Felt anxious and sad for the entire day. Cried to beautiful and sad Ukrainian songs…

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For some reason, this weekly expedition in Yume 2kki was extremely easy. Got to the world and continued exploring it. Found a pretty cozy apartment building.

Somewhere along the way we found Deluxe Mask Shop, which actually basically has free masks as you’re given money if you go to a secret corner of the room.

I looked up mask list and saw a cute mask that I wanted to get, so I’ve decided to go to Cotton Candy Haven.

There’s a secret in Dark Room cinema, which allows you to fall asleep and wake up in incredibly cozy Snowy Forest.

Given that this location has absolutely perfect time of day that I love irl, it immediately went straight to the top of my favorite locations list. Incredibly cozy. You have to climb a mountain to find awesome cozy building.

Interior of the building is also very nice:

The building has 9 floors with each having it’s own small quirk. On top of the building there’s another very cool room:

You can climb the ladder and…

This place!!! I’ve been looking for this place ever since I’ve started playing this game. It might be my top 1 now. I’ve seen screenshot of it before somewhere but I never truly knew if it’s actually from Yume 2kki or from some other game, and I’m so happy that it’s from here, and in such amazing path too!

I’m really taking a lot of inspiration from this game. Lowkey taking notes for what I want in my game when I’ll start making it.

Cotton Candy Haven was nothing that special.

After unlocking the mask, we got to Infinite Library, that unlocked a shortcut from Library. There’s a lullaby playing inside, and you have to go in direction where it becomes more quiet, until it becomes static and you end up in a creepy mirror room, that takes you to Static Noise Hell.

After we unlocked a shortcut to Snowy Forest, we found a secret room, that has a sitting Urotsuki in it. If you sit back-to-back, you can start controlling her, while you disappear yourself. After that you suddenly wake up.

After this great journey, we went to Rainy Apartments, because there was an expedition to vending machine in night city world.

Looks like Marijuana Goddess World has highest concentration of great worlds so far, with 3 of them being in it.

Went to supermarket and bought a ton of tasty treats in anticipation of Yume 2kki today.

Ever since I started going to gym/pool, I’m not really productive anymore… Well it also mostly coincided with me being done with libraries, but also I generally feel like I don’t have time/energy to do things for some reason. I’ve slept for 3.5 hours during day time again, and now I feel like it’s too late to be productive again… So I keep postponing my uni assignments. I’ve been so tired all the time that I even missed writing diary entries multiple times in past week, and had to write them for a day before multiple times now, even though I was perfectly writing them every day before.

Quite a long Yume 2kki session today. Met some random person again and explored random worlds.

You can take the present for some interaction only by killing this creature, but I just couldn’t… especially given that it starts looking at you and going back slowly when you pick up the chainsaw…

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Just chilled at home, not doing much. Sadly it stopped raining when I finally woke up (as always), so I didn’t get to sit in cozy place.

Someone reported a bug in Nekoweb with git repo creation. For some reason pre-receive hook that I’ve made to prevent symlinks from being pushed was rejecting even repos with simple files. I started debugging it, and was trying to get the log from command by saving it to file, to check what file was causing it to fail, but for some reason, my file was simply never being created. So for some reason pre-receive hook just failed without running any code inside, yet if I removed it, everything was working fine again. It was extremely confusing, and I tried so many random things but just couldn’t make sense of why this is happening.

When I opened pre-receive file in nano, I’ve noticed that it said «DOS mode» for 1 second on open, and got curious what exactly that meant, and it just meant that file used CRLF newlines. I converted file to use LF… and it worked… After so many hours it was caused by this dumb thing that didn’t even require changing any code at all. And I couldn’t find the bug in git because it ignores newlines.

You might wanna say that git automatically converts files to use LF, and you’d be right. But I actually had to disable this like half a year ago when I added Git server to Nekoweb, because for some reason it caused issues with files in users repos.

As always, more Yume 2kki. Went on another pretty long expedition to Dragon Statue World.

Found another cozy sewers world:

There’s a secret room in it, with very beautiful music and a humble inhabitant in there:

Most notable discovery was a huge shortcut that unlocks between Library and Memory Garden, and it has this, extremely cozy room:

I love hot water pipes and warm orange color lights. What’s kinda crazy is that I had sort of revelation yesterday, and tweeted this:

Literally predicted what I would find in Yume 2kki.

