teacherbuknoy

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@teacherbuknoy@masto.ai

Your favorite web developer's favorite web developer.

I am a super graphic ultra modern Filipino who makes things on the web and teaches other Filipinos to do the same. I produce content for @antaresphdev

Toots include:
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- ukay-ukay finds
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- Gawking on red carpet events and outfits
- Religious trauma as an ex-Jehovah's Witness
- Pinoy excellence
- Philippine politics
- Living alone

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This couldn't have come in a better time on my feed than now.

RE: wandering.shop/@older/11470919

The Wandering Shop older (@older@wandering.shop) "Start small, stay personal, and don’t wait for permission. Your story matters, especially if it hasn’t been told before. Use what you have — cardboard, clay, your voice — and make something true. Don’t be too precious about the process. Just animate, and then do it again."

Surprise! My website releases one week earlier! It goes live tomorrow, June 20 at 12 MN Philippine Standard Time. I can't wait for you all to see it, I worked very hard for this revamp and I hope you like it!

Here are some images to tease you (I read on some marketing blog that you gotta have teasers of some kind 🤣). Can you figure out the lore I wrote for this one? I know it's very extra but whatever!!!

francisrub.io/

A mysterious visionary leaning forward in a light blue dress shirt and black tie, exuding sharp focus and quiet confidence. His raised hand suggests he's scanning the horizon, eyes fixed on something ahead. That same mysterious visionary echoing the same pose in a bolder transformation—draped in leather, mesh, and chains, with fierce makeup and piercings. The gaze remains intense, but now charged with unapologetic edge and raw attitude.
Francis Rubio francisrub.io returns june 20, 2025 A web designer, developer, and educator from the Philippines

“we cannot control how others experience us, how they interpret our lives or the lens through which they see us. But for [him], that realization wasn't freeing; it was terrifying… He personified his darkness, let it take hold, and allowed it to infect him so deeply that it reshaped him into something vaguely familiar yet wholly unrecognizable.”

THE WEBSITE -> 06/20
THE WRITEUP -> 06/28

Kulet netong PridePH talaga inannounce na naman mga performer tas dudumugin na naman ng mga straight tas kaming mga LGBTQIA+ na naman ang walang space sa event na para samen

Ang Pride ay protesta, hindi concert. Kahit walang performer, pupunta ang mga bading at trans. Hindi naman sa wag nang mag-invite ng performers. Pero sana wag na lang i-announce beforehand, nawawala yung esensya ng event eh.

As much as I want Sang'gre to have Hollywood-level special effects, it's still free TV. What we got is as good as it will ever get. Kung ang plano siguro right from the start ay ilagay sa streaming services, saka siguro puwedeng maging sobrang nitpicky since gagastusan mo yun para mapanood.

But what we got is more cinematic and better than anything we've had in the last decade. This is good.

A year later, and I'm still talking about shame. There's a lot to process around shame; it's deep seated, like a stubborn stain your dishwashing soap just couldn't dissolve.

Of course, having a photoshoot and posting that on the web doesn't mean the shame will go away. There's not an overnight solution to this predicament. My fear is that I'll carry this queer disgrace until I'm six feet under.

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That is to say that even allowing this thought to fester is a great disservice to oneself. There's such a thing as queer joy, and allowing yourself to be held back by what your dead parents and grandparents may think of you is letting yourself be thieved of this joy. But realizing that also brings shame.

I'm ashamed that I was born this way. And now that I realize, I am also ashamed that I am ashamed I was born this way. Such is the life of a queer baby. I say, community, creativity, embracing The Cringe™, and devotion to yourself can heal these wounds.

But I don't yet have a definitive answer. I'll come back to you next year with notes.

Unfortunately, Encantadia's weakest point remains to be its writing. This is the corniest Tagalog you'll hear. They cannot decide whether to stick to archaic Tagalog or to use modern everyday Tagalog.

I wish they stuck to the same style of Tagalog they used in 2005. They had very impressive use of literary language back then, even used words that weren't being used outside of literature.

That's just a personal nitpick. Overall it's cute. I'm loving it so far.

