Hey so, I can't send DMs here bc child safety laws and I can't figure out how to send a PM on GitHub so I'm just gonna hope you see this; can you email me (ray[at]tuxedodemon.com)? It's about ComicControl; it needs a patch. You have a popular fork of it that needs the same patch as the normal one.

Alternatively, if you're a thrill seeker I can do a (reversible, harmless) live demonstration of the problem with your permission before we fix it, just let me know lol

Been skimming the ComicControl tag trying to find people using the software and saw this ancient skeet and lol lmao 🙃

Please email me if you're not part of Hiveworks (you're safe) I have something sensitive that needs to be privately disclosed to you and patched.

ray[at]tuxedodemon.com

I mean, there's a big distinction between a predator, and a normal horny guy trying to satisfy those urges through appropriate and consenting channels lol

I think with the predator, the fact I was so disgusted was part of the thrill. And what can I really do? It's fictional and legal.

It sucks lol

oh they thankfully didn't show me anything because as far as i remember they didn't draw, but they sure weren't shy about telling me what they were up to and how they felt in the comments 🙃

When chapter 2 goes up, Lukas' intro is going to be very different, and it's because of that incident.

If you didn't know that, now you do. Sorry. If you have kids, please keep pictures of them off the internet.

I'm gonna give context to this--you know how, if you have kids, you REALLY shouldn't post pictures of them online, regardless of how innocuous the photos are, because freaks will use them for... uh, well, take a guess?

Yeah, so, it's the same thing with drawings of fictional kids, it turns out,

Yes I am talking about this because I saw what happened to another (much larger) creator. If you know, you know. She and I do not know each other, but boy can I empathize with that situation.

We all put our hearts into our work; if you rip it out, we won't make more.

It's hard out here.

Little independent creators like myself have very, very, VERY little control over the kinds of people who find our work and where it spreads and what gets done with it. It's very different from corporate stuff.

We are at your mercy--please be kind, and patient, and respectful of boundaries.

I think at this point in time DNA has been on hiatus for longer than it's been actively posting (sorry) and the kinds of inappropriate things I've somehow managed to encounter during that brief window would be upsetting to most people. It's just burned into my brain forever now.

If someone is shipping characters and it's some morally reprehensible nonsense, please know that I also hate it. But also, like... man, I can't do anything about that. You can't, either; just leave them alone.

They're probably looking for negative attention anyway. Do not engage.

If you don't like how one character is getting more focus than another, please just... accept it anyway.

If you ship two characters and it never becomes canon, please don't take it out on me.

If someone else ships two characters and you don't like it, please don't be mean to them.

If I use an edited photo of a real location in the art--which might happen; photomanipulations have already found their way into the art--please don't go tracking that place down. The real, physical location won't be important. DNA is not an ARG (I'm not smart enough to make one of those, ok)

Hey so like I know this comic is currently in a coma and there is not actually a fandom at the moment, but when it wakes up again, and when people show up to observe, I am begging you all to please be normal to each other and to me.

We're at the vet often enough that I feel like I must be doing something horribly wrong but like all the things I'm dealing with have been either cancer, or some kind of genetic thing, or a birth defect, or age. And all of that is just... nature. Idk, this isn't the place, sorry.

I need, like. A blog on my normal website so I can scream into it about rat stuff. Both about how absolutely cool they are, and about the horrors.

I forgot this went up but here's that blog post. It is 40% talking about the status of the comic and the software I'm building to host it and 60% listing out rat ailments I've experienced over the last 14 months. Said list is already out of date.

Here: dnathewebcomic.com/blog/getting...

it's still coming, i'm just. gonna do it later.

it was anaplastic hemangiosarcoma.

so i was gonna write that blog post i mentioned a month ago but then one of my younger pet rats developed a tumor on her neck that went from "easily missed" to "oh my god what is that" in under 2 weeks, and then she died an hour after her surgery, so I've been preoccupied with. that.

I've been trying to learn some basic math concepts I missed out on when I was in middle/high school, and ended up using it to create this little abstract art thing with javascript over the last few weeks. It's been this and the comic I've been doing lately.

I'll probably make a blog post soon.

"Writing JSON isn't so bad," i have adhd ok, repetition is painfully boring

I actually haven't touched the website in around a month--I got caught up in paid work, and now I'm focusing on the comic again because the paid work in question was so disgustingly tedious for no reason (i had to write JSON by hand) that i don't want to look at code again for a bit if I can help it

I don't think I talked about this yet--i figured out how to implement a rudimentary plugin system, which was really exciting; i learned how to create PHP event listeners, which wasn't something I thought was possible, but here we are.

frothing at the mouth and chewing on the table because of how close i'm getting to being finished with the art half of what i've been working on while also sobbing outwardly because i still have the entire website half of this mess to sort out

this solves an enormous problem for me, you have no idea how glad i am that this was as straightforward to put together as it was

A file/folder structure full of PHP files that have various jobs related to building and then moving CSS and JavaScript where they're supposed to go on a webpage.

idk how presentational bits get shuffled from wherever they live on the server to the actual webpage normally but i put this thing together over the last few weeks so i don't have to think about it

and it works!!

....minus the fact i still need to build a user interface lol

I still need to make the things that will accept file uploads and/or create files there and then put info about that into the database, and then i think i should be done with most of the functionality/metadata type stuff and can return focus to the actual page content

I made:
- multiple classes whose purposes are to build javascript and css objects in different configurations.
- the things that take those objects and turns them into useable strings.
- a thing that will instantiate those objects and make them for me, before passing them to the string maker.

That being said, I do need to remember to set up the GDPR stuff when the time comes.