there is a small mailbox here

Greetings, weary traveler. I'm Eevee and this is some kind of website. Whirlwind tour:

UNDER CONSTRUCTION LOL

If you remember the old busted brown veekun, you may notice a few things are missing. The old site will be around until these are done:

Updates


Sakaki (Giovanni) will attempt a Team Rocket conquest of the Isshu region in the next series of the Pocket Monsters anime, a TV Tokyo update reveals.
2010-09-02 00:22:57

I spent most of the weekend building furniture. Despite several objections from others, I maintain that "building" does indeed include "creating a desk out of pre-made pieces of desk".

before

~★ AFTER ★~

This was very sorely needed. My previous desk was a medieval torture device cleverly disguised as a high school cafeteria table. I don't even remember where it came from, which is a good sign that it has dubious supernatural origins.

I also rearranged my bedroom, but I don't have a "before" photo for that, which is fine by me because it was a very sad state of affairs. It contained only a bed, taking its title very literally. Now it contains some other containers. I've been sort of putting off this whole furniture thing for a while.


I didn't actually get mu...

A number of Japanese Nintendo Channel videos advertising Pokémon Black and White have surfaced on YouTube. Previously unseen cutscenes and game footage can be seen in the clips.
One commenter on last week's article complained I don't talk enough about what Generation V is doing right enough. To those who would agree with this sentiment, this week's column is for you. I was inspired to drop the piece I'd been working on, and give a glowing praise to Game Freak for their excellent steps forward in an area the games have stumbled in so far: Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.
A sweepstakes competition held by the Pokémon Company International offers hundreds of Johto-related prizes. The sweepstakes began on August 30 and will run for three weeks.

I keep inventing new stuff to work on aaaaaaaaa

So here is some stuff going on.

veekun Pokédex - Just got a downloads page which has been a long long time coming. Very close to finally knocking out everything old-veekun had, though after that there's still a fucking lot left to do.

veekun GTS - It's so far from what I'd hoped to turn it into, and I fear Black and White will obsolete it entirely. But it's at least pretty now, so you can use it for examining stuff the game doesn't expose.

veekun front page - is an awesome aggregator thing. Of all the irony, it doesn't have an RSS feed for itself yet.

veekun other - Forums sort of exist. Need a lot of work, but they're at least baseline usable....

2010-08-22 21:11:59.364160
I should create some actual forums soon so dudes can post in them. For now, enjoy some front page/forums fixes and, at long last, a downloads page.
2010-08-22 20:15:10
veekun-promotions/2010082201
veekun
ff4111a Eevee Downloads are no longer missing. 2010-08-19 00:53:34
4ea1ebe Eevee Draw a border between a tbody and tfoot. 2010-08-14 22:53:46
464b193 Eevee Another attempt at table hover color. Same across the board now. 2010-08-14 00:04:03
pokedex
be6b524 Eevee Adapt the Pokémon savefile struct to the database. 2010-08-19 22:48:03
d50bb37 Eevee Move big items from underground/ to big/, like I thought I did months ago. Oops. 2010-08-10 12:04:47
spline-pokedex
ca7e180 Eevee Upgrade to Pylons 1.0. #283 2010-08-22 19:56:45
e62a030 Eevee Downloads rise once again! 2010-08-19 00:53:02
acc3005 Eevee Added a score for each type to the type chart. 2010-08-14 22:49:11
9e9f84f Eevee Add pp_override to move table row rendering, for the GTS. 2010-08-14 22:08:27
b11d74f Eevee Fix type column width. 2010-08-14 00:04:56
1fa462e Eevee Per-gen move list links now work. #329 2010-08-13 19:46:21
843d2d0 Eevee Fix colspans when js-filtering pokemon-moves tables. 2010-08-12 22:25:05
7094ce1 Eevee Add the move list index to /dex. 2010-08-10 11:40:01
spline-gts
f52dc7e Eevee Upgrade to Pylons 1.0. #283 2010-08-22 19:59:38
b2c947e Eevee Giant amazing UI overhaul of the stored list. 2010-08-19 22:48:34
2cbec70 Eevee If the parse of an uploaded Pokémon fails, don't catch the crash. 2010-08-14 23:16:08
spline-forum
39c2141 Eevee Upgrade to Pylons 1.0. #283 2010-08-22 19:58:27
fa61b89 Eevee Crash fix: Force routing to only accept numeric forum/thread ids. 2010-08-14 22:56:44
34407a4 Eevee Crash fix: /forums/999999 would crash instead of 404. 2010-08-14 22:54:35
ada0428 Eevee Added forum descriptions. #327 2010-08-14 21:37:20
3d22d51 Eevee Show access levels and context everywhere! 2010-08-14 03:04:45
spline-users
9f7ff3d Eevee Upgrade to Pylons 1.0. #283 2010-08-22 19:58:50
2fcca85 Eevee Added a per-user stash. 2010-08-15 02:26:51
spline-frontpage
6d5d8e3 Eevee Upgrade to Pylons 1.0. #283 2010-08-22 19:57:12
9ea92c6 Eevee Convert bug numbers in git logs to URLs; also stop eating poll exceptions. 2010-08-18 00:00:55
e370700 Eevee Fix crash on viewing the front page the first time. 2010-08-18 00:00:15
4bb3ad1 Eevee Show gravatars in git logs. 2010-08-17 23:39:07
cd1d8d6 Eevee Draw a line marking new stuff. #332 2010-08-15 02:30:50
0448e37 Eevee More better striped row colors. 2010-08-14 00:04:37
e1e19c2 Eevee Don't toss old entries when an RSS feed is down. 2010-08-08 22:36:01
spline
dd9d4bb Eevee Upgrade to Pylons 1.0. #283 2010-08-22 19:55:46
7c62b17 Eevee Upgraded Fugue icon set to 3.0. 2010-08-14 23:05:44
2010-08-11 02:35:24

I'm in Pittsburgh for a few days again, and I'm utterly exhausted. Sleep is not functioning correctly. Keep waking up at 4am for no reason and sleeping lightly the rest of the night. So glad to be going home tomorrow. Also, it's still fucking hot here.