I guess they're afraid people won't understand "malalim na Tagalog". But they could very easily do that as their way of contributing back to Tagalog as a language, in a way that people would learn new words. Well 🤷

Pa'no ko ba mare-replicate yung makeup saken nung Ms Mykee sa Schild Studios??? Never kong nagawa na ganon ka-matte yung feztival ko while still looking fresh and not muddy tas HD yung eksena niya sa camera, kahit i-zoom sa 4K di kita yung pores 😭

"Bakit yan ang suot mo? It's so bading!"

"Eh ano'ng magagawa ko? Eh bading ako."

"Eh 'yun na nga eh. Bakla ka na nga, nagfu-fuchsia pink ka pa. Napaka-redundant mo naman!"

I wonder how much of my personality came from YouTube reactors 💀😭 I watch a lot of them during lunch and I have (only now!) noticed I have started laughing in pretty much the exact same way as AjayII 😭

*Cackling* at middle class workers being soooo worked up everytime the government announces updates on existing or entirely new social security programs. Where do u think your taxes go into 😭 and would u rather it go to the likes of Chiz to fund Heart's lavish lifestyle??

We keep forgetting that it's never a middle class vs. poor. It's a poor vs. rich type of deal. And in quite a few of these social security programs, middle class workers are also eligible to avail.

The rich really got their big brain moment by putting people into tiers of poverty, now everyone's fighting each other EXCEPT the rich. Then you get these upper middle class people who *think* they're closer to being rich than to being poor. No, diva. Look at the gap! It's as wide as you can imagine.

You can't say "most" and say that it's based on your own experience all in the same breath. "Most rich people are not even matapobre, coming from someone who's friends with a lot of them." Well, let's quantify this "lot" you're saying bc how many of them exactly...

Also, framing that as if being matapobre is the most important issue. The rich are burning the world on fire through wars and ecological exploitation. There's a bigger fish to fry, who tf cares if they're nice 💀

Tuluyan nang nasira ang aking phone. Nabagsak ko sha for the nth time and ayaw na nyang bumukas. Can confirm na gumagana pa siya, as double pressing the power button opens the flash. Sana IC lang ng screen ang naapektuhan; wala pa akong budget pambili ng bagong phone 😭

Thinking of posting my website to Filipino developer subreddits to gain more first-day traction on release, but mommy i'm scared... some of those little small-dicked neckbeards are vicious, ruthless, and only comment shit to hurt under the guise of constructive criticism.

Plus, this is like the weirdest web project I've made because of how personal it is. It's soooo scary to just give it to someone so they can rip it to shreds.

Also, I say personal because it literally is. I tried to infuse lore into the borders, color choices, fonts, animations, and interaction effects. I wanted it to feel like stepping into an ongoing TV show, or an active crime scene. I wanted every pixel to *scream* into the void with something to say. That's convoluted, and frankly, quite pretentious. But that's how I made it, and I don't wanna keep explaining it but I feel the urge so I keep doing it 🤣

I used animejs, but I didn't use it for every effect there is. Maybe some timeline shenanigans and drag-n-drop, but that's it. The rest are SVG and CSS filters. Tried to keep it as vanilla as possible, but also that means some of the effects don't work in Firefox and Safari, but there's decent fallback styles for everything so all's good.

For the curious, I use SVG filters in backdrop-filter, and aparently in Firefox, backdrop-filter only applies SVG filters if they can be recreated with CSS filters (e.g. blur, contrast, saturation). That means stuff like displacement maps don't work when plugged into backdrop-filter.

I don't know why it doesn't work in Safari though. Things I've read say these effects should work in Webkit. Right now, the effects only work in Chromium browsers.

I badly want Adamus to be queer and have a male love interest in EC: Sang'gre. That would be one huge leap in fantaseryes' inclusivity. Imagine all these decades walang bading sa Encantadia, which is like *the* gayest, most queer Pinoy pop phenomenon of the 2000s.

And Adamus is the most appropriate person to have that storyline. He's the guardian of the gem of water, an element known for its fluidity and ability to take any shape. Hell, the way Adamus summons his brilyante is already very fucking gay, and everyone who saw the trailer agrees.

If they're gonna do it though, they cannot have a coming out story. We're no longer in that era of queer portrayal in Philippine television. Get Adamus on the screen, introduce his male love interest, be done with it.

