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Read the first chapter here

Have fun :)

[juju-kun]

Yeah, I hardly post on Tumblr anymore

I lost interest for Tumblr years ago due to the fact I followed a ton of random stuff and I didn’t feel like cleaning up, so yeah. I’m unlikely to get hit by the new NSFW rule, but eh, everyone knows everyone goes on Tumblr for that.

While everyone is moving away out of frustration, here’s where to find me and follow me there:

My new blog (whose URL used to point to my Tumblr but now it’s a clean new blog for rants and programming tips)

Twitter (which is where I put most of my short-form rants, but it’s getting weird too)

Mastodon (feel free to sign up on my instance, it’s a pretty nice place :))

Read my book, Zarmina (you’ll probably like it, there’s one chapter so far but it’s going to get interesting, I just uploaded the cover)

On that, see ya, space cowboys.

[juju-kun]

New blog! I remade a new one I’ll put all my rants on. Have fun.

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Life update.

Well. I didn’t blogged that much in the past year or two on this toasters dot rocks blog, for some reason. My Tumblr timeline was looking like a disaster. Kinda like Facebook, actually, but that’s another kind of disaster. Oh well. I probably should blog a bit more and publish some texts I usually just condense in 280 characters on Twitter. Kind of a diary.

So yeah. A ton of stuff happened since then, in the past year or two. Dropped school, got a job in web development and now I’m working on a rather big project with a bunch of friends related to podcasts and content creators. (BTW, I’ll let you know when it’s ready :)) So yeah, after being generally terrible in college and having stayed way too long there, thanks to a Youtuber, podcaster and entrepreneur friend, I’m now in a situation one could just dream of. You might want to get all of the diplomas to get far in life, but if you’re creative enough, you don’t need to... Anyway, I can’t wait to see this project taking off, cause it’s a pretty good concept overall, it just needs a lot of thinking and challenges to overcome.

I’ve also been thinking a lot of my pet project, Zarmina, it’s also a project I wanna see done, I worked quite a bit on it lately, I finished the script for a demo, but I prefer putting the time on this other project since, well, this pays my bills :)

Anyway, can’t wait what live is gonna give me next, who knows?

So yeah, stay tuned for more entries in my diary...

[juju-kun]

To celebrate the upcoming launch of the Gamebuino META, I’m doing a giveaway! 😀

The Gamebuino META is an Arduino compatible retro handheld to play and make games for.

The rules are simple: To enter, just like and reblog this post. You also must be following me.

You can enter on my other social media accounts for more entries in the giveaway:

Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

Deadline is Feb 25th and I’ll be selecting a winner at random 🙂 Good luck!

[juju-kun]

My brother did this, turned out nice.

I did this bartop arcade cabinet with my dad in like 5 hrs it was heck of a lot of fun

[juju-kun]

SAILOR FLUFF???

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War never changes by Kurenji

Reminder: Friendship is still magic

This piece was originally published in French on my blog MLP Québec, figured you non-French speakers would want to read this.

You probably heard of the Québec City shooting, a horrible and foolish act that took place on Sunday night in a Muslim mosque about 15 minutes drive from the MLP Quebec headquarters... Of course I need to talk about it, not only because it’s in my home, but also because My Little Pony and its fans taught us friendship, compassion, mutual assistance between unicorns, pegasus, earth ponies, or in real life, Christians, Muslims, Jews, whites and blacks, the left and the right, name it... The Canadian and Québécois government and many people emphasize these values, something I totally respect. Still, many people ignore them, advocating xenophobia in response to the climate of terror in which we currently live. Because the terrorist threat is real, the only way to remedy it is to welcome these immigrants, refugees and all those who are not like us, even those who do not think like us and condemn any opposite action…

“War, war, it’s no reason to hurt one another!” - The Dog Who Stopped the War (1984)

We offer our condolences to the families of the victims of the Islamic Center of Québec City shooting and to the entire Québec Muslim community. In the same vein, you can give to MLP Québec so that the site remains online, the link is in the bar to the right of the home page (author’s note: better link here), this month’s profits if any will go to the Islamic Center and the victims.

