What is Navi up to now?

Post #0123

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:30:52 -0700

I never know what to do with a 3 day weekend, since everywhere is usually so crowded.

Post #0124

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:30:52 -0700

Storms rolling in always cause dreadful migraines! 😫 At least I was able to spend the day reading and prepping epubs...

Post #0125

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:30:52 -0700

Currently in the middle of the third DCC book, seems like it's a lot longer. It's a good read, but I'm honestly surprised that this series went so mainstream.

Post #0126

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:30:52 -0700

Today, I went to the dentist after work and had the scaling and root planing procedure to treat my gum disease. I was super nervous but honestly the worst part was local anesthetic injections. well that and the pain I'm probably gonna have when the numbing wears off 😭

Post #0127

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:30:52 -0700

My toxic trait after dealing with stress is to treat myself with retail therapy (video games). At least it's not expensive luxury goods?

Post #0128

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:30:52 -0700

Book delivery day, and one my most anticipated BL novels has a digital release tomorrow as well! I'll be eating good this weekend 🥳

Post #0129

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:30:52 -0700

I've been house hunting recently, and it's so exhausting...

Post #0122

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:35:00 -0700

I went to the dentist today since I've noticed some issues (I haven't gone in 15 years). Good news, no cavities. Bad news? Gum disease and a verrrry expensive cleaning treatment that I'll need to redo every 3 months for at least the next year 😭 Apparently 40% of americans have periodontitis and many don't know about it. End stage of the disease, the bones in your jaw disintegrate and your teeth fall out 💀 WTF I don't want that to happen!!! 🦷🪥 Time to get to work...

Post #0121

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:38:00 -0700

Man I woke up at 2:30 and still can't sleep... I can't tell if I had a fever or if it was just too hot.

Post #0120

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:11:00 -0700

I'm not too confident about maintaining my own git forge full time and using it for actions and all the other complicated netlify stuff, but I decided to at least self-host forgejo to backup my code from github. The mirror function makes it really easy to keep them synced. https://git.pomnavi.net/navi

Post #0119

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:48:00 -0700

Since I have full use of the TV for a while, I've been enjoying watching anime during mealtimes. I'm watching so many series right now!

Post #0118

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:30:00 -0700

Did a little bit of modification to my personal fanfic archive, now it displays comments from AO3!

Post #0117

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:02:00 -0700

I took a hot shower right after eating and nearly fainted like a dumbass... Lesson learned (⁠＠⁠_⁠＠⁠;⁠)

Post #0116

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:17:00 -0700

I haven't really consistently played games for a couple of months, but reading Dungeon Crawler Carl makes me want to play something, so I recently picked up The Plucky Squire again! I just wanted to something simple to ease myself back in, and it's mostly been a pleasant experience so far, though there are some aggravating parts.

Post #0115

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:01:00 -0700

I'm working on my next webdev project, which is building out some fandom shrines! I debated making a unique one for each series, but I'm just not that creative lol. So I'm coming up with a template I like that will work with every series.

Post #0114

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:42:00 -0700

I started reading Dungeon Crawler Carl! I'm so used to light novels that I keep getting jump scared by random things that "don't belong" lol.

Post #0113

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:58:00 -0700

I've had headaches for the past 4 days and I can't figure out what's causing it. Cervicogenic? Caused by my meds? Do I just have a migraine? IDK. And I don't want to waste my migraine rescue meds.

Post #0112

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:32:00 -0700

Took a sick day today since my neck has been sprained somehow, and honestly I just need a break.

Post #0111

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:54:00 -0700

I'm pretty happy with the progress I've made with myAstro Book Tracker! I wanted to create tool for myself so that in case storygraph ever goes down, I have all my reading data in a format that's portable. Of course, it uses Netlify hosting, functions, and blob functionality so it's not really a "static" site. But honestly I wasn't aiming for static this time, just something I could easily use as a reading tracker. I'll probably use this and storygraph simultaneously for now to see how things go.

Post #0110

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:02:00 -0700

I've decided to go crazy and make a storygraph "replacement" for myself based on Astro. Why did I do this???

