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languageCode: en-us languageCode: en-us
title: yequari.com title: yequari.com
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- name: Now - name: Now
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--- ---
title: yequari.com title: yequari.com
--- ---
# hello
# Hello I'm yequari, welcome to my homepage! I am a software developer, interested in the small web and systems programming. My hobbies include games of all kinds, coding, and collecting Transformers figures. On this site I write about the web, programming, games, and random thoughts I have.
Welcome to my homepage! I program and tinker with computers. This site is a collection of notes, ramblings, things I like, and more. My hobbies include video games, TTRPGs, and collecting Transformers figures.

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---
title: "Building a Website is a Marathon, Not a Sprint"
date: 2024-05-06T16:58:43-07:00
year: "2024"
categories:
- Internet
tags:
- WeblogPoMo2024
---
When I first created my website just over two years ago, I spent a lot of time fretting over what exactly to put on it. The common answer of "anything you want!" wasn't helpful because I didn't actually know what I wanted.
Spending time browsing others' personal sites and chatting with their webmasters gave me inspiration for new pages to build and new topics to blog about. After two years, I am learning what I want to put on my website. I enjoy blogging and sharing the things that I know and the things that I like. As a result, I've published more blog posts, created my links page, my /now page, and just yesterday, published a bunch of notes I've taken as I learn more about computers and web development. Coming soon will be a page to share music I've discovered recently.
It took me a long time to get here, and that's okay. Personal websites are about expressing yourself, sometimes it takes times to figure out who you are and what you value, and even longer to properly express that. It is a long journey with no end goal, an infinite path with innumerable unforeseen turns. As I grow, my website grows alongside me.

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title: "Busy Weekend"
date: 2024-05-05T19:17:55-07:00
year: "2024"
categories:
- Life
tags:
- WeblogPoMo2024
---
Though I didn't have any big plans this weekend, I kept myself busy around the house. I mailed some packages, did the grocery shopping, prepared some meals for the week, rearranged my kitchen, cleared out some expired food, and cleaned up my desk. It feels very good to be this productive.

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title: "Clearing My Game Backlog"
date: 2024-05-02T07:54:51-07:00
year: "2024"
categories:
- Gaming
tags:
- WeblogPoMo2024
---
I love video games. Or, at least, I think I do. I don't finish very many of them. I either play them for a few hours and forget to come back or I hyperfocus and get like 75% through the story but lose interest before getting to the end. This summer, I'd like to make progress on my backlog of unplayed games. I'll start with Baldur's Gate 3 and Cyberpunk 2077. These both fall into the 75% category and I last played them recently enough that I won't be completely lost with what's going on in the story. After that I'll dig into some indie games, stuff like Hades, Hyper Light Drifter, Hotline Miami 1 + 2, because they are shorter to complete and do a lot of interesting things. Then I get back into AAA games and beat one beginning to end, just to prove to myself that I can. I'm thinking one of Persona 5 Royal, Spider-Man, Ghost of Tsushima or Final Fantasy VII Remake. A challenge I face with this goal is that a lot of first-person and third-person games trigger my motion sickness, so I can only really play for an hour at a time until a build up a tolerance to them (which I lose if I don't play for a few days). Usually I stick to top-down games like strategy and simulation games to get around this, but I *really* want to play these games, so I will try my best to persevere.

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---
title: "Customizing Vim"
date: 2024-05-07T16:22:42-07:00
year: "2024"
categories:
- Tech
tags:
- WeblogPoMo2024
---
I've been using vim (specifically neovim) for over a year, I really enjoy how customizable it is, though up until today, I've only customized it through plugins made by other people. Today I wrote two Lua functions to streamline my workflow. I'm not very familiar with Lua but it was quite easy to pick up.
First is a function to split my window so it would have two side by side, and a smaller one at the bottom, which gets turned into a terminal.
```lua
local createcodeenv = function ()
vim.cmd('split')
vim.cmd('wincmd j')
local win = vim.api.nvim_get_current_win()
local height = vim.api.nvim_win_get_height(win)
vim.api.nvim_win_set_height(win, height - 15)
vim.cmd('term')
vim.cmd('wincmd k')
vim.cmd('vsplit')
win = vim.api.nvim_get_current_win()
local buf = vim.api.nvim_get_current_buf()
vim.api.nvim_win_set_buf(win, buf)
end
vim.api.nvim_create_user_command('CodeEnv', createcodeenv, {})
```
Second is a function to bind writing a file and returning to Netrw (the file explorer) to one command, :We.
```lua
local writeGoToNetrw = function()
vim.cmd('w')
vim.cmd('Ex')
end
vim.api.nvim_create_user_command('We', writeGoToNetrw, {})
```
Both of these were things I did manually basically every time I used vim. Defining custom commands to make them easier was a fun learning experience, I look forward to learning more about customizing vim.

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---
title: "Dedicated Instant Messaging was Better"
date: 2024-04-23T18:00:35-07:00
year: "2024"
reply_to:
url: https://flamedfury.com/posts/instant-messaging/
author: flamedfury
title: Instant Messaging
subtitle: This didn't start out as a rant about Discord, but it sure ended that way.
categories:
- Internet
tags:
- social media
---
fLaMEd's post about instant messaging programs got me thinking about my own IM journey. I'm too young to really have experienced the peak AIM and MSN days, but I did use MSN/Windows Live Messenger in the late 00s to keep up with some online friends I had met through various forums. Eventually, I moved to Skype as that is what all my IRL friends were on at the time. I was also on Curse Voice for the brief time it existed, mostly for voice calls during League of Legends matches. As Skype started dying out, I moved over to Discord in 2016, which made me a pretty early adopter.
I really miss the simplicity of dedicated IM services. While Discord *is* a messaging platform, it feels more like a social network. DMs feel like a secondary feature on Discord, and I absolutely dread receiving them. I don't like that anyone, in any server we share, can DM me simply because we both exist in the same space. Or that anyone in any server we share can see what I'm up to with rich presence. I understand this is configurable, and that there have been improvements like separating DMs from strangers into "Message Requests", but my options are basically to allow everyone to message me and view my activity, or to allow no one, neither of which are what I want. On top of all this, each Discord update just makes the service worse to use as the company scrambles to find ways to monetize the platform.
So I'm giving XMPP a try again. I've used it on and off over the past 5 years or so, and it never really stuck, since I didn't really have anyone on there to chat with. But now that I've been spending time in the indie web community, I'm finding it more useful and more fun. I spent some time setting up [ejabberd](https://www.ejabberd.im/index.html) on a VPS so that I could use one of my really dumb vanity domains for my handle. It was a pain but I got there eventually. What is appealing to me about XMPP is that 1) I get to vet the people who want to DM me, before they have messaged me, 2) Because it is separate from Discord, if I don't feel up to chatting 1-on-1, I can just close my client, and not completely close myself off from my Discord servers, and 3) Conversations are more intentional: since XMPP is purely a chat protocol, the people that use it are there to chat with others, and there are few scammers, spambots, etc.
I'm looking forward to getting more acquainted with the protocol and chatting with some new people on there! If you want to chat on XMPP, feel free to add me via the link in the sidebar!

