Archive of 2025 | Leilukin's Hub Tumbleblog

First Anniversary…

14 June 2025 marked the first anniversary of me joining the 32-Bit Cafe community on both its Discord server and Discourse forum! I like that Discourse has a It is a nice touch that there is a cake icon after the username and title for anniversaries of a member joining the Discourse forum. 32-Bit Cafe has been one of my favourite online communities for not only its dedication to promote the indie web, but also being inclusive, anti-bigotry and well-managed. Therefore, I actively participated in the community, which earned me the "New Member of the Month" award. I am happy that 32-Bit Cafe exists, and I am proud to be part of 32-Bit Cafe community!

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Permanent link to “Unexpected Water and Electricity Supply Disruptions Always Suck”
Permanent link to “Resetting My PC and VPS”
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Tried to Self-Host…

Tried to self-host Standard Notes, since I already use it often to jot down notes quickly. However, it turns out there is not much advantage for hosting Standard Notes yourself other than a cheaper subscription plan for advanced UI features. My Obsidian setup has fulfilled my needs for a more sophisticated note-taking system, so I don't need Standard Notes' subscription plan features. I decided to just stick to Standard Notes' default server, and removed the Standard Notes Docker container and images from my server. Not to mention, I encountered the issue of the desktop version of Standard Notes app keep asking me for account credentials even after creating an account for the self-hosted version. It is a known issue that I had to specify the Docker image tag to pull to work around it.

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May 2025

Cleaning Up Systemd…

Since I started to host stuff, including my websites, on the first VPS I rented, I have been learning to preserve my server's disk space as much as possible, including cleaning up unneeded files. Today, I learned about systemd journal logs, and realised that they were the primary reason my VPS disk storage was taken up every day, so I configured /etc/systemd/journald.conf to prevent systemd journal logs from taking up more than a certain disk storage space (SystemMaxUse) and being kept for more than a certain time period (MaxRetentionSec). This helped freeing up disk space of my server.

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Continue to Publish…

Leilukin's Hub had been migrated from its original host on Neocities for almost a year, but I still log in to Neocities and share updates about my website. After the migration, I posted about Leilukin's Hub's updates manually. However, inspired by Owl of Beep Bird, I am experimenting publishing the latest changelogs of Leilukin's Hub to Neocities to inform followers of updates, by making use of the Neocities command line interface (CLI). Specifically, I wrote a shell script so after I generate the website output of Leilukin's Hub with Eleventy, I run the shell script to copy the Leilukin's Hub changelog page of the current year to a different folder for Neocities, then to use Neocities CLI to push the changelog page to my Neocities files.

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Problems with…

After converting my Eleventy website's template engine from Nunjucks to Vento, for some unknown reason, when I tried to deploy my website from its Gitea repository on 32-Bit Cafe's instance via Gitea action, it failed to generate the contents of my yearly changelog archive pages, while it is not an issue when I build my website locally or deploy my website via GitHub action, so I had to switch back to using GitHub actions in my website’s mirror repository on GitHub to deploy my site automatically. Now I finally worked around the issue by switching to using Node.js instead of Bun as the JavaScript runtime to generate my website in the Gitea action workflow, so I moved back to deploying my website from the Gitea repo instead of its mirror repo on GitHub. I discovered this workaround when I was learning to host my own Gitea instance (and I’m planning to move my website’s repositories to my own Gitea instance). It seems like Gitea action's runner has issue with running Bun's GitHub action…

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April 2025

Permanent link to “R.I.P. Nicky Katt, A.K.A. the Voice of Atton Rand”
Leilukin's Hub's…

I have converted the Git repository of Leilukin's Hub main site on 32-Bit Cafe's Gitea instance from a mirror repository to a regular repository. Originally, Leilukin Hub's Git repository was hosted on GitHub, with its repo on 32-Bit Cafe's Gitea instance being a mirror. GitHub Actions were the primary reason for using GitHub to host Leilukin's Hub's Git repository, as GitHub Actions allow me to deploy my static websites to a remote server Hostinger. Recently in March, 32-Bit Cafe's Gitea instance added support for Gitea Actions, which are compatible with GitHub Actions. This encouraged me to consider using Gitea actions to deploy Leilukin's Hub. Therefore, yesterday I converted Leilukin's Hub's Gitea repository from a mirror repo to a regular repo, and today I finally managed to set up the deployment workflow with Gitea Actions!

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Create Favicons…

As part of my effort of removing most favicon markup from my websites, I use ImageMagick, which can create ICO format favicons from one source of image file, by converting the source image to multiple resolutions in PNG (for higher resolutions) and BMP (for resolutions 192x192 and below) formats. That said, I noticed that mobile version of browsers may be unable to fetch a favicon that includes more than one image format, so in my ImageMagick command line, I specified the output resolution to 192x192 as the highest, so the favicon will contain only BMP format images.

