Pre-launch of new website

This is a quick post, cos I write this at like 4 in the morning, but

The new website, that I have started working on in march and lost drive to hack around, I'm launching it in this kind of pre-production state.

It's been made to look and feel kind of similarly to how my original, hand-made pages were. But thats obviously not the intended end goal. But it was so long stuck in the limbo of not being done, that I decided I'd rather have it launched while I work on both content and the design of it.

Kind of a bummer I could not make myself work on it in any reliable fashion, especially considering my current, uh, rather permissive situation. It is what it is. Kind of a bummer, really.

Stuff is not yet even fully finished. Generally almost all I've done on old website is replicated here, but might not be linked anywhere yet. If you have your old link, they should work though? Some of those things will be reworked as well. Not now

I was also planning to make like a series of... either articles or "blog" posts about tech stuff I'm hosting, and additionaly a more in-depth explanation of hosting Minecraft Beta servers in modern age with hosting services and whatnot, that's what I will be focusing on next.

I guess that's it for now. I have made a backup of old site, and will commence replacing now, hopefully nothing blows up spectacularly too soon?

We are so ready

I've been using Linux with Wayland for the last couple of months since switching to Fedora. I can't say it haven't made a lot of progress for last few years. It generally feels fine (disclaimer: I am AMD GPU user), it fixed one or two problems Id had.

I just crashed Wayland. By opening Audacity. On accident, I just wanted to listen to an mp3 file, I guess it had default application set to Audacity for reasons unknown.

We are so ready for Wayland

Little Rain World obsession

You know this maddening feeling when there's something you would want to experience, but at the same time parts of it makes you extremely repulsed to the point of not being able to enjoy it?

I have this with Rain World recently

I'm really enticed with this game. I am into hard platforming, I've been hearing lore is great (I'm trying to not spoil myself too much, but that ship has sailed), slugcats themselves, the music. Man, the music is great! I've had this earworming in me for the past week, the modular kick in and the bass are giving me serotonin lol

So, why am I such mopey about this game if its great apperently? Well, turns out (not really, I knew about it for a long time) I'm really skittish about any kind of insects and arachnids and this kind of creatures

And, well, if you can say anything about this game, its that its full of fuzzy weird longlegged creatures that would really like to kill you. And eat, it's post apo world, it would be just pure cruelty otherwise.

Point stands, even though they are on the other side of the screen, This creeps me out so much I've had bad time playing it when I tried it.

And I still want to play it, because I feel like I will have fun with this game, If I am able to overcome that phobia. And I know it's fairly irrational, especially since we are talking about digital bugs and spidery things, yet we still are here...

So, I'm going back to jamming to the music, and maybe try playing it today again...

Old updates

December 2024

  • 12th of December 2024 Another few months passed, how fast they grow...
    Anyway, I am working on a project, something RetroAchievements related this time. Although last time I said something about RA, which apperently, haven't done that here, I haven't really pushed forward with it more, uh, kind of didn't knew how to wrap it all up in a website, so it lingers in my code directory, should have released that I guess...
    New project though. It's actually not a static site thing. Boohoo, I guess. It's an actuall aplication, backed up by Python and Flask, will bring group features *kind of* to RA. Something akin to LastFM with Friends, which inspired me so much that I actually decided to just steal their name too, so I'm calling it RAwF, RetroAchievements with Friends. I did already done a bunch of work on backend data collection, now I'll actually have to make a frontend to that. You know, the thing I failed to do with this previous project. I'm thinking about trying out bootstrap for that, probably also deploy some flexboxes and other "more modern" web things I've never played around with. Sounds like fun. Fingers crossed

October 2024

  • 17th of October 2024: Updated my Youtube playlists to HTML Python script to hopefully not get broken by new-ish Youtube ratelimits. Tested it on a couple playlists totaling almost 1000 videos and it seems to do just right

August 2024

  • 5th of August 2024: Added a page about running Forza Horizon 3 on Steam Deck. Dont read too deep into it lol. Also a bit rusty with HTML currently lmao

July 2024

  • 12th or 13th of... July? 2024? Whos counting anyway... yet another big pause in activity, I had ran out of juice to run and was hanging by, barely. Did some insignificant stuff probably. Migrated my "music journaling" over to listenbrainz, but since they don't do live updates on Spotify as well as Last.fm does, I keep it around to update the widget. But I have to say, I like ListenBrainz more...
    From other news, uh... I have submited a game to the speedrunning marathon, we'll see in few days if I actually got in, and in meantime I'm playing a bunch of Forza Horizon 4... Otherwise I'm mostly just moping around, I don't have much energy these days. Went out of my way to get some vacation days to try and recover, but it's not going to last one day after getting back to work. I really do need to drop that job, find something else, theres nothing there left for me...
    Anyway, if I feel like doing something over the next 4 days, there might be some updates coming. Maybe. I would not hold your breath though...

