Much more than crafting Ice Cream.
Video Games:
2 CDs: Ore Twintail and Kyokai no Kanata OP CDs
Here is my secret base in Pocket Monsters ORAS, which is located on the upper part of Route 119 (１１９番道路). The battle rules are rotation. There is not much since I’m trying to beat the game first and will be providing an update at a later date.
I have decided that I’m going to rename the blog to Atelier Shiori (and I have decided on using the new .moe domain since the .me domain costs almost as much) and plan on redesigning the sideblog theme. I will be moving stuff not related to my Anime blog to this blog during Thanksgiving Weekend. So please take note of this change.
Artist: namie-kun
Instead of doing individual posts I have done in the past, I will do a live blog. With this, I will show my current progress. First impressions posts will come later on the main blog. For now, please do not refresh this page. It will load updates automatically.
It’s a disaster… but it’s not end of the world. Hopefully Democrats will learn their lesson and not run as Republican-lites. Then again, it probably doesn’t matter when there is Citizen’s United.
Either way, hopefully 2016 will be better.
Artist: tyawan
Just recently, I have gotten back into some OS X programing and decided to port over the existing source code to work with Hummingbird.me, which is another Anime list managing site that sprung up. While it’s not as comprehensive as the more established site, I didn’t have any problem with their official API, which is rather comprehensive. However, there doesn’t seem to be an API that you can view the Anime information along with the current watch status, so I had to change how the program determines if the title exists on the list and get the current status. But in three hours or so, I got it working.
While the APIs are good, it seems that the search APIs don’t give relevant titles first and just spit out all the titles, leaving me having to develop another algorithm of some sort to get the relevant results before searching through them. Using Parsekit or some work around might fix it, however I don’t have much knowledge in lexical analysis since I’m not a Computer Science major, I major in Information Technology for my Masters) , but hopefully the developers will improve the search APIs. Either way, I plan on adding search exception (tying detected title to the correct title) and correction features to alleviate this drawback (and these lists will be exportable to JSON).
With that, Hachidori is based on MAL Updater OS X and has the same features such as automatic scrobbling, showing basic information about updated title on the status screen, Share Service support, scrobble history and on demand scrobbling. While streaming support is being worked on, what is different from the closed-source HAPU besides my program being open source is that I will only focus on the core features instead of jamming bunch of features and have a buggy product. Plus, I think having an open source alternative encourages developers woho are interested in the platform learn how to interact with the APIs and make their own programs in the language they choose.
So why name it Hachidori instead of Hummingbird Updater OS X? Simply put, shorter names are better and I know a good amount of Japanese.
With that, Hachidori 1.0 Alpha 1 is released. While the basic scrobbling feature works and it will detect most titles correctly, there might be a few bugs and imperfections. If you encounter a bug, report them to the forum post or on Github. I plan on adding Hummingbird specific features in the coming weeks, so stay tuned.
Download 1.0 Alpha 1 (Requires OS X 10.8 or later)
There is also a development blog for this client on Tumblr as well.
Thanks to the help of Ratan12’s Atarashii API, which is a PHP implementation of the old unofficial MAL API, MAL Updater OS X is back from the dead. The end result…
Yes, it even runs in OS X Yosemite GM 3
I had to make a few changes to the code as the new API handles things slightly differently, but for the most part it works. However, there are some limitations:
You can download the new version at http://malclientdev.chikorita157.com (If you have an old version, you need to reset the API URL Do this by going to Preferences > Reset API URL)
As for the rewrite, I have been putting the core functionality (view, search and update functions) in a reusable framework since I don’t expect the code to change much for that. Since the codebase is more than 3 years old and will take a good amount of effort to rewrite it to support the newer OS X SDK, I decided to rewrite the app in the new and shiny Swift programing language instead in entirely Objective C. This way, it will be easier to tack on new features while making it easier for me to code. This is the tentative list of functions I plan to add:
After the rewrite is done sometime in early 2015, MAL Updater OS X will require Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 or higher or OS X Yosemite.
Just today, a fellow Anime blogger named Calaggie who runs Nigorimasen recently discovered that somebody hacked it and deleted all the content. It’s a shame that all the content the person worked hard on got wiped in an instant.
People who are running self-hosted WordPress blogs don’t realize that blogs that run WordPress are subjected to brute force attacks (basically an automated attack that guesses every password combination) in effort to gain control and use it to plant malware or even deface a website. If you host your own WordPress blog, you should do the following to prevent this from happening:
Artist: ech
