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yes-www

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I’ve been using blanket rule of no-www this past years and that is coming to an end.

Leaking WordPress cookies to every single sites hosted on this domain is probably not the best idea. Not that there’s any problem but just in case. Also no cookie to worry about for uploads and other static sites. Or maybe not if WordPress sets the cookie properly (it seems to be mostly does).

I was thinking of moving everything but for some single-use domains like 0paste.com it’s probably fine with no-www.

The other benefit is I can point the bare domain to a cheap server just for redirection and properly set CNAME for www subdomain instead of relying Cloudflare’s top-level CNAME function (which apparently also called “ANAME”?).

I’ve switched the redirection for www to 302 (temporary redirect) from 301 (permanent redirect) a while ago so hopefully no browser still cache the 301.

dirlist-php

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A few years ago I wrote a php script to provide better autoindex within nginx. I used it for quite a long period until I rewrote it in Ruby/Sinatra. But then I figured the setup for it is overly complicated just for simple task. And takes additional memory. I always have php-fpm running anyway so it’s free.

And so I decided to take up the old php script and fix it up. Unfortunately there isn’t other language as easy to setup for web as php which is why I fixed it instead of rewriting in some other languages (or keeping it ruby). The “fixed” version is still pretty much imperative-style but hey, it works.

Only tested with nginx.

Back to old domain

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As I’m too lazy to keep the other domain, this blog who nobody visits have changed the domain once again back to blog.myconan.net. animebsd.net will not be extended after next year. I’ll keep looking on access to old domain and to make sure no one accidentally visits this blog using wrong domain.

WordPress 3.5 Initial Impressions

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This blog has been updated to WordPress 3.5. Initial impressions:

  • everything is less rounded now
  • Twenty Twelve (the new theme) sucks for following reasons:
    • uses custom font: causes this blog unreadable until fonts are loaded (at least in chrome)
    • image header: positioned below navigation menu (and the header text is above the menu)
    • no more search bar in navigation menu
  • the new media uploader looks useful

Overall there isn’t much change (what should I expect here) but the new theme sucks. At least to be used on this blog.

Zeropaste update

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I decided to mess around with Zeropaste and added some “features”:

  • Show paste in plaintext (fixed width) and Markdown
  • Allows displaying paste in fixed width instead of full/auto
  • Setting mode and width based on url
  • Automatically updating url based on selected mode and width

0paste.com has been updated accordingly, including Rubinius 2.0.0rc1.

Now you can read glopping Asuna in convenient fixed width markdown (NSFW).

Yet another pastebin: 0paste.com

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I decided to get a domain for it because of :reasons:. Anyway, the old ones from p.myconan.net is still accessible (it’ll redirect to new url at 0paste.com). Donations welcome.

Also because the world needs yet another pastebin. This one is running on Rubinius using Puma, by the way. Four threads with awesomest possible caching for showing pastes.

[ 0paste.com | Source ]

Low End Box and Web Applications

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…one does not simply run both PHP and Rails applications (and MySQL) in single 128 MB box.

This is what happens if you try doing it. Swapping all the time. Hopefully Debian will fare better but it means I’ll need to reinstall the box again. I’ll do a test run in my local machine first though as not to waste my time doing backup/restore again like today.

(Yeah, Zeropaste is up at p.myconan.net)

Zeropaste – the featureless pastebin

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Tonight, when trying to compile Rubinius with Rubinius, I got some errors and wanted to report to relevant party. As usual, the log of what happened is required so I used my usual pastebin – pastie.org to send the logs. But then I noticed that the “Raw” link in it doesn’t provide an actual raw file anymore. What the fuck. It is now a html disguised as txt.

So I decided to whip up a new pastebin (because the world need one more pastebin) which doesn’t have any actual features (like tag highlighting, etc). I also learned the way to create shortest RESTful path possible (read: ‘/’).

There may or may not be more features coming. Developed in Rubinius because I can. Using mysql because of where it’ll be deployed at (see below).