Post #0109

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:50:00 -0700

Nooo I don't want Sunday to be over, this weekend went by way too fast!! o(≧口≦)o

Post #0108

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:58:00 -0700

Every so often I get a bout of insomnia where there's nothing I can do to make myself sleep faster. Usually it's because I'm "uncomfortable" in some way, but sometimes it's just because I've missed the sleep window. After that, there's nothing left to do but tire myself out. Reading fanfics at in the wee hours is great activity for that purpose. I fell asleep around 5 am today.

Post #0107

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:31:00 -0700

Recording this because I think it's silly. I went to 85C Bakery today and wanted to order a drink with my purchase. I spent the whole time in line debating which one to get. When I got to the register, I handed everything over. But when the cashier asked me if I wanted anything else, I said "No I'm fine". I didn't correct myself and didn't end up ordering a drink (* ￣︿￣). Failed that dialogue tree...

Post #0106

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:04:00 -0700

I'm still astonished at how long it takes to write even a simple blog post. Especially a photo heavy one (just finished my post about the Ryoko Kui exhibit)

Post #0105

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 07:34:00 -0700

My body is sore from yesterday (and my hip hurts for some reason), hence why I'm up earlier than normal... I can't go back to sleep ಥ_ಥ

Post #0104

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 06:31:00 -0700

The Dungeon Meshi Art Exhibit was honestly sooo cool. I went with my friends and had a fun outing yesterday. Picked up somecoolfindsas well! I was super tempted by the box set but it wasnt as good a deal as the board game and guide book. Plus, I got no space lol (disregard earlier cool finds 😂)

Post #0103

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:16:00 -0700

I hope this is the last migration in a while for my website... I have an art blog on tumblr that I've only had a redirect setup for cause it costs money just to connect a domain (8 bucks a year!). It's not that much, but I wanted full control over my blog and content. I exported my blog and converted it to markdown posts that I can use with Astro. I have a new site setup athttps://art.pomnavi.net I might tweak some stuff here or there, but I'm satisfied with it overall!

Post #0102

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:28:00 -0700

I moved my original fiction tumblr blog over to astro/netlify using the same AO3-astro template, and it looks sooo good. I may not have written much (only 5 chapters for one original work so far, and it's totally incomplete), but it still feels motivating to see it on my own site. One day I hope to go back, to that work, or maybe write something new.

Post #0101

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:52:00 -0700

omg that was my 100th post on this microblog! very cool 😎

Post #0100

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:50:00 -0700

I've been working on an AO3-style fanfic archive template in Astro that will allow you to upload and maintain fanfics in markdown. I quite like how it's turned out! check it out here:https://astro-fanfics-template.netlify.app/ Github:https://github.com/naivchan/astro-fanfics-template

Post #0099

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:55:00 -0700

So I went through and listed all the anime on a separate page, and then created tags for the anime genres. Now you can click and see which shows fall under that label, and click through to read the post! I feel very cool for coming up with this lol The javascript generates all the buttons up top, and I just have to update a very simple markdown file for this list.

Post #0098

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:47:00 -0700

Made a few small improvements to the ranobe blog now that I've sat with it for a while: 1. The rss feed now has full text and the cover images included 2. I added Open Graph stuff to the layout and blog pages so that the link previews look nice 3. Fixed the tags page to display the full text of the tag.

Post #0097

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:46:00 -0700

Okay that took a LONG time, but I finally migrated everything to the new Astro-based site! Excited to be able to update mylight novel blogfrom anywhere. I also went through and compressed all the images I was using, so the site should load much faster now. I'm not too worried about the space allowances for my repo either. Nearly 90 light novel covers only amounted to 15mb after webp compression with squoosh, which is crazy. My Publii blog was like 4gb with all the high quality images and responsive sizes (most of that was my fault for wanting to use REALLY high-res stuff though).