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How to tell your AdBlock users to disable it like a boss

Boy, I don’t use Tumblr very often nowadays. Well, I wanted to write this article because, first of all, I hate ads and I know everyone else hates ads, myself I have uBlock with the anti-AdBlock killer on, but I also know people depends on it to make some good internet money and they want to do everything so their users can see the ads, even going as far as blocking the site's content unless AdBlock is disabled... I have reasons to believe you'd piss these users off instead. I want to help fellow webmasters into making a better Internet, so this article attempts to show a way to have ads on and keep your users the most diligent way possible. Here goes the long post...

Choose a good ad network

First of all, one of the first reasons, if not the first, people install AdBlock or similar software is that ads are one of the easiest ways to carry viruses and other malware, with Flash/HTML5 ads and such. So you'll want to make sure, with the right settings on whichever network you choose, to only serve images, no Flash, no foreign Javascript that could carry malware inserted into the ad. The popular one is Google AdSense, I personally use Project Wonderful, which also lets your users continually bid on your ad boxes instead of the standard CPM/CPC model and only accept image ads, as far as I know. I won't show you how to place your ads, but it does help if you're reasonable about them. Think like a normal user who don't want ads in their way and find a good compromise. Actually, more on that in the next paragraph...

Subscribe to AdBlock Plus' Acceptable Ads Initiative

If you can convince your users your ads are not annoying and full of viruses, they are probably more likely to disable their AdBlock for you. The fine guys behind AdBlock Plus have published a set of guidelines to follow so your ad won't be considered annoying. If you follow these guidelines to the letter and if you ask them nicely, they might whitelist your ad in their software, which would give you a bit of a boost in ad views and clicks! And it's free! (That is, if your site is not a giant and make "more than 10 million additional ad impressions per month due to participation in the Acceptable Ads initiative"...) It's a bit controversial, but hey, it works. If you contact them, it might take something like 2 weeks before they even get to your case and another 3-4 days before they add your ads to the whitelist, so be patient, it's worth it.

Read more about it: https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads

Don't block your content and convince your users

What is more annoying than an intrusive popup telling you to disable AdBlock? Your visitors with AdBlock on might as well leave your site instead of actually disabling AdBlock and you might lose views. So just don't do that, or you'd give the impression you're a greedy person and your site exists for the money. You definitely don't want that. So when you detect your user has AdBlock enabled, you'll still want to write a nice message above the fold, but nothing intrusive, saying something along the lines, "the website wouldn't exist without the ad money" (because, well, that's often why you put ads in there and users will understand that) and/or "I promise the ads are not annoying and full of viruses" (because you did the above like a nice admin). Maybe even mention the Acceptable Ads Initiative, you'll show them it's true and you followed guidelines from AdBlock software.

I mean, convince your users, and make as simple as possible

Another thing you can do, and I don't think anyone did that yet, is to provide a subscription link to an AdBlock filter you made that unblocks your ads with the above message, like, "Click here to disable AdBlock/AdBlock Plus/uBlock for this site". Your users will click on that link like if it was any other link to, for instance, close that message, it's that simple for them. Again, I won't show you how to do that (maybe in another blog post?), I believe there's a bunch of tutorials on how to write filter lists and provide an abp: URL pointing to it, but I do think it's infinitely better than providing something like 4 different sets of instructions for each adblock software, browser and operating system out there. If you did the Acceptable Ads step above, they will provide you with a set of filter rules they will put in their list, you can definitely use that, you can also ask them for assistance for making a simple list with those rules to host on your server.

So there you go, I think I went around the subject, I hope these guidelines worked on your website and boosted your ads a bit! Of course, you can't convince everyone, some people are convinced ads are bad no matter what (that's why the Acceptable Ads Initiative is controversial), but you still can add some nice users with these guidelines. Obviously, I'm not your visitors, so I don't guarantee this will work at all, but eh, at least you tried and made your site better.

