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@pprmint.de

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Pixel pusher and button presser. https://pprmint.de Art by @108sketches.bsky.social

A photo of a small frog sitting on a pavement brick. It's a tiny little guy. 1 Dorito.
A screenshot of a Microsoft Outlook Express 5 splash screen, except that it's actually something I wrote for a website that's meant to replicate the design of Windows 98, but more pink. The box actually reads pprmint. Pomifuri Express 5. The squares in the background are not blue like in the original, but crimson red and pastel pink. Instead of the Windows logo in the bottom right corner there's the custom logo of the website, which is a star with a pink and blue trail behind it. The original splash screen would say "This product is licensed" right above the copyright notice, but here it's actually one of 4 random strings. In the image it says "This product is not licensed" but could also say that it's pirated, or just true. The copyright notice attributes me instead of Microsoft, for the years 2024-2026, and instead of being "protected by US and international copyright laws", it's protected by EU laws.
A screenshot of the 404 page of a website I wrote, kofiko.art. "MISSING PAGE" is written in a large, bold font above a large, beige question mark with horns. Written below the question mark: "Have you seen this page? We sure haven't." Below that there's a blue button which takes you back to the home page.
Discord's mobile pop-up to change a friend's nickname. Nyasellia has been entered for that.
A screenshot from a Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com) page that just says Sorry in a monospace font. No more, no less.
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The wireframe of a vector train, more specifically an SBB RABe 501 passenger train, viewed from the side. The conductor's car is most prominently in frame. The attached passenger car is on the left side of the image, though cut off after the first door.
69 pending changes in VS Code. Nice.
A screenshot of the macOS Finder's network page, showing two available network shares. The first share is labeled as "macmini" and uses an old CRT with a Windows bluescreen for the icon. The second one is labeled "truenas" and uses a rack mount Mac Pro for the icon.
A screenshot of my website footer, which depicts a silhouette of Mina peeking over the bottom edge of the page. Right below are 88x31 buttons that link to other websites, namely my own, Kold's and Prefetcher's.
A screenshot taken while editing a video in the iOS Photos app. It’s cropped to show the top left corner of the screen in landscape orientation, Part of the video is visible, along with the buttons overlaid on top for closing the editor and muting the video. The video being edited is of my TV in front of a white wall in my living room, which appears more grey in this frame. The mute button is positioned in the wall area, between the TV and the black space left of the video in the UI.
A screenshot from YouTube Studio, showing my most recent upload from 506 days ago along with the following comment: “when r u gonna post”
A Valentine's Day card featuring Mina. The card is divided into two sections at the top and bottom. The top section takes up around 80% of the height of the card. At the top there's Mina wearing a suit and forming a triangle with her hands in front of her. She was drawn by Layer, who can be found under 108sketches@bsky.social. The sentence "Your breath is awful." is written above her in a wide geometric font. The sentence "Take a mint." is prominently in the center with a condensed serif font. Mina is positioned between "a" and "mint" and takes up almost a third of the card in this section. The texts are written in lighter shades of mint green, whereas the background of this section is dark green. The lower section is black on white and leaves space to write two names. The "From" field to the left has a small sentence in the bottom right corner, which reads "Someone concerned and brave enough to tell." The "To" field next to it features another sentence in the same position, which reads "Someone stinky."
A screenshot of a failed Coolify deployment, triggered by a GitHub commit push to the main branch with the title: "pft, let's see if this breaks stuff, who cares."
A screenshot of a graph showing a bit of the CPU usage of my web VPS that's running Coolify. There's a slight bump after around 18:55, where I had tried redeploying my site with some updated packages, which failed because nixpacks is annoying. I then tried it again just now, at around 19:05, where this time compiling started eating more and more resources over the following minutes, which eventually resulted in 400% CPU usage and the server being completely unusable.
Dito, but with punctuation and other special characters.
Dito, but with lowercase glyphs shown.
A screenshot of the glyph overview in the Glyphs font editor, showing the capitals of MN Celesta in italic.
The word Celesta set in MN Celesta Italic, a fork of Instrument Serif.
A screenshot of the Glyphs font editor on Mac, with the condensed serif font MN Celesta currently opened. The screenshot features the buttons to toggle between the regular and italic masters, the file and family name, and the capital letter A.
A screenshot of a New Message window from an old version of Outlook Express, recreated on a website designed to resemble Windows 98. Instead of the usual grey, the color scheme is pastel pink. There's my logo in the system tray with a message bubble above it. It says: Chill out, it's just a contact form. You lot are way too horny for pink Windows 9X icons.
A screenshot of a sprite sheet being edited in Aseprite. The sheet contains icons which were used in the menu bar of the New Message window in old Outlook Express versions, for functions like Send, Cut, Copy, Paste, Undo, Name and Spell Checking, Attachments and more. The icons all use shades of pink instead of grey, as well as warmer and less saturated tones of red, yellow and blue. Each icon has 3 different states, from top to bottom: Normal, hover, disabled.
A screenshot of 5 timers running at once. From top to bottom: 10 minutes, 18 minutes, 30 minutes, 2 hours and 30 minutes, and 23 hours, 59 minutes and 24 seconds.
A screenshot of the Siri suggestion widget on the iOS home screen. The second suggestion is to send a message to someone on Telegram. The first one is… starting a timer for 10 minutes.