Post #0096

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:02:00 -0700

Now that my ranobe astro theme is all setup with all the features I need, time to painstakingly migrate all of my publii posts ( ꩜ ᯅ ꩜;)⁭ ⁭

Post #0095

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:28:00 -0700

Okay I'm working on big changes for my Ranobe blog, since I've been thinking of moving away from Publii. It's been great to use (no complaints really), but now that I'm more comfortable with github and astro, I want to use an SSG for my ranobe blog too so I can update my blog from anywhere! I'm working on a custom theme and setup, let's see how this works out lol.

Post #0094

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:42:00 -0700

Woohoo I'm off work early today!

Post #0093

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:19:00 -0700

I've had a meh day today on top of a headache so I decided to get a Blue Coconut Refresher from Starbucks... Tastes good!

Post #0092

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:58:00 -0700

Dang I can't sleep, and I have work tomorrow OTL

Post #0091

Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:30:00 -0700

I decided that I needed to reformat myanime rounduppost template since I wanted to create amaster list of animereviewed on the site. The old table format using markdown wasn't working since I wanted to be able to link to every anime impression individually on the masterlist. My initial idea of tagging every series reviewed makes my tag list look messy and annoying to maintain, since I'm not giving every anime it's own blog post similar to the books and games. I don't want to do that since I don't have that much to say, plus I don't want to spam posts at the end of the season (my medialog would just become filled with anime posts). Of course, another option would have been to createanotherside blog, but no I'm not doing that lol. I have enough blogs already!

Post #0090

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:46:00 -0700

Writing blog posts always takes way longer than one would expect, even for short posts...

Post #0089

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:20:00 -0700

High quality animation like JJK and Demon Slayer is great, but I feel like we lost something when we stopped getting longer, decompressed anime series. I'm watching Toriko right now and there are so many unfortunate changes due to the adaptation being more "kid friendly", but it's comforting to have the episodes not take so much "energy" to watch. I can casually watch Toriko. I can't casually watch Agents of the 4 Seasons or Marriagetoxin, I need to be in the mindset to appreciate everything about the animation, music, etc.

Post #0088

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:06:00 -0700

I'm gonna reread Toriko again! And watch the anime too (haven't seen it yet)

Post #0087

Sun, 31 May 2026 23:45:00 -0700

I was debating getting a bigger eink tablet for manga for SO long (over 3 years) but it was so expensive I could never justify it. I initially thought my Kobo Libra Colour would be big enough to read manga, but I'm so used to reading at a bigger size now, I don't enjoy it since I can't see all the details as easily. Tbh it really hasn't gone down in price, but I had some gift cards, plus my current Samsung tablet has been struggling with ghosting and lag recently. It feels a little excessive to have 3 ereaders, but they all fill different niches lol. Xteink for outside portability, Kobo Libra Colour as my main reader, and Boox Note Air5c for manga reading. They all work on different software too, which is fun.

Post #0086

Fri, 29 May 2026 23:01:00 -0700

Decided to update my photography site since I wasn't happy with the formatting. I'm switching from Melon's Gallery Maker to Publii, since it's really easy to add photos, captions, etc.

Post #0085

Thu, 28 May 2026 00:24:00 -0700

Wow I hear 3 owls outside hooting away... Where are they from?? We've never had owls here before (that I can remember)

Post #0084

Tue, 26 May 2026 16:54:00 -0700

Since I decided to create an archive of stories and articles that I want to save usingReadeck, I also wanted create a way to easily read those articles/fics on my ereaders. For my XTeink X4, it's as simple as adding the Readeck OPDS details to my crosspoint settings. However for Kobo, I had to create a custom "Readeck OPDS" browser that runs on my server. It's not that elegant (and it exposes all of your saved stuff, so not ideal) but it's working really well!

Post #0083

Fri, 22 May 2026 15:17:00 -0700

I got tired of waiting for a re-license or continuation of Dawn of the Mapmaker / Tsukumo no Reimei (it's been years) so I bought the jp books to MTL. Wish me luck I guess lol.

Post #0082

Thu, 14 May 2026 11:46:00 -0700

I'm in this weird state between getting sick but not being so sick that I can't do regular work...it's miserableeeee

Post #0081

Tue, 05 May 2026 00:08:00 -0700

I have to get up early for work tomorrow 😭

Post #0080

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:05:00 -0700

I haven't really felt the urge to game at all recently. Mostly been too tired or interested in reading manga/light novels instead. My shiny new e-reader also has something to do with it lol.

