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The real life locations of Sound! Euphonium

Sun, 05 Jan 2020 14:16:13 +0000

Last year, during my first trip to Japan, I went to Enoshima and took some photos of the real life locations of Bunny Girl Senpai. It was a great experience for me which makes me wanting to do it again. So this year I went back to Japan and spend a day in the Uji area to visit the real life locations of Sound! Euphonium.

The cross outside Keihan Rokujozo Station.

The Keihan train. Kumiko catch these trains everyday between Rokujizo and Uji.

Bunny Girl Senpai’s Junrei at Enoshima

Sun, 06 Jan 2019 09:45:04 +0000

During the holday trip to Japan, I went to Enoshima to exlore the area. Here’s some pictures I took, which are the Bunny Girl Senpai sets in real life.

Bakery in Fujisawa Station where Mai get ignored.

Enoden line near Kamakura-Koko-Mae Station where Sakuta chasing the train in the OP.

Technologies used in this blog

Fri, 06 Apr 2018 04:49:29 +0000

So, let’s talk about the technologies used in this blog, just for reference.

Server

The blog is hosted on a DigitalOcean droplet，$5/month，1GB RAM，25GB SSD. I have only used AWS and Digital Ocean before, and apparently, Digital Ocean is the cheaper one. I’ve once also thought about switching to Linode. At that time, DO only got 512MB RAM, so I often run into situations that my programs get killed due to insufficient memory, which was pretty annoying. But just when I was about to pull the trigger, Digital Ocean decided to increase their RAM, so that’s the end of it.

seewang.me now served over HTTP2

Fri, 19 Jan 2018 06:16:55 +0000

You surely have heard HTTP2 and its advantage over the good old HTTP1.1, security, performance blah blah blah…
And it bizarrely easy to enable on my Nginx.

Firstly some requirements:

Nginx > 1.9.5
OpenSSL > 1.0.2

Then add http2 to the server configuration, after listen 443 ssl.

server {
listen 80;
server_name seewang.me www.seewang.me;
return 301 https://seewang.me$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl http2;
server_name seewang.me www.seewang.me;
#rest of config...
}

And that’s it， now we can check it on Chrome Developer Tools > Network tab, we’ll need to right click on the column header and check Protocol column.

Free SSL Certificate, Let’s Encrypt

Sat, 15 Apr 2017 10:17:13 +0000

When I first launched this blog, I set up an SSL certificate from StartCom. It was an okay experience to use, other than I had to renew it via their site every year. But a couple of days ago, Chrome prompted SSL errors when I visited the blog and refused to recognise the certificate even after I renewed it. A quick Google search tells that StartCom got themselves banned by Chrome and Firefox.

My new PC!

Sat, 02 Jul 2016 08:34:58 +0000

Oct 2011, I bought the laptop I have been using until now, a Dell XPS 15. Many components like screen, hard drive and battery all have failed, but thankfully it still works functionally after several repairs.

Even though, using it starts become painful, which makes me decide to get a new one.

Since primary school, I’ve been using laptops. They are surely easy to carry around, but always underwhelming for a gamer like me. That’s why a desktop PC become my go-to device.

Linux Note 1: Command Types and Frequently Used Commands

Thu, 29 Oct 2015 22:33:26 +0000

Internal Command and External Command

Internal Command is a part of the Shell program, it consists of some simple Linux system command, which will be recognized by the Shell program and executed within the Shell program. Usually, Shell gets loaded into memory when a Linux system startup.

Internal Command is written within bash’s source code, so it run faster than external command as interpreting an internal command does not need to create a new child thread. Some of most common internal command includes exit, history, cd, echo etc.

Chaliapin steak don

Mon, 07 Sep 2015 05:36:29 +0000

A couple days ago I saw some recipes from Shokugeki no Soma and noticed this Chaliapin steak don only requires steak and onion which I happened have both at home. Also, it is quite easy to cook, so I tried to cook this myself.

I don’t have pickled plum, so the rice is just plain rice. Besides, I’m too lazy to season the steak for half an hour. It still tastes good though.