kwaamfan's diary

it was my birthday recently ^_^ this year for my birthday dessert i wanted to compare two different cheesecake recipes, one the “Fluffy Baked Silken Tofu Cheesecake” recipe from Philip Khoury’s A New Way to Bake book and the other this no bake biscoff che…

screenshot dump and miscellaneous thoughts on Xbox Presents: A Special Look at STRANGER THAN HEAVEN that was streamed yesterday: the guesses were right???

i recently spun up a szurubooru instance on my server to organize my ever-growing collection of saved fanart and memes. after finishing dark ties a few weeks ago, i had once again been afflicted with all-consuming minedai brainrot, the likes of which can…

why does it feel like every day it becomes harder and harder to not be a doomer about #tech. i swear every day there’s a new headline that fills me with dread: openai strikes a deal with the pentagon, discord announces global facial age verification using…

i made some cookies today. if i’m being honest they weren’t very good – too oily, and i would’ve preferred the strawberry flavor being a bit more sour – but baking them at all felt like a small win after barely cooking anything more complicated than beans…

happy new year!

today i published the second version of my home page it’s sort of the opposite of the first in terms of aesthetic… i still like the pastel, pixel-art-everywhere look but idk, maybe i’m just having a bit of a minimalist era?

as part of my ongoing project to set up a home lab, i’ve started self-hosting yamtrack, a media tracker that can track all sorts of media – video games, books, movies, manga, etc. up until now i’ve been using various online services like anilist for anime…

recently i’ve been messing around with self-hosting. i think i mentioned that last year i installed ubuntu 24 server edition on an old 2010 macbook pro with the intention of turning it into a home server, but that ended up going nowhere. at the time i was…

my inane, probably incomprehensible ramblings on the yakuza kiwami 3 + dark ties announcement. vulgar language and spoilers for the entirety of yakuza 3 below kiwami 3 okay green hawaiian shirt kiryu… idk why rgg changed this up but it looks p good tbh MY…