sudofox's journal

Austin Burk's journal, where I share little snippets of my writing, code, and dreams.

Drink Recipe: Unicorn Elixir

Unicorn Elixir by Austin Burk Ingredients: 1.5 oz vodka 1 oz triplesec 1 oz grenadine 1 oz cream of coconut 2 oz pineapple juice 1 oz lemon juice Edible glitter (optional) Rainbow sprinkles (optional) How to prepare: If using sprinkles: ri…

Drink Recipe: The Michigan Cherry Mule

My (Austin Burk) recipe. Takes me back to trips to the Upper Peninsula. Note that this contains ginger ale rather than ginger beer. The Michigan Cherry Mule Ingredients: - 2.5 oz of Michigan cherry infused vodka (Increase by 0.5 oz to ampl…

Hatena Intern 2023 challenge solution

I solved the remote internship puzzle. I took a simple brute-force approach. async function main() { let result; for(let i = 0; i < 10000; i++) { let code = i.toString().padStart(4, "0"); try { result = await unlock(code); console.log(`Fou…

Michigan State University mass shooting: my experience

I found out when someone I knew pinged me in Discord, asking if I was okay. I was confused at first about what he meant. I had planned to head out to campus that evening, but got diverted due to an issue with my Asterisk PBX. *1 My buddy l…

Another thing on the pile: Backyard Hatena podcast archive/transcriptions

I decided that I'd try to archive the Backyard Hatena podcast and get transcriptions made up for it. I've only got one transcription "done" and that was with something called Sonix, which seems capable, but also rather expensive considerin…

Introducing my Hatena Investor Relations Media Archive

I'm starting to run out of "easy" Hatena-related things to archive, so I've started digging into more things that I feel I haven't put enough focus on. While I'm struggling to understand the actual content of these meetings, I've started t…

Introducing my Hatena Zendesk archive(r)

Today I made another one of my Hatena-related projects publicly accessible. Believe me, I have a lot more of these things. Essentially, it should automatically archive articles from all of Hatena's Zendesk help centers. It's in a mostly fi…

Introducing my Hatena App Archive

I've been working for a few years on creating an archive of every version of every Android app Hatena has created. I am still missing some versions as I was not able to get them into my Google Play library, but it's fairly complete. Versio…

Hatena Blog Pro Campaign prizes

Today I received the prizes from the Hatena Blog Pro campaign: "はてなブログProキャンペーンにご応募いただき、まことにありがとうございました。 はてなブログオリジナルのノート・ペンと共に、はてなブログProをご活用ください。 今後ともどうぞよろ…

What comes after Sudomemo?

Haven't touched my blog in a long while. A lot has happened. The Flipnote Archive was released and a lot of new things happened with Sudomemo. Sudo Haiku is over a year old now. I've branched out a bit and taken up new hobbies and interest…

Stuffed animal + cat pic

Entry for September 16th, 2021 ぬいぐるみオフ h.sudo.ne.jp うちの猫 h.sudo.ne.jp Taking care of the family kitty again :)

I tried drawing today

Thoughts on failure I've been feeling like a failure recently. I worry about missed opportunities and being a bad friend and being envious of others. I struggle with loneliness. I wanted to make tools for others to be creative, but have so…

A little bit more from Sky: Children of the Light

September 14th, 2021 Game Been having a lovely time with the game that my friend introduced me too. Here's some screenshots... Crash-landing in the sand.. Ackpth! Blecth! Dark beasts flying through the air Song I have this song that I came…

Glimpses of something, I know not what

September 13th, 2021 There was a storm that came through. I had a slow day at work. I was able to roughly pinpoint the location of three different leaks in the roof. My friend introduced me to a new game, which was enough to get me to fina…

Groceries, emotions, and wasted time... mostly

(September 12th, 2021) Groceries I had some groceries delivered. I got eggs and bacon and my favorite kind of popsicle and some frozens and candy and a rotisserie chicken and some popcorn and a few other things. Emotions It's been a little…

🇺🇸 September 11th

September 11th, 2021 I'm not old enough to really remember 9/11 clearly. I would've been about five years old at the time. But it's still with a heavy heart that I look back. Friend I've started talking again with an old friend of mine wh…

A quiet day. More Minecraft

September 10th, 2021 Not much happened today, really. I played some more Minecraft and continued to work on the spreadsheet for The Repository. I've started updating the chest signs to include any changes to the text ID/item name since "Th…

Picked up a bit more on the flipnote archive project

September 9th, 2021 Today went pretty slowly, but I did pick back up on some work for the flipnote archive project. In particular, I was doing some analysis on FSID->3DFSID conversion by Nintendo and how some had a prefix of 00, 10, 12, or…

Some experimentation with Minecraft mods

September 8th, 2021 I decided to try experimenting a bit with Minecraft mods and was pleasantly surprised at the utility they added to the game. I can now quickly sort my inventory and chests with Mouse Wheelie, find where I put my equipme…

Made a wool farm in Minecraft

September 7th, 2021 I made a wool farm in Minecraft I've been working on collecting wool to stockpile in the giant storage building I built, which I call the Repository. It's going to have five double-chests worth of capacity for every pos…

The trip home from the U.P.

September 6th, 2021 I packed up this morning and headed back on my way home. It was a little rainy. I made the trip in about 4-5 hours. I rather regret not stopping anywhere on my way back -- I missed several opportunities to get pasties/f…

My trek to the Tahquamenon Lower Falls

September 5th, 2021 今日のアイス Trip to the Lower Falls The rain let up today and I went to the Tahquamenon Lower Falls. I brought an umbrella just in case, but it was pretty sunny for most of the time. I took several videos of the falls …

Rain, rain, go away...

September 4th, 2021 In saving my planning for the last minute, I failed to check one crucial thing: the weather where I was headed. As it turns out, the weather made itself all too clear to me within hours of going to sleep. Rain pounded u…

On my way to go camping!

September 3rd, 2021 I finally decided on where I wanted to go camping -- Tahquamenon Falls State Park. I managed to get the last camp spot for a few days for about $90 and made my way up there starting from the mid-afternoon. Here's a vide…

教えてスドハイク! What is the song you were most recently humming or singing?

I asked this question on Sudo Haiku, and received four responses.

Some Sudo Haiku UI tweaks

I've been trying to find ways to give Sudo Haiku a bit more personality in terms of web design. I added some rounded buttons that depress when pressed: (I am still working on getting the button text to center And everything is a bit rounde…

教えてスドハイク! Foods that you did not like until adulthood.

I asked this question on Sudo Haiku, and received ten responses.

Hurricane Ida came swiftly and decisively. I played a small part in helping some people I know there

Hurricane Ida came swiftly in the morning, slamming into Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane. Terrebonne Parish and surrounding areas lost power early on; I didn't know if my friend had evacuated or not until sometime later in the day -- t…

Disappointment... didn't get to play with my friend

Entry for August 28th, 2021 Unfortunately, my friend wasn't able to join me in the morning. I waited for a while and eventually, about 5-6 hours later, found out that they wouldn't be able to do it. We made tentative plans for next Saturda…

Getting ready to race a Pokémon game with a friend tomorrow!

Entry for August 27th, 2021 I'm getting ready to spend Saturday morning racing Pokemon Red/Blue with a friend! This is a very close friend of mine. I have the 3DS Virtual Console version of Pokemon Blue downloaded onto my capture-card 3DS …