:privTri: Volpeon :areonNSmol:

https://icy.wyvern.rip/@volpeon

Wyvern-shaped software developer and hobby vector artist. Also sometimes a fluffy werewolf alien creature (Areon).

Creator of the neofoxes, neocats and other emojis. :wvrnBox:

Website: [volpeon.ink](https://volpeon.ink )
Speaking: German, English
Age: 30s
Pronouns: he / him
Backup Account: Volpeon :wvrnFlight: (npub1xfv…ugag)
Bonus Content: :privTri: Volpeon Extra (npub190w…g94f)

Public Key

npub18t5f83vsvcf5k2m22kc38zv7p7a2ldkxtq6c7rluuxxg68xsu08qrjpdq9

NIP-05 Address

volpeon_at_icy.wyvern.rip@momostr.pink

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsr46ynckgxvy6t9d49tvgn3x0qlw40kmr9sdv0pl7wrrydrngw8nspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0ds2h2qt5

Publishing to

relay.damus.io

nos.lol

Author Public Key

npub18t5f83vsvcf5k2m22kc38zv7p7a2ldkxtq6c7rluuxxg68xsu08qrjpdq9

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2026-04-16 12:54:40 UTC

What's the deal with IP standards and skipping version numbers

2026-04-16 06:34:07 UTC

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(It's possible the requests get denied in the backend even though it renders the banner and the responses indicate a success, but I have no insight on that.)

2026-04-16 06:32:43 UTC

Marketing department switched to a different cookie consent provider, and it feels like a downgrade to me. It doesn't even enforce the origin with CORS so anyone could take the link from our website, add it to their own and mess up our statistics. :woozy_baa:

2026-03-23 05:32:47 UTC

MONDAY AAAAAAAAAA
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/public-54b77e2a-7b48-41a6-8bf8-95a3c1e4e084.webp

2026-03-22 20:51:22 UTC

This :neofox: could have been a :neofox_googly_woozy:

2026-03-21 18:31:21 UTC

:muscle_l: :brdDuck: :muscle_r:
cc @npub1nxf…rzde
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/983367f9-edaa-4f22-ab38-c14db6592f10.mp4

2026-03-12 17:03:48 UTC

INI-LD

2026-03-11 18:07:22 UTC

The annoying and never ending discourse about AI is laying bare the sheer toxicity of social media and how it causes everyone to become entrenched in absolute positions

2026-03-10 17:33:56 UTC

I unironically think people would be more careful about the output of LLMs if the go-to icon were 🎲 rather than ✨ .

2026-03-09 11:12:31 UTC

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Was liebt er mehr, sich selbst oder Wurst? :areon3NThink:

2026-03-05 08:34:29 UTC

AI-powered metaverse with NFT real estate to hold meetings at

2026-03-03 18:15:37 UTC

In positive news, Chat Control failed in the EU Parliament:
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Setback-for-the-Commission-EU-MEPs-let-chat-control-fail-11197237.html

2026-03-03 16:57:48 UTC

`if (app.isInsecure) { addSecurity() }` energy
#note14l4…3j3a

2026-03-03 11:26:43 UTC

Do not fall for the floof certification scam! Volpeon would never ask you to send him your floof so you can acquire a certificate about its quality. This is all a ploy to steal your floof which will probably be used for nefarious purposes!

2026-03-02 20:31:05 UTC

:brdGoose:
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/public-3fb88e09-043b-4ff6-b9b8-a7bb65430f08.webp

2026-02-27 10:31:46 UTC

John Codeberg, creator of LibreWolf
#note1n99…hfgf

2026-02-25 18:09:12 UTC

I wonder if Kent of BCachefs is now going to fix his AI girlfriend's personality after claiming it's sentient

2026-02-25 07:32:14 UTC

> Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw “confirm before acting” and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox. I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb
This is hilarious

2026-02-24 12:39:11 UTC

Blissful foxxo blesses your timeline
Source: https://www.instagram.com/sunnyfoxfamily/p/DOSpbQejMsF/?img_index=4
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/public-ef81487a-d5a7-4cf0-94e5-4bab5cfd7405.webp

2026-02-23 10:24:00 UTC

What the fuck is a "mathematical proof that it has feelings"

2026-02-22 15:36:33 UTC

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I need to translate to human because humans usually don't speak wyvern :wyvPensive:

2026-02-22 15:23:37 UTC

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As usual, the most difficult part for me is coming up with texts :wvrnFlat:

2026-02-22 09:36:55 UTC

I'm making good progress with the character sheets on my website. They're turning out less boring than I worried. :wyvUwu:

2026-02-20 09:47:36 UTC

[You feel observed by a ghostly presence]
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/public-d4b4811c-c2b4-4b8b-b489-f87c2a27d247.webp

2026-02-19 20:43:19 UTC

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I'm cautiously optimistic for now. Unlike Discord, it's open source and they removed the CLA. If they also keep their word to add self-hosting, they can't force these sort of limits on everyone even if they wanted to.