Take it one step further: kill the male love interest in the first battle we're shown in the series. Then introduce the next male love interest do whatever else trope there is. Enemies to lovers. Romeo and Juliet. Rich and poor. Royal and peasant. Whatever. Just develop them into a real BL story. There could even be a sense of guilt in Adamus for being in love this fast with someone else when his former lover died not so long ago.

Today is the ' Independence Day! It's a commemoration of the country's declaration of independence and the end of Spain's 333 years of colonial rule in 1898.

In reality, the Philippine declaration of independence was not immediately recognized by Spain and the United States. Spain ceded the Philippines to the United States through the 1898 Treaty of Paris, which the Philippines did not recognize, leading to the Philippine-American War.

It was not until July 4, 1946 that the US government recognized the independence of the Philippines in accordance with the Tydings-McDuffie Act, or more formally known as the Philippine Independence Act.

July 4, the same day as US' Independence Day, was celebrated as the country's Independence Day until 9th Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal issued Presidential Proclamation No. 28, reverting June 12, the original date of declaration of Philippine independence from Spanish colonial rule, as the date of Philippine Independence.

This is in response to the US government's failure to approve a payment of 72 million USD in war damages.

In the modern era, the Philippines is known as the social media capital of the world. And in celebration of the Independence Day, Filipinos across all social media platforms hold the , an annual online event where Filipinos post memes related to Philippine history, mythology, and literature.

Oo alam ko, kilala ko na may bigas na Jasmine. Pero sino etong bagong saltang bigas na ang pangalan ay Princess Allison halagang 48 por kilo like??? Saan siya galing, at tunay ba siyang prinsesa o Pinoy lang ang nanay niya 😭🤣

After the initial hype died down for me, I realized how much it might affect accessibility. I hope they make the liquid glass less transparent to give it more contrast.

The money I put into this project is no funny joke. Like... it would put my mom into a coma if she were still with us today. But also, the intimidation of being surrounded by *experts* in a field I have no idea about. I know I paid them to help me, but Idk I'm just scared they'd find my vision too weird 💀

But I have a strong conviction in my ideas for this one, and in that at least I have faith that no matter what happens, I'd go for it. I know it's weird but like, fuck it we ball. But also, I'm gonna cry (but I'm gonna save the tears for the shoot because that would be such a good effect for the photos)

An addition to the Wishlist: I wish there was a way in CSS to define @keyframes like how you would use fr units in grid, so you could mix fixed time units and fr units like so:

@keyframes sample {
2fr { ... }
300ms { ... }
1fr { ... }
}

such that if you play this animation for 6 seconds, the first keyframe will take 3.8s, the second one will play for exactly 300ms, and the last one for 1.9s.

So like you could put this anywhere, give it however long a duration, and the second keyframe will always take 300ms while the other two will scale with the duration accordingly.

Girl I— I thought I *needed* a new phone like this year because my Samsung Galaxy A52s has been experiencing *significant* slowdowns, and it'd been showing those alerts about reduced battery performance.

This whole time, I just had Power Saving turned on and forgot to turn it off. Now it feels like a new phone 😭😭😭

Greta Thunberg is who I thought—or hoped—I'd become when I'm 26 years old. Unfortunately, I do not have as big a set of balls as she has. This woman is fighting sooooo much evil in the world.

Contrary to what all the players say, I don't think needs an Abyss element or a Light element. What Skirk did, camouflaging her Abyss powers as Cryo, is very fitting to what the Abyss is. Its power is corruption and mimicry. So it mimics what it sees in the Ley Lines.

And if Dainsleif uses the Abyss to mimic Pyro, then so be it. Let's get that blue fire.

Because if we get an Abyss element, what even would the elemental reactions be? Lore-wise, the elements of Teyvat repel the Abyss, so there wouldn't be any reaction that would work. Except probably something like "Annihilate", similar to when matter and anti-matter come into contact. But wouldn't that be just glorified Physical DMG?

And Light element. Wasn't it soft confirmed that Phlogiston is the light element? According to Yohualtecuhtin, the Lord of the Night, the Heavenly Principles used Phlogiston as the basis of the seven elements. The rainbow namecard also says that light is refracted into seven colors just like the elements.

