controversial), but you still can add some nice users with these guidelines. Obviously, I’m not your visitors, so I don’t guarantee this will work at all, but eh, at least you tried and made your site better.

Read it all? Have a walrus, you can thank me later. Don’t forget to share it with all your friends who have websites!

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Life update.


-#Random
~2 minutes

This article was originally published on Tumblr, reposting it here for completeness.

Well. I didn’t blogged that much in the past year or two on this toasters dot rocks blog, for some reason. My Tumblr timeline was looking like a disaster. Kinda like Facebook, actually, but that’s another kind of disaster. Oh well. I probably should blog a bit more and publish some texts I usually just condense in 280 characters on Twitter. Kind of a diary.

So yeah. A ton of stuff happened since then, in the past year or two. Dropped school, got a job in web development and now I’m working on a rather big project with a bunch of friends related to podcasts and content creators. (BTW, I’ll let you know when it’s ready :)) So yeah, after being generally terrible in college and having stayed way too long there, thanks to a Youtuber, podcaster and entrepreneur friend, I’m now in a situation one could just dream of. You might want to get all of the diplomas to get far in life, but if you’re creative enough, you don’t need to… Anyway, I can’t wait to see this project taking off, cause it’s a pretty good concept overall, it just needs a lot of thinking and challenges to overcome.

I’ve also been thinking a lot of my pet project, Zarmina, it’s also a project I wanna see done, I worked quite a bit on it lately, I finished the script for a demo, but I prefer putting the time on this other project since, well, this pays my bills :)

Anyway, can’t wait what live is gonna give me next, who knows?

So yeah, stay tuned for more entries in my diary…

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~2 minutes

This article was originally published on Tumblr, reposting it here for completeness.

Well. I didn’t blogged that much in the past year or two on this toasters dot rocks blog, for some reason. My Tumblr timeline was looking like a disaster. Kinda like Facebook, actually, but that’s another kind of disaster. Oh well. I probably should blog a bit more and publish some texts I usually just condense in 280 characters on Twitter. Kind of a diary.

So yeah. A ton of stuff happened since then, in the past year or two. Dropped school, got a job in web development and now I’m working on a rather big project with a bunch of friends related to podcasts and content creators. (BTW, I’ll let you know when it’s ready :)) So yeah, after being generally terrible in college and having stayed way too long there, thanks to a Youtuber, podcaster and entrepreneur friend, I’m now in a situation one could just dream of. You might want to get all of the diplomas to get far in life, but if you’re creative enough, you don’t need to… Anyway, I can’t wait to see this project taking off, cause it’s a pretty good concept overall, it just needs a lot of thinking and challenges to overcome.

I’ve also been thinking a lot of my pet project, Zarmina, it’s also a project I wanna see done, I worked quite a bit on it lately, I finished the script for a demo, but I prefer putting the time on this other project since, well, this pays my bills :)

Anyway, can’t wait what live is gonna give me next, who knows?

So yeah, stay tuned for more entries in my diary…

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-#Zarmina
~2 minutes

This article was originally published on Patreon, reposting it here for completeness.

First of all, thanks to our newest Patron, Terrence Wong, very appreciated :)

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. Maybe 5 pages of summaries so far. Which is a good thing, cause I see the story unfolding before my eyes, and I’m getting new and better ideas… This is going to be very interesting.

So, the plan so far:

Of course, while I have money to properly pay that artist, I’d love if this project would be entirely funded through Patreon. That would probably mean getting this page to at least $200 a month (and I’m lowballing here, assuming a twice a month release). Unfortunately, I don’t have much to show other than crappy, made in 10 minutes Horse Life 98 jokes done in some software whose technology is due to die next month. (Yeah. Kisekae is made with Flash Player, while it seems to be still maintained I have no idea how the creator of that thing will deal with that. Which is one of the reasons why HL98 is on hiatus, but not the only one.) I’d love to show you my progress so far, but at the same time I don’t really want to get you massively spoiled… But oh well, only time will tell. I’m also thinking of tinkering with Twitch and play some games, but I dunno, I still don’t have the setup for that just yet. But I’m working on it!

