Site Updates

☺ July 8th, 2024 (8:21PM-PST/11:21PM-EST):
V4.4.0 Despite the jump in version numbers not too much has changed. Just felt like making a post saying we LOST a bunch of commits between Yeebus and I's internets >:O Not a big deal because the latest one was backed up but whatever I guess. Anyways there were just some bug fixes. Jukebox's 'rare' tracks were too rare, site's background was too big and shifting the screen around weirdly sometimes, logo gif at the top was too large a file, etc. And we'll be posting some more. K byeee

☺ June 14th, 2024 (4:21PM-PST/7:21PM-EST):
V4.2.1 Added a little sign for MechNet on the front page so people can get to it easily and INDULGE in the SOUND. Right now the sign is hardwired to be on, so even if the radio goes offline, the sign will still say 'on air'... For now... Ok now go click it

☺ June 12th, 2024 (12:32AM-PST/3:32AM-EST):
V4.2.0 Don't have too much to say this time. Fixed a few things like the little audio player (not the juke) was playing with the wrong volume when u changed it. Had some wires in the wrong place... oopsies :D
Other than that read YAMUM! The first volume of our annual magazine!
CLICK HERE TO READ

☺ May 22th, 2024 (8:39PM-PST/11:39PM-EST):
V4.0.6 bugz bugz bugz @~@ Yeebus has been handling a bunch of bugs on the home page. For instance: the Jukebox was shuffling an empty array instead of shuffling in rare songs (now you can actually hear rare tracks mixed in properly), we took the Juke's song count/duration down from like ~130 / 4.5 hr. down to like a random selection of around 12 or so tracks / 20ish min total, each page reload (crazy we have that much music though! Keeps the Juke interesting!) it was slowing the site down... Same with the pics i took of all the metal scraps for the ui were huge and also slowing the site down a bunch. Aaaaand some other little flavour elements like the site's age at the bottom right not counting properly. I'm told that one was a particular headache haha. And credit where credit is due ASAKLAIR Mr. Asaklair got the radio functioning on its own secure subdomain FINALLY! (radio.youaremachines.com) He was telling me the connection was unencrypted porting it from my scrapyard to DP's internet. I guess that's what you get for running a bootleg radio service ;p

☺ May 10th, 2024 (5:39PM-PST/8:39PM-EST):
V4.0.0 I can hardly believe it, but the front page is finally FINALLY done!!! We've got some work to do posting some things, so stay tuned! We'll be a little more active on here now that we can finally share some things on a proper front page. It's like a well made bed.
Basically all we did was add a LOAD of songs to the frontpage, and the more important thing was we made sure the site's ui loads quicker. Yeebus pulled some magic and reduced the weight of all the metal parts. Also, our featured posts now have some dates to see when they were posted!

☺ April 24th, 2024 (11:46AM-PST/2:46AM-EST):
V3.8.0 it feels like just yesterday it was V3.7.1... Well actually it was a few seconds ago as of writing this. Teehee. It was a big day of bug crushing and getting some other optimizations in place, so it was worth a bigger number lol. Also, crazy seeing a Devnews update twice in one month! Anyways Yeebus did most of the bug fixing and getting it working/displaying on all browsers properly.

But I was helpful too!! I found this sick little audio player while scavenging and my first thought was "this would be great for the site". So, I got it set up to take audio files and play them properly. The little tracking head to scrub through the track was broken so (you can probably see) I had to cut it open and got a little bodge-job fix in there with a bolt, but I think it gives it character! Anyways I carved our name into it so you KNOW its an authentic YAM-branded device. I just think it would be great for little audio updates, some music Asaklair might make. Maybe some poetry reading hahaha. That sounds stupid so I think we should do that.

Speaking of Asaklair, he was super helpful doing some back-end maintenance fixing the web server host thingy awhile ago. Apparently the old company was evil so he switched over to a not-so-evil host that ensures we own all our art and like, the site itself. Apparently it's a load of work resetting all the server records, security, email, and other bits (who knew). So thank you to not just our only back-end developer, but our only back-end developer haha.

☺ April 9, 2024 (1:23AM-PST/4:23AM-EST):
V3.5.3 I think the (fucking) jukebox is finally (mostly) done!! (Nothing is ever done in this place) It only took forever but now there's a working volume slider, and Yeebus helped cleaning up some bugs with it. Just need to get a few more songs in, and pick one of the YAM theme songs to be the first thing to play on it every time you reload the site.

Plus, I've figured out some better ways to share cool shit I find browsing through old junk drives I find rummaging in the featured art tab. Yeebus helped a lot getting it working on DP and was able to find the still-online equivalent of the images and videos I found and 'embed' them or link to them or something. Idk it still kind of blows my mind DP's internet is still alive, and that I can see where all this art came from.

ALSO shit I can't believe I haven't mentioned but we have a LIVE RADIO STATION!!! I tried starting one to broadcast here in Marionette, and it was going ok, but apparently Asaklair is like a radio head ( ;p ) so he took over and made it way better. Still broadcasts in Marionette as well! He's the host now too lol. But we all decide on the songs and help out with it. That'll be online later on... Who ever knows when shit will be done with this site haha. Anyways, I will pre-emptively command you to listen to WBKR MECH-NET RADIO!!!

