Instead of a late yearly update I'll be posting a few of my most listened songs of 2021. Most of these have already been posted on my main account under the #MV tag but there are a few I've never posted.
Feel free to reply and tag @cptn@idolheaven.org if you want to post your favorite songs of the year or give some recommendations.
It's been over a year since this post and the only thing I've learned about coding is I have no business coding. I'm going to blame that on laziness and my nonexistent attention span. I'm still going to set another goal this year of learning some basics.
It’s been a surprisingly eventful year so far. I’ve tried to branch out and learn about some more idols but I keep finding myself following the same groups I’ve been following. There have been a few additions but they consist of members of former groups I’ve followed.
There are multiple youtube channels with
Usa Hiiragi (ex monogatari) joined Babababambi, Otoha & Kohane (ex Konyanko & Runup!!) have joined Repi Doll, and
Nina leaving the idol industry was perhaps the most difficult event for me this year.
2020 had a somber start after monogatari announced they would be disbanding. Shortly after, COVID-19 and the resulting lockdowns put a halt to almost all activities for several months. Nonetheless, my year following idols was a very pleasant one. I was fortunate enough to not be negatively affected by the lockdowns, which allowed for more time to follow and discover idols.
One of my goals for the second half of 2020 is to finally start learning how to write some code. An increasing majority of the software I currently use on a daily basis is written in go so I'll probably try go first. It's very easy to build and run, as well as portable so I can run the built executables on my seedbox without the need for installing dependencies that require root. I've met some very friendly devs who have written some site scrapers and discord bots in go for me in the past, but I've been very reliant on others to do the work for me. By the end of the year I hope to have at least one useful thing, even if it's simple, written in go.
Here is a list of my favorite software written in go that I use almost on a daily basis:
Honorable mention:
If you have any other interesting tools let me know at @cptn@idolheaven.org on the fediverse.
2019 was another wonderful year for immersion into jpop groups. The groups from my favorites post are still the same and some additions through the year are Tokyo Girls' Style, Rising/Zero-IV, Pastel Candy.
This is a list of some of my favorite idol groups. There are many more that could be listed but these are the top groups I follow in terms of social media and merchandise purchases. Website, Youtube, and Twitter accounts for each group are included with this page.
Tsuri Bit
Website | Youtube | Twitter – Official | Natsuki | Sakura | Aya | Mizuki | Ayu
Youtube-dlg is a gui tool that utilizes youtube-dl. Here are some simple steps for installing and using youtube-dlg for downloading videos from various sites.
A list of tools used to archive idol groups
ripme github Used for twitter archives
youtube-dl github Used for youtube and tiktok
webrecorder webrecorder.io Used for twitter warc files
grab-site github Used to grab copies of original websites
This blog will contain information for ongoing Idol archiving.