Anyway. What would you like to see on this page? A Q&A? More old stuff from my archives? More rants like this one? Comment, subscribe, throw your money at me. Thanks for believing in me and have a good day!

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~2 minutes

This article was originally published on Patreon, reposting it here for completeness.

First of all, thanks to our newest Patron, Terrence Wong, very appreciated :)

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. Maybe 5 pages of summaries so far. Which is a good thing, cause I see the story unfolding before my eyes, and I’m getting new and better ideas… This is going to be very interesting.

So, the plan so far:

Of course, while I have money to properly pay that artist, I’d love if this project would be entirely funded through Patreon. That would probably mean getting this page to at least $200 a month (and I’m lowballing here, assuming a twice a month release). Unfortunately, I don’t have much to show other than crappy, made in 10 minutes Horse Life 98 jokes done in some software whose technology is due to die next month. (Yeah. Kisekae is made with Flash Player, while it seems to be still maintained I have no idea how the creator of that thing will deal with that. Which is one of the reasons why HL98 is on hiatus, but not the only one.) I’d love to show you my progress so far, but at the same time I don’t really want to get you massively spoiled… But oh well, only time will tell. I’m also thinking of tinkering with Twitch and play some games, but I dunno, I still don’t have the setup for that just yet. But I’m working on it!

Anyway. What would you like to see on this page? A Q&A? More old stuff from my archives? More rants like this one? Comment, subscribe, throw your money at me. Thanks for believing in me and have a good day!

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Those Create Your Taste Booths at McDonald’s


-#Rant
~3 minutes

This article was originally published on Tumblr, reposting it here for completeness.

You know what? I love those. They recently added some of them at the one in my town, pretty popular place after the summer festival taking place in Québec City each summer (we had the Red Hot Chili Peppers tonight, and tomorrow we’ll have Rammstein, so it’s pretty big). So yeah, after those shows the place is pretty crowded and no employee is getting a rest. So, since they added those booths, I do feel it’s helping them. I feel it’s helping the customers as well. You tap what you want, you pay there with your card or iPhone or whatever, you get a number, and you wait for your number. That’s it. Before (and guess you still can go that way), you had to yell at the cashier what you want, after checking the menu above them if there’s something interesting (and nowadays it’s TV screens so they put ads once every few seconds covering the whole menu it’s weird), and worse, if you’re a picky eater like me (shame on me I guess) you have to tell the cashier a list of condiments you don’t like (no pickles, no onion, etc.) and you’re never sure which condiments they put in what and they’ll forget to remove them half of the time it’s awkward and/or basically hell so I just ended up ordering chicken McNuggets all the time… And you don’t have a number so you just wait in a line your your order, not really a good thing if there’s a lot of people. But with the booths they tell you outright what you want in your sandwich plus whether you want like, 10 patties in your burger and numerous other options I should try someday. This opens up a ton of burger possibilities. And you get a number you wait for, so they can give the orders out in the order they want and process a lot at the same time pretty seamlessly, nothing that lines up endlessly, it’s pretty cool. Plus they can remove half of the cash registers (there’s still some for those who want to pay cash or order manually) without much hassle. 10/10 best move by McDo’s ever.

Anyway, I should write more rants like this on my blog that I hardly use anymore (Tumblr is beginning to get cancerous, guess I needed to get out of this for a while). And this one is not sponsored by McDonald’s Canada (although if you want to offer me this gold free meals forever card like Jérémy Demay got the other day I’d gladly accept lol). Join me tomorrow on another rant on SaGGeek, or how to get invited as a guest at a convention and cancel at the last minute. Not writing it now because I wonder if there will be more things to write about in the aftermath tomorrow (the con was today), but that was kinda sad. I’ll also have some project updates going soon, for those interested.

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~3 minutes

This article was originally published on Tumblr, reposting it here for completeness.

