Interesting, looks like arch no longer packages vi - just the vi mode of vim.

Adobe Acrobat also operates at the speed of: "click" -> go grab a cup of coffee -> click operation failed -> "click" -> eat a snack -> click worked -> "drag" -> lost focus of object -> take a shower -> "click".

It still blows my mind that converting a word document to a pdf is an unsolved computer science problem. I'm spending hours editing a glitched pdf because 4 different pdf exporters decided to put random kerning on all of the text boxes and convert single colored squares to 25 disjoint ones.

Modular explicits are coming to OCaml 5.5 🎊🫰🥳🎉🎂 github.com/ocaml/ocaml...

the DLSite storepage for King Exit's english translation is up... i can't believe it's real. one of the best h-rpg maker games that got let down by its machine translation is getting the most Human translation possible. very excited to see people explore this: www.dlsite.com/maniax/annou...

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (2003) ☃️ ❄️

RT < Weird, but hey, if you've never watched Mushishi before, I highly recommend you take a look. (I myself was rewatching a few episodes just the other day - interesting coincidence.)

LRT: The Kodansha stream of Mushishi is a 10+ hour “Full Movie” on a YouTube channel called “Anime Manga Official”, and comments are disabled It’s the *least* official looking stream I’ve ever seen, it’s actually kind of impressive.

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Getting mixed messages on whether the winter storm effect in this area will be extreme (heavy snow and -5F) or pleasant (slight misty rain and 50F). I guess we'll see.

legends za

I think this gave me more goosebumps than the original.

I think it's a little insane that I never kept a local copy of my lyrics translations. I do have wordpress backup xml files (after losing access to the site once), but I'd just delete my working files every time — going to change that habit this year.

Let me battle // I translated this months ago and forgot (?) to post it. (*the official lyrics video has a different EN translation) kafkafuura.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/l...

Unsure if strange weight loss is due to a delayed reaction from going sober or if I picked up a friendly tapeworm.

One of these days, I'm going to come up with a rhythm-stress shorthand (for writing lyrics) that doesn't suck. (I use a bunch of dots and dashes and apostrophes but it's not always consistent.)

Watched "Girl with Hyacinths" (1950) Pretty damn good.

I made a video about this www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGm-...

It seems like gfm (github flavored markdown) is a hard_line_breaks style markdown? that's convenient for the stanzas.

Testing to see how well this works in gist format before bothering with making essentially a no-code repo. gist.github.com/kafkafuura/4...

I wrote XML parsing scripts in F# to directly access my archive files for looking up old lyrics because *even I* don't want to visit my WP site since WP started loading it with broken ads. Still considering whether reconverting cursed WP-html to Markdown and uploading to github may be better.

When did C103 happen? So I guess this has been sitting on my backlog for 2 years. (plagued with by-ear transcription difficulties) こいいろのうた // Koiiro no Uta // Love-Colored Song kafkafuura.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/k...

RT < Oh hey, I guess v2 is out. I should go read it.

Today on Okazu - Love Bullet, Volume 2 (ラブ・バレット) Volume 2 of inee’s poignant action story about love and war introduces us to a new Cupid and another battle for the hearts of young people in a rural school in a thrilling battle for love! okazu.yuricon.com/2026/01/15/l...

The English version of the aquarium's penguin relationship chart translated "沼らせる" as "rizz" lmao (It's slang for "getting someone obsessed with a game/show/oshi/etc")

BIOS updates are so nerve wracking for me, like I bricked a computer something like 20+ years ago once because of a Texas rolling blackout. *once* and I still relive the fear of that moment every single time. I should probably just buy an uninterruptible power supply.

Anyway, 広辞苑 keeps winning as a paper dictionary, including (e.g.) having separate sub-definition entries specifying that 兵隊 does not always mean what you think it means — it can refer to a single soldier (兵) rather than an entire unit (隊).

I was trying to see if 長, which has multiple valid pronunciations, is more likely to be pronounced A rather than B on its own in a certain context, and the AI popup from the web search insisted that it be pronounced "colonel (カーネル)" (I ended up looking up all variations in my paper dictionary.)

"But he did not understand that 'work' was not about completing a task — being able to do something — but rather *selling it*." — I have never felt so attacked in my entire life. (Reading about a 30-ish year old character with the with personality of a 80 year old hermit.)

Lebanne💚

Drinking an energy drink after 3 days of 0 caffeine and I'm not sure whether my brain loves me or hates me right now.

This is feeling very Frankenstein-y, Get Out-y ざわざわ…ざわざわ… (狂骨の夢)

Finished watching 怪談 (1964) and started reading 狂骨の夢 today. There is a lot of whiplash, but I already am quite content to never see the sea again.

I hardly did any reading last year so my resolution for this year is to read at least one hour for 222/365 days of the year. Reading 8 hours in one day still = just one day. I think consistency is really the key, for me at least. 221 days left.

Finished 座敷牢に朝が来る. It was alright, but less thought provoking than I think it was trying to be. Still, a fun revisit of DiPP, and deconstructing truth and lies. I probably will have to read 狂骨の夢 to get the full context of references.

The Lantern Parade - Thomas Cooper Gotch, 1918

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I don't think I've ever read a doujin novel with label-ko as a prominent character before (as she is in 座敷牢に朝が来る)

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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

座敷牢に朝が来る immediately references 狂骨, and I can't find my copy of 狂骨の夢!

I have gotten around to understanding type witnesses properly, but I still probably need to upgrade my ocaml type-foo (type-fu?). (Was reading the "jsont" paper : github.com/dbuenzli/jso... )

I was under the impression that Ruri Dragon was highly acclaimed but only had like 2 volumes? Has it grown since I last checked?

First trailer for "Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia" anime series by Science Saru studio. Directed by Naoko Yamada & Abel Gongora. Character designer & Animation director : Kenichi Yoshida. Based on the manga by Tomato Soup. Coming in July 2026. Full video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqB3...

RT < Cannot wait for this, and very happy to see Yamada Naoko at the helm.

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