I’ll get around deploying this soon after reinstalling VPS running this blog to Ubuntu or Debian. Running yum in a 128 MB box is suffering.

[ Source Code ]

Moebooru 3.2

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Finally reached the goal: Rails 3.2.6. The isn’t much change between 3.1 and 3.2 which is why I skipped 3.1. As there isn’t much front-end change, it means there isn’t any user-visible changes. Or at least there shouldn’t be.

Plans:

  • Move to jQuery
  • Use paper_trail for versioning (or something else)
  • Add SVG support (and maybe drop SWF support)
  • Actual news ticker
  • And more!

3.2.0 has been branched and currently running on some servers. The next version, 3.2.1 is on default branch and being tested on moe.myconan.net. As (finally) there are database changes, it will not be tested directly on live servers until it is stable enough.

Changes include better support for JRuby, use mini_magick instead of custom plug-in, less monkey-patches (but more bugs), and various clean-ups.

Moebooru/Rails 3, and more

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After working on it for several weeks, finally it got to the point where it’s relatively usable. No more Bundler-on-Rails2 evilry and the fact that 3.0 branch is still supported.

The best part is the one above. Yes, Moebooru now runs on Rubinius/Puma. The only foreseeable problem is it uses Process.pid on file uploads which, when several people uploading (or working with) files at same time, the temporary filename will collide.

Though due to me aiming more for workable implementation instead of correct implementation, there are quite a lot legacy stuff still in there:

  • repeated_auto_complete doesn’t work in Rails 3 without vendoring or updating the gem itself  (and I did both since Bundler’s git functionality seems broken in Rubinius).
  • prototype_legacy_helper must be used since I haven’t had time to upgrade the *_remote functions (and still thinking how to do it).
  • verification gem since I haven’t upgraded the route and its functionality, which previously built-in in Rails 2.3 has now removed.
  • Unsightly lib/core_ext. Just look at evilry I have added to make it behave like 2.3-stable.

On the brighter side, now I can start cleaning up the code. Or upgrade all the way to Rails 3.2 ( ¬‿¬)

Moebooru Update

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I haven’t been able to work on Moebooru for most of this month but I got to work on it this weekend. At ~30 changes, it went from -alpha to -beta.2 after receiving good amount of tests.

Summary of changes (more or less):

  • Most instances of RAILS_ENV and RAILS_ROOT have been replaced with newer Rails.env/Rails.root
  • Better Javascript handling in Development mode by moving cached Javascript from application.js to cached/all.js
  • Removed AssetCache modification library
  • Replaced HTML5Sanitizer’s html5sanitize with Rails’ built-in sanitize (because the former doesn’t work in 1.9)
  • Fixed Note Editor’s “History” button
  • Fixed Comment page’s pagination
  • Fixed Tag Relation search function
  • Updated “hack” for UTF-8 handling in Rails 2.3 with Ruby 1.9
  • Merged updates from moe branch
  • Reverted change which put class definition in <html> tag as it currently required by Javascript

Moebooru rebased

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Since I forgot to branch the original source, the branching looked awesomely crappy. Therefore I decided to rebase entire thing to ease up keeping track with Moebooru “mainline”. All my commits are now in branch “default”. If you didn’t do any change, backout up to revision 9174b6b5b02d and then pull again. And then, don’t ever touch moe branch again anymore.

Server changes, etc

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Apparently now this blog is blazing fast. I’m not sure why but I sure can feel the difference.

I’ve done lots of changes on this site so I’m not sure which one did the trick most:

  • Not using WordPress Multisite
  • Moved to 64-bit OS
  • gzip-ed everything (er, most things)
  • Used MySQL 5.5

Yeah, those are the changes. Also this site moved to all my four VPS’. Last (this) one is in Hostigation. Hopefully the won’t have the network problem like the one occurred sometime last month anymore. I enabled collectd with ping plugin so I’ll have concrete data on what’s happened next time there’s network problem.

…and as it turns out, I set the expiration overly aggressive resulting in caching even the main page. Epic fail on my side.