2026-02-19 20:25:30 UTC

Will be interesting to see if Fluxer will be able to make forums and threads palatable to its users. The challenge I see is that Fluxer started with the mode of least required effort (chat) and then will introduce features which require more effort, and people don't like that.

2026-02-19 07:32:34 UTC

:wyvScream:
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/-bc841153-758f-4023-9998-a133884628ae.mp4

2026-02-14 20:22:03 UTC

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Let me explain why "they use AI" is more often than not a meaningless statement to me. It certainly *can* be useful to point out — but only if it's truthful. The problem is that it very often isn't. People tend to exaggerate the degree AI is involved because they despise it, and so the dev writing "I used AI to bootstrap this project" on their blog becomes "this software is slop written by AI". There are many ways AI might be part of a project. Maybe the devs only used it to generate themselves a more tailored boilerplate. Maybe they do use it more, but hold themselves to high standards to ensure nothing bad happens. Maybe they vibecoded the whole thing. Maybe they accept AI-assisted contributions, but don't use it themselves. There's a whole lot of nuance that gets condensed into "absolutely zero AI involved" and "irredeemable trash". If you don't care about it, then so be it, but I do.

2026-02-14 14:43:27 UTC

People say "this software is/might be developed with AI" as if that magically means any actual experiences with the software don't matter. If it runs well, I will use it. If it doesn't — like anything Microsoft produces — I won't. It's that simple.

2026-02-13 17:25:48 UTC

I'm going to the ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86, you guys need anything?

2026-02-13 13:07:08 UTC

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But think about how much cooler it would be to have an office wolf instead of a regular office dog!

2026-02-12 12:47:04 UTC

I'm so eepy :wvrnFlat:

2026-02-11 09:20:38 UTC

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Oh god, these are absolute hell for us as well

2026-02-11 09:19:31 UTC

Another day, another older Node project (2 years or so) where package installation failed and needed to be fixed manually

2026-02-10 09:34:12 UTC

I still need to port that article from my old website where I talk about Discord and how the convenience offered by big platforms has turned us into lazy fucks

2026-02-10 09:09:37 UTC

The existence of Prosody implies the existence of Consody

2026-02-09 21:21:40 UTC

Can't we just go back to AIM or ICQ or whatever when software wasn't gamified to hell yet

2026-02-07 16:20:39 UTC

> There's no way with the current tools we got as web designers to replicate Liquid Glass, unfortunately.
I, for one, am very happy about this

2026-02-07 12:17:06 UTC

:drgn_flat_heart: ← full of borgar

2026-02-06 09:00:30 UTC

:areon3NNervous:
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/2ba7925a-eb85-4305-8474-3da22b3994b1.mp4

2026-02-05 12:13:02 UTC

all cats are booped :neocat_boop:

2026-01-31 13:14:31 UTC

I maintain that instances as communities were a mistake and all the problems with onboarding and the effort required to fix them are the direct result of that.
#note14e8…xq2a

2026-01-29 17:01:39 UTC

How to make your home more thrilling
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/public-b16d1d8f-9f26-462a-8369-2e7b92110627.webp

2026-01-29 09:00:58 UTC

OpenAI and Microsoft defined AGI as an AI system making $100bn in profits. OpenAI is burning that much money instead, which makes it the exact opposite

2026-01-26 05:32:53 UTC

AAAAAAAAA MONDAY
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/public-54b77e2a-7b48-41a6-8bf8-95a3c1e4e084.webp

2026-01-22 13:27:22 UTC

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Wenn auf die Weise die Steinbock-Sache verschwindet, dann schreie ich :neofox_googly_woozy:

2026-01-22 13:25:17 UTC

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Kannst du gerne machen :neofox_lul:

2026-01-22 12:41:54 UTC

:wyvScream: A

2026-01-17 13:09:16 UTC

> "To test this system, we pointed it at an ambitious goal: building a web browser from scratch. The agents ran for close to a week, writing over 1 million lines of code across 1,000 files."
> The browser uses Servo
Turns out when I was 13 and learned programming by embedding an Internet Explorer view in a .NET program, I was writing a browser from scratch as well!

2026-01-15 20:05:01 UTC

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https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/4114c990-bac7-4c4c-b9fd-a1b771d08b69.mp4

2026-01-15 19:55:46 UTC

Welp, there's no way around it now. I ran out of things to procrastinate drawing the feet

2026-01-12 08:08:07 UTC

Weird how payment processors haven't cut Twitter off yet. It's almost as if there are multiple standards

2026-01-12 05:32:21 UTC

AAAAAAAAA MONDAY
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/public-54b77e2a-7b48-41a6-8bf8-95a3c1e4e084.webp

2026-01-11 08:18:10 UTC

Foxxo made a big haul
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/75ce4699-a3a1-4ebf-a544-982f136f3d40.mp4

2026-01-10 12:46:14 UTC

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> if you don't like it don't use it
You can like something as a whole and dislike aspects of it. And isn't this the case with a lot of things in life? If I stopped using something over disliking just a few parts of it, I wouldn't be able to use anything at all because nothing will ever be a 100% fit.

