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The making of the Resonite sessions Discord bot

If you are a Resonite player and are in the Discord guild, you might be familiar with the #active-sessions channel, in which a bot displays the 10 most popular sessions on Resonite as well as some stats.

Screenshot of Discord showing game stats as well as an embed for a single session at the bottom.

What you might not know, is that I’m the author of this bot, that I originally started as just a small oneshot project to have some fun.

Deploying Hugo using GitLab pages

It is 2025 and it’s still super easy to deploy a blog using Hugo and GitLab pages.

In fact, the post you are reading right now is exactly that, deployed on my self-managed instance.

But Jae, weren’t you on another host beginning from last year?

Yes, last year I switched to Mataroa for the ease of mind the platform has.

The interface is very clean, has no bullshit whatsoever and is made and hosted in small web fashion.

GitHub and IPv6 in 2025

In this year 2025, the main GitHub domain still doesn’t serve over IPv6.

Some subdomains do have IPv6 though, just… not what you would expect.

For instance, avatars.githubusercontent.com:

; <<>> DiG 9.18.28-1~deb12u2-Debian <<>> AAAA avatars.githubusercontent.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 18015
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;avatars.githubusercontent.com. IN      AAAA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
avatars.githubusercontent.com. 159 IN   AAAA    2606:50c0:8002::154
avatars.githubusercontent.com. 159 IN   AAAA    2606:50c0:8001::154
avatars.githubusercontent.com. 159 IN   AAAA    2606:50c0:8003::154
avatars.githubusercontent.com. 159 IN   AAAA    2606:50c0:8000::154

;; Query time: 32 msec
;; SERVER: 2a09::#53(2a09::) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Wed Jan 08 04:55:56 UTC 2025
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 170

Whereas none of the other domains accessed when accessing github.com (named github.com, github.githubassets.com and alive.github.com) has IPv6.

I played Star Citizen so you don’t have to

Star Citizen is a game that has been in development since around 2013.
It claims to be a space simulator, MMORPG, FPS and a bunch of other things.

More than 10 years later, 750 million USD invested, what have we got?

The good

The game looks visually good, even if overly generic “space stuff”.

Nothing much else to say on that point, the ships have real thought put in their design, starting environment seem to be somewhat consistent and hand built (tho I noticed there are really a lot of food shops everywhere for some reason).

QSL - NHK Japan Radio December 8 2024

Location: Vantaa, Finland

Date and time: 2024/12/08 11:45 (local time UTC+2) - 09:45 (UTC)

Frequency: 15290kHz

SINPO: 2/5

Equipment: Tecsun PL-680 + wire antenna

Content Heard:

Unsure, asked a friend and only words they could understand were “Tokyo 23”.

Notes: I cannot speak Japanese, sadly. Lots of static and interruptions.

Contact: NHK WORLD-JAPAN | Contact Us

Card received:

Back of postcard showing a “Thank You” message for confirming reception of NHK world Japan with the message translated into English.