• 26 Dec, 2025 *

Heya! It’s been a while! I’ve been busy with quite a lot of stuff these past few weeks - which is what this post will be about!

First of all, there’s obviously christmas, and the gazette calendar leading up to it. I’ve only just now really gotten the time to actually read most of the posts lol - I’ll probably be going through them all either today or tomorrow, we’ll see.

There’s also the gazette book club... I have yet to finish the book we’re reading xd.

I’m cutting it a tad close here I’ll admit, but I’m still fairly confident i can get that done this month. If not, maybe I’ll submit a day or two late. Who knows.

Anyways! Onto some more positive news! I’ve actually been working on a guestbook website that’ll get released... Sometime soon, hopefully? Depends on when I’m done with the thing, but I am making good progress. The idea is to just have something self-hostable that doesn’t have as many of the trust issues ava and Archaeopteryx brought up in their respective blogposts. So, easy account deletion, a privacy policy, multiple fast ways to export your data, decent moderation tools and captcha support, decent privacy, and a way to self-host it, in case you don’t trust me being in charge of your data. In general, I’m just trying to make it something I would be comfortable using. As I said, I’m still very much in the weeds of development, and once I gotta get back to my job, progress will slow down quite dramatically. I’m hoping to get it done before then? But, no promises obviously. We’ll see. Maybe I’ll do a few devlog style posts on here or something, who knows.

So, yeah. I’ve been doing kind of a ton of stuff! Between that, this blog, and like... Actual real-life obligations, that’ll probably mean some less frequent posts on here. Oh well, such is life. I’ve already made well over a 100 blogposts, so personally I’m fine with things slowing down a little bit, even though i do wish i had more time to properly do everything that i want to. Welp, that’s that. Cya next post! Oh, right, I’m also still learning japanese on the side, so there’s that too. Forgot to mention that. I have too much stuff going on lol.