List of my favorite places so far:

1. Sewers (Marijuana Goddess > Dark Room > Sewers)
2. Secret Society (i forgor)
3. Memory Garden (Library > Memory Garden)
4. Rainy Apartments
5. Pillar in Amoeba Woods (Keyboard > Amoeba Woods)
6. Secret Room in Silent Sewers
7. Fairy Tale Woods (i forgor)
8. Data Stream (i forgor)

Body still hurts! Did I train this well? I thought I was slacking off.

Dad called me today and asked me if I want to visit them and I agreed. It’s been more than a month since my last time.

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Dad keeps working, even though he’s kinda suffering from some health issues. We want him to go get checked but he wants to finish some work before doing it, and he’ll need to leave home for about 10 days for it, and after that hopefully he’ll be able to do it.

Fixed some bugs in uExpress and uWS and posted about uWS publicly. Switched Nekoweb to use uWS and all of my other sites and services. YeahServer was on average using 4% CPU and it went down to 1.5% after switch to uExpress, and that’s actually super cool.

Played Yume 2kki, we went through a pretty long expedition, which required a pretty clever 'hack’. The path required Drum to pass, but at the same time required you to not have it. Apparently if you make Drum your Favorite effect, you can equip it even after you remove it in trophy room. This allowed us to pass and get to the destination - Floating Brain World. It has another puzzle that requires some weird shenanigans, and that would unlock way to apparently the deepest world of Yume 2kki. But we stopped here as it’d require quite a lot of time and we got tired already.

I have no idea what did I do for the first half of the day.

Played more Yume 2kki. The slide is so fun :3

Continued optimizing uExpress. Apparently tseep is quite slow on initialization, so I switched Socket to use built-in event emitter, since there’s a ton of these being created. For long-running stuff it continues to be used. About 2k improvement.

Then I tried removing random parts from code to see for possible slow things and noticed that reading IP is literally 15k req/sec slower! I have no idea why, but res.getRemoteAddressAsText is super slow. I switched it to res.getRemoteAddress and made parsing it lazy and that improved speed by 5k. I really, really wanted to get that last 10k by somehow lazily reading IP but it seems quite literally impossible sadly.

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As I went to bed I got email that tests failed, and apparently they just hanged for 45 minutes, but I already published it to npm… Had to make Shy fix it for me while I’m in bed. Thankfully he did it and now I can rest.

The most unpleasing thing in coding uExpress is routing. At this point, I don’t really understand what I’m doing. I get ideas on how to improve/optimize it but I often just make guesses on how it’s supposed to work. It’s no longer code I fully understand.

Today I fixed route optimization after I refactored callbacks and also implemented optimization of Routers. I could only figure out how to optimize 1-level deep routers, but I think it’s enough for almost all applications.

Roommate invited his friends today, and they were talking loudly and seemingly having fun. I had 2 energy drinks in my fridge, and they disappeared. So they just drank my stuff without permission…

Walked through the entire path to Rainy Apartments again. We wanted to explore it a little bit more, and just enjoy the scenery again.

Started coding commission today, and did about half of the work. Finally aligned my monitors! They always were unaligned, left one being much lower. Maybe this will help with neck pain. After coding got tired and my stomach started to hurt, so I went to bed and napped for a hour. My brother called me saying he’ll come and we’ll check out gyms in the city.

We went to the cheaper gym first, which was fine, but kinda small and crowded. After that we went to much, much larger and premium gym and it was super cool, and also had a pool too. After that we went to a cafe nearby to talk and decide where to go.

We’ve decided to go to the more expensive gym because of the discount, but when we came to ask about it, she said the price was already with discount. But the thing is, discount was given by some lottery wheel thingy on their site, and she couldn’t really know that we got it. So she either lied or the thing on site was just fake. We got very disappointed and the price without discount felt too much so we left. Very scammy practice.

After I came home I continued to code commission and finished it!

Played more Yume 2kki today. For the most part, pretty fruitless exploration today. As we were getting ready to leave, I got Mirror Room event and got into place with view on Twin Peaks.

Unexpectedly, there was a person there. Usually when I meet people in Yume 2kki they are either AFK or just silent, but they actually talked first. We had a small little chat and they proposed to walk me to the Rainy Apartments, which I heard of before but never been to. After some hesistatation I agreed, and our long, long journey begun. I already was pretty sleepy by this point, but it was one of the most beautiful paths I’ve seen in this game.

