Bryan Veloso bryanveloso

🥑✨ avalonstar.com is turning 25!

As many of you know, avalonstar.com is turning 25 years old this year! Beginning on September 28th, 2025 we are planning a week/month-long subathon to celebrate. There'll be some awesome events with guests from Bryan's past, as well as everything you've come to expect from Avalonstar over the last 11 years on Twitch!

All gift subs and new subs after Ava's birthday on September 23rd will add to the goal for incentives. All subs are cumulative over the course of the subathon. This means that you don’t have to gift all the subs right away to gain one of the special rewards (ie: If you gift 50 subs, you will also get the 5 to 25 rewards). All rewards are subject to change and modified depending on how the month goes!

✨ Rewards for Gifters

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You're an intelligent individual who loves your hobbies. I would say the growth of this community is a testament to you doing the right thing to force change. Pouring the time you'd spend angry about Voron-idiots would be better spent lifting this community to greater heights.

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Vercel Monorepo

Why?

Code sharing: xxx-web project can directly access files and variables in xxx-api project vice versa. No need for a private npm module (i.e. @onextech/ens-api) for code sharing.
Integrated: Only 1 git repository to check-in to. No need to split across web and api, etc.

Benefits

Linked dependencies (i.e. node_modules) via Yarn Workspaces
Aliased imports (i.e. @app/web/src/*)

(NOTE: This was meant to be a YouTube video, but I ultimately decided against it.)

Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood, A Look Back at the UI Changes

Over the lifetime of Final Fantasy XIV's Stormblood expansion: there have been 24 official patches. Thirteen of them contained user experience changes, and many major features added: Blue Mage, the Eureka experience, the Glamour Dresser, and more. In this case I'm classifying major as any feature that required more than a couple changes to the user experience.

With so many changes, especially ones related to the major features added during the course of the expansion, I'm only going to cover the UI changes and quality-of-life updates I feel affect your everyday gameplay, or updates people may have overlooked. If I didn’t do that, I’d literally be reading the patch notes. I've posted my full set of notes in a Gist (this document), please forgive me if my notes can be a bit... lazy at times.

Outline

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

I am bryanveloso on github.
I am bryanveloso (https://keybase.io/bryanveloso) on keybase.
I have a public key whose fingerprint is 187F 27AB 6767 6938 FA2E C3A8 CBD0 E225 862E AAE3

To claim this, I am signing this object:

This is a work-in-progress list of my favorite anime intros. While I am not as dedicated to anime as I am to the JRPG, I have watched a good amount. That said, my memory sucks, so this list will definitely be missing a lot.

Tank, Seatbelts -- Cowboy Bebop (opening)
A Cruel Angel's Thesis, Yoko Takahashi -- Neon Genesis Evangelion (opening)
Period, Chemistry -- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (fourth opening)
Guren no Yumiya, Linked Horizon -- Attack on Titan (first opening)
Ready Steady Go, L'Arc-en-Ciel -- Fullmetal Alchemist (second opening)
We Gotta Power, Hironobu Kageyama -- Dragonball Z (second opening)
Cha-La Head-Cha-La, Hironobu Kageyama -- Dragonball Z (first opening)

	#!/bin/bash

	echo "=== MACHINE INFORMATION ==="
	echo "Machine Name: $(hostname)"
	echo "OS: $(lsb_release -d 2>/dev/null \| cut -f2 \|\| cat /etc/os-release \| grep PRETTY_NAME \| cut -d'"' -f2)"
	echo "Architecture: $(uname -m)"

	# CPU Info
	echo "CPU: $(lscpu \| grep 'Model name' \| cut -d':' -f2 \| sed 's/^[ \t]*//')"
	echo "CPU Cores: $(nproc) cores"

	# ------ FYSTEC SPIDER KING MCU Stepper Definition
	# ------ X/Y MOTORS

	# LEFT FRONT
	[stepper_x]
	step_pin: PG7
	dir_pin: PG6
	enable_pin: !PE11
	endstop_pin: tmc5160_stepper_x:virtual_endstop

	con_enable "1" // Enables the console.

	dota_disable_range_finder "1" // Activate the visual spell range indicator.
	dota_minimap_misclick_time "0.3" // Delay threshold to accept clicks on the mini-map.
	dota_player_units_auto_attack "0" // Disable auto-attack.
	dota_force_right_click_attack "1" // Enable right-click deny.
	dota_range_display "1200"
	dota_screen_shake "1"
	dota_player_multipler_orders "0"
	dota_unit_fly_bonus_height "150"