You know what? I love those. They recently added some of them at the one in my town, pretty popular place after the summer festival taking place in Québec City each summer (we had the Red Hot Chili Peppers tonight, and tomorrow we’ll have Rammstein, so it’s pretty big). So yeah, after those shows the place is pretty crowded and no employee is getting a rest. So, since they added those booths, I do feel it’s helping them. I feel it’s helping the customers as well. You tap what you want, you pay there with your card or iPhone or whatever, you get a number, and you wait for your number. That’s it. Before (and guess you still can go that way), you had to yell at the cashier what you want, after checking the menu above them if there’s something interesting (and nowadays it’s TV screens so they put ads once every few seconds covering the whole menu it’s weird), and worse, if you’re a picky eater like me (shame on me I guess) you have to tell the cashier a list of condiments you don’t like (no pickles, no onion, etc.) and you’re never sure which condiments they put in what and they’ll forget to remove them half of the time it’s awkward and/or basically hell so I just ended up ordering chicken McNuggets all the time… And you don’t have a number so you just wait in a line your your order, not really a good thing if there’s a lot of people. But with the booths they tell you outright what you want in your sandwich plus whether you want like, 10 patties in your burger and numerous other options I should try someday. This opens up a ton of burger possibilities. And you get a number you wait for, so they can give the orders out in the order they want and process a lot at the same time pretty seamlessly, nothing that lines up endlessly, it’s pretty cool. Plus they can remove half of the cash registers (there’s still some for those who want to pay cash or order manually) without much hassle. 10/10 best move by McDo’s ever.

Anyway, I should write more rants like this on my blog that I hardly use anymore (Tumblr is beginning to get cancerous, guess I needed to get out of this for a while). And this one is not sponsored by McDonald’s Canada (although if you want to offer me this gold free meals forever card like Jérémy Demay got the other day I’d gladly accept lol). Join me tomorrow on another rant on SaGGeek, or how to get invited as a guest at a convention and cancel at the last minute. Not writing it now because I wonder if there will be more things to write about in the aftermath tomorrow (the con was today), but that was kinda sad. I’ll also have some project updates going soon, for those interested.

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Toasters Rocks: The Reboot


-#Meta
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Yeah, let’s try this out, cause why not. It used to be Tumblr (which you can still follow here), but I recently switched to Write Freely, just to see how nicer it is. And looks like it works so far.

A while ago I realized I followed way too much people and it distracts me a lot from writing long texts, that and there was way too much NSFW to go there at school, so I kinda stopped going there. And I’ve been meaning to create a self-hosted blog in its stead for a long while, I wanted something real simple, so when I saw this, I was like, yeah why not, looks like the thing I wanted, easy to customize, not a ton of Javascript and PHP that comes with it, and as a bonus you can follow this blog on the Fediverse, gonna try this.

So there you go. First blog post and I hope to write more on random things.

Edit: I’m reposting my best blog posts from elsewhere here for completeness. Have fun.

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~1 minute

Yeah, let’s try this out, cause why not. It used to be Tumblr (which you can still follow here), but I recently switched to Write Freely, just to see how nicer it is. And looks like it works so far.

A while ago I realized I followed way too much people and it distracts me a lot from writing long texts, that and there was way too much NSFW to go there at school, so I kinda stopped going there. And I’ve been meaning to create a self-hosted blog in its stead for a long while, I wanted something real simple, so when I saw this, I was like, yeah why not, looks like the thing I wanted, easy to customize, not a ton of Javascript and PHP that comes with it, and as a bonus you can follow this blog on the Fediverse, gonna try this.

So there you go. First blog post and I hope to write more on random things.

Edit: I’m reposting my best blog posts from elsewhere here for completeness. Have fun.

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Trailer is out


#Zarmina
-Français
~1 minute

This article was originally published on Itch.io, reposting it here for completeness.

New trailer for the project, it’s not the complete game but I hope you’ll like it :) It’s been done with Ren’Py cause it’s gonna be the intro to the game and I wasn’t able to get a good video editing software working on my computer… You can see it straight on the game’s page or if it’s buggy there’s a YouTube video.

