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Recently I’ve realized how line between sleeping and being awake is very blurry for me. I can be extremely energetic and then in 5 minutes already falling asleep.

Today I’ve started coding µExpress - hopefully a drop-in replacement for Express, with much better performance.

So far, it’s going unexpectedly well. I did a benchmark, and it’s 9X faster than normal Express.

Express: 10k/sec µExpress: 92k/sec µWS: 106k/sec

Along the way making tests, and so far implemented following features:

Apparently today there was a foodfest in the city, so I’ve decided to go and check it out. There was a big line for place where you buy tickets, so I decided to buy a ticket online. After doing it, I realized I need a paper thingy to pass, so I went in line anyway… But then after standing the entire time in line, apparently I could’ve just walked in as people with online tickets pass without immediately. Amazing.

There was quite a lot of different food there, it was quite hard to decide what to buy.

I found bubble tea stand, and bought it to try for the first time ever:

Then I got this:

Everything was nice, but I didn’t like shrimp that much because I didn’t really know how to properly clean it.

I walked around some more and listened to the music. Bought corn and some meat.

Then bought and tried churros for the first time too:

And then decided to leave. I had mixed thoughts about going there, in general it was fine, but I was alone and I don’t like crowd and loud places thaaat much, so I didn’t really enjoy it. But I got to try some cool stuff for the first time, so it was definitely worth it.

Added uploading videos and audios, gallery view for photos (that you can see in this entry).

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Tried to find exact version of song from this video but couldn’t. So I recreated it as much as possible and created a longer version of this video:

Eventless day. Spent the first half sleeping until like 5, and another half switching Nekoweb and Atabook to the new server. █████████████████████████████████████████

Started rewatching Rick and Morty.

Played more Yume 2kki today. Our meowparty is growing, now there’s 6 members.

Meowparty HQ

We explored the Monkey Mansion. After exploring it, we found some nice rainy place, in which there’s a spot where you can hide from the rain.

I don’t like when I have multiple things to do at once, but none of them are urgent. At first half of the day I just rotted in bed, because I couldn’t decide if I want to switch Nekoweb to new server or if to start doing the VPN. I was thinking of monitoring this server for a bit before switching Nekoweb, which is why I’m a little hesistant to do it right now.

Brother came over, so we talked and went outside to walk around. As we went through the park, we found scooter that you can rent, and my brother decided that it’d be fun to try it out for the first time ever. But for some reason scooter went really slowly, so we quickly abandoned it. As he stopped, app showed that we were apparently in «forbidden zone» and he got a fine for leaving scooter in it. It’s also why scooter was slow. That’s actually dumb as fuck. We didn’t even know we are in it, and when we stopped, we couldn’t go back to move it from there to remove the fine. No wonder everyone hates these apps.

We bought a slushie, and for the first time ever in my life I got what people call "brain freeze", which actually made me scared for a bit, but it went away quickly. For some reason my brother was not affected and never got it.

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When we went back there was police and ambulance for drunk person.

No idea what that was about.

Added maintenance mode to Nekoweb. I think I’ll start the move to new server tomorrow.

Played more Yume 2kki. We went through a pretty difficult place to reach a beautiful scenery.

By going to the left you reach Secret Society. A piano plays… It sounds a bit tragic — people in the building seem to all work on something, and it feels like the world is ending and they’re trying to save it.

I really enjoy places that actually seem to have thought and story in them, and this one really feels like it. It reminded me of OneShot in a way…

Between Secret Society and house place there’s this liminal room, which I really like.

Yume 2kki is full of worlds that just have a bunch random garbage sprayed around and you just have to walk though copypasted images until you’re lucky enough to find something (or more often just look up the map). I really dislike that. I haven’t been in that many worlds so far, but even now it’s easy to see what worlds had actually big effort and thought put into them and what weren’t.

Unfortunately vast majority are the bad kind.

