Hey guys, hope you’re well! In this edition of Teru-rambles-on-about stuff I wanted to talk about what I’ve been up to in the past month.
The main thing is doing work on the mobile version of the site. I wanted to have it done by last week but things got a little more complex than anticipated. That, coupled with life not really ...
2019-08-29 23:57:30 +0000 UTC View PostHey there, hope you’ve been well. For this exciting installment of my technical rants, I’m focusing on templates. No, not that kind. The web programming kind.
In order to make a long and boring story short, what I mean by template is a file that is fed data to produce an automated output. These are commonly used to facilitate controlli...
2019-07-23 22:09:39 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, hope you’re doing well. I don’t really have much to talk about in the way of new and exciting features or reworks, as a lot of that is still a work-in-progress and limited by the time I can spend coding. So instead I’ll be talking about a few of the system administrator challenges I’ve had to face lately.
As you might kno...
2019-07-10 22:33:24 +0000 UTC View PostIf you’ve been reading these posts regularly, then you’d know that the last time around I said I’d be working on the settings menu and on improving the browsing experience for mobile devices. That was the plan until something else annoyed me a lot. I was looking over an old archived story and was reminded of the fact that there’s no way ...
2019-05-27 20:50:07 +0000 UTC View PostI’ve been doing a bit of everything as of late and don’t have a unified theme for this entry. As is the nature of miscellanea, not much of it is interesting on its own. So I’m going to cherry pick a few things so that this doesn’t become too dry a read.
There is now a setting that lets threads auto refresh
It...
2019-05-03 00:50:06 +0000 UTC View Post
A picture is worth a thousand words so here’s several:
2019-04-11 23:30:45 +0000 UTC
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11 years isn't too shabby. Make sure to get to the party before the oni drink everything and a certain ghost eats all the food.
2019-04-01 12:58:20 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, I’ll be talking this time around about how the archiving system works on THP.
The basic philosophy of KusabaX was that every board was an entity unto itself. This meant having potentially different CSS/themes, board-specific moderators and other stuff like that. Interoperability with other boards on the site wasn’t rea...
2019-03-08 18:19:49 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s been a long and somewhat unproductive month for THP. Sometimes things are like that, sometimes it can’t be helped. Still, there were a few things I had in mind that needed doing. It took me a while to work out what to prioritize, but I ended up doing some less-obvious work.
For a while now, I’ve been meaning to modernize ...
2019-02-09 14:27:54 +0000 UTC View PostOnce again I've bust out my dubious-quality microphone and recorded a few words just for you. Feel free to bask in the glory of my mellifluous voice mixed with lingering background noises as much as you like while folding laundry or looking for a good image to post on the site. Enjoy!
2019-01-04 15:52:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe beginning of December saw THP migrate servers. It was a move I had planned for a very long time but hadn’t gotten around to for various reasons—mostly a mix of all the preparatory work that minimizing disruptions and finding a reliable new home for the site entailed. Despite all the prep work there were a few bumps in the road but those ...
2018-12-29 18:01:44 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, hope you’re well. This time around I’ll be talking about some of the (relatively) smaller changes that happened to THP in the last few weeks. Yeah, I’m kinda milking the subject a little but I honestly do think that these things are well worth talking about in detail. Kind of the point of behind the scenes access, right?
A...
2018-11-07 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostIn case you haven't noticed, THP is running a NaNoWriMo-inspired contest where the objective is to get thirty updates out by the end of November. The response from the community has been pretty strong; over a dozen entries made so far. That's a pretty...
2018-11-02 13:39:18 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the amazing and genius new features of the last round of site updates is the ability to preview posts. Today I wanted to take the chance about why this was implemented and how.
It’s something that’s been suggested from time to time, most notably by people who don’t really understand a site like THP works. Luckily for you, I’...
2018-10-24 15:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostYesterday I pushed out some more changes to THP, mostly focused on fixing bugs and extending recently-introduced features. I put up a brief summary of things here and it represents about fifty commits and quite a few hours of testing and work.
While I...
2018-10-17 13:21:12 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, you may have noticed the new features on the site by now and I hope you’re enjoying them. I wanted to talk about one of the things that took the most work to implement: the watched threads feature.
But first, it’s worth bringing up why this feature went away in the first place.
The original Kusaba X implementation of the watch...
2018-10-08 07:23:05 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, I've added a few more goodies to the site you can read about here. Other than that there's a few changes to this Patreon page that I decided to cover in audio form.
2018-10-07 05:45:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, hope you’re well. Though I’d give you a quick rundown on what I’ve been up to and some of the changes made to the site since the last post.
If I’ve been doing my job correctly, you mostly wouldn’t have noticed the changes I’ve been making lately. A lot of work has been put under the hood and deals with cleaning up leg...
2018-08-29 03:43:31 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, you may have noticed that there were some issues with payments this last month. Patreon has been a bit mum about that but from what I've been able to piece together it seems that they changed the location of where they're registered, prompting banks to flag transfers to them as suspicious. Why they didn't tell people ahead of time is anyo...
2018-08-03 20:10:53 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, hope you’re doing well, I wanted to take the time to talk a little about the last round of changes on the site.
As you may have noticed, there were a few changes to the user-facing portion of the site, best exemplified by the new settings menu and the toggable options there. Basically all the scripts that run on the site were m...
2018-07-24 18:33:18 +0000 UTC View PostI've finalized some of the next raft of changes for THP and now made them live on the site. There's a lot that I'll probably talk about in one of my technical posts but the most noticeable thing is likely the new settings menu where you can set some preferences for your site experience. See a bit more about there 2018-07-10 21:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
I had hoped to have the latest additions I’ve been working on all sorted out by now but a combination of lack of time, project scope and testing has meant that things are coming along a little slower than I’d like. So I don’t really want to give any sort of ETA just yet or really talk about that in detail (in case I end up cutting some of the...
2018-04-15 20:12:42 +0000 UTC View PostGood times with silly hats.
2018-04-01 00:31:58 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, hope you’re doing well. I was aiming to have the next raft of changes to the site ready by now but life got in the way. Unexpected travel as well as being sick kept me from doing as much as I would have liked in February. I’ll be aiming to have things done by mid-March or, at the very latest, the end of the month so look forward to th...
2018-03-04 19:03:56 +0000 UTC View Post
In other entries I’ve talked about how much of a mess the site’s source code can seem like—a constant lack of comments, duplicated code instead of functions, unclear variable names, functionality spread across multiple files without clear relationships and so forth. It makes working on new things daunting as not only do you have to write your...
2018-02-12 19:03:44 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, hope you’re doing well. This time around I wanted to talk about the latest updated stories tracker, probably better known as the mystery box. Specifically, why it took so long to roll out, especially given its relatively primitive current state. I'll be making this post available publicly in a few days, because it may interest non-patro...
2018-01-31 17:15:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe first form of the mystery box is revealed. More will come with time.
2018-01-23 03:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostHope you guys have had a good start to the new year. This is the type of post that would have been better two weeks ago but keeping track of time can be such a chore, right? With most of the year ahead of us, it's still totally valid to make a New Year's resolution ...
2018-01-22 01:09:34 +0000 UTC View PostA short little message and recap for you guys. Proof that your favorite touhou is the best one to follow.
2017-12-31 13:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, hope you’ve been well. This latest installment in “me rambling about technical stuff” is about a few relatively unexciting things that I worked on recently. Nonetheless, it illustrates why making changes to the site can be such a time-consuming task.
A few weeks (months?) ago, I noticed something of a glaring omission on the site:...
2017-12-22 03:48:08 +0000 UTC View Post