Played Blender Studio's game DOGWALK yesterday. As a dog lover, opportunities to play as a dog is a good way to get me interested, and the game being developed with free and open-source software (Blender and Godot) helps too.
It is July 2nd, which means it has been a year since the initial launch of the Cassette Beasts fanlisting, the very first fanlisting I ever created!
I am happy to have helped to promote and spread the love for Cassette Beasts on the indie web!
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!
My home's electricity supply just got disrupted unexpectedly. Thankfully it was brief, but we have been experiencing more than one random water or electricity supply cuts recently. After having experienced a water supply cut for two days not long ago, even brief disruptions were really annoying.
I spent the past 2 days in resetting my PC, and my main VPS too because I made the terrible mistake of not double-checking if my SSH keys for my main VPS were backed up. I had disabled root and password logins to improve security.
Fortunately, I took notes on how I set up software and apps on my machines, so I could quickly install everything on my VPS again.
Data privacy is important for everyone. But for some marginalized populations, data privacy is indispensable for social connection, access to information, and physical safety.
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.
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.
As a WSL user: Finally!
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.