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Spent the whole day slowly migrating my services to the new server… This was very tiresome. Played some more Yume 2kki after doing it.

Day started from me seeing that my website, services, Nekoweb and everything else was down. Apparently Contabo was having some issues in their datacenter, and I think this was the last stretch for me. While my VPS was usually fine and rarely had any issues, Nekoweb’s one constantly gets random freezes from time to time, and Nekoweb being down for 10 hours is just unacceptable.

I was meaning to do it for a long time, and this has finally made me get an actual dedicated server for Nekoweb. I browse Hetzner auction very often, but it seems to keep having same-ish servers with not very good specs, at the minimal range of price.

So I’ve decided to look for more expensive options, and found a pretty good server for it’s price. Quite modern CPU (2019), 6x2 TB of storage, 64 GB of RAM.

As I was ordering it, something unbelievable happened! Price of the server changed in my eyes, and now it had the minimal price. I was checking the auction (it’s Dutch style) quite often throughout the months, and I’ve never seen server this good to be sold at this price, so I hurried and ordered it. Now I have this server for same price as all other, much worse servers. I plan to move all my sites and services to it, not just Nekoweb, since it has more than enough specs for everything.

This is so beautiful, I’ve never seen htop so big…

I then installed Ubuntu on the server. And then realized I need to get RAID1, so installed it again with RAID1. And then realized I did it with wrong partitions, so installed it again…

RAID1 sync is taking a very long time, so I can’t really do anything with server while it’s going, since it’s just too slow.

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Played more Yume 2kki with friends. Got all of the effects now, so I’m finally truly free to explore the world. At the end I have rested in my favorite place so far - Sewers.

It’s my element.

Been thinking of infrastructure of the VPN. Maybe it’s better to just give Wireguard profiles + browser extension. Would make it much, much simpler to support basically all platforms. Drank strawberry Ramune, and it has a stronger flavor, which I like more.

Cooked ramen I bought yesterday, and it was really good! Spicy but not chemically-terribly-spicy like Buldak was. I really enjoyed it.

After eating the ramen I played Yume 2kki again with friends. While playing we met a random person that just kinda joined us on our journey. It’s actually so cool to meet new people online in games, I haven’t done this in a very, very long time.

Our journey went through the Fairy Tale Woods location. We got the Red Riding Hood effect, and found an apple altar.

Pressing on it with the effect teleported you to a weird apple house, with girl sitting on top. The house itself was very tall, and hinted that you need another effect (Bat) to get to the top.

Along the way to the Tribe Settlement to get Bat we visited the Sewers, which you can visit from the Dark Room by going upstairs.

Cozy place. It’s clear that the structure you’re standing on is enormous, and if you go to the right you can find endless stairs down, which we didn’t explore further. I’m a huge fan of superstructures — the ones that make you feel small. The ones that you can visit, explore, and go outside to admire their size.

Dark room had the Konami Room. You have to walk into directions based on the Konami Code, which then unlocks the way to Tribe Settlement.

To cross the river we needed 2 effects - Rainbow and Teru Teru Bozu, which we also had to get.

With Teru Teru Bozu you can summon rain and create the rainbow path, with which you can finally cross the river and get the Bat.

After that we were finally ready to see what Apple house hides on the top…

An apple. And a window for more adventures.

Had a very long dream that I was in Yume 2kki, which was very, very cool. I always wanted to be inside such dreamy locations. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

Went outside to withdraw money for rent. Got carbonara for breakfast.

Rested in the park.

I thought that anime shop has closed forever, but nope! I was just always unlucky with timing. I bought some cool things:

Updated diary to support multiple image uploads and zoom (image viewer) on all images.

Been kinda researching how other VPNs work, seems like they just use WireGuard under the hood. Maybe I should just use that too, since it has clients for every OS.

Played Yume 2kki again at the end of the day. Drank kiwi Ramune, and it actually has quite a mild flavor. I expected it to be super saturated or something, I’m not sure if I’m disappointed or not.

