Wyvern-shaped software developer and hobby vector artist. Also sometimes a fluffy werewolf alien creature (Areon) or a bird (Corveon).
https://volpeon.ink/ Speaking
German, English
Age
30s
Pronouns
he / him
Backup Account
@volpeon@goto.wyvern.rip
Bonus Content
@areon@icy.wyvern.rip
Many people in the subreddit are moving to Claude. It will suffer all of the same problems
:areonFlat:
So now that I'm looking at them under worst-case conditions... god damn, I really can't have anything like a visor on the face at all. It makes the mouth almost invisible so you can't see part of the expression.
I saw an article about a vibe coder who's allegedly dominating hackathons.
I set the emoji size on my frontend to Mastodon's 20px. Yeah, I know why I thought custom emojis were pointless at first
:areon3: :areon3Mlem: :areon3Flat:
@gothdactyl I wish I could conditionally change how the emoji is rendered at smaller sizes, but that's not possible
I think it's better? I really hate how shading acts more like a distraction at that size
Is this better or worse?
:areon2: :areon2Mlem: :areon2Flat:
My advice for making emojis of characters whose face isn't a single solid color: Don't
:areonFlat:
:areon: :areonMlem: :areonFlat:
The head is so complex I can't really do much in terms of variations, but it's better than no emojis
The emoji project survives for round 2
Iceshrimp.NET v2026.1-beta+bb556e7957
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