Webmaster's Corner
I've been building websites since the early 2000s, and apparently I still haven't learned when to leave well enough alone. :P
This is where I'll share some of what happens behind AnimeHistory.org — experiments, code, useful resources, the occasional rant, and whatever strange things turn up while running an independent website.
Featured · October 2026
Nine Million Hits. So Where Is Everybody?
I gave ChatGPT a month’s worth of raw server logs and asked it to help find the actual humans visiting my little anime archive. We found millions of requests, some suspiciously persistent browser tabs, and an answer considerably harder to calculate than expected.
Latest
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Tutorial · Oct 31, 2026
Safe PHP Includes: A Tutorial from 2005, Revisited in 2026One of the first things I ever learned in PHP was also one of the first things I learned to break. Twenty-something years later, I'm still using the same idea. I remember the firs…
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Free script · v1.0 · Oct 31, 2026
Shoutbox!No-account shoutbox with BBCode, @mentions, and the AnimeHistory skin. Upload, shout, done.
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Free script · v1.0 · Oct 31, 2026
JukeboxDrop MP3s in a folder, include one PHP file, play. Classic folder jukebox with the AnimeHistory skin.
Around the Corner
- Reports Traffic, experiments, field notes.
- Tutorials PHP, JS, CSS — the stuff I actually use.
- Resources Links and references worth keeping.
- Free Stuff Standalone scripts. Download the zip, run it yourself.