☺ January 17, 2024 (3:41AM-PST/6:41AM-EST):
V3.4.0 have been making a few changes to the jukebox, and have been getting the credit system in and finally working! Needs some polish, but the good thing is that it functions. Now it doesn't seem like we're stealing from people :p

☺ January 2, 2024 (2:34PM-PST/5:34PM-EST):
V3.2.7 We've agreed to do another push to the livesite even though the front page isn't quite finished yet. There have been a lot of updates already, so why not show it off a little ;) I think the main thing is just that the featured art tab supports a few embeds now (but apparently most embeds are big and dumb and dont scale nicely!) But whatever, that whole auxiliary panel could use a bit of work.

☺ November 30, 2023 (12:31AM-PST/3:31AM-EST):
V3.2.2 uhhhh ignore the long break again lol. Have been busy in the scrapyard with other things. BUT I got back to the site and did some work with Yeebus. Almost all the the post types are formatted but the really satisfying thing is that everything posts chronologically now! Meaning we can schedule posts so the site can be active while we're all busy (like I was, as u know ;) Anyways, front page is nearly done, few more cleanup bits then we can move on to some other pages (finally). I'm always reminded how huge this mf is but it's really fun when it works.

☺ August 15, 2023 (5:58AM-PST/8:58AM-EST):
V3.0 HOLY CRAP!! SUCH A BUSY DAY AND WE'RE FINALLY AT 3.0!!! THE SITE'S (first major) PUBLIC RELEASE!!! So much for 'morning of August 12', damn. I was really pushing to have it done by today at the latest. And Yeebus was doing the same transcribing all my code and junk to DP's internet. I definitely spent the longest finishing up the juke, but it's wired up now (thank fuck lol). Took some time to throw up a few (temporary?) pics and our FIRST POSTS IN THE GALLERY! Omg, I mean like. It doesn't get much better than that. Next up, some team discussions with Asaklair and Yeebus for our next steps... This is just great. Snoop around, punk!!! Push some fucking buttons!!!

☺ August 10, 2023 (12:40AM-PST/12:40AM-EST):
V2.7 Polished up some bits, got a site visitor counter in, some nav bar icons (mostly so I knew wtf I was clicking on every time lol), and got a few LCDs powered and working. All that's left is to finish up this jukebox really, which I know is gonna be a bit of a bitch haha. Morning of August 12 is when I plan to get this kinda done (fuck really committing to that due date writing it here haha) Nearly there!

☺ August 9, 2023 (1:08AM-PST/4:08AM-EST):
V2.6 we're getting close now... I got the home page looking pretty good, everything is in place and ready for actual media!! Man, I have a backlog from all the hard drives and shit, and Asaklair and Yeebus have all their stuff they want to add too. We're all super excited. Just have to finish wiring up the soundsystem and text lcd's and it's pretty much good to go. I think this is gonna be pretty great...
And yeah, the plan is to release it when the home page is done, and just keep updating it as regularly as I can after that when it comes to adding the other pages and crap :p

☺ July 13, 2023 (3:07AM-PST/6:07AM-EST):
V2.3.4 fixed up some of these panels and buttons so they're a bit more satisfying to click and got this heart engine thing working, so hopefully I can power the site a bit better now. I hooked up this fan to test it- and cool the site, cuz it was gonna be very heavy on all the processing and shit I'm told. Anyways, it looks like it's all working so far!
(Also, I should come clean. I may be doing a lot of the scavenging finding these parts and bolting them together and stuff but I am getting a fair bit of help actually making it work on Dirt Palace's- your- interweb. Maybe I'll explain some more about that someday soon).

☺ July 11, 2023 (1:14AM-PST/4:14AM-EST):
V2.1 Oh yeah, that's right, VERSION 2!!!!! (Ignore the long break between updates, I was working on the ui, it takes a long time to make sure things are structurally sound when working with scrap metal). But anyways yeah, the ui is working, just time to give it some life, hopefully this little heart engine thing I found and wired up to it should help.

☺ June 12, 2023 (3:27AM-PST/6:27AM-EST):
V1.8.1 Got the compound ui set up for the site. I can now layer images on and graphically begin building the site... This is where it really gets started >:)

☺ June 11, 2023 (2:47AM-PST/5:47AM-EST):
V1.5.1 Uhhh, added like the beginning of the ui and fixed some glitchy css. It's still glitchy but at least its better. Also I added a version number to track progress.

➣ June 10, 2023 (5:46AM-PST/8:46AM-EST):
Lots of developments just completed. This site update page, music integration and random song selection (thanks to the Buzz api), along with a mute button, and some other bits.

➛ June 9, 2023 (3:45PM-PST/6:45PM-EST):
I began constructing my digital journal.

» June 8, 2023 (6:20PM-PST/9:20PM-EST):
I registered YouAreMachines.com.

☛ June 8, 2023 (6:17PM-PST/9:17PM-EST):
I began getting some inspiration for the site.

☺ June 7, 2023 (6:01PM-PST/9:01PM-EST):
I had an idea to make a website to start documenting stuff.