For about a year, I have been working on https://ayasequart.org. It’s been quite an undertaking - I’ve likely dedicated over 3 weeks of my waking hours to building it. The coffee fueled 8 hours sprints after work, and the MANIC 16 hour sprints on weekends have really added up. You might think that’s an overestimate, but this project comprises many tasks and features such as,

• making an chan scraper with remarkable flexibility
• moderation controls
• authentication
• API access
• sql search
• image search
• experimenting with CLIP embeddings, and landing on image tagging as a better search method
• a clever hosting solution without bandwidth limitations
• server security in the bot age
• troubleshooting internet issues
• importing data
• the queries
• performance considerations
• the website itself

Earlier this month, while nearing completion, I often worked 76+ hour weeks, burning myself out. I was motivated by Alex Jones of all people, when he made a comedic skit soliciting support for Trump. Fighting the globalists 20 hours a day is not an easy battle. I’m stepping my game up, fighting for my freedom, and I won’t let Crohn’s disease, or my weeping, eczema hand skin, or the ghosts from my past stop me from meeting my eleutheromaniac objectives. To only mind my own business, and work on AQ full time is a blissful thought. I don’t know the ceiling for archive revenue, but we know it’s more than zero. Kinda interesting.

When I park myself in my steelcase leap v2 and go down the AQ rabbit hole, time SWOOPS by, and suddenly - it’s always suddenly - the clock is striking 3am. It pisses me off. Because I know I can’t function on less than 7 hours of sleep - I feel terrible mentally. I am confined to waking up by 9am, and it ruins my flow, and prolongs the completion of my projects.

Despite the long, solitary hours dedicated to my projects, I feel energized, and euphoric when I roll out new features, even if they’re as simple as dynamic timezones so not every user is seeing UTC timestamps. This keeps me going until 2-3am. The drive is there. Stopping before a certain bug or feature is dealt with is marriage behavior. Kinda boring.

I don’t know if it’s related to getting older, I’m currently 28, but spending so much time in front of VSCode - where I can build so many fun things - kinda makes hiking; traveling; watching tv; canoeing; going out for supper; going for a walk in another neighborhood; seem overly simple and boring. I’ve done all that dozens of times. What I haven’t done, and what no one else has done, is make a new, snappy, Python3.12 based chan archive with image search.

The existing Foolfuuka archives like desuarchive.org, archived.moe, 4plebs.org, and others, are all running PHP 7.x inside docker containers. I tried getting it to work in back in the fall of 2023, and had no luck, and thus began porting Bibanon’s Ayase repo from FastAPI to Quart, hence the name Ayase Quart.

I don’t know the future of this project, but I’ll continue moderating it.

I want to spend more time outside this summer. Last year, I barely left my apartment and built my own file share; worked on Ritual - the chan scraper; probably worked on this site; and whatever else. Kinda scary.

Let’s take it easy now.