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title: "Doing New Things Is Scary"
date: 2024-05-03T17:40:04-07:00
year: "2024"
categories:
- Life
tags:
- WeblogPoMo2024
---
I've been looking at gigs on Upwork to try and bring in some extra cash and bolster my experience. Some of these jobs seem braindead easy but I'm still so afraid to apply for them. Logically, I know that if something goes wrong nothing bad really happens, but the fact that something *could* go wrong terrifies me. I guess I just don't want to disappoint people. My browser currently has a half-filled out proposal for a job. It would take me a couple hours to complete. I just need to submit it.

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---
title: "Happy (Belated) JS Naked Day"
date: 2024-04-26T17:12:11-07:00
year: "2024"
subtitle: Woah three blog posts in a week(ish) is unheard of
categories:
- Internet
tags:
- smallweb
- web development
---
[JS Naked Day](https://js-naked-day.org/) happened this week, and as usual, I'm fashionably late. I decided to permanently remove a significant portion of the JavaScript from my site as it was affecting load times. There wasn't a whole lot of JavaScript to begin with, which made this pretty easy to implement. What I did have was the following:
## 1. A script to randomly select from an array of quotes to display in the sidebar on each page load
I just removed this as I just wasn't finding it amusing anymore. Maybe it will return later, who knows? Certainly not me.
## 2. A script to change the avatar frame color in the sidebar
I had originally implemented this using Hugo's templates, as I described in my post [Recreating the Windows Live Messenger Avatar in CSS](/blog/2024/02/windows-live-avatar-css), but opted for JavaScript instead because I wouldn't need to constantly rebuild my site. I had said rebuilding periodically was a waste of compute time, which was kind of bullshit because instead I was wasting the compute time of every visitor on every page load. So now I've gone back to the template approach, and build my website periodically every hour, unless I push out an update before then. Previously this was done with a bash script, but I rewrote it in python to separate the build step from the updating from git step so that I could do each at different intervals.
## 3. Status.cafe widget
I love status.cafe, it's a really easy way to get some dynamic content on your static website. The downside of this is that every page load is hitting m15o's servers twice: first to grab the linked JavaScript file and then to run it and grab a second json file with the actual status information. This took about 1.1s to complete from beginning to end, again, *on every page load*. To speed things up, I hacked together a partial template in Hugo that downloads the json file directly on build, using Hugo's [resources.GetRemote](https://gohugo.io/functions/resources/getremote/) function.
## 4. Webmentions.js
Webmentions.js is just a way to display webmentions that you've received. Which is pretty handy, except I receive almost zero webmentions. The ones I do receive often come from Mastodon via [Brid.gy](https://brid.gy/), which I've come to realize is [problematic from a privacy standpoint](https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/05/why-i-retired-my-webmention-server/). I'm going to remove my webmention support for a lot of the reasons listed in this post, which mirrors my experience with them. The places I get reactions to the stuff I write on my website are the places where I go and manually post links, usually Mastodon and the [32bit cafe](https://discourse.32bit.cafe), and it's just easier to reply to people on there. There's no real reason to syndicate those replies on my site. If I really care about adding webmention support again, I can probably find a way to do it during the website build rather than live via JavaScript.
## 5. tinylytics
This is the only JavaScript file I'm keeping. I really like the simplicity of tinylytics. I get to see what pages are most popular and an overall viewcount, and it's not at all intrusive. It loads behind the scenes on each page so it does not affect load times, and if you were to block JavaScript it does not lessen the user experience at all.
I'm not opposed to using JavaScript, but the cool stuff I was doing with it could be just as easily done with my static site generator. JavaScript may make a return to my website if I find something else cool to do with it, but for now I will just enjoy the super fast load times!

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title: "Here We Are Again"
date: 2024-11-06T17:59:53-07:00
year: "2024"
categories:
- politics
---
The results of last night's election are disappointing, angering, and horrifying. But they are not shocking. I've seen lots of talk about how stupid and racist and sexist the general American populace is to be able to vote the way the did. I don't think that is accurate. Of course, there is no doubt which candidate the racists and sexists voted for. However, in a society where we all feel forced to choose the lesser of two evils, I can't be surprised that many felt differently than me as to which candidate that actually was. The federal government has failed working people over and over for decades and continues to do so to this day. In this situation, when one party tells you everything is going great, actually, but the other tells you you are right to be upset and presents a simple solution, no matter how ill-informed or hateful it is, this is the natural result. The Democratic party will not learn this lesson, though, just like they didn't in 2016. We must take care of each other now, because no one will do it for us, especially not another establishment politician with a D next to their name.

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---
title: "Intentional Computing"
date: 2024-09-10T21:48:07-07:00
---
I've been using Arch Linux (btw) since the beginning of this year. It is a barebones distro, meaning you have to install every package you are going to use yourself. While not the most fun exercise in the world, it made me think about what software I need to make my computer usable. Beyond the necessary stuff like wi-fi drivers, I was forced to choose what I wanted my computing experience to be like. Rather than being given a default desktop environment and a suite of software I could opt-out of if I cared to, I instead had to deliberately opt-in to the desktop experience, text editor, and web browser.
It is certainly less convenient to do things this way. However, I'm coming to believe in the importance of [ritual and inconvenience in life](https://discourse.32bit.cafe/t/the-importance-of-inconvenience/1250/14). While I truly do understand the desire to follow the path of least resistance to get to a result (I am a programmer, after all), following that path for everything robs you of the experience of the journey. Doing things the hard way opens up your mind to different perspectives, takes you down paths that would otherwise go unexplored, and presents new opportunities for discovery. Setting up a usable Arch installation from scratch lets me take a moment to appreciate the immense amount of software that has built up the computing features I take for granted. Manually managing my music library and copying a selection of files to an mp3 player lets me think about what I love about certain songs, albums, and artists and how my tastes have changed over the years.
Tech is becoming increasingly focused on pushing us to passively consume content, whether on social media or one of a million streaming service, and making it harder to do anything else. We have incredibly powerful computers in our pockets, but the path of least resistance is to use them to check Twitter/Bluesky/Mastodon, because every other path is made to be difficult. [Using your phone to write totally sucks](https://jenson.org/text/), using it to draw requires a stylus and a lot of patience. Programming on it is totally impractical, and even if you do get around the barriers, good luck running any code on the device itself. It is more difficult to use your phone to write notes and doodle than a simple notepad, despite outclassing it by several orders of magnitude in both cost and compute power. The duopoly of phone operating systems means this is unlikely to change, unless mobile Linux somehow becomes usable during my lifetime.
All this is to say that computers are powerful tools that empower us to learn and be creative and build skills, and I aim to be more intentional in using my computer in this way. Sometimes my intention *is* entertainment, of course, but I want to choose that to be the case, instead of it being pushed on me by the software my computer runs.

