Well that might have been the longest I’ve gone without making a post to this blog since it first started. It’s officially the longest-lasting blog I’ve ever made (the runner-up lasted 3 days).

So what’s new?

• I officially have my Bachelor of Computer Science diploma (university is done)
• Dangerous was released
• Many little fixes to the theory11 website
• Made a new signature:
• Started working on a really big major feature for theory11.
• Thanks to Jon Raiker (, new videos are now up in the theory11 media section twice a day (can you guess at which times?) — he’s also doing a great job of keeping the submission list from going too high (gotta keep an eye on it because it grows fast).
• Being a groomsman for the first time at a wedding this Friday.
• Going through process of getting visa stuff etc ready for starting full time at Microsoft in a couple of months.
• Trying to edit a video for somebody.

I guess that’s all that could be interesting you.

The game I posted a lot about earlier has been taking a bit of a back-burner. I would love to keep working on it but unfortunately there’s just not a lot of time. Maintaining DN takes more time than you might think — there is always tons of stuff to do for theory11 — weddings, travelling, last chances to see family before I move to the states… and here I was hoping the summer might give me some more free time to relax.

Spam bots(?) put down even more but still crawling

So these spam bots have continued to harass the Decknique server with no negative effect on the performance for users, or even on my wallet (if I let all the requests in, I would have to pay extra bandwidth charges).

I’m resetting my spam bot counter now. Within a bit under a month, the stats are:

Direct requests for videos: 1,886,989
IP addresses making these requests: 11,350
Number of distinct videos being requested: 87

I would’ve let it keep going but I was surprised there seemed to be no end in sight. I was trying to see if I could get more information about how this was happening.

But anyways, I figured out how to stop the bots from making repeated requests. So I’m resetting these counters and it should only increase very slowly from now on.

PS Can anybody in China (or otherwise) access the website http://173la.cn/u/egao/ and see anything meaningful? Like links to Decknique videos or something?

To be fair, I’m not 100% they’re bots, only 99% sure.

While writing this, I checked and indeed DN’s still getting these requests… but I’m pretty sure it’s going to be a lot less than before. It will still have no effect on Decknique’s performance.

Brief update

Been quiet, eh? I’ve been travelling about Japan for over a week now. Tokyo, Kyoto, Hiroshima, etc… In an internet cafe, so not much I can do.

Meantime, decknique has been hammered with 708,000 requests from spam bots and not even breaking a sweat. It surprises me they’re still going even though it’s having no effect whatsoever.

And first teaser of Dangerous is up on theory11….

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