For you English speakers, don’t worry, there will be an English version soon. Once I figure out how the translation module works. It’s kinda weird.

Anyway. If you liked it, please throw me some money here or on Patreon, that’d be super appreciated. But in all, I hope you have fun!

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This article was originally published on Itch.io, reposting it here for completeness.

New trailer for the project, it’s not the complete game but I hope you’ll like it :) It’s been done with Ren’Py cause it’s gonna be the intro to the game and I wasn’t able to get a good video editing software working on my computer… You can see it straight on the game’s page or if it’s buggy there’s a YouTube video.

For you English speakers, don’t worry, there will be an English version soon. Once I figure out how the translation module works. It’s kinda weird.

Anyway. If you liked it, please throw me some money here or on Patreon, that’d be super appreciated. But in all, I hope you have fun!

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Zarmina 3.0: rewrite (again)


#Zarmina
-Français
~3 minutes

This article was originally published on Patreon, reposting it here for completeness.

This is a semi-Google Translation of the last post, for the English-speaking friends I might have here. I’m probably going to do this in both English and my native language that is French. Maybe also other languages too.

And that’s where I lost my motivation. Once again. I have not written anything since last winter, because, you see, I realized that it was not going anywhere in its current form. Blank page syndrome. Small panic. It’s not the vision of the project that I had. I can not do this alone, with no funding. And I put it on pause, I focused on something else, other projects, waiting for things to happen.

Fast forward to the end of September. Inktober was coming. I wasn’t too shabby at drawing. I went back to the idea and I thought, why not draw all my characters?

Unfortunately, no, it didn’t happen. I did not have the time, nor the motivation, for several reasons out of, but also in my control. It’s the 28th day and I made half of Miyuki’s drawing. Yeah, that was a nice Inktober this year. But, I planned my idea. How was I going to do it this time? It will take more planning than that. This time, I go all in and do the project that I have always dreamed of doing. Go get funding to do this full time and set up a studio worthy of the name. Engage employees who are better than me on some things. Create jobs. Maybe even get help from the government, if it’s possible. They like that, create jobs.

I have a vision, somewhat ambitious, certainly, but today is the day. Zarmina version 3.0: The Visual Novel. A 100% Quebec visual novel unlike anything else in Quebec, or anywhere else, probably. With art, music, programming, available on Steam and / or any other distribution platform. A masterpiece of fantasy and science fiction, nothing less. I’ll keep you informed. In the meantime, I’ve posted the rest of what I wrote to date for Zarmina 2.0: The Regular Novel, before scraping it. For free. Because it’s going to be bigger than just a novel with music on it.

There was a certain person who mentioned me the other time in a meetup in Old Quebec that she was eager to see more. This is for you. And for all those who have believed in me. Anyone who told me that my catgirl was cute when I posted my drawings on their Discord server. It’s for you, guys. Your encouragement is precious.

I need you. Give generously. Or at least give all your encouragement. It’s gonna be a bumpy ride. And I will try to update you when I can. It’s going to be big. Hoping to finally see the end of this project. Who is with me?

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~3 minutes

This article was originally published on Patreon, reposting it here for completeness.

This is a semi-Google Translation of the last post, for the English-speaking friends I might have here. I’m probably going to do this in both English and my native language that is French. Maybe also other languages too.

And that’s where I lost my motivation. Once again. I have not written anything since last winter, because, you see, I realized that it was not going anywhere in its current form. Blank page syndrome. Small panic. It’s not the vision of the project that I had. I can not do this alone, with no funding. And I put it on pause, I focused on something else, other projects, waiting for things to happen.

Fast forward to the end of September. Inktober was coming. I wasn’t too shabby at drawing. I went back to the idea and I thought, why not draw all my characters?