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title: "Intermittent Fasting"
date: 2024-05-01T07:23:19-07:00
year: "2024"
categories:
- life
tags:
- WeblogPoMo2024
---
I've started doing intermittent fasting to help achieve my [fitness goals](/fitness). It's only been a week so far but I'm liking how it's making me be more intentional about my eating habits. My eating hours are from 11am to 7pm, so I basically get two full meals and some snacks. I thought the hard part would be waiting until 11am to eat, but it's actually pretty easy (probably all the coffee helping there), then when I do eat breakfast I can put more thought into it than when I'm half awake. What is actually hard is not being able to eat after 7pm. I eat dinner around 6 but by 9:30 or so I'm starting to get hungry again. Maybe the solution to this is just going to bed earlier. I imagine it will get easier as my body gets used to the new schedule and I figure out exactly how much I need to eat in those 8 hours.

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title: "Music Discovery Is Weird"
date: 2024-04-19T23:01:49-07:00
year: "2024"
subtitle: "Algorithms suck, except when they don't"
categories:
- Life
tags:
- music
---
As a teenager, the music I listened to was music my dad shared with me, music my friends would play when we would hang out, or music from video games and movies I liked. I remember spending time on Pandora creating stations based off my favorites in hopes I could find something similar I liked. I would discover a few songs this way but otherwise didn't have much luck. As a result, I find I just listen to the same stuff over and over again, but there is so much music out there, I want to find more! But how?
I'm going to sound like such a zoomer here, but how did people discover music in the past? As I understand it, you would hear new songs (and albums! imagine!) on the radio and this would be the primary way of music discovery. You would also check out albums that were curated by a local record store. Tower Records was everywhere, apparently. This is so hard for me to wrap my head around. Radio is and has always been useless to me, it is a constant stream of ads broken up by either a classic rock song or a top 40 pop song here and there. Independent stations are good but are few and far between. Record stores are niche, targeted at vinyl and CD collectors, instead of targeting the general public like they did in the past. Not to mention physical media is expensive, so it's a risk to just buy an album you think looks cool without hearing it first. For this reason I do think music streaming is convenient, but from what I hear from the older generations, buying a random record and going home to listen to it without any idea of what is on it was an experience™.
These days, for music of which I haven't obtained mp3s through definitely legal means, I use Spotify and YouTube. Spotify's radio feature is total garbage. I have found some music I liked through it, but it frequently cycles through the same tracks. Its like each song is strictly categorized into one extremely narrow microgenre, then when you listen to radio based on that song, it will play *only* other songs from that extremely narrow microgenre. Maybe other people have more success with it and I just listen to stuff that Spotify categorizes as niche, but you'd think with how much music exists it could still do better than the same 25 songs every time. There are also recommendations on the home page but it's usually things like "here's a new album from a band you listen to" or "listen to these artists you listen to all the time" or "here's something popular but completely irrelevant to your tastes"
YouTube's algorithm is actually what I've had the most success with for music discovery. First, there are a million YouTube channels that are dedicated to albums of specific genres and subgenres from artists that aren't particularly well known. For example, recently I've been listening to albums on [666MrDoom](https://www.youtube.com/@666MrDoom) and [Rob Hammer](https://www.youtube.com/@Rob.DOOM.Hammer). I've found channels like these to be great resources for finding new music, and the more I listen to them, the more I get recommendations for other similar albums. I also get more random recommendations on my homepage, usually J-pop/City Pop or various "internet genres" like vaporwave or modern breakcore. Overall, YouTube has recommended me the most variety of albums and genres, it seems to remember that I like a wide variety of music, rather than focusing solely on my most recent fixation, as Spotify tends to do.
Of course, there are other ways to discover music, Reddit has a million music subreddits, music forums and blogs are still around, YouTubers/content creators give recommendations, not to mention the classic, word of mouth. They are all more effective than algorithms, but introduce a intermediate step between wanting to listen to something new and putting your headphones on and listening. It's easy to get lost in this step, through choice paralysis, or by diving too deep into rabbit holes, and that is what makes algorithms attractive: they just play something.

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title: "No More Firefox"
date: 2024-09-19T13:03:43-07:00
year: "2024"
---
Mozilla is seemingly allergic to making good decisions, as shown by two recent (anti-)features it has brought to Firefox. First, is an AccuWeather widget on the new tab screen, enabled by default. On the surface, this seems mundane, but in order for this to work, Firefox is sending your "approximate" location to AccuWeather servers periodically in the background, [even if you disable the widget](https://digipres.club/@ryanfb/113125332270103817). This is the browser that tries to market itself as the go-to browser for privacy control.
![](mozilla_homepage.png)
Next, is Mozilla's [experimental integration with AI chatbot](https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2024/06/24/experimenting-with-ai-services-in-nightly/). Why? Who is asking for this? What telemetry data is being sent to the integrated services? Who knows! At least this one, in contrast to the weather widget, is opt-in, but regardless it shows how out of touch Mozilla is with its userbase. Firefox's *only* defining feature is that **it is not Chrome**, so following in Chrome's footsteps in implementing AI integration is a head-scratcher.
I have been using Firefox forever, and it makes me sad that it just gets worse and worse and worse. I'm not sure how much longer it (and by extension the Gecko rendering engine) will be around, since it is only allowed to exist because of Google donating money to avoid antitrust action. For now, I'll be switching to LibreWolf, a Firefox fork that actually delivers on the privacy promise. Hopefully Servo takes off well enough to be used as a daily driver sometime soon.

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title: "On LibreWolf"
date: 2024-10-01T22:11:03-07:00
year: "2024"
---
As I mentioned in my [previous post](/blog/2024/09/no-more-firefox/), I've been using LibreWolf as my daily driver browser. It's been about two weeks since then, and I had some thoughts.
I originally tried to compile LibreWolf myself, which is how I found out 16GB of RAM is not enough to compile a web browser. I found this interesting since I was able to compile [Floorp](https://floorp.app/en) just fine a while back. Have browsers really gotten so complex over the past decade to require that much memory just to compile? Anyway, I just ended up installing the binary from the AUR and got up and running.
One thing I really like is that new tab page is completely blank, except for a search bar. It helps me break the close reddit->new tab->open reddit cycle and generally just reduces distractions. I know this was configurable in Firefox, but having to set it up on every install meant I just stopped caring to do it after a while.
Something I wish was possible is whitelisting certain sites to be able to use WebGL (and other things disabled by default as anti-fingerprinting measures), I can be pretty sure my self-hosted apps aren't fingerprinting me. I ended up disabling all of these measures because of this.
Finally, I've really enjoyed not being logged in to everything all the time. Obviously clearing cookies is configurable on Firefox, but doing it by default is not something I thought I would enjoy. When I want to go waste time on Reddit or YouTube, logging in every time is too much of hassle so I just go back to what I was doing. It's a nice incentive to browse the smallweb instead!
Overall, it's been a pretty pleasant experience, and I was surprised that I actually found benefits to LibreWolf over Firefox, I was expecting the two experiences to match pretty closely.

