rav3ndust's oasis of oddities

For pretty much a decade now, Discord has been "the place" for people to get together online and hang out. Discord was a lot of fun for a long time, it was easy for anyone to make an account and get to joining and creating servers and building communities.

However, Discord has been doing kinda downhill over the last few years when it comes to the privacy side of things. What if there was an open-source Discord? Well, there kinda is, and I have been exploring alternatives for awhile, and finally landed on the one I'm going to be using going forward for my community, Ravinia, and it's called Fluxer.

If you're into Linux, programming, music, art, writing, gaming, streaming, or just chilling out and shooting the breeze and playing games with like-minded, chill people, then Ravinia might be somewhere you'll enjoy hanging out. We originally built out the community on Discord, and now we're (re)building it on Fluxer. Feel free to join in and see how you like it! You can click the button below for an invitation to the Ravinia room!

i still like this demo and am trying to decide what to further do with it. would be cool to bring more of the 12string and maybe a vocalist :)

I discovered a fun multiplayer snake game played over SSH in your terminal. I love this kind of stuff, it really throws me back to the days when computing was personal, new to many people, and most importantly, fun! Computers are supposed to be fun, and are supposed to be yours.

There is something I love about cohesion. That feeling of everything going together. Almost everything I do follows the same nightshadeNeon color palette designed by my wife and I over the years. In the attached image, you can see my main website on the left side, and my Tumblr page on the right. All looking nice and cohesive together, following the same theme while conveying different ideas.