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Watching Oshi no Ko season 3 episode 9
I watched the Oshi no Ko episode 9 on the season 3. I don't remember these stories that much from manga. The first scene is mainly about how the production of a Japanese movie is and shows how Gotanda and Kaburagi did for a Gotanda's movie. It showed how hard the producer needs to work on his job for networking with actors and actresses to name them on the best TV shows or movies. From the Gotanda's PoV, Kaburagi actually has a passion instead of "pecunia maniac" which he says he is. When he looks back frmo the window of a room in a building, he looks cool rather than he is just a mob in the past episodes.
June 3, 2026
Watching Oshi no Ko season 3 episode 8
I watched the Oshi no Ko episode 8 on the season 3. Ruby obviously got angry with Aqua and got mad at him because he tipped off at Ai. While she was pushing him to the wall, her white star became a black star on her left eye. In the last episode, the white star was on her right eye. I didn't get why the eye was changed from the right to the left in this episode, but at least changing from white to black seemed to show that she was disappointed with Aqua or anyone and resolved more revenge.
May 31, 2026
Watching Oshi no Ko season 3 episode 7
I watched the Oshi no Ko episode 7 on the season 3, and here is the thoughts after I watched the episode including spoilers. This episode was how to deal with a gossip before it's released to the public, and the scene It's interesting how Memcho emphasized with Kana and cried together while Ruby was just looking at them without hugging together. She had been that kind of a person but she was not anymore. However, while talking with Aqua, the white star in a her eye was back, at least only in her right eye. That was a great animation and showed how genuinely she truly cared them.
May 30, 2026
Watching Oshi no Ko season 3 episode 6
Episode 6 was about mainly about an entertainment industry in Japan and Kana. In the last episode, Kana went to a director's office and a journalist took her photo for a gossip. This episode was all about how a male idol meeting with a woman or a female idol meeting with a man and someone got known to that. On the earlier part, Ruby was really not interested with a romantic relationship and thought SNS changed an idol who actually had a romantic relationship started not coming under fire. However, in the later of this episode, Kana thought about how an idol dooms when they have a hidden romantic relationship and someone expose it, and they get flammed, which was actually the old thing from what Ruby thought. Kana has seen the old days of the industry because she has worked since she was a child, and also it was now her turn to come under fire, so she thought what would come from a negative side. I felt a little bit weird that she was so gloomy and naive.... but well, actually, she is naive person.
May 30, 2026
Watching Oshi no Ko season 3 episode 5
Episode 5 was about mainly about Akane and Kana. I'm a manga reader and remember vaguely about the contents of this episode, but it seems it's so different from the manga in this. Akane's PoV was from the previous episode and she became a FBI in this episode. There was also a scene to call Aqua while she was wearing a pajama with her pigtail hair. It was rare that Aqua showed his weakness to her and also tried to be addicted, but I forgot this was a performance or from the bottom of his heart. But she showed genuinely how much she cares with their relationship and she has such a big heart with a big love.
May 28, 2026
Watching Oshi no Ko season 3 episode 4
Episode 4 moves a lot of story points. Maybe one of the most important episodes since season 1. I read a manga for this, but it's great how Ruby didn't feel anything about manipulating other people and talk with her smile and joy about how she behaved badly to others. Also, on the anime, it's great expressions and voice performance to see how Aqua was disappointed and went to gloomy when he was all wrong. He was all emotional and even his alter ego blamed him in his mind. It's kinda pitty but this really gives me how he wants to live for himself. And then, Akane. I didn't remember in the manga how Akane figured out Kamiki, but this episode on to that scene, too. Unlike Ruby's black star on her eyes, Akane has yellow star on her eyes and they also lightened up when she got a new actress award and she found out the Kamiki. It shows how Akane wants to help Aqua here as his girlfriend. That's a good comparison. Anyway, she should go into a police officer or FBI. Kana, on the other hand, also wants to help him as she was fallen in a love with him while he was just sitting on a bench but he made his head down. But Aqua rejected because he was in his own world at that time, and he was so shocked that he couldn't chase her nor he couldn't care her. For an half year to enjoy his own life with Akane really makes him peaceful, appearantly.
May 27, 2026
Investigate to transcode a video for a video on demand streaming by ffmpeg
NOTE:: This was written using ffmpeg version 4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1, and it's not been used on the production environment. I investigated how to transcode a video by ffmpeg and play it on a browser, and in order to do it, it was required to understand the theory of how it works. In this article, I described the basics of a video streaming like CMAF, HLS and DASH, and actual commands or codes to transcode and play a video on a browser.
January 8, 2024
Blender Scale Text by Each Letter
This was written using Blender 4.0 by a Blender novice. The animation in this post looks like next. Except step 4, I referred to this stackexchange answer. Step 1: Scale an entire text on Geometry Nodes Add a Instances > Scale Instances node and connect between Group Input and Group Output Set Y of Scale to 2.0 and make sure the text scales Add a Utilities > Text > String to Curves node and set the String field on the node Connect from Curve Instances of String to Curves to Instances of Scale Instances instead of Group Input. Add a Curve > Operations > Fill Curve and put it between String to Curves and Scale Instances Note that I couldn't figure out how to use the text of its mesh from the Geometry Input node for following animation steps correctly.
December 17, 2023
Blender: Animate a gradient material
This post was written using Blender 4.0. This blog is about to create the animation for color gradient. The final output of this post is like next: Step 1. Add a color gradient To add color gradient to a material, go to the Sharding tab and update nodes like the next. This is basically by: Add a Texture > Gradient Texture node Add a Converter > Color Ramp node between Gradient Texture and Principled BSDF Step 2. Animate a color gradient Add Vector > Mapping, Input > Texture Coordinate, and Converter > Separate XYZ nodes Connect inputs and outputs of each node by followings: Connect Generated of Texture Coordinate to Vector of Mapping Connect Vector of Mapping to Vector of Separate XYZ Connect Z of Separate XYZ to Fac of Color Ramp This value will be changed on the step 3, but change the Z value of the Mapping node and insert the keyframe on a frame appropriately to animate. Set the same color for the pos = 0 and pos = 1 on Color Ramp. Set z=1 on 100 frames, z=-1 on 101 frames, and z=1 on 200 frames By following the above, the animation becomes like next.
December 16, 2023
CI for Next.js with GraphQL by Cypress and GitHub Actions
CI is used to run automated testings before merging a change into the main branch. For Node.js application, I set up GitHub Action to run Cypress component testings for frontend testings Mock the response of GraphQL Jest testings for GraphQL resolvers Use a docker compose for a MySQL and a Firebase emulator on local and GitHub Action environments Unit testings for firebase storage rules But I couldn't figure out these things
September 3, 2022