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They blocked Twitter in Brazil, which made me think of launching my own VPN service. I made a Twitter poll asking people if they’re interested and I was very surprised to see huge amount of "Yes"es, at the moment 1100 of them.

But actually creating one is a huge pain in the ass… Not only I might gonna need a business entity, I’ll also need payment gateway, bunch of good servers, clients for all platforms (Chrome extension, Firefox extension, Safari extension, Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS) and probably will need to manage abuse. So I don’t know how possible it actually is. I’ll think about it.

Drew smoothbrain migu cuz it’s Miku birthday:

Played Yume 2kki █████████████, which was really nice

Chill day. Didn’t really do anything. Thought of attending piano classes some day. Went to buy groceries. Wrote tax documents.

"I am normal and can be trusted with grocery shopping"

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Slept for 5 hours and woke up from unbearably hot temperature, couldn’t fall back asleep for about 2 hours, and then slept until 5 pm.

I think I finally fixed a very annoying bug with OldTwitter not loading pages and requiring refresh. I also wanted to make ‘boring profile’ detector for a while and also finally implemented it, now there’s an option to include indicators if last tweet of person is retweet/quote/old/non-existent.

Also fixed bunch of annoyances and improved image uploads in diary, now it compresses image and includes dimension data so page doesn’t jump in size anymore.

Few days ago, I turned off auto translation of Japanese tweets and things aren’t so bad! I can read quite a lot of stuff, I really should’ve done it earlier to get actual practice for Japanese.

Ate a lemon. Broke my chair for 20th time.

Just like yesterday, it’s extremely hot today. And weather forecast is saying that it’ll be hot literally every single day that’s available (10 days).

I think summer is my least favorite season. I really enjoy nature, but the heat and bugs are so annoying it drags down the whole experience to the bottom.

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Roommate asked me to go outside for a hour for some reason, so I went to the park. I’ve noticed that today I have really bad vision for some reason. I have myopia, and it varies a lot. Like between 2 times worse and better. It made it kind of hard to find good places to photo.

I sat on a bench and zoned out for about 30 minutes, listening to the birds playing in the trees.

After that I started walking around, searching for a place to eat.

Cozy, but I decided to not go in there.

Stopped in a more boring place, and ordered Tom Yang Kung, which I really liked last time.

Then I went home.

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Day started from missile explosion. That was loudest I’ve heard since the start of the war. Since I’ve only slept for 4 hours, I went back to sleep. Then another explosion woke me up, but I just went back to sleep almost immediately. I woke up and after about a hour, electricity, water and internet stopped working, so I just went back to sleep again…

Rest of the day was spent coding Diary: added tags, commits, improved mobile view, lightbulb. I think it’s finally done!

Bombing again at night. This is the largest amount of missiles in a day I think.

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Started Japanese grammar Anki deck today. I realized that I know quite a lot of words (about 1500) but I barely know grammar. It’s finally time to catch up.

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My parents called me and asked me if I wanted to come with them to city’s centre, which I agreed. █████████████████████████████, which immediately ruined the entire walk for me.

We went to park and there was some singer, but we didn’t really like their songs much so we went to walk some more around the water. After that we went to city square and I bought belgium waffle and lemonades. I didn’t like both much :( Lemonade basically tasted like normal water, and I don’t really like sweet things that much, especially hot ones, so I didn’t really enjoy the waffle.

After that we went back to park and there were new singers, which we liked much more. They were singing and letting the crowd sing with them, so it was quite fun (and I sang a bit too).

Then we talked a bit and mom kept saying that she wants to go somewhere to eat, and I would come with them and pay for it, but because ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████, so I just said that I wanna go home. Then we parted ways.

At the end of the day I finally basically finished Diary! Only nice lamp effect is left. I imported all of the entries and just continuing to write rn. Cool.