STATE OF AFFAIRS by shotoku - 04/22/25 @ 09:54 PM CST

Been a solid month or two since I've written an update here, so I guess I will while I'm out of commission.. radioAWESOME is growing slowly but surely and our very first full guest set was performed by chaoskaiser72, aka The Kaiser, on April 15, and is hosting again as we speak for (probably) the rest of this set since my internet has gone out. As always, I'm also still searching for more DJs on radioAWESOME. In a perfect world, we'd be running every night with a new DJ for every set.

Now, on the topic of Retrobook. We were hoping to have the site out and ready for around right now, but development has slowed down mostly due to my work in college, which has also caused rA to take a bit of a scheduling hit as well. We do have another developer working on the site as well but even with the amount of work going on around us it still isn't feasible to have the site out by the end of this month. I'd say May or June, since we currently have:

-Wall
-Profile
-Settings
-Friends
and a few more things i cant remember off the top of my head. Point is, we're making progress.

I think that's all we have going on at the moment. If anything major happens soon I'll be sure to update.

WE BOUGHT RETROBOOK by shotoku - 03/07/25 @ 12:46 PM CST

On Feb 20 this year, Bittoco, the group that runs Bitview and Blips, announced that they were auctioning off theretrobook. It's been sitting dormant for a couple of years and the source code was so bad that I doubt it would have ever came back. I thought it would be funny if I bought it and put it back up, but at the time didn't realize how difficult of a task that would actually be. We basically have to completely rewrite the source code from scratch because, frankly, it's a miracle it even ran in the first place. In any case, we won the bid with 200 bucks and I took ownership of the domain yesterday. From here on, I'm gonna have to hole up again and chip away at this until it's in a usable state, which is looking like it's going to be around April. I won't be reimplementing everything at release either, so once the site itself is up in running you'll be seeing new features getting pushed out slowly.

I guess what I'm trying to say, and have been for about a week, is that if you have any experience in PHP or JS, please, for the love of god, contact me. We need more than 1 person doing the developing here. I got somebody for frontend work already, but as it stands I'm the only person who can do the backend for the site at this moment.

To discuss this buyout, or ask for features and so on, I made a thread on my forum for discussion of the site and buyout. You can find it here:

https://shotoku.org/forum/thread.php?id=16

INTRODUCING... THE RADIOAWESOME FORUM by shotoku - 02/24/25 @ 06:20 PM CST

THIS HAS BEEN A LONG TIME COMING... I spent about half a week holed up in my room writing a forum script in PHP. After much suffering at the hands of web development, I have finally finished the radioAWESOME forum. It is only one board, but has quite a bit of features you might enjoy, including but not limited to

-badges
-private messages
-bbcode and youtube/image embeds (can't wait for this to end well)
-full profiles with social media fields
-quote replies (done really shittily)
-searches (not fully complete)
and much much more!

I also finished up a radioAWESOME live chatroom for the show, which will be making it's debut tomorrow night. You'll need a forum account to chat though, so go sign up early!

BEEN A WHILE... by shotoku - 02/18/25 @ 02:18 PM CST

RADIOAWESOME IS BACK... for now... I kept getting copyright strikes for foreign music on YouTube, to the point in which the last show got cut off early after being blocked worldwide. We are now moving to a new protocol: ICECAST

This way I can run rA through my mixer while still being able to stream it to winamp/foobar2000/whatever your preferred medium of listening is. The info for the stream will be the same as it was before, so you don't need to change anything to connect, except for maybe your m3u file if you connect through one of those.

A STORM'S-A BREWIN' by shotoku - 01/18/25 @ 10:20 PM CST

This week's radioAWESOME will be broadcast on Monday instead of Tuesday. Big snowstorm is coming through my area, and it's the first time it's snowed here in about a decade. Power might be out, and I like snow anyway, so I'd rather not be holed up running the radio. radioAWESOME will proceed on Monday at 6pm CST instead, this week only.

RADIOAWESOME IS NOW ON YOUTUBE by shotoku - 01/14/25 @ 04:30 PM CST

How many times do I need to change this radio?

m3u files have security vulnerabilities and shoutcast crashes too often during shows, so we're moving to YouTube Streams from now on. Less interesting, but easier to listen to, I suppose.

RADIO SCHEDULE HAS CHANGED by shotoku - 12/17/24 @ 07:43 PM CST

radioAWESOME will now only run on Tuesdays. I missed the last 2 Saturday shows due to prior commitments, and twice per week is a bit too much for finding setlists that have actual variation. Every Tuesday @ 6pm CST from now on.

NO RADIO TONIGHT by shotoku - 12/07/24 @ 09:05 PM CST

Preoccupied with other reservations tonight, so no radio. There will probably be a makeup show Sunday night, or simply an extra-length broadcast on Tuesday. A guest DJ would be interesting, I think.

BLOG + NEW HOST AND FUTURE by shotoku - 12/04/24 @ 11:59 PM CST

...And there we have it. A god damn motherfucking badass blog system. Now I can spout my hate all over the internet in real time. We also switched hosts off of neocities for the first time since 2016 (took me a while, I know). I got real sick of just static HTML and CSS, and will now be putting things that are actually interesting on here using the arcane powers of PHP and Perl (maybe). Expect a chatroom in the future, and not that shitty Chatango one over on the radio page... Alas, Rome wasn't built in a day. I also thought about writing a bulletin board, but that would contradict the existence of a chatroom, so who really knows. Oh, I'll also probably be moving my music catalogue onto here as well, with ratings and all. Maybe. Probably not.