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title: "Fixing Up iPods"
date: 2024-11-19T18:26:41-07:00
year: "2024"
categories:
- tech
tags:
- music
---
A couple of weeks ago my brain suddenly got an itch. I was at the office listening to music on my old Sansa Clip+ player when it's battery died halfway through the day again. Disappointed, I put it and my headphones away and continued my day in silence. But my brain would not be silent. This was a problem and it needed to be solved **now** (or at least as soon as the postal service allows). I started researching many different models of modern mp3 players (I guess we call them DAPs now?) and didn't quite like what I found, until I eventually landed on fixing up an old iPod, partially due to ["My iPod is better than my phone" by Veronica Explains](https://tinkerbetter.tube/w/q5ommxAYYy7kmG8P5M4yq9), which showed me that this was even possible.
## The Haul
The first step was to acquire an iPod, so I started searching eBay, which had me going insane. What's with people selling their broken iPods for $75? At that pricepoint I'd be better off buying a fully repaired and tested unit. After searching through a sea of way overpriced listings, I eventually stumbled on a gem: An auction for an assortment of *7 iPods and Zunes*, including two 5th generation iPod classics! For $60! I placed my bid, watched it like a hawk until I won, and waited for them to come in the mail.
In addition to the 5th generations, the assortment also included a greyscale iPod classic 4th generation, an iPod Nano 1st generation, an iPod Nano 5th generation, and two Zune 30GBs, the first model of Zune! The iPod classics were in varying conditions. The 4th generation is in decent shape, bearing an amount of scratches and dings one would expect from a 20-year-old portable device. One 5th generation came in a hard-shell case, the other did not. The one without a case is pretty beat up. The faceplate has a lot of scratches and dings, and is especially worn around the corners. The chrome backing is reasonably scratched but also dented in a few spots. The 5th generation in the case is in the complete opposite condition, it is *pristine*. It must not have left the case much, if ever. It is a shame that this iPod isn't working because I would feel bad about damaging the the outer shell while trying to repair it, which is one of the reasons I specifically sought out broken units in the first place: ~~if~~ when something goes wrong, I will not have broken a working device.
[![](classics_back.jpg)](images/classics_back.jpg)
[![](classics_front.jpg)](images/classics_front.jpg)
[![](classic_pristine_front.jpg)](images/classic_pristine_front.jpg)
[![](classic_pristine_back.jpg)](images/classic_pristine_back.jpg)
The Zunes are in decent shape, and one actually (kind of) works! Its battery holds a charge, but only for about 4 hours. The Zunes are pretty comparable to the iPod Classics in terms of repairability, even taking the same battery. I'll fix these up and talk more about them in the future, but, because they are Zunes, they are lower on my list of priorities.
[![](working_zune.jpg)](images/working_zune.jpg)
[![](zunes_back.jpg)](images/zunes_back.jpg)
The iPod Nanos are also in decent shape. The 1st generation is almost spotless and the 5th generation is a little scratched up but otherwise fine. Both boot up when plugged in, but immediately die when disconnected. The 5th generation still had the previous owner's music on it, which was fun exploring for a few minutes. As for repairability, according to [iFixit](https://www.ifixit.com/Device/iPod_Nano), both technically fixable, but are rated as "very difficult" due to requiring soldering for the battery. On top of that, the 5th generation is on a whole other level compared to the 1st, which opens up in the same way the Classics of the era do. Just take a look at the pictures in the iFixit guide to get an idea of how cursed it is. 😬
[![](nanos_front.jpg)](images/nanos_front.jpg)
[![](nanos_back.jpg)](images/nanos_back.jpg)
## Performing the Repairs
My plan was to start off with repairing / upgrading the 4th generation and one of the 5th generation iPod classics by replacing their batteries and swapping their original hard drives with [iFlash](https://iflash.xyz) SD card adapter boards. Once the replacement parts came in, I started off with the 5th generation. Getting it open was a struggle at first. The tool from iFixit was slightly too thick to fit well in the seam between the faceplate and the back housing, but after a while I was able to get it. After getting it open, the repairs were straightforward, or so I thought. Once everything was put together and I plugged it in, the only showed "OK TO DISCONNECT" when plugged in, and showed no indication of charging. This is apparently an issue that happens when the ribbon cable is not fully plugged into the iFlash adapter, which I confirmed by putting the old hard disk back, at which point it booted up and started showing it was charging. So I started disconnecting everything again to replace the iFlash board, heard a tiny snap noise, and looked in disappointment as I saw the battery connector completely separated from the motherboard. Fuck.
Repairing the battery connector requires SMD soldering, that is, soldering it to a pad on the motherboard, rather than soldering a wire through a hole. Which is to say it's well above my skill level. In order to salvage this iPod, my other option was to replace the entire motherboard, so I went on eBay, once again, and found one. I also ordered a better tool for opening it, a really thin piece of metal that is much more effective at getting in the seam, and a new purple faceplate. I figure if I have to tear down the whole thing, I might as well customize it a bit. After waiting for my parts to come in, once again, I opened the iPod back up, and completed the repair by following the iFixit guide. While this one was certainly more difficult than just the battery or the iFlash board, it was still fairly easy, since all of the components are just attached with ribbon cables and light adhesive.
[![](ipod_surgery_01.jpg)](images/ipod_surgery_01.jpg)
[![](ipod_surgery_02.jpg)](images/ipod_surgery_02.jpg)
There are two lessons I took from this that I will keep in mind for when I get to repairing the remaining iPod classic. First, the battery connector is *extremely* fragile (which is pointed out on the iFixit page), but the advice to pull straight up on the clip holding the ribbon cable doesn't seem quite right. I had better success on the new board using tweezers to pop one side of the clip up, then fiddling a little bit with the other side to fully release it. Second, make sure the ribbon cable connecting to the iFlash board is in all the way. It is a snug fit and requires a bit of force.
[![](working_ipod_4g.jpg)](images/working_ipod_4g.jpg)
While repairing the 5th generation iPod was quite eventful, to say the least, fortunately, the 4th generation went as smooth as possible. I opened it up (the new tool made it a breeze) and pulled out the hard drive and the battery, which interestingly uses a different connector, it plugs into the motherboard via some pins, rather than using a ribbon cable. Then I put in the new battery and the iFlash board, booted it up and restored it with iTunes! I now have two working iPods!
## Using the iPods
Using the iPods themselves has been a joy. I actually found myself enjoying the 4th generation the most. The screen is readable in a well-lit room without the backlight on, which helps extend the battery life and also doesn't flood my eyeballs with blue light every time I want to change songs. The 5th generation isn't bad to use at all, however the version of the iPod software it runs is basically the exact same as the 1st generation Nano, just on a wider screen, which leaves a lot of empty space that could be used to improve the interface. It seems Apple was aware of this as well, given the overhaul the UI got for the 6th generation.
[![](working_ipods.jpg)](images/working_ipods.jpg)
There are some annoyances, though. The worst part of the experience by far is iTunes. Since my daily driver OS is Linux, my options for using iTunes are to buy a Mac, reboot into Windows, or use a Windows VM. I went with the Windows VM, which works fine except it is slower The second worst part of the experience is how iPods handle ID3 tags. iPods cannot sort music by Album Artist, it is only possible to sort by Artist. iTunes sorts music by Album Artist just fine, so why can't the iPod? It is a major annoyance to end up with artist entries like Daft Punk, followed by Daft Punk feat. Nile Rodgers and Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams, each having a song or two from a shared album. Interestingly, the iPod honors the sort order field, so if your music tagger tries to sort Frank Zappa by Z instead of F, the iPod will list it in the Zs. It seems odd that it is inconsistent like this, which leads me to believe that not using the Album Artist tag was a deliberate design decision and not an oversight.
The annoyance of this actually led me to try out Rockbox, a third-party firmware with a bunch of what I would call "power user" features, including support for theming. While not as polished as the Apple firmware, it ended up being really nice to use. I would actually rate my preferred devices as 5th generation with Rockbox > 4th generation with Apple firmware > 5th generation with Apple firmware. The problem, though, is that Rockbox drains the battery *really fast*. I read that this is likely because the iFlash adapters I used do not fully implement the standard interface for disk control, which is what Rockbox uses to determine if it can enter the device into a low-power mode. Recent builds are apparently addressing this, but it makes for a rough user experience in the meantime.
## Conclusion
This was a really fun project that absolutely consumed my mind for a couple of weeks. The iPod is nostalgic for me because it was culturally significant during a time when I was first developing my relationship with music. [I've never owned an iPod classic before](/blog/2022/05/ripipod), so it is fun getting to explore them 20 years later. It's striking to me how well the user interface holds up after all these years. In addition, using an iPod has reignited my desire to maintain my own library of music. While I never truly stopped, I did neglect it for several years, so it is nice to get back into it, clean up items I don't vibe with anymore, and rediscover old favorites. I'll write more about the library management aspect later on, but for now I'm just going to keep on jammin'.