Post #0079

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:28:00 -0700

My migraine woke me up early today ughhh.

Post #0078

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:24:00 -0700

My XTeink X4 finallycame in!!! And thank god it's not defective like the ones I've seen on the reddit. 😅 Now I just have to wait for the next crosspoint update to have my ultimate setup with multiple OPDS servers. I've been testing grimmory and the ebook downloads and koreader sync have been working super well. Once I can add my instapaper opds server, I'll be able to read articles and fic easy peasy. My first impressions are that it's very readable despite how small it is, and the "low" DPI doesn't bother me at all.

Post #0077

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:56:00 -0700

The days I've been waiting for my XTeink X4 to come in have been the longest in my life lol. I keep refreshing the tracking hoping it's gotten closer 😅

Post #0076

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:27:00 -0700

I stayed up way too late last night trying to vibe code an instapaper solution for my future xteink x4, but I think I arrived at a solution! Now I just have to wait for it to come in so I can test it before letting other people know about it.

Post #0075

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:17:00 -0700

I'm so stuffed from KBBQ today. 😅 So glad I could meet up with my friend!

Post #0074

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:05:00 -0700

WoohooI got Grimmory up and working! It's been working super well, and I really like that it supplements my kobo as it is, no need to mess around with OPDS or KOreader (which crashed my kobo and force logged me out :C). I tried a bunch of other opds softwares, but the integration with Kobo is unappealing and clunky. Plus for Kobo, I'm a KOreader hater since I kind of hate how it looks lol. The stock OS is way nicer.

Post #0073

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:53:00 -0700

Nothing I love more than wasting a lot of time on a project and having it not work out *sigh*.

Post #0072

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:32:00 -0700

I've been reading the same LN forever this is getting ridiculous lol. I didn't realize how much episodic structure breaks my flow for these kinds of things.

Post #0071

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:31:00 -0700

So I tried cleaning up my remote media cache yesterday and found out that Hollo doesn't have a method of refetching media without deleting the posts from the database to rediscover them. I hope this problem gets solved eventually, cause I really like the software otherwise. It's a shame that so many fedi applications fill up the media cache so much, storage isn't free!

Post #0070

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:41:00 -0700

I got a couple new followers on my blogging alt but I'm sure they'll unfollow when they realize I'm not really a tech blogger lol. Honestly my bigger worry is someone using what I write as a guide, since it's not very comprehensive. I feel like an imposter since I was only able to setup my server with the help of AI. Many of the guides that are written assume you know so much about terminal commands and docker already, it was really helpful to be able to get answers to specific questions.

Post #0069

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:20:00 -0700

Feeling proud of myself after installing a notes app on my VPS with docker and it only took 30 minutes of fixing the settings 😎

Post #0068

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:41:00 -0700

I made a tool to automatically send the chapter links from AO3 subscription emails straight to my instapaper (so new chapters are ready to read on my Kobo automatically!) I was initially trying to accomplish this with a weird combination of AO3-RSS (create AO3 rss feed), FreshRSS (put all stories under one category with it's own feed), and feeds-to-instapaper (category feed sends new item when any story updates), but it just wasn't working since AO3 has heightened security against scrapers and bots. I was able to solve it by having the tool check my sub emails and send the chapter links instead of checking AO3. I was trying to solve this yesterday when I accidentally locked myself out of the server ("-ࡇ-)=3 It'll work for other sources too, but I don't have any other newsletters or anything. Plus, if content is being sent wholly by email, I could just use the instapaper account's email to receive it.

Post #0067

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:05:00 -0700

Stupid things I've done with my VPS: lock myself out of the server with SSH because I attempted to use cloud flare tunneling 🥴🤡🙃 Luckily I was able to get some help to fix it.

Post #0066

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:54:00 -0700

I spent way too long trying to find an easy method of uploading images to my VPS to use for my blogs... I couldn't get any of the pretty solutions to work. I ended up using tiny file manager and a caddy file browser as my solution.

