A nice place for me to post 2026-04-04T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/ Yaffle 2026-04-04T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2026-04-04-Skate-3-Virtual-Photography-Archive-Cohost-Edition.html "Decided to archive my Skate 3 virtual photography efforts from 2022 that I initially used to post on cohost." 2026-03-29T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2026-03-29-My-First-Session-Video.html "Recording skate videos in Session: Skate Sim turned out to be very difficult, but I tried and here's my first attempt." 2026-03-09T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2026-03-09-Reposts.html "Reposting interesting things on the Internet that I didn't forget about since last December." 2026-03-07T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2026-03-07-Zugspitze-Peak.html Part three about my recent trip to see the Alps, featuring photos from the peak and of its infrastructure 2026-03-02T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2026-03-02-Zugspitze-Plateau.html Part two about my recent trip to see the Alps, featuring photos of pretty mountains :) 2026-02-16T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2026-02-16-My-Streaming-Plans.html A post where I announce some near future twitch streams or at least am scheduling some games / activities to stream. 2026-02-14T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2026-02-14-Zugspitze-Ascension.html Part one about my recent trip to see the Alps. 2026-02-08T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2026-02-08-A-Brief-Look-into-the-Brit-Rock-Period-of-the-DIY-Indie-Rock-Scene-in-Russia-2007-2009.html A music mix and a brief look at the bands from the "Brit-Rock" period of the DIY indie rock scene in Russia (2007-2009) 2026-02-06T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2026-02-06-Muenchen-Random.html A random selection of photos from my recent trip to München. 2026-01-11T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2026-01-11-Itzehoe-vs-Cuxhaven.html I was lucky to capture both silly funny town names on one train car timetable screen. 2026-01-03T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2026-01-03-First-Proper-Snow-of-This-Winter.html Photos of today's fresh snow :) 2025-12-21T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-12-21-Our-New-Year-Tree.html Check out our New Year Tree :) 2025-12-09T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-12-09-Getting-a-refurbished-Macbook-Pro-M4-and-feeling-sad-about-it.html A post about having complicated feelings about buying new expensive technology that is much more powerful than you need it to be. 2025-11-11T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-11-12-Reposts.html Reposting a small fraction of interesting things I saw on the Internet\: from September 2025 to Today. 2025-10-12T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-10-12-Hamburg-Alter-Elbtunnel.html Photos from a very long pedestrian tunnel under the river Elbe. 2025-10-02T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-10-02-The-Ghost-of-Kraken-Bay-Gamer-Theatre-and-a-bit-of-Hacking.html Funny gamer bit me and my partner noticed yesterday when checking Time Trial Leaderboards in Sonic Racing CrossWorlds. 2025-09-28T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-09-28-Kassel,%20Wasserspiele.html Photos from our short visit to Kassel in August. Wasserspiele Time! 2025-09-18T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-09-18-Reposts.html Reposting a small fraction of interesting things I saw on the Internet\: from May 2025 to Today. 2025-09-07T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-09-07-The-1000-Women-Challenge.html Here's a post about my last stream of 2024, when I tried to name 1000 women live on twitch... Content Warnings — potential secondhand embarrassement. 2025-09-07T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-09-07-Finally-Back-Into-PNGTubering.html I tested my new streaming setup on Fedora yesterday and it was fine! Yay! Expect some twitch streams from me again now ^__^ 2025-09-04T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-09-04-Pretendo-And-Animal-Crossing-New-Leaf.html I'm on Pretendo now, and I'm also playing Animal Crossing New Leaf again ^__^ 2025-08-31T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-08-31-The-Blaugust-Ends-With-You.html Oh? It's the end of blaugust already? No problem :P 2025-08-30T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-08-30-Sonic-Racing-CrossWorlds-Is-Pretty-Cool.html Me being not normal about Sonic Racing CrossWorlds and also some photos from gamescom 2025. 2025-08-26T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-08-26-Koeln-Hbf.html A couple of photos of the central railway station in Köln that I made before getting on a train to Wuppertal. 2025-08-24T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-08-24-Two-Evenings-In-Wuppertal.html Photos from my short time staying in Wuppertal during my trip to gamescom 2025. 2025-08-22T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-08-22-Birthday-Presents.html A short post where I share a couple of presents I got recently for my birthday. 2025-08-15T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-08-15-Blaugust-Update.html A short update on my Blaugust progress 2025-08-03T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-08-03-What-Im-Currently-Reading.html A short post about books (and web comics) that I'm currently reading. 2025-08-01T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-08-01-Blaugust-2025.html It's Blaugust time! This is a short post where I share some recent updates on life that include me finally becoming not normal about Homestuck in the year 2025. 2025-07-06T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-07-06-My-Favourite-Music-Of-2024.html It's the second half of the year 2025, which means I've finally managed to finish the list of my favourite music releases of 2024! 2025-06-28T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-06-28-Uncharted-Waters-Soundtrack.html I've found out about the Uncharted Waters video game soundtrack and decided to write about it. 2025-06-19T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-06-19-Epic-Xbox360-Game-Pile.html A post where I show you a pile of Xbox360 games that I got with an old Xbox360 from a local former(?) gamer. 2025-06-09T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-06-09-POP-STOP-MIX-2013-2016.html A cohost repost of my hyperpop mix that features some tracks from 2013-2016 that I liked. 2025-06-05T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-06-05-Draw-A-Pokemon-A-Day-Challenge-2018.html A collection of my Pokémon drawings from 2018 when I attempted to draw a pokemon a day and posted them on twitter. 