Tyler Anderson

@TandyQ
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Digital comics UX designer. Amateur photographer and graphic designer. Video games, comics, and anime forever.
PronounsHe/Him
Websitehttps://www.tandyq.me/about
Photographyhttps://glass.photo/tandyq
Movieshttps://letterboxd.com/tandyq/
Formulas for optical adjustments. https://bjango.com/articles/opticaladjustments/
Formulas for optical adjustments

A long-standing trope of the design world is that computers are bad at aligning and balancing the relative scales of elements. This is incorrect.

Bjango
Finally finished God of War Ragnarok yesterday. I really enjoyed it! It has an incredible narrative that is somewhat hampered by its level design and gameplay, which are fine but not revelatory. I feel like it could have been 5-10 hours shorter, but man that story. Just great stuff from start to end.
I will always love Fortnite because it allows me to do dumb shit like making Geralt do TikTok dances. https://youtu.be/pSChOt8Jom8
Savage Geralt

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Finding out about 9 hours late that Twitter was broken today. lmao. Did they forget to pay the bill for their API access
A fun novelty that I wish existed: a VR application for browsing your digitized media library that replicated a video rental store. Get things separated out into genre sections, browse through and pick up a tape with all the metadata attached to it and use it to pick what you’re going to watch. That’d be so fun to play around with.

This feels like the year where I take how I engage with the internet into my own hands (as much as I reasonably can, anyway).

Companies have proven time and again that they can’t be trusted to maintain a proper level of interest in their users needs, so instead of continuing to just let that happen with stuff I use every day, I’m moving to self-hosted, open-source alternatives wherever possible.

My delve into getting Home Assistant running on my NAS to switch from Alexa to HomeKit has lead me into a deep hole of getting alternatives to services I use running locally on my own hardware.

So far I have the aforementioned HA and Plex (which is what I got the NAS for in the first place), and now FreshRSS is up and running. Next is a read-it-later service, and then who knows? I have a bunch of indie comics downloaded from Comixology, maybe I’ll set up Komga and get them all organized.

StreetPass is a cool new browser extension that uses Mastodon's verification system in a clever way.

Mastodon users verify themselves by adding a custom link to their personal site. StreetPass lets you know when you've found one of these links, and adds them to your list. As you browse the web, StreetPass will build a list of Mastodon users that belong to the websites you visit.

I spoke with the creater @tvler about the project, 🧵 below.

Visit https://streetpass.social/ to try it yourself!

StreetPass for Mastodon

StreetPass: Find your people on Mastodon

The Crater section of God of War Ragnarok is absolutely the best part of that game, and an excellent chunk of level design, but it’s a bummer that it comes along so late in the total runtime.

I’m exhausted of playing as Kratos and want the game to be over, but there’s so much that just got added to my quest log that I want to see through. It’s kinda annoying!

Hey folks, I moved one of my last bots from Twitter to here, @randomcomicbook

This uses the cool (but forgotten) Marvel API to share a random comic book from the history of Marvel Comics.

Built on Pipedream.