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# About
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# About
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Puercito Fiction is a series of creative projects linked from this same
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homepage. For now, that is mainly web comics. The first of which is
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[She's Perfect, Actually!](https://shes-perfect-actually.puercito.net),
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a slice-of-gag strip following two silly ladies in a relationship.
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Really, one web comic.
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The person behind it all is happily hiding behind a curtain. Please pay no
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attention them.
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# "What are you up to now?"
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This page describes what I am currently up to. You can find other
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"Now" pages on [nownownow.com](https://nownownow.com).
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> Updated on Thursday, 20th of November, 2025
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# Getting Started
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I am doing the preparation for Puercito Fiction: setting up the website(s), signing up for accounts,
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figuring out a publishing workflow, etc.
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Once all that is settled, I will focus on sharing what I am working on. By that, I mean more word-of-mouth stuff (e.g. family/friends, group chats, small
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communities).
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# Comics
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I am publishing [She's Perfect, Actually!](https://shes-perfect-actually.puercito.net), a gag web comic about
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a couple of silly ladies in a relationship.
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This is moreso practice for getting into the regular habit of planning, drawing, and sharing entries on a regular basis. That said,
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I do like the idea of the strip morphing into something a little more narrative driven and even experimental
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at some point. For now, I am keeping things focused by making one strip per week. This is the easiest way to
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manage with a day job consisting of weird hours and other hobbies I have outside this site.
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## Eventually
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I will be putting out a proper, narrative web comic. The current conundrum is figuring out which one. I am caught
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between two ideas:
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* A dramedy about a college freshmen who finds herself navigating life after they inexplicably being turned into a boy.
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* A parable about a widow being banished from her village in post-Crusades Greece and being tormented by an unseen pursuer.
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This being the internet, I wager which one of these would be more interesting to folks. Neither premise is intended to be
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particularly long-lasting. Though, I am aware how infamous such intentions are for webcomics. That is why I am carefully
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planning ahead.
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These stories will be told vignette style, I reckon. Time is a precious thing and I want to tell the parts I care about.
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This is all to say that both stories will be told! It is just a matter of which order and when. Watch this space.
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# Planning
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As you may have guessed, I have a lot on my mind for what to deliver. Write now I'm creating outlines and schedules.
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Pretty soon I will be executing!
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# Philosophy
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I, like many people, am completely over platforms. Thus, I am striving to use smaller alternatives, ideally local.
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Where I can, I am self-hosting solutions. For everything else, I am producing it myself.
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More than anything, I am harkening back to a time where the internet was more informal, less important, and less
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disruptive. A tad naive, but its a nice thought.
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# Projects
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Outside of comics, I have a some things going on. More creative stuff, mostly technical.
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# Witch Seasoning
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I have been working on writing a novel. Actually, I have the first draft completed. 40% of its content has been
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cut down from a word total of 130K words. Now I am onto the revising the work independently: consolidating plot
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points, refining language, etc.
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Once I am onto a second draft, I think I'll open up expressions of interest for beta readers. Watch this space!
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# Sunday
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Sunday is a convenient website template for webcomics. It does _all_ the things.
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If you want to know in detail what it offers, checkout the [readme](https://git.puercito.net/mi/sunday).
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Though, you're probably better off seeing it in action with [She's Perfect, Actually!](https://shes-perfect-actually.puercito.net)
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This project was born from a need to have easily replicated features for my (eventual) web comics. Originally,
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I was going to use [Rarebit](https://rarebit.neocities.org/). But when I found myself tinkering the code, I
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found I was practically rewriting the whole thing. So, I started from scratch. It is still a wonderful tool,
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though! Far friendlier to beginners than Sunday is, if I'm being honest.
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# puercito.net
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I consider the management of this site (and all subdomains) a project in and of itself. It's all sitting on a virtual machine where I manually
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configure all the things. That's a heap of responsibility this day in age when you consider how many platforms automate
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this stuff on your behalf. But I don't want to deal with them!
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btw, the source code for this particular page is [open source](https://git.puercito.net/mi/hola).
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# "What do you use?"
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It's always fun to see what tools other folks are using. This is my
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page to do the same. What you see is what I use for my various projects.