Post #0065

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:01:00 -0700

I normally get one particular sandwich from this restaurant I normally go to, but I decided to get something different just to try something new! It did not pan out (¬､¬). Tbf it wasn't bad, just not as good as what I normally get.

Post #0064

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:57:00 -0700

Okay I know I saidno more webdevbut apparently I'm a liar who hates tags and tables looking bad on my medialog. I fixed the tables to look better on mobile, and alsodrumroll please:I added comments to my medialog! This system doesn't rely on mastodon/fediverse, and I deliberately designed it that way since I don't want to have to create mastodon posts for every little book or game review post. If people choose to be nice and reply to a fedi post I make announcing a medialog, I can manually add those myself.

Post #0063

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:04:00 -0700

I think I want to implement this later: a native like button https://iine.to/

Post #0062

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:46:00 -0700

Wow I published two blog posts today! Feeling very productive 📝

Post #0061

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:54:00 -0700

I thought Pokopia was kind of boring at first but I just sunk 3 hours doing very basic tasks, and I kind of get it now It's totally a zen game where you accomplish little goals and and the rest of the world melts away. I kind of need that kind of relaxing gameplay right now

Post #0060

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:18:00 -0700

Pokopia is so cozy that I keep falling asleep trying to play LOL

Post #0059

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:11:00 -0700

oh I also forgot aboutPhanpy, which I installed a few days ago. Well, that was barely harder than just typing a few commands and fixing the mapped ip address, and it worked right away. It's a very slick front-end for fediverse, I really like it so far. And it works on some really cool principles, like rendering on the client-side (your browser) so it doesn't tax the server as much. That's useful for me since I'm using a self-hosted hollo instance.

Post #0058

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:58:00 -0700

I think I got most of the webdev and other projects out of me lol. Recently, I implemented: The only thing I have left really is to maybe add a guest comments form for my ranobe blog? But that one isn't really necessary since Publii is a desktop CMS (I'd have to add the comments manually anyways), so it's not really worth it. I do have some aspirations of making fan shrines for my fav series, but I also think I'd like to learn a little more html styling/coding since I want those to be handmade and customized for each series.

Post #0057

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:38:00 -0700

I finally got around to adding a proper form for comments on my blog, and it even submits the comment as a json to my github repo, so no more manual copy-pasting for me! Not that I had a lot to do anyways....

Post #0056

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 05:34:00 -0700

I finally figured out why I've been waking up so early. It's because my pain meds are wearing off and my arm is waking me up...😭 It's definitely gotten better (I can do regular movements again!), but it's still enough to disrupt my sleep😮‍💨

Post #0055

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:46:00 -0700

For some reason, even though nothing woke me up, I woke up at 6:30 this morning, so I only got 5 hours of sleep....

Post #0054

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:10:00 -0700

I didn't mean to turn my microblog into just a webdev-centric thing (it's just been my main interest/hobby/obsession recently), so here's something different. Even though I've been actively reading light novels for a while, this whole month has been a mess for my other hobbies lol. I really haven't been gaming or reading that much. Either too tired or too focused on something else. oh well, it doesn't hurt to have rest periods.

Post #0053

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:06:00 -0700

So I think I may have figured out what the problem is with my Hollo install. It's been crashing because of too many requests locking parts of the database. I'm not sure why nobody else was dealing with this issue, but if my instance stays up without hanging, then hopefully problem solved! Then I'll post about the solution on the hollo github. btw all I did was add some extra postgres db command lines to the docker compose.yaml to prevent locking/deadlocks if it's taking too long, so that one request wins and the other dies. Very high noon-core.

Post #0052

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:57:00 -0700

I had to fix my mastodon comments astro scripts since there was some hardcoded stuff in there, and now I have a new server where I'll be pulling comments from. Whew technical debt.... ( ˘ ^˘ )=3

Post #0051

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:33:00 -0700

BTW I FINALLY got a shipping notification for Pokopia! Gotta wait till next Tuesday, but I've been patient enough...

