wyred to the world
Everyday I look forward to my morning cup of coffee.
Every week I look forward to the weekends where I can relax.
Every month I look forward to meeting up with my friends.
Every 6 months I look forward to traveling overseas.
Every year I look forward to looking back on all the things I’ve achieved.
A good dream that lasted only a month.
It helped me learned what my limits were and unlocked all the potential I have. Stubborn ideals I once had fell like the Berlin Wall.
It triggered another change in my life, gave me energy and made me feel young again.
Many mistakes were made.
Words that shouldn’t be said were said.
Words that should be said weren’t said.
I’m sad that it’s over, I’m thankful it happened.
Now to put this newfound energy into my career.
There are only 2 bus companies in Singapore. SBS Transit being the largest and whose buses I travel on most frequently.
They released an iPhone app called iris, for poor people like me who cannot afford our own mode of transportation, which we can use to check the time the next bus will arrive at a specified bus stop.
It was frustrating to use. I hated the loading screen which wastes a few seconds of my time. And then I had to spend a few taps to get to my favourites list which I’ve added the bus numbers that I frequently use.
On top of that, there are frequent unknown errors and I would have to try and reload the bus timings again and each load takes a long time to complete.
I happened to learn about the mitm proxy tool from an article that exposed how the Path app was sending user’s address book info in plain text to their servers.
This tool can be used to analyze traffic data between a phone and the internet. So I set it up and used it to analyze the HTTP requests made from the iris app.
It made a lot of requests which explains why it’s always so slow.
So knowing the structure of the data that was sent and received from the iris servers allowed me to write my own web app to get the information I want. And the result…
It worked perfectly. And very fast.
I’ve added it as a bookmark icon on my phone. One tap, it brings me to the browser and loads my web app. Instantly, I’m shown a list of bus numbers that I frequently use. Tapping on the bus number, will load the next and subsequent time remaining till that bus arrives at the bus stop. That’s all I need.
There’s even a short cut to load the timings for 2 buses that I travel on everyday to get to work.
It uses cache.manifest to make the browser cache the jQuery file and the index file, this made loading the app almost instant.
I’ve also added 2 fields at the bottom which takes in the bus number and bus stop number so I can check the bus timings for other buses just in case.
tl;dr: programming and computers are fun.
Work has begun on the next version of The Tarutaru Times Online.
I don’t know when I can finish it, and I can’t promise it.
It will be a complete rewrite of the whole system, using all the new knowledge I’ve gained since v2.
You could say the motivation for this rewrite is because of FF14. It’s that good.
And to commemorate this new beginning, I’ve updated the blog, using the new templates :o
１４をやり始まるからもう数ヶ月。ラグがほとんとない、景色は奇麗、ムービーに有名な声優が出てる、ＵＩの見た目はいい。V１よりすごくなってる。
１１よりいい事の一つは、戦闘中に敵の技を避けるためキャラをちょくちょく動いてる状態で、２アカでやるのは無理。
戦闘中にも装備をかわるのはできないので、WSだけに使う装備の意味は無くなる。もともと戦闘中なのに装備をかわるのはなんかへんでしょう？変身シーンもないのに！
まぁそういっても、私のナイトに二つの装備セットが用意してます。HP中心の装備セットとダメージ中心の。HPセットはレベル高いのバトルに使って、ダメージセットは簡単なミッションに、たとえワンダラーパレス。
コミュニティ的にほかのＭＭＯと同じエリートで根気ないやつもたくさんいますね。この前新人プレーヤーと一緒にプラエトリウムに侵入して、「すみません、ムービー見ますね」って言ったら、ヒーラーさんがすぐなにも言わずに脱退しました。幸いにも一人のヒーラーで無事にクリヤできました。
宿屋にムービー見直せるけど、なんか不自然です。このムービーはミッションのどこから始まるのは私はわからない。ムービーもミッションの醍醐味ですね。次の戦いに気分を盛り上がるの前菜だと信じてます。
１４のバトルの基本は戦いながら動いて敵の技を避ける。そのおかげでつまんないじゃない。 でもうまく避けないと、ほかのプレーヤーさんに迷惑をかけてしまいます。
真タイタンを一回でクリア出来るのはいいけど、一般プレーヤーと何回も挑戦して、最後に乗り越えるその達成感も悪くない。
そういえば最近真タイタンは詩人でやってたね、リペリングショットで重みを避けようとしたら、後ろの画面外に立っていた人の重みに着陸してしまって、これ見たらリアルで笑いました。
もうすぐパッチ２．２が実装されます。パッチノートの一つのことは、真蛮神や極蛮神コンテンツに全滅したら「超える力」が発生します。この追加要素について、複雑な感情があります。
「超える力」で極蛮神をうまくできない私とカジュアルなプレーヤーにはすごく助かるんだけど、あつい戦いを何回も頑張って挑戦して最後に乗り越えるその感情はもうないかもしれません。もしそうなったら、とっても残念とは思っています。