May 2024

  • 10th of May 2024: I declare Scrobbled API reached Beta. Well, early Beta. Everything implemented so far seems to work in the limited capacity of 2 or 3 users so far, and I reserve right for frequent changes to API for time being (for once, more endpoints will become available over time; secondly, I intend to support more services than just Last.FM, currently planned are MusicBrainz and Libre.FM, though for now they are closed down while rewriting their server software; finally, I want to simplify and unify the API calls and responses between all platforms, so changing between them will be as close to drop in replacement as possible). You can go to scrobbled.tepiloxtl.net to learn more :)
  • 8th of May 2024: Big update: my LastFM widget now runs on my own API implementation, based on websockets to communicate. This means... I don't know, really. For once, the clientside JS code is now subscription based instead of pull based, so it's a server that informs us that a new track is playing, and not us polling API every couple seconds (even though on the server side I still do this, seems that Last.FM API don't have this sort of capability). Both server side code (in Python) and client side JS are now made by me, I'm actually kinda proud. It's still very early prototype, and it tends to crash if you look at it funny, but for a proof of concept, not bad. while the instance is running, you can snoop around the js file to see how to talk with it, everyone is welcomed to come and try it out (just dont abuse it). I'll release the source code when I figure out how to despaghettify it
  • 4th of May 2024: I've added a small floating widget with Last scrobbled song on last.fm to the bottom right of the very page you are looking at! It's based on this repo by Bianca Rosa. Additionaly, I've fixed a bunch of pages not having it's styling supporting light mode and some elements not being properly justified
    Another little thing, when working on the youtube thing, I've restored this page to restore the code I used for thumbnails view. I guess I'll put it here in the meantime, the original page is long gone and domain have changed hands from what I know. I want to fix it up as well and make maps for other games as well maybe in the future.
    Later, also added site stats
  • 3rd of May 2024: I'm back! (I never left, actually, I was just busy with other stuff).
    I made a little python thing that takes a Youtube playlist and displays it as a website, and added one here. I'm not adding it to site navigation yet because it's here just for funs (it's a copy of my watch later basically). The script I used to generate the site (but without my css styling) is now available on my Github if you want to play around with it! (theres also a few other projects Ive made, and hopefully more to come?)
    Thats it for now, basically just came here to brag lmao

March 2024

  • 11th of March 2024: Not a direct site update, but thanks to Max of Nekowebring the webring widget now supports my website through both custom domain and nekoweb domain! It's no longer broken on nekoweb link (although I'm not sure where you coul'd find it because I think that other than in my dashboard, everywhere else on Nekoweb actually links custom domain if you set it up as main, nonetheless someone has actually ran into this problem on my site somehow... And now it's fixed :) This also means that they will render properly in my site-box since it also uses nekoweb domain I guess. The more you know
    I'll get in contact with *nixRing admin in the morning to see what they think about updating their widget too
    Edit: Spoke to soon, it's still btoken in site-box, I think it's cached, so it'll take a while...
  • 10th night of March 2024: Added this website to the Nekoweb Districts directory, finishing the trifecta of... I don't know, link directories? This also slightly breaks compatibility between all three, I might do some JS crimes behind the scene to make it work
    In another news, I said jokingly in Discord that I have an idea on how to make forums for static web like Nekoweb, so now I guess I'm making a fully clientsided JS forum/textboard thingie.
    I know no JS, so that gonna take a while
  • 9th of March 2024: Added myself to *nixRing too. Only took 10 minutes to wrangle CSS this time around lmao
    Added some links, too
  • Void in between 8th and 9th of March 2024: Added myself to the Nekowebring, cursed at CSS for like 30 minutes
  • 8th of March 2024: Updating iPod page, and added some blogo-like thing to yell my mind into the void I guess
  • 6th of March 2024, later that day: A lot of small changes - webpage titles now can be used to navigate, reordered Updates section, added some words about c10t mapper in minecraft section. Ignore the bukkit page for now xD. A lot of changes to CSS - made the site wider, changed styling around webpage titles and footer, added something similar to a code block even...
    Of note, apparently this theme, in dark configuration, has bad accessibility score. I'll probably completely change up the style of this website at some point, sorry in the meantime!
  • 6th of March 2024: Site is now available under tepiloxtl.net. Also Twitter is pretty much out at this point, so I removed it
  • 4th of March 2024: Added Minecraft Beta page

2023

  • 22ish of August 2023: Added socials
  • 4th of September 2023: Adding some subpages