2025-05-26T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-05-26-I-Did-a-Surgery-on-my-Macbook-Air-Again-and-Succeeded.html A long awaited sequel to my bad experience with trying to replace an old original 256GB SSD with a new NVMe 1TB SSD in my old Macbook Air! 2025-05-17T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-05-17-Yaffle-Fest-2025.html This is an announcement for the upcoming online DIY short film festival that I've been curating for three years now. It's tomorrow, on Sunday! Hosted by Nathalie in the KRITIQAL discord server! Thank you Nathalie! Open the post for links! 2025-05-03T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-05-03-I-Did-a-Surgery-on-my-Macbook-Air-and-Failed.html My bad experience with trying to replace an old original 256GB SSD with a new NVMe 1TB SSD in my old Macbook Air. 2025-05-01T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-05-01-Reposts.html Reposting interesting things I saw on the Internet in the last several weeks. 2025-04-26T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-04-26-Moi-Rakety-Vverh-The-Charles-Chobits-AMV.html Continuing posting stuff from my personal ancient archives. This time it's the second ever AMV I made when I was 15 — this time with translated song lyrics and some minor restoration edits. 2025-04-25T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-04-25-My-First-Photoshop-Attempts.html Here I am sharing exclusive artworks I made in photoshop when I was 13-14 years old. 2025-04-17T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-04-17-Rice-Cooker.html A post about loving my new (first) rice cooker. 2025-03-31T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-03-31-TDOV.html Thinking about my trans invisibility experience. 2025-03-29T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-03-29-Reposts.html Reposting interesting things I saw on the Internet in the last several weeks. 2025-03-27T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-03-27-Support-Your-Favourite-Radio-Stations.html Listening to NTS and ruminating on the importance of listening to music via radio shows. 2025-02-25T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-02-25-Berlin-Streets-And-Trains.html The rest of the photos from my visit to Berlin. 2025-02-24T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-02-24-Berlin-Fernsehturm.html Several photos from my brave assension to the Berlin TV tower observation deck. 2025-02-21T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-02-21-90s-Pickwick-Tea-Commercials.html Was reminded of a series of Pickwick Tea commercials from the 90s that I liked seeing on TV as a child, and decided to share them here. 2025-02-14T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-02-14-Berlin-Naturkundemuseum.html A bunch of photos I took at Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. <br>CONTENT WARNINGS: bones, bugs, dead fish 2025-02-07T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-02-07-Reposts.html 2025-01-30T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-01-30-Winter-Greens.html A couple of photos from a short walk to dispose of glass trash. 2025-01-23T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-01-23-Cohost-Archive-and-Some-Thoughts-on-2024.html Some thoughts on my 2024 through the prism of my cohost posts 2025-01-14T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-01-14-Dickmadam.html Thanks for representation, the integration course textbook... 2025-01-06T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-01-06-Chost-Renderer.html I made an offline tool to render post.json files from the cohost export data in a readable format (close to what they would look like on cohost). 2025-01-02T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2025-01-02-Happy-New-Year-And-My-Apple-Crumble-Pie.html Happy New Year, everyone! Here's a nice photo of an apple crumble pie me and my partner made for the holidays celebration last week. 2024-12-29T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2024-12-29-My-100-Favourite-Songs-Ever.html Inspired by my friend Nathalie, I've decided to go down the memory lane and pick 100 songs (music tracks) that I can call my all-time favourite. 2024-12-22T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2024-12-22-99-Xmas-New-Year-Songs-Chaotic%20Mix.html A cohost repost of a winter holiday songs tier list that I made in 2023 in order to compile an ultimate festive music playlist, because every other Christmas songs tier list was too boring >__< 2024-12-21T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2024-12-21-Reposts.html Sharing some recent blog posts, articles, and end of the year lists that I enjoyed reading. 2024-12-21T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2024-12-21-69-Wonderful-Christmastimes-Tier-List.html A holiday tier list of 69 versions of the infamous Paul McCartney song that I've worked hard on for no reason other than to make an elaborate joke ^__^ 2024-12-14T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2024-12-14-Sonic-Sticker-Album.html A small review of the Sonic the Hedgehog sticker album released recently by Panini and SEGA in order to promote post-2020 Sonic games and Sonic Movie 3. 2024-11-30T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2024-11-30-Star-Ratings.html Added star rating to my blog post header under the userpic and now I'm rambling a bit about its origin and how cool it is to steal some forgotten stuff from the web archives and bring it to your own website. 2024-11-27T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2024-11-27-Reposts.html Sharing some recent blog posts that I enjoyed reading. 2024-11-23T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2024-11-23-Shadowboxing.html Translation of an article from 2008 about St. Petersburg antifa. Originally posted semi-anonymously on cohost in 2023. It's a pretty rough longread with a bunch of content warnings, some pretty controversial statements, written with smugness and condescension, but still providing an interesting insight into the state of resistance to neo-nazi movements in late 00s Russia. 2024-11-23T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2024-11-23-Il-Pianeta-Blu.html Check out this cool old sticker album from 1995 you could apparently just buy online from the official online store?... 2024-11-10T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2024-11-10-Emo-Sux.html Sharing some emo albums from various Russian cities that I've discovered recently. 2024-10-30T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2024-10-30-Some-Nice-Autumn-Walls.html Trying out some urban photography at last. 2024-10-29T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2024-10-29-Forest-Of-The-Fall.html Photos from a forest walk I went for earlier in October. 2024-10-11T00:00:00Z https://yaffle.fyi/blog/posts/2024-10-11-Hi-Welcome-To-My-Blog.html I am finally writing my first non-test blog post!