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> Updated on Thursday, 20th of November, 2025
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# Art
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For all of my digital drawing and painting, I use Procreate for iPad with an Apple Pencil. _Surprise, surprise._ Currently, I am
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getting used to the [Comic Junkies Toolkit for Procreate](https://www.retrosupply.co/products/comic-junkies-toolkit-for-procreate)
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by RetroSupply Co.
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I _do_ have a [Huion Kamvas Pro 16](https://store.huion.com/au/products/kamvas-pro-16?srsltid=AfmBOop330FPZUb_-0OODk4V3Et1I4l8Fow6zcyjevSchmh_xz1M-rGy)
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that I should be using (nice find from Facebook Marketplace). But my ambition to build a new desk
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is in the way of that. I will probably start using [Krita](https://krita.org/en/) once that is finally done.
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My physical painting is done with either oil paints or gouache.
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## Anti-AI
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It is by no means bulletproof, but [Glaze](https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/index.html) by the University of Chicago
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is a promising tool for protecting images for AI training. Hopefully this paves the way for future platforms
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that are more effective.
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# Technical Stuff
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## This Website
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It's actually just an HTML website. _However,_ the page content is
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generated from Markdown. The execution is done through a lil' Python
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script.
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## The Comics
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My comics are served via a custom template, [Sunday](/projects.html#sunday).
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The source code are stored is stored in my own [Gitea](https://about.gitea.com) instance.
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Images and other assets are tracked with [Git LFS](https://git-lfs.com/).
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## Infrastructure
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Getting technical, everything under `puercito.net` is hosted in a virtual machine over at [BinaryLane](https://binarylane.com.au).
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The sites are proxied on [Traefik Proxy](https://traefik.io/traefik), served through [Docker](https://docker.com).
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[BunnyCDN](https://bunny.net/) distributes the content globally with included anti-DDoS. My domains are purchased through
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[Namecheap](https://namecheap.com) who provides identity privacy. Their [PrivateEmail](https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/email/)
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is a cost-effective solution.
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I access the infrastructure with [TwinGate](https://www.twingate.com/), a really simple VPN-like thingy.
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## Code
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I subscribe annually to [JetBrains](https://www.jetbrains.com/). Mostly, PyCharm is the IDE I spend my time in
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since that is my preferred platform. Occasionally I find myself in WebStorm. I don't do so much actual writing
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of code so much as handing my requirements to [Claude Code](https://www.claude.com/product/claude-code) for
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execution.
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> To be **absolutely** clear, I _only_ use Claude for technical work!
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## Software
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My writing is done in [Scrivener](https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview). My works are backed up
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to a free-tier DropBox account. Google Drive is where I store everything.
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The newsletter is handled through [PencilBooth](https://pencilbooth.com/), a provider specifically tiered to visual artists.
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I use a self-hosted instance of [Wekan](https://wekan.fi/) for the limited task management I do.
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YouTube is where I go to listen to ambient stuff while working on my projects. I am particular fan of
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[Aurora Heaven](https://www.youtube.com/@aurora.heaven18). Them is some vibes.
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## Hardware
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My laptop is a 2024 MacBook Pro 13" with an Apple M4 processor, 24GB memory. It usually sits on my lap. When I am
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at my desk, I use my Logitech [POP Keys](https://www.logitech.com/en-au/shop/p/pop-keys-wireless-mechanical) and
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[POP Mouse](https://www.logitech.com/en-au/shop/p/pop-wireless-mouse) gifted to me for Valentine's Day. I have a single
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external monitor (not counting the Huion). The laptop sits closed and slotted into a timber stand I hand-made. Why yes,
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I am not a multi-monitor person.
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For focusing, I have a pair of [Sony WH1000XM3](https://store.sony.com.au/archived-headphones-noisecancelling/WH1000XM3B.html)
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Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones (White) to block out (external) distraction. The pads wore after several years of use. So,
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I installed some [replacements from Amazon](https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0CTR2NKJS).
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'don\t do anything I wouldn\'t do',
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'wow you fit the whole thing in',
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'ask me about my very big hat',
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'what do you call pinata with a mustache',
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'what do you call a phone with a moustache',
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'I would bet on the 100 chihuahuas versus that t-rex',
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'sure you\'re a dog but what breed',
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'it\s dark in here',
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