Software used before episode 13 (season 1): Microsoft Comic Chat 2.5 for Windows 98, Pony Town (it's not super legal to use those assets commercially so that's why they're missing from Tapas)
Episode 14 onwards (season 2): VRoid Mobile, MikuMikuDance, Adobe Illustrator

The original intent was to use Microsoft Chat as a constraint (kinda like Dinosaur Comics using the same comic all the time), but after a 2 month hiatus and messing up with 3D characters for use on Twitch I prefered to use the 4-koma constraint.

It's a webcomic about a horse turned into an anime girl after having smoked a bit too much. Originally made with Microsoft Chat 2.5, I shifted to Adobe Illustrator and MikuMikuDance. Check it out, it's pretty absurd.

https://toasters.rocks/horselife/
https://tapas.io/series/HorseLife98 (season 2)

Ghost is free if you manage to host it yourself, but it's quite buried in their website. It's one of those things you have to understand that the paid offer is pretty much hosting for those who don't want to do everything themselves, you have to spot the words "open source" among all the buzzwords to make sure it's really free. That's how they make money, I guess.

WordPress.com/.org also works the same way, but since it's more popular it's more obvious it's also open source. Also quite easier to install if you don't know how to Linux, because it's in PHP. It's also very customizable and there's a whole ton of plugins and themes for it.

Fun fact: WordPress also owns Tumblr, they got it for almost free after the whole debacle with Yahoo! and Verizon That one isn't open source, though.

Wordpress is a quite common one, if you can do Node.js there's also Ghost. Keep in mind most of those are blogging platforms and you don't really want to stay away from that. But for your use case that would be pretty good.

Else you can hire me

Kinda curious here, also would serve as a poll for maybe new subforums based on what you're doing now (other than calcs and stuff cause I know a lot of you are no longer into that ).

My day job involves getting websites to work and Linux system administration, as usual, other than that, I'm working on an English fandub of Dans une galaxie près de chez vous and a revival of my Twitch channel. Other than that, some random stuff I do when bored I post on my blog or my Twitter account. Probably should cross post about some of them in here.

What about you?

If you're talking about raw CPU speed, Moore's Law kind of doesn't apply anymore, it kind of plateaued around 4 GHz, nowadays they're adding more and more of cores on the same chip, and improving GPUs and hard disk speed.

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I've recently been rebuilding my blog where I put project updates, rants, writing, reposts from elsewhere and most recently some absurd webcomic made with Microsoft Chat for Windows 98 appropriately called Horse Life 98, check it out

I recently installed Ghost on some free shared hosting account I had laying around somewhere that surprisingly supports Node.js and Ruby, it's WAY better than Wordpress and it's written in Node.js so it's way faster and not a clump of legacy code that still supports EOL'd versions of PHP, and now I'm trying to build some custom theme for it, which are pretty much HTML templates that are really nice to code. Previous versions used Write Freely (written in Go, had almost no feature other than federating with Mastodon and felt a lot like 0.x software) and Tumblr (which is pretty much a failure since it got bought by Verizon, they tried to ban NSFW and the users got pissed). So yeah, it's a pretty nice experience so far, and I'll keep you updated on the new theme

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If you're powering home consoles in your car, how you would power the screen now? A splitter, or batteries?

I kinda forgot how it worked, the server is dead because it was too much on our VPS for the amount of people who used it, but I guess you can go on a server that provides bridging with EFNet instead and go on #codewalrus there.

Nowadays, the Discord server is the only chatroom that is actively maintained, we provide a bridge to IRC for convenience, anything that can bridge to either of those (provided it's not a pain to maintain) should work.

Not yet.

You can always help here.

Free and open source, yes. But of course I guess you need more programming skills.

Already? Time goes fast.

Mmm, I like those