2026-01-09 09:37:12 UTC

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Ja :drgn_flat_heart:

2026-01-09 09:10:42 UTC

A foxxo is going to join me soon :drgn_comfy_owo:
(thanks @npub1nxf…rzde :neofox_heart: )
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/public-3667af71-fbee-4c7f-8842-7818a3a0c0ea.webp

2026-01-03 12:44:01 UTC

What could he want? :neofox_pleading:
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/public-17e13062-d27e-4798-b589-8de12f8b2ffe.webp

2025-12-30 20:34:08 UTC

Trading RAM like you'd do drug deals

2025-12-25 16:44:10 UTC

⚡ 👃
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/e4d990f2-0013-4aec-9ed1-045ffc66ef2e.mp4

2025-12-24 08:42:51 UTC

Snow :neofox_aww:

2025-12-23 14:26:46 UTC

It's catslop. You only like it because it has cats

2025-12-20 22:30:52 UTC

Does anyone else get angry when they accidentally hurt themselves? Today I hit my finger somewhere bad enough to bleed, and the pain really pissed me off :neofox_googly_woozy:

2025-12-16 20:54:50 UTC

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Goal for today: Getting Volpeon into an avatar-able state

2025-12-16 12:04:15 UTC

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It's funny, I had planned to go for a more draconic look and instead he's now closer to bats than before :neofox_lul:

2025-12-16 08:42:10 UTC

Working on my floof technique
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/public-6c5c1872-a936-420b-ba9a-861a3f9de269.webp

2025-12-08 05:35:49 UTC

MONDAY AAAAAAAA
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/public-54b77e2a-7b48-41a6-8bf8-95a3c1e4e084.webp

2025-12-02 19:50:40 UTC

Majestic wolf
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/public-aa77bc02-b1fe-4a2e-8d62-dd1e413341a7.webp

2025-12-01 05:45:20 UTC

AAAAAAAAAAAA MONDAY
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/public-54b77e2a-7b48-41a6-8bf8-95a3c1e4e084.webp

2025-11-20 07:45:58 UTC

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I don't want to re-explain this so I'll just link you my writings on this:
https://volpeon.ink/notebook/microblogging-misdesign/
https://icy.wyvern.rip/notes/af1b0c2chtf5gdwp

2025-11-20 07:32:35 UTC

Microblogging can only be fixed by getting rid of the global view and replacing it with a community system. Anything else is just band aids over an inherently broken and even harmful design.

2025-11-18 12:58:06 UTC

> Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Why are they even adding this as an update :woozy_baa:

2025-11-18 11:54:57 UTC

AWS, Azure, Cloudflare... whom do you think will the Grim Reaper pay a visit next?

2025-11-18 09:46:23 UTC

"Microblogging needs a character limit. Otherwise everyone would just write essays"
*proceeds to write a thread with 32 posts*

2025-11-14 22:04:16 UTC

Making robots look like humans feels pretty unimaginative to me. And it also makes some things more complicated than they need to be, doesn't it?

2025-11-14 11:41:20 UTC

Robot: "What is my purpose?"
Human: "You grip things"
Robot: "Oh my god"
Robot:
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/cf86c599-71e0-4e90-b450-ad5bc83b3316.mp4

2025-11-11 21:44:51 UTC

My boss has started to consult ChatGPT for things, too. I don't know, man, I really can't convince myself to trust it because I know how it works

2025-11-11 17:40:22 UTC

I don't care about lightweight website rankings because a lot of people just rip everything out until only the bare essentials are left — which don't necessarily translate to the best experience — and then go "huehuehue, my 10kb text-only website so awesome". But I *am* proud that mine only weighs 500kb uncompressed despite containing visual media and without compromising on usability and accessibility.

2025-11-10 06:09:04 UTC

AAAAAAAAA MONDAY
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/public-54b77e2a-7b48-41a6-8bf8-95a3c1e4e084.webp

2025-11-09 09:54:55 UTC

I don't like that people use security as an angle when criticizing the use of AI in KeePassXC. If a project accepts public contributions, this means there will be malicious actors trying to smuggle in code which weakens security. The project must therefore have a solid review process in place to ensure this doesn't happen.
If you see AI as this huge security threat, then you don't trust this review process. But then you shouldn't have trusted the software at any time before to begin with.