Post #0050

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:32:00 -0700

Things I had to make for my hollo instance today: 1. job to kill zombie processes 2. job to kill stuck processes related to the database 3. job to monitor and delete cached media without accidentally deleting my uploaded pictures. Yeah I knew it was going to be rough, but not this rough LOL. Is it weird that I still kind of prefer this software to mastodon?

Post #0049

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:53:00 -0700

I'm still in awe that I was able to get a Hollo fedi instance up and running on a hetzner VPS when I know practically nothing about Linux (other than installing some stuff on steam deck), docker containers, and commands. I know we hate AI for stealing jobs and the life's work of any creator (rightly so), but when it comes to code/technical stuff like this, receiving personalized step-by-step advice can't be beat. Of course sometimes it hallucinates and is wrong, but it can usually be worked around by consulting official guides as well and changing the way you ask your questions.

Post #0048

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:07:00 -0700

Okay I've been thinking about it forever but I finally made the jump! I have my ownfediverse servernow!! I chose to go with Hollo over other choices because it fulfilled my needs: I'm excited to use it and see how it goes!

Post #0047

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:10:00 -0700

Why do I need a cron job to setup auto-refresh intervals in FreshRSS? Makes no sense...isn't it supposed to be user friendly? Why wouldn't it be a config in the admin settings of the application??

Post #0046

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:08:00 -0700

So along with setting up FreshRSS, I wanted to try self-hosting some kind of fediverse instance even though it's ill advised (1). I've also seen that it can be dangerous as well, as single-user instances have an uphill battle fighting against harassment and bad actors (2). It was mostly out of curiosity and a desire to test the free google cloud VM before it expires. I managed to getHolloup and running after some trudging through SSH with Docker commands I barely understand. It worked! I managed to create an account and post a status. But the free tier VM that I was working with was not up to the task of running Hollo (not enough RAM). Maybe I could have tried a different software, something more lightweight like snac or GoToSocial but I was tired by that point. I shut it down afterwards. I'm quite satisfied with the mastodon instance that I'm on, but I also have this weird compulsion/interest in having my own instance. I might try hosting on a Raspberry Pi in the future. Anyways, I stayed up late last night to experiment with this stuff, and now I'm quite sleepy...

Post #0045

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:25:00 -0700

I made a very silly update to my microblog. I added a follows/followers section! This is different from my"friends"page since this is supposed to mimic masto/bsky/tumblr/etc and is specific to microblogs. If you're reading this and you are subscribed to the rss feed of this site, please let me know so that I can add you! Doubly so if you have a microblog of your own ദ്ദി(｡•̀ ,<)~✩‧₊ I would love to follow you!

Post #0044

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:46:00 -0700

So after doing some more reading, turns out the Google free tier only last for 90 days anyways.. so I guess I'll enjoy using FreshRSS for now and think about if I want to pay for a VPS/server... It is kind of a pain to maintain.

Post #0043

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:34:00 -0700

I decided to mess around and try setting up a FreshRSS instance on Google cloud with the free tier, let's see if it actually stays free lmao. I got it working at least!

Post #0042

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:55:00 -0700

Two tools that help me format my liveblog tables:

Post #0041

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:51:00 -0700

Look at this awesome button that was made with theritual.sh button generator. I'm definitely going to add this website to88x31 button listI'm currently keeping.

Post #0040

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:15:00 -0700

I've started using RSS properly now. Before, I would use RSS Parrot to read certain blog feeds on Mastodon, but it was very limited functionality. Now I'm setup with both a phone app and a desktop browser extension, and will be searching for creators to follow.

Post #0039

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:43:00 -0700

This was one of the main resources I used when researching how to build my hobby sites. It's still kept up to date as well.

Post #0038

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:56:00 -0700

I woke up early today from moving my arm the wrong way and causing myself pain :/

Post #0037

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:24:00 -0700

Cleaned up my main site (which is a carrd) since there were too many links in the navbar. Now all the writing links have a dedicated page!