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---
title: "Thinking About Databases"
date: 2024-05-08T21:31:35-07:00
year: "2024"
categories:
- Tech
tags:
- WeblogPoMo2024
---
Let's say you're running a web service where users can add other users as friends. How do you store each user's friends list in the database? The simplest solution would be to use one large table called "friends" with each row being an entry on one user's friends list. How well does that perform if you scale up to millions of users? Are indexes applicable to speed things up here? Is there a better way to represent this data in the database?
I'm not super well-versed on database design so this is something I will be researching.

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---
title: "X-Men 97"
date: 2024-05-04T18:54:13-07:00
year: "2024"
categories:
- Life
tags:
- WeblogPoMo2024
---
I've been keeping up with X-Men 97 weekly, it's such a good show. I love that it has a pretty serious plot but also keeps some of that Saturday morning cartoon charm. The weekly release schedule is so nice, I love spending the week leading up to the next episode hypothesizing with my partner about what will happen next. It's also gotten me into the X-Men more in general, I've been watching the original 90s cartoon in between episodes, and I think I'll pick up some comics as well!

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---
title: "Fitness and Health"
date: 2024-04-02T15:00:28-07:00
---
# Fitness and Health
One of my goals for 2024 was to focus on my physical health. This included two sub-goals: a) exercise at the gym 3 times per week and b) weigh under 200lbs at the end of the year. This page is intended to track my progress.
Last Updated {{< param date >}}
## Body Weight
- Weighed on 01/04/2024: 227lbs
- Current Weight: 222lbs
I had a doctor appointment recently and the post-visit summary included obesity as a discussion topic, despite neither me or my doctor ever bringing it up. I don't know how realistic my weight goals in the given timeframe are, but as long as I'm trending downward at the end of the year, I'll be happy.
## Lifts
- Squats: 115lbs
- Deadlift: 115lbs
- Bench Press: 90lbs
- Barbell Row: 90lbs
- Overhead Press: 65lbs
Currently, squats are my best lift, but I've stopped adding weight for now while I train up my shoulders, which are my weakest lift. Weightlifting is really enjoyable to me, it is a great feeling to become stronger.
## Cardio
God cardio is a struggle. I've been walking on the treadmill before doing my weight lifting. I tried running today but it was rough, I ended up on a stationary bike which felt a lot better, but I want to get good at running.
## Dieting Rules
My intention with these rules is to be stricter with my diet and incentivize healthier choices, while avoiding detailed calorie counting and being miserable. I figure if I write them down it's easier to hold myself accountable rather than keeping only the vague idea of them in my mind. Most of my bad eating comes from sweets and sugary drinks, so I am reducing my intake of those. So far these rules have been working well for me, I am down a few pounds and also not miserable or craving junk food, which I will consider a win. These rules will be adjusted based on how things are going in a few months.
- Chips and similar carb-heavy snack foods are allowed, but in a limited amount and eaten alongside a meal, never eaten alone.
- Dinner is the final food of the day, no snacking afterward
- Fast food (usually Taco Bell) is allowed once per week, but be mindful of caloric intake
- Zero-sugar sodas only
- Prefer zero-sugar beverages in general, but the occasional lemonade/juice/milkshake as a treat is ok
- Avoid caffeine after 3pm
## Focus Areas
- Improving my max weight on overhead press
- Improve cardio, ideally this means improving my mile time to under 10 mins
- Continue with dieting rules

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---
title: Arch Linux Secure Boot
date: 2024-05-06T00:00:00-07:00
tags:
- Linux
---
I needed to enable Secure Boot so that I could play League of Legends with Riot's Vanguard Anti Cheat. It seemed complex at first but was actually easier than I expected. The Arch Wiki is both helpful and confusing here, it provides a bunch of different ways to do this, but doesn't always do a great job of differentiating them as logically separate processes.
My basic understanding of Secure Boot is that when your computer first loads up, it loads the motherboard firmware, which then boots a bootloader. I remember from my OS classes that historically, the bootloader is 512 bytes, specifically the first 512 bytes on the boot disk. The bootloader can be anything, the computer will just run it because of its location in storage, which means malicious actors could run any arbitrary code there and compromise the system. Secure boot mitigates this by only allowing cryptographically signed bootloaders to run. The process outlined here is to sign our bootloaders so that Secure Boot will allow them to run. We are doing this by using our own keys (see [Assisted process with sbctl](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface/Secure_Boot#Assisted_process_with_sbctl)), rather than using a pre-signed boot loader. Note that "firmware" here refers to the motherboard firmware, commonly referred to as "the BIOS"
0. Reboot into firmware and set secure boot mode to Setup mode. What this really means is clearing any keys that currently exist.
1. Install `sbctl` and run `sbtcl status` to verify Setup mode is enabled
2. Create custom keys `sbctl create-keys`
3. Enroll your keys `sbctl enroll-keys -m`. the `-m` means to enroll Microsoft's keys as well. You almost always want this, even if you're not dual-booting with Windows because some firmware is still signed with Microsoft's keys
4. Check boot files that need signing `sbctl verify`
5. Sign the files `sbctl sign -s /boot/vmlinuz-linux`
1. If you have a lot of files, the command given in the wiki works great `sbctl verify | sed 's/✗ /sbctl sign -s /e'`, this assumes that every file listed in `sbctl verify` starts with `/boot`
6. Make sure all files are signed `sbctl verify`
7. Reboot into firmware and turn on Secure Boot
1. In my Asus ROG motherboard's firmware, the setting is in Boot -> Secure Boot and the options are "Windows UEFI" or "Other OS" which are unclear. Windows UEFI turns Secure Boot on.
8. Reboot again and run `sbctl status` to verify Secure Boot is on