Although, the namecard states that it probably could have more elements…

by the logic presented to us, this new element/s can only come from Phlogiston as well, since it has to be a "refraction of light". It can't be an element from the Abyss.

Just saw Glaiza De Castro's video wearing the Pirena costume from the original 2005 Encantadia run 😭🥹 and she juxtaposed it with the new costume she wears as she reprises her role as Pirena in Sang'gre 🥹 she even wrote a verse to Bayang Barrios' Tadhana (Encantadia's OST). My gay ass is literally thriving right now 💜🥹

Genshin Impact leaks for v5.7

All this talk about the spaceship mentioned in the 5.7 trailer, but I'm willing to wager that instead of the twins, it was Skirk’s. Leaks say she’s from a different planet altogether.

When I first moved into my current apartment, there was a house lizard and a common spider sharing the space. I felt bad that I was invading their territory, but what can I do? I'm paying rent and they don't.

Sassa Gurl comes with another banger concept.

"Kaya siguro hinubog ni capital H-I-M ang tao sa abo dahil alam niyang hindi dito matatapos ang mga bading. Alam niyang sa putikan kami tunay na mahuhubog at sa kalsada mabubuo."

Kami ang tinatawag na mga BAKLANG KANAL!"

Sassa Gurl stands at the front of a crowded room with green walls and a damaged ceiling, wearing a patterned dress and holding a cigarette. The muddy floor is strewn with scattered furniture, a television, a fan, and various people in costumes, including angel wings and high heels.

that includes mangkukulams and mambabarangs too, but i don't *like* them as much dywim? they kinda scare me, one of them got paid to do shit on my grandmother 😆

ever since alam na natin talagang mas vulnerable to HIV ang mga MSM (men who have sex with men). so hindi na bago ito like... why is this even news... the question is what are we doing to protect our children?? instead of putting the blame on gay people, we are ignoring the fact na pabata rin nang pabata ang mga nai-infect what are we doing abt that?

Oh i know. Basahan natin sila ng bibliya para malaman nilang kasalanan ginagawa nila at parusa ng Diyos kaya sila nagka-HIV. That's effective. /s

also where's the emphasis on HIV being on a state like Tuberculosis na hindi na ito nakamamatay nowadays??? May enough medical advancements na tayo to enable HIV+ peeps to lead a normal life. Where's the news on that?

why do i even have to purchase linkedin premium to find new jobs… is the job market just that bad right now or am I being hidden away from opportunities… let me do some investigating

Time for our monthly "are Wanda's kids in WandaVision real?" debate.

Y'all still believe everything that Strange doctor says when

1. He didn't even believe the Book of Vishanti was real.
2. He wasn't Sorcerer Supreme
3. His entire character is about arrogance because he's brilliant and he's a man
4. His field is in sorcery, not witchcraft (as stated by his 2nd film)

Why are we taking his words as truth again?

Yes, I am emotionaly invested because THAT's my mother y'all are talking about. And she's (probably) dead, y'all are kicking a dead woman's body for funsies and i will not stand for it

It's so weird bc instead of like the usual stuff you see on medications like indications, contraindications, stuff like that… it's a Nutrition Facts table. So it's more like food than medicine, which to me is very confusing because it's all capsules.

and my themed shoot is on the 14th, which thank god my brain is not pushing too much of the OG concept away, but i feel like i'm gonna be insufferable in that studio.

is this what Lady Gaga felt like when she already had a full ass dark pop album concept on her hands in 2015 but decided to scrap all that and release a country album instead

Oh the Jesus stans are once again in full force as they try to preach "the Gospels" to the gays.

Fyi, bc I know y'all never opened that dusty ass crusty ass Bible since y'all were born: the Gospels never said anything about being gay. The only two verses y'all have going for yourselves are in Leviticus (an outdated rule book for Levite priests) and the letter of Apostle Paul, the person who became an apostle AFTER Jesus died.

You are not preaching the gospel. You are preaching hate by exploding two little verses from an ancient book you think everyone should follow but you yourselves never read. Now shut the fuck up and turn that mic off because what y'all should be doing is eating with the prositutes and hanging out with the tax collectors. Be with the "sinners" like Jesus did.

I miss Layout Land. No other channel comes close to this kind of content of learning how to do new stuff on the web by looking back into the web's predecessor, namely print layout.