After meeting Hatsune Miku in Virtual City, we finally got to Rainy Apartments. No wonder they’re such a popular location, they’re definitely on level of Sewers and Secret Society. I love rainy places so much…

It was the end of our journey for today. It’s so weird to think that if random event didn’t happen, I wouldn’t meet this person and wouldn’t ever get guided to see this place. I’m so glad that it happened.

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Spent the day going through Express middlewares and testing if they work with uExpress. While checking cookie-session middleware, it didn’t set the header for some reason. After a long debugging, I saw that this code was causing the issue:

It checks for res.set (which I have implemented) and then uses node’s class setHeader function for some reason. Since I don’t implement that class, I started to think what can I do to fix this.

At first I tried to implement the class, but it caused random issues and almost definitely caused slowdowns, which I really didn’t want. I started thinking of some dumb things like removing res.set if usage of cookie-session was detected, but it’d be extremely terrible and could cause random bugs. I almost gave up and marked it as incompatible (which I had to do with compression middleware due to similar random issues), but then I’ve decided to check Node.js’s code and check what that function does:

So it did set the header, but used something called kOutHeaders as key. I scrolled above and this is what I saw:

Which was:

I don’t have a lot of experience working with Symbols, so I googled and apparently it’s a way to create unique identifier. So I couldn’t just call my headers object kOutHeaders, I had to actually get out that symbol from there.

At first, the most obvious attempt, I just tried to require it from internals like const { kOutHeaders } = require('internal/http'), but Node said that internal/http doesn’t exist. Apparently you can’t access internal modules without a flag, so this definitely wouldn’t work as a solution.

Then I went with a second attempt, I got out http.OutgoingMessage class, created an object from it, and tried to use Object.keys() on it, which sadly did not show any Symbols, only strings. But to my blessing I found out about Object.getOwnPropertySymbols(), and it worked. I got out kOutHeaders from internal module!

After I added this[kOutHeaders] = this.headers;, it resulted in a bit weird format that Node.js internally uses, so I had to write a proxy that would actually use correct format for my object:

And everything started to work!

All middlewares I use in my servers work fine, yay!

More Yume 2kki at the end of the day. Today’s worlds were definitely more high quality than usual but I still haven’t found something to be really memorable. Visited Secret Society again to appreciate it’s beauty.

Implemented view rendering today for uExpress. Added a bunch of tests for popular view engines.

Fixed next() for .param and bunch of other routing issues.

Now only express.static() and res.sendFile options left and it’s done!

Finally played Yume 2kki again. We’ve decided to go on Expedition. Expedition went through Amoeba Woods, so we’ve got to visit this beautiful place again.

Expedition destination was a pretty boring place, so we just continued going into random places. We’ve found some pillar world and some person chilling in front of entrance to a new place.

A new place was Downpour (Rain World!!!), the only thing that world had was 2 powerlines and endless rain and lightning. The lightning effect was really nicely done. Probably the best I’ve seen out of all games I’ve ever played.

After that we found our Final Destination: Rainy Sundial.

Looking up, you can see beautiful cherry blossom tree. Using Rainbow effect, you can stop the rain and Blossom will become more colorful, and on the right side a new Main Menu theme unlocks. It’s probably our deepest world so far, being more than 10 worlds deep. It feels rewarding to find something at the end of the journey.

My throat has been hurting for past 3 days, and today I felt kinda unenergetic and weird, but not really sensibly sick. Not sure what’s going on here.

Went to buy tasty treats and other food today. Then spent rest of the day optimizing uExpress. I got curious, and created test with 1000 routes, and suddenly speed went down to 2k/sec, that was even slower than normal Express at 4k/sec! It made me actually scared that it was all useless and my bad code would destroy any gain from using uWS.

But after a round of different optimizations, it’s now 30k/sec at 1000 routes, while Express is at 4k. Back to huge speed improvement.

Played more Yume 2kki with friends. Found a nice place with very good music.

Continued coding uExpress today. Managed to implement Routers, which were really hard. Not gonna lie, I almost gave up but somehow did it (though idk if they really work properly in all cases…)

They’re pretty slow though. Nested router brings down speed to like 55k/sec. Normal request rate is about 85k/sec.

Finally played Yume 2kki again. Explored computer-y parts of it today, one of them was a maze (Data Stream) with a secret and cool music.

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.