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---
title: Example Systemd Service
date: 2024-05-06T00:00:00-07:00
slug: systemd-example
tags:
- Linux
---
System units go in `/etc/systemd/system`
User units go in `$HOME/.config/systemd/user`
```
[Unit]
Description=Webring test service
After=network.target
StartLimitIntervalSec=0
[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
RestartSec=1
WorkingDir=/code/webring
ExecStart=/code/webring/webring --dsn /code/webring/webring.db --addr :8000
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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---
title: Example .desktop File
date: 2024-05-06T00:00:00-07:00
slug: desktop-file-example
tags:
- Linux
---
Example
```
[Desktop Entry]
# The type as listed above
Type=Application
# The version of the desktop entry specification to which this file complies
Version=1.0
# The name of the application
Name=jMemorize
# A comment which can/will be used as a tooltip
Comment=Flash card based learning tool
# The path to the folder in which the executable is run
Path=/opt/jmemorise
# The executable of the application, possibly with arguments.
Exec=jmemorize
# The name of the icon that will be used to display this entry
Icon=jmemorize
# Describes whether this application needs to be run in a terminal or not
Terminal=false
# Describes the categories in which this entry should be shown
Categories=Education;Languages;Java;
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---
title: Retrieving status.cafe Updates During Hugo Builds
date: 2024-05-06T00:00:00-07:00
slug: hugo-build-status-cafe
tags:
- Hugo
- Web Development
---
status.cafe provides you with a JavaScript snippet to include your status on your site. I don't update my status super often, so I don't need to be hitting m15o's servers on every page load. To get around this, I wanted to see if I could update my status as a build step in Hugo.
This is the script status.cafe provides:
```js
document.writeln('<div id="statuscafe"><div id="statuscafe-username"></div><div id="statuscafe-content"></div></div>');
fetch("https://status.cafe/users/yequari/status.json")
.then( r => r.json() )
.then( r => {
if (!r.content.length) {
document.getElementById("statuscafe-content").innerHTML = "No status yet."
return
}
document.getElementById("statuscafe-username").innerHTML = '<a href="https://status.cafe/users/yequari" target="_blank">' + r.author + '</a> ' + r.face + ' ' + r.timeAgo
document.getElementById("statuscafe-content").innerHTML = r.content
})
```
This takes just over a second to fully load. Fetching the above script takes 478ms, then running the script fetches a json file, which takes 680ms. Now this is asynchronous, which means a user is not waiting on this for the rest of the page to load, but it is noticeable that the status pops in later than everything else. The entire page loads in 1.22s
Here is the same functionality written as a hugo template
```go-html-template
{{ $data := dict }}
{{ $url := "https://status.cafe/users/yequari/status.json" }}
{{ with resources.GetRemote $url }}
{{ with .Err }}
{{ errorf "%s" . }}
{{ else }}
<div id="statuscafe">
{{ $data = .Content | transform.Unmarshal }}
{{ $length := len $data.content }}
{{ if eq $length 0 }}
No status
{{ else }}
<div id="statuscafe-username">
<a href="https://status.cafe/users/yequari" target="_blank">{{ $data.author }}</a> {{ $data.face }} {{ $data.timeAgo }}
</div>
<div id="statuscafe-content">
{{ $data.content }}
</div>
{{ end }}
{{ end }}
{{ else }}
{{ errorf "Unable to get remote resource %q" $url }}
{{ end }}
```

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---
title: Vim Tips
date: 2024-05-06T00:00:00-07:00
slug: vim-tips
tags:
- Linux
---
## General Tips
- `vim -p file1 file2` to open multiple files as tabs
- `:qa` to quit out of all open buffers
- `:Ex` to return to netrw (file explorer)
## Terminals
- `:term` to open a terminal in current window
- Use `i` to enter insert mode and type into the shell
- `<C-\><C-n>` to return to normal mode to allow scrolling or switching windows
- I've remapped this to `<C-space>`
## Windows
- `<C-w>` prefixes all window commands
- `<C-w>` + `h,j,k,l` to focus window to left, bottom, up, right, respectively
- `<C-w>s` to split current window horizontally, equivalent to `:split`
- `<C-w>v` to split current window vertically, equivalent to `:vs`
## Registers
- `"c` before a command, where `c` is the register to store the text
- Use capital letter to append to the register, e.g. `"C`
## Macros
- Press `qc` to start recording, where `c` is the register to store the macro
- Stop recording with `q`
- Replay the macro with `@c`

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--- ---
title: Dockerized ZNC title: Dockerized ZNC
date: "2022-11-07T14:18:30-07:00" date: "2022-11-07T14:18:30-07:00"
tags: categories:
- Linux - tech
- Self-Hosting
--- ---
# Setting Up ZNC with Docker # Setting Up ZNC with Docker

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--- ---
title: League on Linux title: League on Linux
date: "2022-11-06T14:18:30-07:00" date: "2022-11-06T14:18:30-07:00"
tags: categories:
- Linux - tech
- gaming
--- ---
# League of Legends on Linux # League of Legends on Linux

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One day this page will pull some info from APIs to create a more interesting page but for now I just manually update it as needed. One day this page will pull some info from APIs to create a more interesting page but for now I just manually update it as needed.
### Video Games **Games I'm playing**: Cyberpunk 2077, Honkai Star Rail, Baldur's Gate 3
Octopath Traveler, Vampire Survivors, Baldur's Gate 3, TFT Set 13
### Tabletop Games **Shows I'm watching**: Nothing currently
Running Rise of the Runelords adapted to Pathfinder 2e
### Shows and Movies
Arcane Season 2
### Music
Sleep, Kyuss, Monster Magnet, Jethro Tull
**Music I'm listening to**: Kyuss, Tool, Cyberpunk 2077 Soundtrack, 100 gecs, King Crimson, breakcore

