JUNE 2023 Project Report Music, No Commentary

In June, I continued working on the Soyuz Pod-Staging animation, and in particular, I finally got to the bottom of why the flame plume controls weren't working to separate the pod flames from the core stage flames. Fixed now, and animated.

Building on the work from last month, I got the LunaGen "Series/Episode" test case working in my functional tests. This was really the functionality that justified writing LunaGen in the first place, so that's pretty important to me!

I learned a lot more about how YunoHost servers work, and in particular how to go about backups and restores. And how to use those mechanisms to move onto a new server or merge components from one server into another.

I successfully moved my Pixelfed server to the main YunoHost cloud server (I had set it up on a different one, and at this point, it was the only thing left on there). This allowed me to shut down the extra server and conserve my hosting costs.

Unfortunately, the attempt to migrate Misskey to Calckey in-place was a failure, even after many hours of work. I have now decided that this is more trouble than it is worth, and will simply have to start over again. I'll most likely make this transition along with changing from cloud hosting to co-location in a local data center.

We also made the first concrete steps towards moving to co-location: I purchased an older Dell PowerEdge R720 server. This a pretty old server, but for that reason, it was cheap. It was also easy to find one that would support 3.5" hard drive bays, which was important to me, as a major motivation for moving to a dedicated server was the simplicity of keeping production data files locally on the server, rather than in object storage, which has proved to be annoyingly slow.

I added face-in-box commentary on the Space Bunny Ragdoll Rig screencast that I finished in April, and uploaded this to our PeerTube.

I received a few purchases: a lamp I want to try using for additional commentary videos to fill in shadows (and possibly dramatic lighting?), a fan I need to repair my laptop, and a self-published booklet from Andrew Roach on producing low-budget "DIY TV", which is what he's been doing with "New Ellijay TV" (using PeerTube live-streaming).

HIGHLIGHTS 00:00 Summary 00:15 "Lunatics!" Soyuz pod-staging animation 05:10 "Lunatics!" Fixing isolation problems in flame plume rig 08:36 LunaGen Dev: Video embedding & Episode-list functional tests (now passing) 11:07 Backup/Restore/Merge YunoHost Virtual Studio server components (successful!) 11:35 Merged Pixelfed server into main server (was previously on its own VPS) 11:44 Misskey-Calckey in-place migration attempt (FAILED) 13:09 Removed the fake "affiliates" bar from the project landing website 13:16 Misskey exports for migration 13:39 Dell PowerEdge R720 purchas for migration to co-location service 14:30 Installing operating system - Debian/YunoHost 11. 17:44 Creating a staging environment for server testing / local DNS with Technitium 17:54 Migrated cloud YunoHost to Staging Server (local DNS with /etc/hosts worked) 19:17 Added commentary to the screencast of the Space Bunny Ragdoll Rig (from April) 19:56 Received and tested a "Sunset Lamp" which is a small RGB LED color-changeable lamp 20:13 Also got a fan to fix my Lenovo Thinkpad T-410 laptop (I hope) 20:20 Received Andrew Roach's "Community Media: A Handbook for Revolutions in DIY TV"