Unfortunately, no, it didn’t happen. I did not have the time, nor the motivation, for several reasons out of, but also in my control. It’s the 28th day and I made half of Miyuki’s drawing. Yeah, that was a nice Inktober this year. But, I planned my idea. How was I going to do it this time? It will take more planning than that. This time, I go all in and do the project that I have always dreamed of doing. Go get funding to do this full time and set up a studio worthy of the name. Engage employees who are better than me on some things. Create jobs. Maybe even get help from the government, if it’s possible. They like that, create jobs.

I have a vision, somewhat ambitious, certainly, but today is the day. Zarmina version 3.0: The Visual Novel. A 100% Quebec visual novel unlike anything else in Quebec, or anywhere else, probably. With art, music, programming, available on Steam and / or any other distribution platform. A masterpiece of fantasy and science fiction, nothing less. I’ll keep you informed. In the meantime, I’ve posted the rest of what I wrote to date for Zarmina 2.0: The Regular Novel, before scraping it. For free. Because it’s going to be bigger than just a novel with music on it.

There was a certain person who mentioned me the other time in a meetup in Old Quebec that she was eager to see more. This is for you. And for all those who have believed in me. Anyone who told me that my catgirl was cute when I posted my drawings on their Discord server. It’s for you, guys. Your encouragement is precious.

I need you. Give generously. Or at least give all your encouragement. It’s gonna be a bumpy ride. And I will try to update you when I can. It’s going to be big. Hoping to finally see the end of this project. Who is with me?

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Zarmina updates


-#Zarmina
~2 minutes

This article was originally published on Patreon, reposting it here for completeness.

Almost forgot I had a Patreon and someone is giving me a dollar a month, lol (thanks Pieman7373 :))

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. The story might change a bit from what I already published (consider that a beta, if we can say), but I already can say it’s going to be way better.

The huge problem I had before is that I had no direction yet so I could hit walls pretty easily, so I decided to take a break and write the entire outline before going further. And I think it worked quite well, I can’t wait to show you all of it :) I also realized that now that I have a job that pays well I could get artists involved to help out, which pretty much was my plan in the first place. So I guess it’s gonna go quite fast from now, can’t wait to show all of this.

Of course, the Patreon is gonna stay on if you want to get involved financially, I plan paying the artists is probably gonna take a small chunk of my paycheck so Patreon would definitely be a small relief. I’m going to show things here before it’s going to be released to the public, small excerpts of my notes, devlogs, announcements, anything interesting pertaining to the project, so if you want to see cool stuff before anyone else this is here :)

I’m also working on a small absurd webcomic called Horse Life 98, but since I usually finish comics not long before they get published it’s probably not worth it to put them here… But oh well. I’m also going to take a break from it while I work on Zarmina, finding the force to edit a panel a day for the whole month of October was harder than I thought…

Anyway, have fun :)

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~2 minutes

This article was originally published on Patreon, reposting it here for completeness.

Almost forgot I had a Patreon and someone is giving me a dollar a month, lol (thanks Pieman7373 :))

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. The story might change a bit from what I already published (consider that a beta, if we can say), but I already can say it’s going to be way better.

The huge problem I had before is that I had no direction yet so I could hit walls pretty easily, so I decided to take a break and write the entire outline before going further. And I think it worked quite well, I can’t wait to show you all of it :) I also realized that now that I have a job that pays well I could get artists involved to help out, which pretty much was my plan in the first place. So I guess it’s gonna go quite fast from now, can’t wait to show all of this.

Of course, the Patreon is gonna stay on if you want to get involved financially, I plan paying the artists is probably gonna take a small chunk of my paycheck so Patreon would definitely be a small relief. I’m going to show things here before it’s going to be released to the public, small excerpts of my notes, devlogs, announcements, anything interesting pertaining to the project, so if you want to see cool stuff before anyone else this is here :)

I’m also working on a small absurd webcomic called Horse Life 98, but since I usually finish comics not long before they get published it’s probably not worth it to put them here… But oh well. I’m also going to take a break from it while I work on Zarmina, finding the force to edit a panel a day for the whole month of October was harder than I thought…

Anyway, have fun :)

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