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title: "Projects" title: "Projects"
date: 2023-10-09T14:21:12-07:00 date: 2023-10-09T14:21:12-07:00
--- ---
# Projects
Here are some projects I'm currently working on or have worked on in the past. Here are some projects I'm currently working on or have worked on in the past.
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I run a few services for the amazing folks over at the [32-Bit Cafe](https://32bit.cafe). I run a few services for the amazing folks over at the [32-Bit Cafe](https://32bit.cafe).
- [RSS reader](https://rss.32bit.cafe): an instance of the FreshRSS feed reader to provide an easy to use entry point for community members looking to get started with RSS. - [RSS reader](https://rss.32bit.cafe): an instance of the FreshRSS feed reader to provide an easy to use entry point for community members looking to get started with RSS.
- [32bit.cafe Discourse](https://discourse.32bit.cafe): The postmill instance has been phased out in favor of a Discourse forum. It has been awesome building this up with everyone and seeing the enthusiasm for a second primary space for the community. - [Discussion boards](https://discuss.32bit.cafe): An instance of postmill used to share interesting links and resources to the community.
- [Discuss bot](): A Discord bot that sends new posts from the discussion boards to a channel in the Discord server.
## Websites ## Websites
- This website - This website
- [webweav.ing tools](https://webweav.ing): Currently there is only an RSS feed generator but I intend to add several other tools to help smooth out some pain points of webmastery. - [yequari's emporium of excellent toys](https://yeet.marigold.town)
## Software ## Software
- [SeekerBot](/projects/seekerbot): A Discord bot to keep track of trading card game matches taking place online.
- [powerlinx](/projects/powerlinx): A static site generator.
- [Pynex](/projects/pynex): A terminal browser for m15o's nex protocol. - [Pynex](/projects/pynex): A terminal browser for m15o's nex protocol.
- [lox-interpreter](/projects/lox-interpreter): Source code as I'm working through Robert Nystrom's excellent *Crafting Interpeters*.
- [yqsh](/projects/yqsh): A toy shell written in C to learn Linux systems programming.
- [weatherbar](/projects/weatherbar): A cli application to get current weather conditions, for use in status bar programs like i3bar, waybar, etc.

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---
title: "Store Exclusives"
date: 2024-08-11T08:53:54-07:00
year: "2024"
---
# Transformers 00s Store Exclusives
> *This page was created as an entry into the [32-Bit Cafe's Codejam #5](https://32bit.cafe/~xandra/events/codejam5/). While not necessarily a "complicated topic", it is a topic I can ramble on about for hours.*
The early- to mid-2000s period of the Transformers franchise had an interesting product strategy, one that Hasbro seemed to shift away from following the success of the first live-action movie. This era was the one I grew up with, so I wanted to dive into one aspect of the toyline I find particularly interesting about this period: retailer exclusive toys.
## Some History
Retailers will request exclusives from Hasbro as a way to draw customers into the store. The idea being if you go in for a specific exclusive toy, maybe you'll spend more money in the store other items while you're there, rather than getting them from a competitor. Kmart of all places actually had the first retailer-exclusive Transformers toys in 1989, which were the inner robots of the Classic Pretender toys: Bumblebee, Grimlock, Jazz, and Starscream. There were very few retailer exclusives after that until KB Toys got an entire subline named Machine Wars in 1997, containing toys made from cancelled Generation 2 molds or late Generation 1 molds that were exclusive to Europe. There were a few scattered exclusives since then in the Beast Wars and Beast Machine lines, but It wasn't until Robots in Disguise in 2001 that retailer exclusive mainline toys became a common practice.
## Exclusives for Everyone
Following the success of the Robots in Disguise line, the large toy retailers of the time, Target, Walmart, Toys R Us, and KB Toys, began selling their own exclusive figures. These stores generally got pretty normal figures as exclusives, mostly repaints or value packs of mainline figures. Toys R Us got a lot of collector-oriented releases, including reissues of Generation 1 toys in the Commemerative Series line. Membership retailers Costco and Sam's Club also got some exclusives for the holiday season, which ended up being the weirder exclusive releases.
### Kmart
Kmart was largely excluded from exclusives during this time, however they did get some, including an odd "Battle for the Matrix" multipack in the Transformers Armada line, containing "Powerlinx" Optimus Prime and "Powerlinx" Jetfire, along with a large assortment of Mini-cons. For context, by the second year of the Armada toyline, Hasbro was running out of toys to release to keep up with demand, so they repainted a bunch of first-year toys to represent "powered up" versions of the characters, and slapped "Powerlinx" in front of their name. Despite this labelling, neither "Powerlinx" figure in this multipack is actually the Powerlinx version released to all the retailers. Jetfire is exactly the same as the original figure, and Optimus Prime is almost the same as his original figure, except his red parts are painted gold for some reason. It...doesn't look great. To add to the confustion, it would have been possible to find the real mainline Powerlinx Optimus Prime and Jetfire next to this multipack. Wild.
![Armada Optimus Prime, but red is now gold](images/800px-Armada-optimus-prime-gold-kmart.jpg "That's gold, Jerry! Gold!")
### Sam's Club
Sam's Club got 3 exclusives in this period, the first two in 2003 were repainted Robots in Disguise Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus, under the Transformers Universe line. Ultra Magnus is mostly unchanged from his mainline 2001 release, except for some darker blues in his color scheme. Optimus Prime, though, is repainted in an awesome bright yellow color scheme. Why? Who knows. It is such an odd choice and I love it. Even weirder, is that Prime's die-cast chest is still painted red, a jarring contrast from everything else turning yellow.
![Robots in Disguise 2001 Optimus Prime but he's yellow](images/Universe2003toy-OptimusPrimeSuper.jpg "When life gives you lemons")
The next year, Sam's Club offered an exclusive two-pack of Prowl and Starscream, which were repaints of Armada Red Alert and Armada Starscream, and included their Mini-cons. The Starscream is a fairly minor repaint, keeping a similar color scheme but with black wings and darker greys. Prowl, however, is sporting a blue and white color scheme, made to look more like Energon Prowl. I actually like this deco a lot, though I wonder why the choice was to repaint Red Alert instead of one of the million Autobot cars.
![](images/Energon-toy_2-pack_Starscream.jpg)
![](images/Energon-toy_2-pack_Prowl.jpg)
### Costco
Costco got a few exclusives, the most notable one is a 2004 multipack of Armada Optimus Prime and Overload, repainted in a black, yellow, and maroon color scheme. It is very similar to the [Universe Optimus Primal](https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Optimus_Primal_(BW)/toys#Universe_.282003.29) figure. I actually like this color scheme a lot, it's pretty unique as far as Optimus Prime decos go.
![](images/Energon_Costco_OptimusPrimeOverload.jpg)
The following year, Costco sold a multipack of the Sam's Club versions of Robots in Disguise Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus, except Optimus is back to being red. Interestingly, the box uses the artwork for Cybertron Optimus Prime, even though the toys don't look much alike, and box art for Ultra Magnus in the Cybertron style was specifically created for this release. I remember being somewhat disappointed about getting this set for Christmas that year because it wasn't Cybertron Optimus Prime, but I came around on them pretty quickly.
![](images/Cybertrontoy_ridprime_magnus_2pack.jpg)
In 2006, Costco got a multipack of Cybertron Optimus Prime and Wing Saber with an extra DVD included. The toys were repackaged without any modification from the mainline, which actually makes it somewhat unique among the other exclusives of the time. I was very excited about getting this one for Christmas.
![](images/Cybertrontoy_prime_wingsaber_2pack.jpg)
## Conclusion
While exclusives have certainly not gone away, after the franchise *exploded* following the release of the first live-action movie, the way exclusives were done changed. Of course we still got random repaints, but these tended to be minor characters. Hasbro became much more deliberate in its releases of big ticket toys like Optimus Prime, avoiding wacky repaints and instead going for more grounded color schemes, usually for a more "screen accurate" look, such as with Premium Edition releases.
## More info
- [Exclusives - TFWiki](https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Exclusive)
- Images sourced from the characters' respective pages on TFWiki