Post #0036

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:42:00 -0700

I just realized... couldn't theguestbookI made be used for Microblogging??? 😱 You just have to make the entry form password protected like the reply and delete functions! Wow I could have saved so much time implementing micropub...

Post #0035

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:51:00 -0700

I've given up on reddit being a worthwhile place to go for social media. For every crumb of useful information or interesting personal stories, there is so much ragebait on that site. Plus people are super rude to newcomers of any subreddit, it's freaking annoying.

Post #0034

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:54:00 -0700

I created aguestbook! It's made using netlify tools, such as blobs, forms, and serverless functions. The entries are stored in a json file. You can see how it's built at this githubrepo.

Post #0033

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:55:00 -0700

I updated the micropub.js script to handle both articles and notes, and also auto-apply paragraph tags in notes so that I don't have to enter the tags myself. Is it excessive to have both solutions? maybe. But I like having options.

Post #0032

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:20:00 -0700

I finished watching the 2nd season of the One Piece Live Action yesterday, and it's been a fun watch, but I really wonder how far they'll get in this adaptation.Apparently they're aiming for the time skip as the stopping point but at the pace of 1 season every 2 years, it'll be a LONG while before they ever get there, nevermind if they even manage to avoid cancellation considering how expensive the show is.I appreciate them actually covering each arc though, and not just cutting whole arcs out.#fandom

Post #0031

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:55:00 -0700

The javascript for the microblog was so broken, half the functions (like the direct links or the loading button) weren't working and I only discovered this after I already posted that blog post about microblogs which includes the scripts (embarassing).Anyways, it's fixed now!#webdev

Post #0030

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:24:00 -0700

The meds are doing a good job of treating the burning and aching feeling in my elbow, but every so often I'll move my arm and get a sharp shooting pain that makes me loosen my grip.I can't even open the meds by myself cause I've lost the grip strength.#condition

Post #0029

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:50:00 -0700

The poll I ran on mastodon about buying Pokopia finally finished, and most everyone told me to go play my other games instead of buying a new one lol.In the end, I decided to order Pokopia "physically", and I'm waiting for it to ship out since it hasn't been restocked yet. I'm actually surprised nobody picked the "physical" option. More people actually opted for digital instead.Truly a sign of the times.#gaming

Post #0028

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:19:00 -0700

Okay I got checked out at the doctor, luckily nothing major is broken but I got a pretty gnarly injury so I'll be in a sling for a bit...

Post #0027

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:27:00 -0700

I hit my elbow against the door yesterday while carrying a printer and thought it was a minor injury...Now I can't even move my arm or weight bear with it...and it's my dominant arm 😭#condition

Post #0026

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:27:00 -0700

I've been usingCapy Readeras my RSS reader for my phone recently, and I love the fact that it doesn't require you to make an account! You could just add feeds locally!Maybe this might be a bad idea when you lose your feeds list but... it's so refreshing to have something that just works.#resources

Post #0025

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:31:00 -0700

I feel like every new feature I add to this microblog makes it that much more removed from the original simplicity of the Pastille template which works solely on HTML and CSS, but it also makes it easier for me to use soooo ¯\_ (ᵕ—ᴗ—)_/¯I would rather have something functional that I actually like using.

Post #0024

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:48:00 -0700

Oooh I got my micropub endpoint all implemented! I can post to my statuslog/microblog without having to manually edit html if I don't want to.I was inspired byArimaMarywho managed to get it working on their site and mentioned using Quill!This is much easier than typing raw html in github lol.#webdev

Post #0023

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:53:00 -0700

I went to get my library card renewed (I normally use it for ebooks) and I'm reminded of how awesome it is as a resource. I normally don't checkout physical books but I did this time just to have a reason to go back. Plus sometimes its just nice to read physically. I've been in a bit of a reading slump recently, so hopefully this will break me out of it!

Post #0022

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:37:00 -0700

I can't decide if I want to get Pokopia or not because it's expensive and not really available physically, so I put a poll out onmastodon. I'm curious to see what the results will end up being. I might cave but I'm holding on for now!

