ilapaj Library

After two years, I've finally caught up with the current release.

I used the Zeenko ZK06-BM to intercept METEOR-M2 4 and got the best satellite image I've ever received.

It's Ragnarok.

I finished Nod-Krai.

Based on the raw WAV data of METEOR-M2 4 that I received at a temple in the dead of night, I had Astrologist Mona Megistus (Gemini) explain the whole thing.

A deranged screed.

Elon Musk is a cancer on humanity.

I took on satellite reception with a homemade antenna that cost 300 yen (about $2).

How my 2026 went in Genshin Impact.

I've finally started doing some actual radio-engineering electronics projects.

My thoughts after finishing Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

This is a screed.

Some thoughts I had while playing BotW.

It's a poem.

A play diary.

A story about getting hooked on VCV Rack.

Just some scattered notes.

My impressions of trying out DJing.

Wasn't the internet already dead long before AI showed up?

A look at the quality-of-life Factorio mods I actually use, none of which change the game's systems.

A piece of creative nonfiction about what creative nonfiction is, and why you should write it.

Some thoughts on sound.

Factorio is in its final stretch.

A Factorio Space Age play diary, covering the overhaul of my Nauvis rail network, the design of my space platform "Watt Rayson," and the trial and error of reaching the frozen planet Aquilo.

A frantic record of taking on a limited-time time attack event at Suzuka Circuit.

Maybe Genshin Impact is a game that teaches us the importance of "positive freedom" in Fromm's sense.

A diary entry, my first in a while, about how I'm getting drawn into the world of herbs like sage and basil.

Absinthe, the liquor that drove 19th-century artists mad. A record of my quest to get its legendary ingredient, thujone, legally, from a spice you can find anywhere, sage.

My personal take on the conspiracy theory I've been obsessed with lately.

A record of a 5 a.m. adventure to see a new side of a town I've lived in for 20 years.

An unexpected fasting account that started with a steak from a hometown tax donation.

A record of how the Clawdbot-based AI agent "Ineffa (Noelle)" overcame a series of troubles and finally went live.

I'm back to playing Genshin Impact. Might as well write up a play log.

Reflections on freedom and authority, destructiveness, and turning into an automaton.

A record of how I somehow managed to get my hands on a used PC in the middle of the painful RAM price surge.

I digitized 70 doujin CDs to FLAC.

A diary entry about buying a monitor.

I bought a humidifier from Temu. It's pretty decent.

A record of trying shortwave listening with a stealthy random wire antenna dangling off my balcony, from setting up the RTL-SDR Blog V4 to the before-and-after sensitivity gains of a homemade 9:1 unun.

An unsettling short story written by Gemini 3 Pro Preview.

By combining Home Assistant, the Wyoming Protocol, Style-Bert-VITS2 and more, I turned my home server into a Noelle smart speaker.

I wrote a custom component for Home Assistant dedicated to Style-Bert-VITS2.

I turned my home server into a smart speaker by combining Home Assistant, the Wyoming Protocol, a Jabra speakerphone, and VOICEVOX.

I traced the 'Too many open files' error on my VM to VirtIO-FS. This is a detailed record of the procedure and troubleshooting from moving to an LXC to fix it at the root.

My smart CO2 monitor stopped connecting to the network, I contacted support, and they went above and beyond. Now I can view its metrics from Homepage.

Immich, the self-hostable photo management app, turned out to be feature-rich, fast and just plain great. Also covers how to use the migration tool immich-go.

It's been a week since I started running a home server. A lot has changed, so let me take stock for now.

How to set up Copyparty, and my impressions after using it.

The rulebook for an old homemade board game, salvaged from an old drive.

I rescued the data from an HDD on the verge of 100,000 power-on hours and moved it to a new HDD.

I've been having a lot of dreams lately.

What to do when an old PC stops booting.

A work log of reviving a scrapped PC as a home server. Thanks to Professor Gemini, I got all the way to spinning up Docker containers on Proxmox.

Thoughts on building a self-hosted environment.

I thought it was a manzai tournament, but it turned out to be a pro wrestling tournament.

I set up FreshRSS. I'm recording how I did it, too.

I became a hero of Natlan.

A replication of my favorite Daily Portal Z article.

My thoughts on "Kokuho."

It's less a poem than a screed.

A look at the charm of RSS, a technology for efficiently collecting only the information you actually want to see. Break free from the algorithm and get the good old days of web surfing back.

A walkthrough for Backrooms Level ! "Run For Your Life!" Knowing it before you get trapped there might just save your life.

Once I started thinking of the world as a tree structure, Kitaro Nishida's argument seemed a lot easier to follow.

It's a poem.

Migrated my Astro-based blog from "Yukina," my theme companion of half a year, to its successor theme "Mizuki," also based on "Fuwari".

I made a track and tossed it to Gemini. Turns out it understands the imagery surprisingly well.

Practicing Scarlet Weather Rhapsody on the violin.

A proposal that running and hanging might just be the quickest shortcut to good health.

When I looked into Kitaro Nishida, I found that his thought seems to have quite a close connection with Joseph Campbell's ideas.

It's a poem.

Three weeks after taking up running, my aerobic capacity has improved dramatically.

Practicing "Combat Beneath the Waves" on the violin.

My impressions after pulling out my violin for the first time in 10 years and playing a bunch of pieces.

Giving Gemini 2.5 Pro a Nagatoro-san persona and having it comment on data from intervals.icu makes things surprisingly productive.

I pulled out my violin for the first time in 10 years.

