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Happy Wednesday!

I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!

Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!

Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.

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PROFILE GENERATOR

Click here for links to the generator

The Profile Generator lets you build a full RP profile layout with themed presets, manual colour controls, curated font pairings, image layouts ranging from a single image to multi-image grids, and a mix of fixed info blocks plus collapsible sections for longer content. You can fill in basics, quotes, tags, mini info modules, and dropdown sections for things like history, headcanons, personality, trivia, or whatever else your character has accumulated after refusing to stay simple.

It has: a live preview that updates as you edit, a separate browser preview for checking the finished result on its own, dark mode for when your eyes are tired, and an A11y mode when you want a clearer, higher-contrast editing interface. When you are finished, use Copy Code and paste the generated HTML into Dreamwidth. with included( <lj-raw> wrappers) and paste it onto Dreamwidth.

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Animated preview of ten Signal Static playlist codes

Signal Static · batch 01

The first ten Signal Static playlist codes, built around older media, signal graphics and retro hardware.

The set started as a playlist code for my character in Diadem, then grew into a broader run of layouts. The reference point is retro hardware, display graphics and older media formats rather than literal transit styling.

01. Amber Shift 02. After Hours 03. Silver Dial 04. Blue Current 05. Stereo Deck 06. Archive Edition 07. Pocket Glow 08. Autochanger 09. Teal Register 10. Chrome Signal

Full post with live previews and copy boxes: here.