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this is the new, refactored blog page im currently working on, the old one with the articles it had can be found here, i might migrate the old articles over to here at some point though

05/03/2025 - Noodle Recipe

haven't written a blog post in a while (i have one in the works about the trip to london i just went on, but i have writers block on it), so here's some good fucking noodles i've been making recently

ingredients:

  1. noodle (i specifically get the toyoung brand of shanghai noodles, they're great and come pre-portioned so i just use one of those)
  2. 1 big teaspoon peanut butter (crunchy, smooth is for pussies)
  3. a reasonable amount of dark soy sauce (i tried light but dark works better, expect the noodles to get coloured pretty heavily)
  4. 1 big teaspoon lao gan ma chicken
  5. 1 reasonably large dash of sesame oil
  6. a handful of fried shallots/onions

boil the noodles, drain off most of the water, take the pot off the heat and dump all the seasonings in there, then put it back on the heat to mix everything together, then serve

if you've got eggs i'd recommend throwing a fried egg or two on top using the same pan afterwards as well. if you can get a good bit of yolk mixed in with the sauce on the noodles it works really well

wouldn't recommend with oily pairings (think tinned fish, specifically fried dace with salted black bean since i've been super partial to that recently) particularly, it might taste pretty good but there's already a fair bit of oil in this sauce so it ends up being too much paired with something else that's oily

i imagine this would probably go pretty well with some stir fried mince pork or possibly beef though. worth trying at some point maybe

scran

18/02/2025 - Now Listening - heart of android


i just finished up listening to heart of android by Camellia, 10/10 album with a huge range and great progression of tracks across the album and alot of super unique sounds. Listening to the whole thing in a single sitting, it felt like a super natural progression despite the range of styles and energy levels across so many of the songs on it. pretty much every track on there has a solid argument for being the "best" track on the album


highlights:

  1. Embracing Intelligences: last track of the album but the first one i listened to, found the album through someone linking it on an upload of Camellia's track "Small Steps" from DANCERUSH. it's definitely the most chill track of the album and it's a great outro, super upbeat and happy with a really nice percussion-y synth that pushes most of the chorus
  2. Upload Your Mind :: Download My Soul: probably the most aggressive track of the whole album, really bass-y, has some cool scream-y vocals in the back that are super unique in the album. not so massive on the acoustic breaks in the middle of the track though, it really peaks about half way through and at the very end.
  3. New Era: probably my favourite. plays around with some super cool cut up samples and the high-pitched synth throughout the track sounds incredible, both as a backing element behind other stuff and by itself.
  4. Together forever, my lovely lovely video game cartridges: really cute chiptune stuff. super cozy
  5. FM Synthesis Experiment: experiments with some super weird synths that are tuned to sound very slightly out of tune, but it totally works. sounds really really unique with some really cool percussion and vocal samples as well
  6. Heart of Android : Even If It's Only By Mechanism: really heavily utilises some cool robotic vocal samples to the point of them really being a main instrument in the track. super upbeat and cute too. definitely fits more with the album cover art than any other track on the album
  7. Arcology on Permafrost: really sick swing piano, also uses the "let's bring the house down" sample from crazy shuffle, which is cool

that's not everything (honestly very hard to find unique things to say about every track without repeating myself, music reviews r hard :v). but any track i haven't mentioned is still super great, just these were definitely the big standouts in terms of sounding super unique.

may pick up a CD of this at some point, since japanese artists still make CDs for most of their releases which is really nice (though unfortunately they don't generally get international releases :c)

this is pretty much the first EDM album i've listened to start to finish i think. gotten into quite a few more electronic artists from rhythm games recently and this has been a great introduction to some non-rhythm-game music by these producers. definitely would recommend giving it a listen!


you can check out heart of android on camellia's site here

17/02/2025 - test

test post. hello world!

17/02/2025 - Blog Rework

i finally got around to reworking my blog! you can permalink to posts now, and posts get generated automatically based on html files in a directory.

previously, it was all just one big file, which was mostly fine? but definitely not ideal, super unwieldly and i couldn't permalink to posts at all which sucked.

the buildscripts for this one are pretty wild, i updated the github repo so anyone reading this can see how it all works if they want, i'm honestly pretty happy with the whole thing. the old blog is still up at small-blog.html if you wanna take a look at that still. had to wrestle with bash pretty hard to get this all working


i wanna start reworking some more parts of this site i think, the bio page is meh and i could definitely have more stuff on here. it's been a crazy half year i've just had and basically none of it is reflected on here (haven't had the time :v). new posts soon too ideally. maybe


there's a couple other things i can do to the actual blog here as well i think, still need to figure out what happens if i have too many posts (paging?) because atm it just dumps all the posts we have onto the blog page, but for the most part i'm pretty happy with this