A screenshot of two Glyphs font editor windows side by side. The left window has MN Celesta opened and is displaying some of its ligatures along with the question mark glyph. The ligatures are sharper than Instrument Serif’s and the question mark is a bit wider, has a larger shoulder and a softer curve towards the bottom end. Instrument Serif is found in the right window, showing its question mark for comparison.
The text "This is not MN Celesta, but Instrument Serif." written using, surprise, Instrument Serif. This is the font that my aforementioned fork is based on. Instrument Serif has more rounded corners and serifs, longer tails in the likes of the lowercase a and t that go almost straight up, as well as a horizontally symmetrical capital C. Conversely, MN Celesta has sharper corners and serifs, shorter and gentler curves for the tails, and some altered glyph designs to match those new tails, making the C asymmetrical.
A screenshot of the Glyphs font editor with a condensed serif font called "MN Celesta" currently opened. The outlines for the lowercase u are being edited. In this view, sample text that says "MN Celesta (Instrument Serif fork)" followed by the alphabet and the numbers 0 through 9 is displayed.
A screenshot from the Payload backend of my website, showing the count of "Mina pats" currently sitting at 759.
A photo of four, seven segment displays on my oven. The first three display “brh”. The fourth display has the bottom two horizontal segments lit up fully, while the top segment is only dimly lit.
mina Chibi-sized and doing a peace sign with her right hand, aimed at the viewer. The other hand rests on her side with the arm slightly bent outwards. Her right eye is closed.
A drawing of Mina holding a book upside down, looking confused with spinny eyes and a red question mark beside her. The background is green and contains some C-inspired code that declares a Mina object and functions for headpats. The book she’s holding is a parody of “The C Programming Language”. It’s titled “The M Programming Language” with the author names Neil A. Derthal and Ann R. Teur on the cover. There’s a big bold M in the center and a red stamp with “ANSI M” written inside. The back contains an also made-up snippet of a preface, which goes as follows: We have tried to come up with a lot of filler text for this back side of this fake book, yet it turns out that's much harder to accomplish while under the influence. The influence of green plants. Yes, we're talking about peppermints, a herb which was first identified by a Dr. Eales in England, at least according to everyone's favorite free encyclopedia, Wikipedia. The initial name was Mentha spicis brevioribus et habitioribus, foliis Mentha fusca, sapore fervido piperis, which I’m only adding here so I can have some fancy italic text here too. Anyway, according to her creator, Mina is actually able to summon a terminal window into the world and is more like an android personal assistant. However, this idea has yet to be reflected in her design and lore.
A photo of the red-orange leaves of a delonix regia against a blue sky.
A photo of hieroglyphs embedded on a wall inside a tomb in the Valley of the Kings. It was shot at an angle with a low f-stop, so the hieroglyphs closer to the camera appear sharp on the left, while those further away appear blurrier towards the right.
A photo depicting the pyramids of Menkaure on the left and Chephren on the right.
A photo of the open ceiling design around “The Great Gate” to the pyramids of Giza. There are a lot of thin stripes of wood, some solid and some with a line pattern, that span diagonally between solid wooden bars connected to concrete pillars. The angles of the wood stripes form various diamond and triangle shapes through which the sky can be seen.
A screenshot of the recent apps screen on iOS, or whatever it's called when you swipe up from the bottom edge of the screen and hold. In the center there's an app called Alkali showing a slightly modified Swift default view, with a kickboxing icon and the text "hiyaaaahhhh" underneath.
A photo of a building with a ton of windows and balconies, taken at an angle.
A photo of the Cairo Tower, taken from a boat on the Nile during a somewhat cloudy day. The tower is in the center of the photo and takes up almost the entire height. A long boat is docked in front of a cluster of palm trees and a few buildings, which all occupy the lower third of the frame.
A photo showing a large part of Çeşme, a municipality in the province of İzmir at the westernmost end of Turkey. It was taken on a flight to Egypt at an altitude of around 35,000 ft (10.6 km). The plane was around 76 km west of the area pictured.
A German pangram written using the expanded width of MN Varia. In German: Zwölf Boxkämpfer jagen Viktor quer über den großen Sylter Deich. Translates to: Twelve boxing fighters chase Viktor across the great Sylt dike.
A graphic showing off MN Varia with a new expanded variant. The text presenting it reads: Versatile, variable, MN Varia. Now* featuring a WDTH axis for up to 150% width. * The font itself is still in development hell.
A screenshot showing part of the output for Pacman updating packages under Arch Linux. The total download size is 3,351 mebibytes (or about 3.5 gigabytes). The size of the installed packages is 10,729 mebibytes (or about 10.5 gigabytes). The size difference after the update is almost 56 mebibytes (or 58.7 megabytes).
A close-up photo of a glass with a fizzy alcoholic bevrage in it, taken against a warm background of colours ranging from orange to fuchsia. There are lots of small bubbles stuck to the bottom of the glass, and some condensation has formed on the outside.
A screenshot of the Mina gallery on my website. A custom context menu has been revealed for art drawn by Ventusilly. The options are: Open image in a new tab, Copy image URL, Save image, Show all artworks by Ventusilly, which is currently highlighted, Visit profile on vgen.co.