A review of the Amazfit Active 2.

A summary generated by Gemini from my notes taken while attending Google Cloud Next Tokyo 2025, held on August 5 and 6, 2025.

Practice notes on Preludio Saudade - La Catedral.

An obfuscated diary.

A wholesome poem.

Help me.

Sharing my experience switching from Chrome, which I had used for years, to the new Zen Browser.

A declaration of intent: I'm going to learn to play the Hydro Archon's theme that plays at dusk in the Court of Fontaine on acoustic guitar.

My journey of taking on the acoustic guitar: practice methods, tips, and recommended Genshin Impact tabs.

Replaying the PC version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas after years away—talking quality-of-life mods, the game's timeless appeal, and its story.

What I learned about the activation requirements and caveats for Stellar Reunion and Reunion Gifts.

An introduction to and summary of YouTuber Mujin's detailed video explaining the 2024 SAG-AFTRA video game strike and the complex controversy surrounding the popular game Genshin Impact.

I went on a whirlwind day trip: here is my travelogue, photo collection, and impressions.

I finished Chapter IV of the Archon Quests in Genshin Impact, namely the Fontaine arc: here are my thoughts and an analysis of the story.

My impressions from playing the Story Quest for Hu Tao, one of Genshin Impact's most popular characters, along with some thoughts on its great story, her personality, and a light analysis linking it to the Hero's Journey.

No deep analysis or anything, just me saying I'm watching it.

An analysis of the story of Undertale using Joseph Campbell's concept of the Hero's Journey.

A look at what made the minigame so fun, plus what I dug up about its parodies of El Shaddai, Monster Hunter: World, and Wojak memes.

A summary of how to install mods on PC Genshin Impact, recommended QoL mods, the risk of bans, and what I learned while researching it.

Just me rambling about my Toki Pona grammar lesson video.

Full transcript of the 30-minute Toki Pona grammar lesson video (in Japanese).

On the music that won't stop playing in my head.

A record of my attempt to implement link cards in Astro.

A detailed report on revisiting Gunkanjima, comparing tour companies, and the changes observed after six years.

My thoughts on jumping back into Genshin Impact after a long hiatus.

Hello, world! This is my first post.

A book review of Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts by Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan (Japanese edition translated by Kaoru Moriuchi).

And the Bachian spirit inherited by Yellow 13

I finally got my long-sought DSLR! ...Or so goes this casual post.

Using character data from THE IDOLM@STER series, I analyzed physical measurements of idols, including height, weight, BMI, Rohrer Index, and three sizes.

Looking back.

On a strange corner of the internet known as the Internet Checkpoint.

Examining why Civ4 is so ridiculously addictive.

On the use of leitmotifs in Undertale and their connection to the story.

Translating the lyrics of The Demon Girl Next Door Season 2 OP 'Tokimeki Rendezvous' into the constructed language Toki Pona.

A summary of what I found interesting in Hayao Kawai's The Structure of the Unconscious and points that seem important for understanding Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

A brief breakdown of moku Sutolokanopu, the Toki Pona version of "The Beef Stroganoff Song" abruptly featured in the anime Symphogear, along with a back-translation.

About roughly my third-favorite game.

I had been studying for a Google certification exam and managed to pass, so here's a summary of my tips and takeaways.

Study notes for the GCP MLE certification. Some parts might be wrong, but they might also be useful.

Analyzing it through the Hero's Journey might fit surprisingly well.

To call other stations over the radio, you have to call CQ. Here is a summary of conventions to observe and how to transmit when calling CQ on Digital Simple Radio.

For anyone interested, here is the backstory of how I got into it and what I learned from my research.

Why is Volume 4 of The Demon Girl Next Door so emotional?

An analysis of ACE COMBAT 7: Skies Unknown using the knowledge I acquired as a member of the Kemono Friends analysis squad.

What I thought while looking at the entry for The Demon Girl Next Door.

A declaration that I'm making a doujinshi.

Information on a past event. There's almost no practical value to this info anymore, but I'm keeping it as a memento.

A Japanese translation of the interview between Google engineer Blake Lemoine and LaMDA, the AI that claimed to be sentient.

I was digging through high-quality hiyayakko (wild over-interpretation) analyzing Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind when I came across the concept of "contrast structure." Here are my notes on it.

Typing Shamiko, Momo, Mikan, and Lilith's personalities. Just a high school girl kind of pastime.

Full Japanese translation and transcript of the legendary Kemono Friends video essay 'Kemonomyth'.

Talking about Christopher Tin's new album.

Plus a mini-analysis of Kemono Friends Episode 3.

A simple analysis based on the Hero's Journey.

Notes on an intriguing argument in The Writer's Journey, and what happens when applying it to The Demon Girl Next Door.

An archive of the original 2009 Japanese text of the iconic web ghost story 'Resort Baito'.

An analysis of the 2channel ghost story 'Resort Baito' based on the Hero's Journey and internet archaeology.

In The Writer's Journey, there is a section titled "A Hero's Journey Analysis of Titanic." As the name suggests, it analyzes Titanic using the Hero's Journey framework.

Having read about halfway through The Writer's Journey, I'm going to do a more detailed analysis of the first half of The Demon Girl Next Door Season 2.

This is a dream diary.

An early draft analysis of The Demon Girl Next Door Vol. 3 (Season 2) using the Hero's Journey framework from The Writer's Journey.

A friend of mine has recently gotten into personality tests, so I summarized what I researched about MBTI and the Enneagram.