In 2009, Microsoft made it a focus of the Windows 7 user experience guidelines to reduce pointless notifications. They point out notifications like the classic “There are unused icons on your desktop” as being in the Windows XP Hall of Shame™. Seriously, it’s in […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

It’s been a while since I last posted, but I’ve been hard at work on dining app stuff! My dining app, now officially renamed to TigerDine so that it doesn’t sound official, is out publicly on the App Store! I added a handful of new features like favorites and pulling menus from FD MealPlanner […]

I got a dbrand skin for my phone, and it looks pretty good! I couldn't actually afford to get the dbrand clear case, but it looks fine in my current case. I would tag dbrand, but they don't seem to have Mastodon :(

lmfao, the zork 1 "open sourcing" was microsoft just PRing an MIT license to an existing copy of leaked source. good for them

🇪🇺#ChatControl now officially removed from the agenda for Oct. 14th🥳: https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-13309-2025-INIT/en/pdf ⚠️However, EU governments continue to work on the proposal. 🗓️The next meeting of EU interior ministers is on Dec. 6/7. 🚫📡🔐Mission: No mass scanning, no […]

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door. Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Did some sniffing around on the RIT campus map (just watching the network traffic in Firefox), and I found something very useful: the building occupancy API! Busyness indicators are something that I wanted, since the actual RIT dining website has them, but that's not included in the dining data […]

So about the dining app- RIT’s dining website is the slowest thing ever. It takes legitimately 20-30 seconds to refresh sometimes, which is really annoying when you want to quickly check if a location is open or not before you start walking there, especially because we’ve got a decent number of […]

On a related note though, I’ve been working on an app for my college because their dining website sucks and makes it really annoying to do basic things like check the hours of a given location before I cross campus to go there. I made a nice little native SwiftUI app that pulls from an API that […]

I am officially a proud(?) Apple Developer Program member. $106.19 I’ll never get back!

New RNGTool update is out! I spent many many hours making fancy new cards for card mode that actually have suits! This means that card mode now simulates a real deck, so you can no longer get completely impossible hands. I'm also working on a new advanced card mode with a persistent deck that […]

and adding on to my previous post, this means that I have motivation to work on RNGTool again! Currently in the process of squashing bugs that were in v3.0.0/v3.0.1 (which was just the App Store version of v3.0.0), and then some new features are on the way! The first new features I have […]

My random number generator app is now on the App Store! Thanks to the generosity of nythepegasus, the lead developer of @sidestore, I had the chance to publish RNGTool on the iOS and macOS App Stores for free, which was very much appreciated. You can now enjoy your numbers, dice, coins, cards […]

After the disaster that was the attempted release of NUSGet v1.4.1, I am happy to announce the much smoother launch of v1.4.2! This release is exactly the same as v1.4.1, however it actually works this time. I unfortunately was busy and then left for a trip right when I learned about v1.4.1 […]

NUSGet v1.4.1 is out now! This release contains what I know the whole world has been waiting for: the triumphant return of a progress bar. This is something that I've wanted to have for a while, since NUSD had it and it makes a lot of sense that a download tool would display progress, but I had […]

Managed to finally change the boot logo for my motherboard so it isn’t the weird metal MSI MAG thing anymore! Much happier with this one! Might make it a little smaller still so the spinner doesn’t clip with it, but either way a cute fluffy dragon is a huge […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

I have successfully paid ¥32,394 (roughly USD$223.73) to get the Wii Us from Japan to me. It’s almost time.

just ordered 12 more Wii Us from Japan send help

With the bug in my previous post fixed and the translations updated and ready to go, NUSGet v1.4.0 is just about ready to go! This update has some requested features like “pack WAD” being enabled by default, a toggle to disable automatic update checks, and support for custom download locations […]

"thank you for your existence" - I do get lovely emails as well in my #inbox https://daniel.haxx.se/email/2025-05-20.html

Sometimes I forget how spoiled I am on Linux/macOS. Just was made aware of a NUSGet bug where it might fail to create WADs on Windows sometimes because the title name contains a “:”. Totally had forgotten about forbidden filename character on NTFS, because the only file systems I use (APFS, EXT4 […]

Jesus christ. I know LTT can’t ever resist clickbait, but I really thought they were above this. This video existing will only make the problem worse, and is going to spread even more confusion and fear. Do better.