And it's not just the technical stuff that Jen Simmons talked about here; she also presented ideas that actually break the mold of boxy rectangle-first layouts.

youtube.com/watch?v=E005mjqpZ9

YouTube Hot metal : Pasteup :: Floats : CSS Grid

At dahil jan, narito ang ating Gay Slang of the Day:

"You've made me stronger"
(n.) Isang tomboy.

Etymology:
Root word: Tomboy
-> yobmot (binaligtad)
-> yobmotchi (pinahaba)
-> yuvie mae (ginawang palayaw)
-> yuv made me stronger (ginawang sentence)

ayan tingnan ko kung di kayo mahilo sa evolution HAHAHA

My Samsung A52S failing me monumentally by having lenses that I can no longer clean because its lens covers have long left their places so my photos come out like I just ate buffalo wings and held the phone with no regard for the oils 😔

Vibe coding ass programmers earning PHP 30k a month when entry-level teachers earn at most PHP 20k a month and they gotta earn a master's degree to bump up their salary...

i advocate for myself so I *know* I should be paid more. But my work isn't all THAT important, and teachers really should be paid more than I am 😭

Before the day ends, happy birthday to Lady Gaga's 6th studio album, Chromatica! This is by far the best album cover she's had, and probably ever will have. Her fans may have a lot of conflicting opinions about her music or how she's steering the wheels in promos, but this album cover united all of us.

The album cover for Chromatica features Lady Gaga suspended in a futuristic, cyberpunk-inspired setting, encased within a metallic, pink-hued structure resembling a dystopian portal. She is dressed in a striking ensemble of black leather and armor-like accessories, with bold makeup and an intense gaze, embodying the album’s themes of resilience and transformation. The background is textured with industrial elements, including wires and metallic surfaces, reinforcing the album’s aesthetic of a synthetic yet emotional world.

As she revealed in a recent interview, this album was made during a time when she was experiencing psychosis, birthing tracks like Alice, Replay, and 911. The album talks about dancing through the pain, and features pop sounds she was known for accompanied by lyrics that talk about depression, anxiety, psychosis, and mental health.

Stupid Love, the album's lead single, misleads the public by being different in sound and lyrics from the rest of the album. Its music video is among the least liked among the fans, owing to it being shot with an iPhone in partnership with Apple for the campaign.

Despite that, the music video's low fidelity matched the concept design of it referencing art direction from Power Rangers and Sailor Moon from the 80s and 90s.

Title card for the music video of Stupid Love by Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga and her dance team in bright pink in the desert. A camera man is shown holding a bunch of videography equipment, with an iPhone attached to it instead of a profesisonal camera.

If anyone asks me, "which Lady Gaga music video should I watch to get an idea of what she does?" the answer is this:

The 911 Short Film (youtu.be/58hoktsqk_Q). Inspired by the art film The Color of Pomegranates, goes through a psychotic dream, watching a scene of her life in a distorted dreamscape.

I won't spoil the reveal, but if you are looking for something to watch while you eat, you gotta add this to your watch list.

Lady Gaga and Michael Bassano in the 911 Short Film.
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My personal thoughts: Chromatica is in no way Lady Gaga's best album. In fact, compared to her previous work, Chromatica feels like it was made by a Gaga who was still trying to feel out what things still work in 2020. After all, she's had a long long long time performing country and jazz before this album.

But this was an album that comforted me at an anxiety-inducing time. This still remains a favorite of mine.

These morning showers vs night showers debate 😭 totally a white people thing to do bc everyone else knows you can do both so you don't go to school/work stinky and you don't go to bed with all of the day's filth 💀

Tom Daley, the olympian swimmer with the physique of a twink Greek god, suffers from body image issues.

What more do people like me, a mid-20s former twink now with a beer belly without drinking beer, would have to struggle through 😭

And I completely sympathize with his sentiments too. Having a great body doesn't always equate to a great body image. Sometimes your mind plays games on you and does stuff like this.

And that's with enough variety too. I can get cheap street-cooked burgers, home-cooked meals, and the like.

But of course, I'm gonna have to choose whether I'll eat instant mami noodles for lunch or for dinner. That, and I have to surrender all attempts to live a fulfilled life.

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