Kispest is a district of Budapest located near the edge of the city. Before and during the socialism it used to be the home of the working class,  nowadays it's mostly inhabited by middle or low income families. The endless commie blocks - as seen on the post cover - are a staple sight of this district. They were built in the late 50s and 60s as cheap and temporary housing for the workers. More than half a decade later people still live in those, in fact many of those buildings were renovated to improve the thermal insulation and give them a more modern look. Not all of Kispest looks like that. Wekerletelep is also part of this district and it's one of the comfiest places in the whole city.  Continue reading

This is just a quick announcement that the server cluster migration was more or less successful. Japanese Dream was down for more than a month, because one of the hosts refused to boot. Then I had issues with my internet connection. During the holidays two ARM shitboxes have been replaced with low-power X86 computers with NVMe SSD storage, eliminating one of the two major bottlenecks that is I/O latency (the other being my upload speed).  Continue reading

A serpent guard, a Horus guard and a Setesh guard meet on a neutral planet. It's a tense moment: the serpent guard's eyes glow. The Horus guard's beak glistens. The Setesh guard's... nose drips.  Continue reading

Recently I haven't been able to devote much time to development, so it came as a surprise when I saw the output of PHPUnit today:  Continue reading

This semester has been such a shitshow that I haven't had any time working on the site, much less writing posts. When I wasn't studying for all the lab classes and failed subjects I was busy finishing my project at the company I worked for so I could finally quit and focus on passing uni tests and exams.  Continue reading