rustii has a significant number of features ready for use now! The following features are working - WAD packing/unpacking - WAD/TMD/Ticket info - U8 archive unpacking - LZ77 compression/decompression (at infinitely faster speeds than libWiiPy) - ASH decompression - Other title-related stuff for […]

After roughly 2 years and 8 months, I finally wrote a new blog article! This one is about all of the obnoxious issues I've faced while dealing with VEX Robotics' software in a high school robotics class that I'm taking. https://ninjacheetah.dev/2025/03/30/vex-robotics-gripes.html (As a bonus […]

The rustii CLI now has some major features ready to go! The “info” and “fakesign” commands have full feature parity with their WiiPy counterparts, and are noticeably faster (thanks to the Power of Rust™️). The “wad pack” and “wad unpack” commands are also available, however the rest of the […]

I now have a working sample of what a Rust port of libWiiPy could be! Introducing Rustii, a Rust library and CLI designed to eventually be a drop-in replacement for WiiPy. Currently, Rustii mostly just has support for title parsing, but that’s still a solid start (and is where libWiiPy started […]

Finally trying to learn Rust again, but for real this time. My goal is to try and eventually create a Rust library that has feature parity with libWiiPy. I love having a Python library for this because I’ve used it to make quick scripts for testing stuff on numerous occasions, but I think that […]

NUSGet Web now supports URL parameters! This should make it easier to share a specific title with someone if they need to download it. The valid parameters are "tid", "ver", "format", "console", and "wadname", and the URL will automatically be filled in with […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A little late to posting it, but NUSGet v1.3.1 is out! French users can rest easy, as French language support has been added in this version! Linux users too can rest easy knowing that Qt library issues will no longer cause NUSGet to inexplicably crash sometimes […]

Revisited the whole Webassembly client-side NUSGet idea, and I've gotten a prototype working! This version of NUSGet Web runs more or less the same Python code as NUSGet/WiiPy, but locally in your browser thanks to WASM. This will allow for much more […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

More or less rewrote the entire NUSGet Web API to use FastAPI instead of Flask. I also updated all of the endpoints to be RESTful. WADs, for example, can now be downloaded using the endpoint "/v1/titles/{tid}/versions/{ver}/download/wad". You can see the other existing endpoints at the fancy […]

playing around with WASM because somebody reminded me that it existed, and it's pretty cool! definitely fun to use libWiiPy client-side in a web browser. unfortunately I'm still subject to CORS restrictions, so still no client-side NUSGet Web

New day, new NUSGet Web update! The site has a new Bootstrap-based look, and now allows you to download encrypted and decrypted contents, which will be served as a ZIP files. There's also way more error handling both in the frontend and backend, so I trust […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Went ahead an opted for the split frontend/backend because this won't work client-side. The backend is an API using Flask that's directly using libWiiPy to create a WAD for the requested title and version. The frontend makes a request to […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

thwarted by CORS :( (I did try a public demo CORS proxy and my very basic code worked as expected, but that's not quite viable for production)

Someone suggested that I should make a web app version of NUSGet, since all of what it does depends on downloading from the internet anyway, so I figured I'd give it a shot. I have no JS experience and am bad at web design. I'm sure you couldn't tell […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

oh also as an addendum to my previous thread: why are CMD and PowerShell not compatible and why do build instructions not specify which one is required (it’s CMD for PySide6, but I had originally assumed PowerShell and that doesn’t work)

Just got an M4 MacBook Pro which is pretty cool, but that’s led to a very unexpected issue. I wanted to be able to test stuff like NUSGet in a Windows VM, and since I’m ARM now it’s much more reasonable to virtualize Windows ARM64 than to emulate x86 Windows. The problem comes from the fact […]

NUSGet v1.3.0 is now out! This update fleshes out the title database, adds a search box to navigate all of those new titles, and features and entirely rewritten title database backend, making things cleaner and hopefully more performant. The legacy NUSD script format has also been replaced […]

Addendum to my previous post WiiPy update: WiiPy now has another new command, "install-missing", that will automatically download required but missing IOSes from the NUS and install them to the EmuNAND. The command will also check for an installed system menu, and if it's a vWii system menu […]

Exciting new command for WiiPy! The new "emunand info" command will give you details about all titles installed to an EmuNAND, and will inform you if any installed titles depend on an IOS you don't have. This command is especially handy (to me at least) when […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Trying to work out the issues of banner parsing and editing in libWiiPy has been tougher than expected. Ran into issues when I was writing a higher-level module that was supposed to allow for easy editing of the header, because it depended on modules in other subpackages that created circular […]