I'm pretty sure a single coworker still reads this dreck, which is slightly horrifying. Yeah, you.

Also this is all now planet'd onto veekun's front page, which has become a fancy aggregator, because that's all it was in the first place, except now it uses cool stuff like memcached instead of keeping stuff in-process, and Bulbanews entries should no longer vanish every twenty minutes when their rickety server goes down.

39 days remaining until Black/White. Joy....

2010-08-08 20:00:35
veekun-promotions/2010080802
spline-pokedex
6f1d13f Eevee CRASH FIX: In prod, move pages were trying to use a unicode object as a kw arg name. 2010-08-08 19:55:26
2010-08-08 13:45:56.025331
Pushed some stuff, like a front page. Don't think it quite works right yet, but I've gotta run! I'm sure I'll come back to a deluge of error emails. Enjoy.
2010-08-08 13:29:16
veekun-promotions/2010080801
veekun
502dfb6 Eevee Move search is done! Off the front page. 2010-08-03 22:46:31
677e2ba Zhorken Add CSS for an annotation class. 2010-08-02 01:09:11
f361b6d Eevee Rewrote index template to use frontpage and be less.. stale. 2010-07-26 00:18:45
3d63ac0 Eevee Now you know I'm serious. Removed comparer from list of missing features. 2010-07-20 00:50:10
c3e629d Eevee Show scary one-time IE6/7 warnings. #134 2010-07-11 01:35:55
ffe4c31 Eevee Rip out the veekun/pokedex docs and redirect to the wiki. 2010-07-11 00:05:31
pokedex
fa4655b Zhorken Add foreign type names to the database. 2010-08-06 21:32:11
734bf27 Zhorken Elaborate on Honey Gather's effect. #39 2010-08-05 23:36:09
44af31a Zhorken Replace mp3 cries with newly-ripped ogg cries. #91 2010-08-05 14:54:32
18b173d Zhorken Fix/improve a handful of abilities' descriptions. 2010-07-26 15:00:16
4eb71ca Eevee Added gen 4 location internal ids and some pseudo-locations. 2010-07-25 22:25:59
a813df0 Eevee Add identifiers for move flags. 2010-07-11 03:31:43
b7e783d Eevee Fix short effect for Flower Gift. 2010-07-11 03:31:33
afad84e Zhorken Store each Pokémon's initial hatch counter instead of a step count. 2010-07-13 22:07:25
spline-pokedex
0701fa8 Eevee Link move page categories to the move search. #101 2010-08-03 00:33:57
32742b8 Eevee Move search touches: styling, eagerload, menu link. #66 2010-08-03 00:26:29
60411ed Eevee Added move list. #66 2010-08-03 00:01:59
c70604c Eevee Added display and sorting to move search. #66 2010-08-02 23:34:55
ebad990 Eevee Added Pokémon searching to move search. #66 2010-08-01 04:12:36
f6ae9ad Eevee Added category searching to move search. #66 2010-08-01 02:35:29
691153f Eevee Added number searching to move search. #66 2010-07-31 21:49:02
2b87af3 Eevee Bit of eagerloading for EVERY POKEMON EVER. 2010-07-27 23:14:07
3ca9e0c Zhorken Use <audio> with the new Ogg Vorbis cries. 2010-08-05 21:08:11
922270f Eevee Pokémon comparer finished: shortening and version group selection. #81 2010-07-20 00:47:01
c893a89 Eevee Add moves to Pokémon comparer. #81 2010-07-19 01:36:58
d2abe0f Eevee Handle spaces a bit better in size parsing. 2010-07-13 20:49:09
23be05a Eevee Link move flags to a search, and show their descriptions. #101 2010-07-11 16:56:03
215d107 Eevee Move search by flag. #66 2010-07-11 03:28:57
07026cc Eevee Added stat total to comparer. #81 2010-07-11 03:24:32
1599383 Zhorken Clean up Magma Armor/Flame Body hatch steps on Pokémon pages. 2010-07-13 21:48:48
b92a73a Zhorken Re-add steps to hatch as a display option in the Pokémon search. 2010-07-13 21:03:10
ccf6128 Zhorken Replace steps to hatch with hatch counter in search. 2010-07-09 16:17:54
3eada87 Zhorken Update hatching stuff on Pokémon pages. 2010-07-09 16:15:43
spline-forum
0bdf446 Eevee Added soapbox and archive forum access levels. #313 2010-08-08 13:12:25
87a9812 Eevee Update to new frontpage API, and keep frontpage optional. 2010-07-24 19:55:43
5dfd3c1 Eevee Added front page support. 2010-07-15 00:59:35
spline-users
61467d3 Eevee Added very basic permission system. #71 2010-08-08 12:54:58
78dc97e Eevee Handle a cancel response from OpenID. 2010-07-26 00:45:46
f6f1754 Eevee Minor improvement to gravatar template. 2010-07-26 00:24:55
spline
62e3d7d Eevee Collect hook return values. Dead-simple cron support. 2010-07-25 22:24:48
b1f492c Eevee Fix after_controller hook; add before_content widget. 2010-07-11 01:37:13

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