Post #0021

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:09:00 -0700

I started this as a blog post and realized it's probably better as a "microblog". I was so exhausted at the end of last week that I decided not to do anything "productive" over the weekend. I hate to call it "burnout", because I feel like it's not as severe as true burnout. There's not anything that particularly triggered it, but maybe work stress has been building up gradually. When it gets to this point, I hardly want to do anything, including my hobbies. No reading, gaming, or writing. I just don't want to doanythingthat involves thinking. What does that leave me with? Watching things, mostly. I've been keeping up with theUltima Retrospectiveseries from Majuular, and he released a new one on Ultima VIII. It's 3 hours long, and a fascinating watch. I also caught up on the recent season of Bridgerton. If I had to rank the seasons: 2, 4, 1, 3. I didn't really like Colin as much, and Penelope deserved better during her season. I really liked Sophie as a character, so she beat out Daphne. I also watched some compilations of scenes from the game Dispatch. I'm definitely dabbling in the fandom, even though I've never played the game. At least I'm feeling a little better now.

Post #0020

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 10:15:00 -0800

I got to meet up with a friend who I haven't seen in a while this week!! I'm really happy about it but this week was super exhausting. Hopefully I can recover this weekend. I've started taking a supplement to help with my migraines, I hope it works!

Post #0019

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:36:00 -0800

Happiness is mango kulfi on a warm day, right before bed.

Post #0018

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:20:00 -0800

I don't know how I managed to do it, but I injured my knee while going up the stairs and now it hurts 😭

Post #0017

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:11:00 -0800

By the way, I got so many comments on my blog post today aboutFinding My Way to You in an MMO World!! I never realized that people were actually reading my ranobe blog!

Post #0016

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:55:00 -0800

I updated this now/status microblog so that I can archive posts for every year. I was inspired to do this with the original template by NomNomNami, but I used some javascript to make sure that my anchor links to each post still work. Very cool!

Post #0015

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:30:00 -0800

I just completed Animal Well, and I'm honestly kind of mad that I couldn't finish the game on my own. I got 90% of the way there, but the last section of the game is so incredibly hard that I just couldn't do it. Of course, I guess this is why I don't play platformers and other games that rely on reaction timing and precision. I wish devs would at least implement some kind of accessibility or cheat that allows people to just finish the game.

Post #0014

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 03:00:00 -0800

I'm so mad that I woke up at 3 am on my day off. I JUST WANT TO SLEEP 😭

Post #0013

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:45:00 -0800

I really debated putting one of the books I read recently on my ranobe blog but it's an R18 BL novel that's mostly 🌶️🌶️🌶️ so I don't really want that on my front page lol. Plus I don't have anything that compelling to say about it? So I put it on my medialog instead.

Post #0012

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:55:00 -0800

I finished Mother of Learning earlier this week (I wrote my thoughts about the serieshere) and I don't think I'm going to be over this series anytime soon. The depression you get from finishing a really good series is so real... I might even consider writing some fanfiction since I have some cute ideas for my fav ship, Z/Z.

Post #0011

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:45:00 -0800

I fixed the filters function on my fanfic archive to collapse and display all the tags rather than scroll! It'll be easier to use now (lol). Small improvements!

Post #0010

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:25:00 -0800

Whenever shark week is coming, I get a killer migraine that can only be defeated by my specialty migraine meds. I wish I didn't need such an expensive medication to treat them.

Post #0009

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:55:00 -0800

I'm so looking forward to the long weekend, I've been so tired lately 😴

Post #0008

Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:42:00 -0800

I made some updates to the static comments functionality, now I can add comments manually as well! This helpful when I get comments submitted either through my contact form, or as a reply to another mastodon post rather than the main one.

Post #0007

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:15:00 -0800

I stayed up late reading last night, and now my eyes have been burning all day. And I have to get up early tomorrow :C

Post #0006

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 09:52:00 -0800

Ugh, when I get into any kind of project on the computer, I get so obsessed with making things work that I spend way too much time on it (Without taking breaks!) I really don't wanna do that but it's a compulsion lol. Anyways, I made the comments on my publii blog static too! I uploaded the project toGithub