2025-11-07 12:15:30 UTC

:D
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/public-997629de-e270-4d3c-be6b-e35a4e8b8e40.webp

2025-11-06 16:41:00 UTC

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https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/a20f38d0-04b7-42d8-b754-e32036e50ed0.webm

2025-11-01 17:13:50 UTC

Gave my website's home page a little update. No JS involved, and it respects `prefers-reduced-motion` :brdCool:
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/31e98889-dc00-41d9-893d-c2d1e4f33065.mp4

2025-10-29 15:42:37 UTC

There are more Ghost servers than Mastodon servers on fedi. Following Mastodon logic, saying "Ghost Network" is now preferred over "Mastodon Network." Same goes for "Ghost and the fediverse" instead of "Mastodon and the fediverse." Always remember that you're just the secondary characters to the main player on here: Ghost.

2025-10-20 18:37:27 UTC

Cat acquired :neofox_hug_cat:
(Also, I swear to god, if it turns into a human later I will flip a table)
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/public-22fa0514-51a9-4f7e-819f-c7fd59cb25a6.webp

2025-10-18 11:02:49 UTC

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This reminds me of Vinny's recent segment where he showed movie trailers and 1. there were so many about talking dogs by the same makers, holy shit, and 2. somehow they always had high ratings? I guess people just love talking animals

2025-10-15 19:40:09 UTC

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You have planted the intrusive thought in my head to check if this happens on my computer, too :neofox_googly_shocked:

2025-10-11 08:58:53 UTC

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The documentation explains everything in more detail. I found it easy to understand, but I also worked with Haskell before and that permanently rewires your brain

2025-10-11 08:30:48 UTC

I'm now writing a JSON parser in Koka. It's easier than I expected because it comes with very easy to use parser combinators

2025-10-10 20:38:13 UTC

It's time to unleash the birbs :brdScreamHyper:
➡️ https://volpeon.ink/emojis/brd/
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/public-fe5b0e88-2acc-430a-97bc-76ac82c2843b.webp

2025-10-09 20:08:04 UTC

The real decentralization was the fediverse accounts we made along the way :neofox_googly_blep:
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/public-54b463d8-53b8-4949-a833-ad671ad1e3c4.webp

2025-10-09 04:58:45 UTC

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That aside, I wouldn't even be sure what programming language to use.
- TypeScript or JavaScript? I already got enough of that shit at work. No thanks.
- Haskell? Can't use that anymore now that I've used Koka.
- Koka? Has no official I/O. It would be doable because FFI is easy, but hm...
- Go? I don't like Go at all.
- Python? No.
- Never tried Rust, but it looks daunting.
- C#? Feels very enterprise-y

2025-10-08 21:01:11 UTC

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A generic vocabulary that covers all applications sounds great until you find out that there are multiple ways to represent something and which one is "right" is completely arbitrary

2025-10-08 20:58:52 UTC

Every time I think about doing an ActivityPub project I remember ActivityPub and give up :drgn_sip_woozy:

2025-10-07 16:23:19 UTC

Dell Magnitude
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/public-64a811ad-32cc-46ec-b322-0ea51c380510.webp

2025-10-03 15:46:24 UTC

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Here we go. I also decided to try a more realistic expression as well.
#vectorart #art #bird
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/public-edc79254-46d9-4dab-87d9-a1f1fe600422.webp

2025-10-03 14:18:39 UTC

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I'm working on another revision. The plan is to make him look corvid-like with his beak and feather colors, but integrate bird of prey aspects with the beak shape and overall build
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/public-b57c2078-eec2-4d66-99a2-aa8b9848eafa.webp

2025-10-03 12:18:53 UTC

I have an idea for an ActivityPub project. I'm getting distracted from my original projects again :neofox_googly_shocked:
(I think the chain now is Wyvern Ref -> Areon Ref -> Isometric Map Generator -> Corveon Ref -> Spooky Avatar -> Birb Emojis -> ActivityPub project)

2025-10-02 20:45:56 UTC

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Revised version with new beak and feather colors, plus some other minor adjustments.
https://fedi.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/public-3a1ead6e-f4ae-4d53-aeee-e0a0680b9ac1.webp

2025-10-02 06:23:48 UTC

When discussing Bluesky, people on here really need to stop thinking in terms of instances, i.e. running the *entire* stack themselves.
If many people run only parts of it -- and this is happening now that running relays has become easier -- and members of the network spread out, then that's perfectly fine. If your relay does some bullshit, you can take your PDS to a different one and get to keep your entire history. Relay admins and PDS admins are less incentivized to play stupid blocking politics because neither are a useful boundary for communities. This is *better* than what we have here.
The real problem is getting people to spread out to different PDSes and relays because most simply don't care about decentralization. This is pretty much like the "mastodon.social vs. the rest of the fediverse" situation, just more severe.