Dzuk (Commissions open!) @dzuk@weirder.earth

⚠️Domain impersonation warning ⚠️

I used to use noct.zone as my personal profile domain, I stopped using it in 2021.

Since then, someone bought it and pointed it to a copied broken version of my old website. This is not mine, the information is not accurate anymore, please don't visit it. I am in the process of trying to get it taken down.

I have more slots open for commissions!

I can do...
✨ Emoji for Discord servers (fun custom things for your server, TTRPG group, all kinds of stuff)
✨ Custom emoji for your Mastodon server
✨ Vector stickers for Telegram and Discord
✨Twitch emotes for your channel

...and basically anything that falls under the umbrella of emoji, emotes and icons!

➡️ Full details and full pricing sheet: https://dzuk.zone/commissions ⬅️

Little note because this happens every now and then - I am not a weirder.earth moderator.

The admin title is from way back in the old days when I was the only moderator of this server. (I do not know if it's possible to stop being an admin and I figured it was best not to try. lol.)

Talk to @WeirderAdmin for all your moderation queries!

In case you accuse me of poor taste, I'm a professional designer, which means that it's impossible for me to have bad taste

Essentialist narratives about people and technology can fuck off every day for the rest of time

I really need to find out how to get JPEG XL working in Orxporter now that the standard is fully done

iOS 17, iPadOS 17, macOS Sonoma and Safari 17 support JPEG XL!

https://twitter.com/luciascarlet/status/1666053797049671680

Thank you to everyone who has donated and commissioned so far. A lot of progress has been made and the urgent bills have now been paid for💚

I'm getting close to a place where I can start relaxing about bills and not having to be constantly behind with them, but not quite there yet, and my body is still not 100% and I'm still physically struggling to work x.x

Donate:
https://ko-fi.com/dzuk_

Emoji commissions: https://dzuk.zone

Custom Mutant Standard hand colours: https://weirder.earth/@dzuk/1104877009

Thanks to everybody who has supported and for your commission emails. I am now out of being in debt for the urgent overdue bills, and some progress has been made to preventing the same situation for this month's bills (I'm at the £450 mark). I can relax a bit more. I am extremely grateful.

I will circle back to the emails really soon. Right now I need to do chores and do important MH infrastructure (don't have a better way of calling it) after a week of extreme inactivity due to aforementioned side effects and also needing to recalibrate my life and my bag of safety tricks to compensate for the absence of anti-depressants.

💚

Another good feature in this year's Apple platform updates is the ability to set check ins in iMessage that...

- Automatically confirm to others you've arrived to your planned destination when you've arrived

- Provide the ability to give yourself more time if you're late

- If you don't respond and don't arrive, the person who received your check in can see where you last were, what your battery life is like and if you had phone reception

I am really excited about the mental health tracking features in iOS 17, iPadOS 17 and watchOS 10

- General mood tracking, with Health also trying to help you figure out if some other health metric might be influencing it.

- The ability to take the GAD7 and PHQ9 (two pretty solid clinical assessments of symptoms of anxiety and depression respectively), and it will log the results in Health and will provide crisis resources if things are looking bad.

- Journaling app with smart prompts to help you take stock of recent events and come back to them

I actually take the GAD7 and PHQ9 every week as part of my own MH check-in process and this streamlining would be really cool.

will respond to any incoming emails hopefully in the next few hours, i'm still a bit ill, need to crash

Donate:
https://ko-fi.com/dzuk_

Emoji commissions: https://dzuk.zone

Custom Mutant Standard hand colours: https://weirder.earth/@dzuk/110487700907247487

I really want to make clear what this is for folks:

- If you have some moderate technical knowledge and a bit of design knowledge, this is entirely possible for you to do for free using the software that I have provided open source and the Mutant Standard build files (and indeed this is how I'll be making these for folks). However, not everyone does have the technical knowledge.

- I don't want this to replace the Mutant Standard colour system, but I have happily done a few recoloured hands here and there in the past, and if you are already using a personal emoji set, this is a cool way of getting something that is uniquely you.

- This is a limited time offer - basically I'm just kinda desperate and trying to come up with ways of raising urgent money so my partner and I are no longer in debt for utility bills and I figured some folks would be interested.

Mutant Standard custom hand emoji commissions!

If you're interested in it email me at comms@dzuk.zone!

Other projects I've been working on to varying degrees lately

https://ko-fi.com/post/Other-projects-and-things-B0B5LUMLK

Just as a note for folks emailing me - just because I use Proton as my email provider it doesn't mean I care about encryption, so don't worry if you don't or you don't care for PGP or whatever

I just use Proton because they're a privacy-minded provider, but the privacy of the commission messages themselves aren't an issue for me.

Been using the Proton suite for more than a month and I'm pretty happy with it all. It's been streamlining my work life quite a bit.

At least there's Brighton Trans Pride to go to, and I will be going this year ✨

Its very telling when every queer local you talk to speaks of wanting to avoid your city's Pride thing :)

Will probably be changing my name from Dzuk to something else soon, but it's like a whole thing WRT websites, logos and things like that, it's basically a whole goddamn rebrand lol

It will soon be time for me and you to taste the pain of inflexible online identity systems :D