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Finally Saw a…

I have always been fascinated with Pomeranian dogs for how adorable, small and fluffy they are. Fictional Pomeranians including Missile from Ghost Trick as well as Barkley and Pombomb from Cassette Beasts have certainly helped to endear me to them as well. Today, when I was stepping out of my school's campus to return home, there was a person walking a Pomeranian dog nearby. Finally, this was the first time I saw a Pomeranian in-person, so I immediately took the opportunity to have a good look at the cutie. Pomeranians are so cute! 🥰

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Permanent link to “SSH Access to My Hostinger Server”
Permanent link to “泰国学者发现　鱼在地震时会“躺平”避难”
Permanent link to “国旗扣章贴胸口，就爱国了？”
Permanent link to “Thailand rescue dogs double as emotional support”

March 2025

Happy Trans Day of…

Happy Trans Day of Visibility and Eid al-Fitr! 🏳️‍⚧️☪️ I don't actually celebrate Eid because I'm not Muslim, but it's still a major event when you're living in a majorly-Muslim country, and as a queer person I notice the coincidence that Trans Day of Visibility and Eid al-Fitr fell on the same day this year. (In Malaysia, Eid al-Fitr is commonly referred to by its Malay name, Hari Raya Aidilfitri, even when speaking English)

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Permanent link to “Set Up Sunshine and Moonlight to Stream Spirit City: Lofi Sessions”
Permanent link to “Why are Pokémon Games so Outdated?”
Cassette Beasts…

Looks like I will need to stay up late to watch Cassette Beasts Showcase 2025 live after all. Initially the presentation was planned for 10 pm today in my time zone, but the developers are now delaying it to 2 hours later, because coincidentally Nintendo Direct 2025 will start at the initial planned time for Cassette Beasts Showcase 2025, which is 10 pm in my time zone. I still remember a comment I received for one of my posts on Tumblr via reblogging the post and adding the commentary in the tags of the reblog, talking about how Pokémon is lucky that its fans refuse to try out any other monster taming games, because otherwise more people would realise how painfully mediocre the Pokémon games in general are for the mosnter taming genre.

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Permanent link to “Algorithms are breaking how we think”
Permanent link to “Monsoon Surge in Malaysia”
Permanent link to “Switched to Dopamine as My Music Player”
Watched Ne Zha 2 in…

Went to watch Ne Zha 2 with my parents in cinema in the afternoon. My parents were more excited about watching the film than I did, while I was merely along the ride to see what the hype was about, since it is now the highest-grossing animated film in the world. After seeing it, I found that while I was impressed by the animation and visuals, I was unimpressed by how the portrayal and treatment of female characters were full of archetypes in male-centric films. A Ne Zha 2 review by circularuins on Douban (in Chinese) explains my issues with the portrayal and treatment of women in the film well.

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萌狗净滩携手共护大自然

一名马来西亚爱狗人士把自家的狗狗训练成为环保小卫士，在海滩捡垃圾。这名狗主能如此训练他的狗狗们固然可喜可贺，而这些狗狗也很萌很可爱，但我更希望人们不要乱丢垃圾。正如视频里的记者指出，有些垃圾是狗狗无法捡起的，所以人们如果能把自己的垃圾带走会更好。

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Trying out…

Trying out Purelymail to replace Outlook for my email purposes. I appreciate that Purelymail allows you to use custom domains and create multiple mailboxes without additional charge. I have set up multiple addresses and mailboxes on my Purelymail account for different purposes, so I'm changing the email addresses of many of my online accounts, and deleting accounts that I don't use or need any more. Update, 13 March 2025: Finally deleted the 50+ online accounts I no longer use or need, and changed the email addresses for my existing accounts that previously used Outlook with ones that use my domain names. Grateful of password managers for not only allowing me to save passwords and generate unique passwords without having to memorise every one of them myself, but also helping me in keeping track of how many online accounts I have, including ones that I no longer use or need so I can get rid of those accounts.

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Permanent link to “88x31 Pride Badge Generator”
TSL Expanded Ending

Found a new Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II mod that makes a great addition to my KotOR 2 mod build — TSL Expanded Ending! I tried it out myself and I enjoyed the mod a lot. I appreciate that it gives the player more choices, such as the option if they want to destroy Malachor or not regardless of the player's alignment, if they want to find Revan or not, choosing to stay on Malachor if the player doesn't destroy it, etc. The mod also restores Handmaiden/Visas' ending conversation about wanting to follow the player even if the player chooses to destroy Malachor. I greatly appreciate it because Malachor is destroyed in most of my playthroughs, and thus I was never able to get such conversation in most of my playthroughs.

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Permanent link to “Mastopoet - Beautiful Mastodon post screenshots”

February 2025

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Permanent link to “How Trying Became Cool Again”
Kendrick Lamar's…

As a non-American with no interest in American football, Super Bowl is not an event I am interested in by itself, but this time I was looking forward to it purely for Kendrick Lamar's halftime show performance, and I was not disappointed. Love how he looked directly at the camera when he rapped "Say, Drake, I hear you like 'em young / You better not ever go to cell block one" 🤣 I love that "tv off" was also performed, with literal shout-out to Mustard and a Mustard cameo too. 😁 Side note: the URL of the URL of the official video on NFL's YouTube channel is hilarious: "K Dorky", LOL.

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January 2025

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Hong Kong Media…

Last night I suddenly got nostalgic for the Hong Kong media I grew up with as a teenager, so I ended up spending a great deal of time in browsing the web to look for related stuff. While my taste in entertainment media has changed a lot since my teenage years, I still have a lot of fond memories of following the Hong Kong entertainment media during my teenage years, in large part because they helped me a lot in learning Cantonese.

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Permanent link to “Tumblr Blocked in China”
Permanent link to “Renkon's Learning Japanese with Anki Series”
Permanent link to “Link Collection: Typeface Design”
Permanent link to “The Skill Issue, or: How I Learned I Could Learn, and So Can You! (also capitalism is a disease)”