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.

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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