The Journal

Comments? Tell me what you think in the guestbook.

I just released three more tracks on Bandcamp, be sure to check them out!

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Rest in peace, Ted Kaczynski. 1942-2023

I gave my stars (characters) page a new design to fit the new characters I made. I hope you enjoy the pixel art, if nothing else!

Happy Halloween from cidoku.net!

I made a couple of avatars for this long forgotten IRC client because I've been using it with some friends and it's really fun. Goddammit!

As the title says, I'm slowly working towards a truly bilingual site. It's a lot of work, but I think it's worth it if at least one person reads a page of mine that's in Spanish, and it really does happen! Except for pages in the notes section, I'm making use of the templating engine of my web server to change the language of compatible pages if the URL has the query string ?es=1. I decided against using cookies and HTTP headers for language selection because I block cookies myself and it would be hypocritical of me to use them, and HTTP headers are unreliable (but you can try to convince me otherwise). Not all pages are translated yet but the main page is and everything directly linked from it has a Spanish version. Eventually I'd like to take this EVEN FURTHER and build an RSS feed with updates in Spanish. Man, it really is a lot of work but I'm too far into this to back out now. But also I really like how it works and I love my language so it's fine. Thank you for reading.

I added a page showcasing all the crappy drawings I've made since high school. It's unsorted and quality varies wildly... no bulli pls

This new thing is a sort of viewer for the cards from the discontinued Precure mobile game Precure Tsunagaru Puzzrun. There are almost 800 cards and the one you get when you visit the page is unique to you and changes every hour.

I just released two more tracks on Bandcamp, be sure to check them out! They follow my usual style; the second has a slight techno influence, but not a lot.

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At long last, my very old Earthbound template for Game Maker was ported to a current iteration of the program and it should now be accessible to people using GMS 2.3. A million thanks to Jevilhumor, the author of the port, for being so kind to share the code with me, and to Pauluigi, who got Jevilhumor to contact me in the first place.

I enabled HTTP access to the site to support older browsers and operating systems. I'm sure this might seem like a strange decision, but I mostly did it because I have no life and love to pretend it's still 2006 (shrug). You should probably still access my site over HTTPS if you can, though.

I'd been thinking about adding a guestbook to cidoku.net for a while and I just got around to it... I don't think it'll see much use, but it's nice to have. I'm using HTML Comment Box so sadly it won't be available for people who (rightfully) block Javascript, but it lets you post anonymously and share images, so that's cool, ain't it?

Lately I've started making my own animations using Macromedia Flash 8. They're of course intended to be played in your browser, for which you can use the old Flash plugin, Ruffle, or Lightspark. You can also download the SWFs and watch them offline with the standalone projector, but also the desktop versions of the other open tools I mentioned.

Why the hell?

Because I was inspired by lolwut's celebration of Flash; read it if you have time. I grew up in the 2000s playing Flash games and watching Flash animations like many people my age and kept stumbling upon them until I switched to Linux around 2016. I never tried to make my own, though, instead spending my time on music making and Game Maker. Now that I've tried it I can see it's a wonderful, easy to use software that nourishes a very rewarding creative process. In short: fun things are fun! Flash is ours to keep alive, no matter what the inept Adobe says.

But isn't it insecure?

Who cares? You can set Flash Player as click-to-run and only allow it on sites you trust, like this one. Newer implementations like Ruffle should be as safe as your browser. Do you trust your browser?

I just released Until Next Time / Tennis, a single consisting of two tracks I started in 2012 and only now managed to complete. Thanks for listening!

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This new page is dedicated to the mascot of cidoku.net, Shirogami. There's a bio and an art gallery, featuring fan art!

I just released Riders, a mini-album made as my submission for the third edition of MusicVket, a yearly virtual music CONvention celebrated on VRChat. Go visit my booth! The event will be was available from November 6 to November 14 (Japanese time), and I'll be hanging out at my booth from time to time. Thank you for listening!

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