Rock in Japan 2017

Nyári fesztiválon még egyetemista koromban jártam utoljára – azt hiszem, a 2011-es Summer Sonicon (az se volt semmi felhozatal, az biztos). Persze nem-nyári fesztiválokra mentem azóta is. Írni nem feltétlenül írtam mindről, de az utóbbi pár évben minden Loud Parkon ott voltam, és akkor a két Knotfestről és Ozzfestről ne is beszéljünk.

Idén viszont, hogy már állást is váltottam, végre tényleg hosszúak a hosszú hétvégéim, végre bekerült a “szabadság” a szótáramba, és még a lelki erő is megvan. Így “hirtelen” (nem volt hirtelen) elhatározásból egy jó barátommal elmentünk a Rock in Japan első felére augusztus elején.


Yoshida Hiroshi exhibition

There was a Yoshida Hiroshi exhibition in the Sonpo museum in Shinjuku. I had no idea who the painter was, but I saw the ads during my commute and I liked the style of the art, so I decided to go. I must admit that this all was the last weekend of July, I was just too lazy to write about it so far.

It’s been a while since I last went to see an exhibit (years, even). Recently I rather spend my free days more actively – in the sense of doing creative stuff (or wasting my day playing games). I don’t regret braking that habit though.

The Yoshida exhibition was just plain fabulous. The different styles of art, from Japanese-style woodblock paintings and hanging scrolls and expressionism to a more realistic depiction of war and suffering were an exciting trip. It’s interesting to see the quiet scenery of a snow-covered farm next to the sight from the cockpit of a dive-bomber.


マック?マクド?正しくは毒

マクドナルドの大阪対東京(マクドvsマック)広告みたら、いつもよりはましにみえて食ってみた。後悔した。

もの自体はまぁ悪くない。対決というなら明らかに大阪の勝ちだけど。東京のロースバーガーけっこう期待してたけど、小さかったし、パンもモロかったし、味も薄かった。それに比べてカツはちゃんと味も量もあった。


Android and Unicode ID3 tags

For a while now I’ve been noticing that certain songs’ ID3 tags are broken when played on my Android phone. I use Black Player which in turn uses the built in Android music libraries – but I’ve checked in a number of other players too just in case and the problem persists.

My music library is extremely multilingual (and most of those languages I don’t even speak), so it’s full of UTF characters. Some of them seem to break Android’s encoding recognition. Sadly some of these triggers are pretty common, resulting in borked last.fm scrobbles. (And of course last.fm can’t be expected to be so smart as to fix all those automatically.)


ルビーのパパ

昨日またルビーイベント参加してきた。今回はルビーの作者マッツさんの話が聞けるという訳で楽しみだった。実際に気になっていたことや、ここから半年で気になるだろう的なこともいっぱい聞けてよかった。


MedBeer: Rails 5.1

昨夜医療サービスのメドピアさん主催のRails 5.1勉強会に参加してきた。タイトルから見ると大した勉強になる期待はしなかったが、予想外に有意義だった。一番面白かったのは最初と最後。


Clojure始めて5日間

Clojure(以降ローマ字に切り替えるのめんどいのでクロージャーと)の流行りに流されてしまった。

ラムダ計算は苦手だけど、苦手だからこそ挑戦したかった。弱みがあるの知ったら直したくなるのは性格。ジャヴァも苦手。別に言語としてどうこう以前に、この前アンドロイドアプリ作ってみてすごく苦戦したのは後味が悪い。


Ports below 1024 can only be bound by the superuser

Today I learned that ports below 1024 can only be bound by the superuser. It’s amusing that I’ve never run into this problem before considering how much I play around with various servers.

The reason for that might be that most servers just tell you that “you need to be root to do this”, but not explain why so I wasn’t aware. Until today, when while trying to build a lightweight Compojure thing, it just refused to start.


Adding Spotify support to my #nowplaying script

Spotify had a really charming summer sale, three months for 100 yen, and that was more inviting than what I could resist. As a result, I’ve been listening to various artist radios at home too (without premium it wouldn’t let the desktop client on).

Now that it works, of course I’d occasionally want to post #nowplaying tweets/toots too, so I added that functionality to my script. From the experience with fixing it for Clementine the other day, it was really easy.


Adding an SSL domain

Setting up SSL at first was a laugh. The other day though I fell victim to a sale where they gave away 10 year .tech domain registrations for a measly $40. Considering that’s basically 90%, I enthusiastically picked up a personal domain for future use.

Then again I don’t have plans of setting up a personal portfolio site for now (though I used to have one a decade ago), so I wanted to just redirect it to valerauko.net instead. That’s where things got ugly.