Read it all? Have a walrus, you can thank me later. Don't forget to share it with all your friends who have websites!

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For 6 years of ponies!

The MLP Fan Remake

Yeah, wondered if I should announce it now… Eh, all my documents are ready, so why not. Here we go.

Are you good at creating animations? Well, this is for you! The goal here is to remake the first episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, shot by shot, as a giant collab between pony animators. It would be a really nice thank you for all those 6 years of ponies, am I right? Why yes of course. There’s about 325 shots in the episode, so let’s remake them in 325 different styles! So of course, we’ll need as many animators and artists as possible. We already have a few big names of the fandom interested in the project, such as MegamanHxH and Minty Root to name a few, so why not join them?

Are you interested? Email us at mlpfanremake@gmail.com with your name and info (such as your YouTube channel, we want to know you a bit :P) and we’ll give you the instructions. Otherwise, share this around, reblog this wildly and get your friends on the project! Thank you!

[juju-kun]

That further confirms my teenage pregnancy theory.

@outofcontextmylittlepony

[juju-kun]

That flashback in MLP S06E23 #MLPSeason6 (spoilers)

Well, we saw a likely teenage Applejack in this episode. And no, we didn't saw Applebloom nor her parents in that flashback. We probably have a bunch of theories about that, maybe the parents were simply out, maybe at the hospital to give birth to Applebloom. The hospital scene would probably be a good time to see them in that case, but we didn't, as far as I know. Or they were just too busy to care of her in some place we never saw, like the bedroom. (Taking care of a kid takes time off the farm, you know.) Maybe they were already dead and Applebloom is a result of teenage pregnancy at some point after that flashback, with AJ is her true mom, but she adopted her as her sister so no one would suspect a thing. Or suspect less things, at least. (Of course, the show definitely wouldn't show that, but we were at least confirmed the parents were dead.) We don't know, could be anything.

[juju-kun]

Anyone in?

The MLP Fan Remake

Yeah, wondered if I should announce it now… Eh, all my documents are ready, so why not. Here we go.

Are you good at creating animations? Well, this is for you! The goal here is to remake the first episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, shot by shot, as a giant collab between pony animators. It would be a really nice thank you for all those 6 years of ponies, am I right? Why yes of course. There’s about 325 shots in the episode, so let’s remake them in 325 different styles! So of course, we’ll need as many animators and artists as possible. We already have a few big names of the fandom interested in the project, such as MegamanHxH and Minty Root to name a few, so why not join them?

Are you interested? Email us at mlpfanremake@gmail.com with your name and info (such as your YouTube channel, we want to know you a bit :P) and we’ll give you the instructions. Otherwise, share this around, reblog this wildly and get your friends on the project! Thank you!

[juju-kun]

Is it me or if you enable the blog colors for posts on, the text posts with a bunch of people adding something in look like those gender/sexuality pride flags?

[juju-kun]

The MLP Fan Remake

Yeah, wondered if I should announce it now... Eh, all my documents are ready, so why not. Here we go.

Are you good at creating animations? Well, this is for you! The goal here is to remake the first episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, shot by shot, as a giant collab between pony animators. It would be a really nice thank you for all those 6 years of ponies, am I right? Why yes of course. There's about 325 shots in the episode, so let's remake them in 325 different styles! So of course, we'll need as many animators and artists as possible. We already have a few big names of the fandom interested in the project, such as MegamanHxH and Minty Root to name a few, so why not join them?

Are you interested? Email us at mlpfanremake@gmail.com with your name and info (such as your YouTube channel, we want to know you a bit :P) and we'll give you the instructions. Otherwise, share this around, reblog this wildly and get your friends on the project! Thank you!

[juju-kun]

i need this fidget toy more than i have ever needed any other fidget toy

it’s currently in its fundraising phase, it looks like they’ll be ready to sell them in December 2016! image source and more information here at their kickstarter.