Random typings of a dumb wolf. Typing with paws is hard, you know? I wil try to keep posting and updating here, but no promises! Expect the most random posts.
Newgrounds is great site to see classic old internet history in the form of videos & music. Recently, I've decided to take on the task of adding support for Newgrounds media to cobalt. Here is how I was able to read Newgrounds pages to find media.
cobalt, if you don't know, is an awesome social media content downloader. You all know those wonderful "youtube to mp3 no virus plz" sites. They are full of ads and tracking. That's where cobalt comes in. It supports a ton of different social media sites to download content.
Since cobalt is open source, anyone can grab the code and host their own instance. However, there is an official instance located at cobalt.tools. A few months ago, there was a small list floating around in the cobalt Discord of community instances. These were ones run by anyone and for fun. I decided to make a tracker for these instances.
When writing ToolStats, I wanted to figure out how to tell who opens a newly spawned chest. These are chests that spawn with structures. This is a little hack I’ve come up with.
I have a decent chunk of plugins that I created for Minecraft. One feature I really like in them are update checkers. Server admins usually get lazy and don’t check themselves, so having the plugin automatically tell them is easier. There’s a few ways to achieve this.
I finally decided to start a blog, and maybe actually attempt to write stuff here. However, I was really happy with my current website design and did not want to restart (this site has changed so many times over the years). To compromise, I converted my website to use Hugo!