Love, Election, and Chocolate gets anime adaptation

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Koi to senkyo to chocolate, an eroge from sprite just announced to get anime adaptation.

From ANN:

The January issue of ASCII Media Works’ Dengeki G’s Magazine is announcing a 2012 television anime adaptation of sprite/fairys’ Love, Election, & Chocolate (Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate) adult game on Wednesday. The 2010 Windows game follows the protagonist at a “mega academy” with over 6,000 students. To save his cooking club from being abolished, the protagonist agrees to run for student body president.

The art was good and as usual I have no idea what the story is about 😀

And again, as usual, I need to prepare for art quality degradation compared to original art. At least I’m not a big fan of Akinashi Yuu (and Koichoco being the only eroge art he/she ever done) though it’ll still be sad seeing it degrades.

No information on animation studio or pretty much everything else.

Yet another server move

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Three months have (almost) passed, which means the contract for webhost I use almost runs out. Luckily I discovered this cheap VPS (thanks to LowEndBox) which accepts bank transfer as payment method.

Installed lots of things I did, and here I moved this blog. Powered by FreeBSD (woohoo), nginx and php-fpm. The RAM is a little bit small (256 MB) which means this site probably not as responsive as it used to be. Or maybe not. Tell me if you noticed any slowdowns!

Or maybe I should have chosen that Xen HVM option…

On other note, the DNS is provided by Free DNS. They’re so awesome, you should try it if you need managed (and redundant) DNS with IPv6 and DDNS support.

Another address change

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Well, looks like I can’t keep it consistent. Hopefully this one is the last one. Now animeBSD, the epic random something which resembles blog, got another address:

blog.myconan.net

The main reason is I want to only take care of one blog. Well, there was only two (old one and previous one) but actually I planned to split the previous one to several blog by using WordPress multisite feature.

After several months though, it turns out using multisite is just like slowly killing yourself with poison. It’s useful for creating blog with many users but for one-man blog, it’s the worst thing to manage. Not to mention the ugly htaccess involved.

In the end, I decided it’s not worth the effort to split site. So here it is, united under one name again (no more Network.myconan!) and everything will be here. Including my posts at wordpress.com thanks to the cool WP Importer tool provided.

The import process wasn’t smooth for posts at blog.myconan.net and there’re crapload of broken links. I’ll fix them as soon as I can™. Until then, update your bookmarks!

Oh and I’ll use myconan.net for some other purposes. Mostly private thing and IPv6 thingy. static.myconan.net will still intact though and not going to be removed.

Update: added redirection on blog.myconan.net to ease handling of migration. Most images should be up again now.

Update 2: I just realized I lost all the tags. DERP.

Let’s move

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Moved to http://edogawaconan.ath.cx/blog https://blog.myconan.net https://myconan.net/blog

SRSLY.

Reason: lawl customization and maybe google ads.

And I r too lazy to move old posts.

Update 2010-03-10: updated link.

Update 2011-02-07: Update for one last time.

Update 2020-02-26: More updates.

How to release animu in HD

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Why HD?

  • More guaranteed downloads
  • Better than anyone else

How?

In your AviSynth script (hey, I can safely assume that you use AviSynth, right?), just add this ULTIMATE HD MAGIC at the last line:

BicubicResize(1920,1080)

To increase the quality even more, don’t forget to add this:

AWarpSharp()
Deen()
HQDN3D()
UnDot()
UnFilter(10,10)
FastLineDarken()
AAA()
etc etc

After the ULTIMATE HD MAGIC. It increases overall video quality by OVER9000 percent and adds MORE DETAILS the the video.

And after muxing, don’t forget to include resolution information in the filename. Either:

[Your-Group] Sum Popular Oversubbed Animu With Subtitle From Sum Other Group - 9999 (1920x1080) [CRC].ext

or

[Your-Group] Sum Popular Oversubbed Animu With Subtitle From Sum Other Group - 9999 [FHD][CRC].ext

It’ll give you GUARANTEED downloads.

Add the translation source’s group name after your group name (ex: [YourGroup-SauceGroup]) to increase the download count even more.