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<html> <html>
{{- partial "head.html" . -}} {{- partial "head.html" . -}}
<body> <body>
<header> <div class="wrapper">
{{- partial "header.html" . -}} <header>
</header> {{- partial "header.html" . -}}
<nav id="main-navbar"> </header>
{{- partial "nav.html" . -}} <nav>
</nav> {{- partial "nav.html" . -}}
<main> </nav>
{{- block "main" . }}{{- end }} <div class="main-sidebar">
</main> <section class="sidebar">
<footer> {{- partial "sidebar.html" . -}}
{{- partial "footer.html" . -}} </section>
</footer> <main>
{{- block "main" . }}{{- end }}
</main>
</div>
<footer>
{{- partial "footer.html" . -}}
</footer>
</div> </div>
</body> </body>
</html> </html>

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{{ define "main" }} {{ define "main" }}
<h1>{{ .Title }}</h1>
<section class="content posts h-feed hfeed"> <section class="content posts h-feed hfeed">
<h1>{{ .Title }}</h1>
{{ range .Pages }} {{ range .Pages }}
<article class="h-entry"> <article class="h-entry">
<h2><a class="title u-url p-name" href="{{ .RelPermalink }}">{{ .Title }}</a></h2> <h2><a class="title u-url p-name" href="{{ .RelPermalink }}">{{ .Title }}</a></h2>

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{{- /* Deprecate site.Author.email in favor of site.Params.author.email */}}
{{- $authorEmail := "" }}
{{- with site.Params.author }}
{{- if reflect.IsMap . }}
{{- with .email }}
{{- $authorEmail = . }}
{{- end }}
{{- end }}
{{- else }}
{{- with site.Author.email }}
{{- $authorEmail = . }}
{{- warnf "The author key in site configuration is deprecated. Use params.author.email instead." }}
{{- end }}
{{- end }}
{{- /* Deprecate site.Author.name in favor of site.Params.author.name */}}
{{- $authorName := "" }}
{{- with site.Params.author }}
{{- if reflect.IsMap . }}
{{- with .name }}
{{- $authorName = . }}
{{- end }}
{{- else }}
{{- $authorName = . }}
{{- end }}
{{- else }}
{{- with site.Author.name }}
{{- $authorName = . }}
{{- warnf "The author key in site configuration is deprecated. Use params.author.name instead." }}
{{- end }}
{{- end }}
{{- $pctx := . }}
{{- if .IsHome }}{{ $pctx = .Site }}{{ end }}
{{- $pages := slice }}
{{- if or $.IsHome $.IsSection }}
{{- $pages = $pctx.RegularPages }}
{{- else }}
{{- $pages = $pctx.Pages }}
{{- end }}
{{- $limit := .Site.Config.Services.RSS.Limit }}
{{- if ge $limit 1 }}
{{- $pages = $pages | first $limit }}
{{- end }}
{{- printf "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>" | safeHTML }}
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<channel>
<title>{{ if eq .Title .Site.Title }}{{ .Site.Title }}{{ else }}{{ with .Title }}{{ . }} on {{ end }}{{ .Site.Title }}{{ end }}</title>
<link>{{ .Permalink }}</link>
<description>Recent content {{ if ne .Title .Site.Title }}{{ with .Title }}in {{ . }} {{ end }}{{ end }}on {{ .Site.Title }}</description>
<generator>Hugo {{ hugo.Version }}</generator>
<language>{{ site.Language.LanguageCode }}</language>{{ with $authorEmail }}
<managingEditor>{{.}}{{ with $authorName }} ({{ . }}){{ end }}</managingEditor>{{ end }}{{ with $authorEmail }}
<webMaster>{{ . }}{{ with $authorName }} ({{ . }}){{ end }}</webMaster>{{ end }}{{ with .Site.Copyright }}
<copyright>{{ . }}</copyright>{{ end }}{{ if not .Date.IsZero }}
<lastBuildDate>{{ (index $pages.ByLastmod.Reverse 0).Lastmod.Format "Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 -0700" | safeHTML }}</lastBuildDate>{{ end }}
{{- with .OutputFormats.Get "RSS" }}
{{ printf "<atom:link href=%q rel=\"self\" type=%q />" .Permalink .MediaType | safeHTML }}
{{- end }}
{{- range $pages }}
<item>
<title>{{ .Title }}</title>
<link>{{ .Permalink }}</link>
<pubDate>{{ .PublishDate.Format "Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 -0700" | safeHTML }}</pubDate>
{{- with $authorEmail }}<author>{{ . }}{{ with $authorName }} ({{ . }}){{ end }}</author>{{ end }}
<guid>{{ .Permalink }}</guid>
<description>{{ .Content | transform.XMLEscape | safeHTML }}</description>
</item>
{{- end }}
</channel>
</rss>

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{{ define "main" }} {{ define "main" }}
<h1>{{ .Title }}</h1>
<section class="content posts h-feed hfeed"> <section class="content posts h-feed hfeed">
<h1>{{ .Title }}</h1>
{{ range .Paginator.Pages.ByPublishDate.Reverse }} {{ range .Paginator.Pages.ByPublishDate.Reverse }}
<article class="h-entry"> <article class="h-entry">
{{ partial "post-header.html" .}}
<h2><a class="title u-url p-name" href="{{ .RelPermalink }}">{{ .Title }}</a></h2> <h2><a class="title u-url p-name" href="{{ .RelPermalink }}">{{ .Title }}</a></h2>
{{ if .Params.Subtitle }}<p class="subtitle">{{ .Params.Subtitle }}</p>{{ end }} {{ partial "post-header.html" .}}
<p class="summary"> <p class="summary">
{{ .Summary }}{{ if .Truncated }}...{{ end }} {{ .Summary }}{{ if .Truncated }}...{{ end }}
</p> </p>
@ -13,4 +12,6 @@
{{ end }} {{ end }}
</section> </section>
{{ template "_internal/pagination.html" . }} {{ template "_internal/pagination.html" . }}
<h3>See Posts From</h3>
{{- partial "posts-by-year.html" . -}}
{{ end }} {{ end }}

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