My New Website Revamped | How

 Hello everyone,

I wanted to let everyone know that my website at https://jonathanuniverse.com/ has been revamped. Previously, it has been designed mainly by PHP. Using PHP wasn't efficient for my website to run properly, so I switched from PHP over to React. I still use PHP as my backend for things such as my API for displaying content. However, besides that, it is now completely in React. This switch will also help improve it on the client side by minifying JavaScript and CSS upon building it. This also combines all my JS files as well.

Besides that, I have set up an entire infrastructure using Ubuntu Server to help with scalability of my website. Which is a huge improvement from the setup I had previously. I did make a lot of other massive changes besides that to make things a lot more flexible and dynamic. 

There is still a lot of work that needs to be done that I want to finish. Such as adding skeleton loaders to the dropdown menus content, improve the contact form, and finally add that QR Code Scanner to help make my site a lot more interactive.

Anyways, that's all the updates I have for today. I know a bit boring and I probably already lost you but if I didn't, comment below.

Discontinuation of VariableX

 Hello everyone, 

I am discontinuing my language VariableX. The primary reason is for the fact that similar formats of a=b already exists in other applications. Plus, using JSON works a lot better than using a=b since it brings more flexibility and more scalability to my websites and apps than a simple key and value pair.

It was fun designing it and it gave me good practice in programming. I could've improved further on the application; however, at a point, it would be too much and may cause performance issues, especially since JSON works and everything is already there.

So, I apologize for the short blog post on this but I just wanted to let you all know what was going on with VariableX since I initially made a post about it back in 2022

Thanks for reading,
Jonathan

The true greed of Tinder | Possibly been scammed by Tinder

 I am a single guy who uses Tinder to try to find that special someone. I knew Tinder was greedy, but last night on (03/08/2023), I now seen how greedy Tinder is.

Yesterday, I decided to subscribe to Tinder Gold to see who liked me. Well, that subscription was not even worth it. Not because of the subscription, because of Tinder. As a couple hours later, I was banned from Tinder. The only thing I did was dislike and like the people who like me. I only like one person and sent a message and such. 2 hours later, I seen she messaged me back and when I opened Tinder, she wasn't in my messages. So, I thought she might of unmatched me.

So, I swiped left and right on some people. Took a break and then around 11pm, I went on Tinder to do some more swiping since I have unlimited likes and when I opened the app it said I was banned. Like what the heck. I literally paid $25 plus tax for pretty much nothing as I was banned that night. At first, I thought I did something wrong by accident, so I went through the ToS and Community guidelines of Tinder and I didn't see anything I could of broke. So, I contact Tinder through support to tell them I think it was a mistake because I am certain I did nothing and I read through the ToS and Community guidelines carefully. Within the hour, I got a response. They agent said the same thing that I was banned, not even trying to help me. Tinder has not appeal process but I tried anyways. Tinder pretty much is saying to that that if you get banned even if you did not do anything to break ToS then you are pretty much screwed, even creating a new account is a hassle as you have to use a VPN, a new phone number, new photos.

I have searched online for what to do, and while looking through Reddit on the r/tinder, I see a oddly specific comment that they say how other people got banned from Tinder after making a subscription. Here is a link to that comment.

It was so oddly specific to what happened to me that it got me thinking. Did Tinder scam me. A well-known popular, high quality dating service scamming?

After thinking about it, that may be possible. Even if they didn't ban me after subscribing, for a feature where you only get to see your likes and have unlimited likes for the price of $25/mo, that itself is a scam. Having unlimited likes and being able to see your likes barely would dent in resources. 

I ain't the only one though who got banned for no reason, that post with the comment I linked, they say they didn't do anything. If I viewed that post before I got banned, I would of probably thought they probably did something. But now after I got banned, I would believe it. Plus, when searching online about getting banned on Tinder for no reason, I am not the first and probably am not the last.

The reason I made this post is to spread awareness and warn others about Tinder. Heck, I even reported the app to Google that they most likely scammed me. Hoping for it to be taken down. However, by myself won't make a difference. If you got banned after making a subscription, I encourage you to report the app to the App Store or Play Store.

What could Izuku Midoriya's (Deku) quirk might have been? [My Hero Academia | Boku no Hīrō Akademia]

 Everyone knows that there is a chance Deku was born quirkless. I say quirkless as there are theories that his quirk was probably stolen as his doctor who diagnosed him as quirkless looks like the doctor who works for All For One. Anyways, Deku gain One For All from All Might and had multiple quirks at his disposal. But now, you are probably wondering what kinds of quirks he could of have if he had one.

Both of Deku's parents had quirks, which would make Deku a rare case of being quirkless. His father has an unnamed fire breathe quirk while Deku's mother can attract small objects. By using this data, I thought of quirks Deku may of have.

Heat Wave

Quirk Type: Emitter

Heat wave would give Deku the ability to heat up the air around him to high temperatures. However, it is possible that Deku wouldn't be resistant to the heat. I say possibly because I don't know much about his father. As if his father was resistant to heat, Deku could use his quirk without burning himself out.

Weaknesses:
Burning himself out - A 50/50 chance, even if his father has fire resistance or not.

Why Google Plus never succeeded

Most of you probably are saying. What's Google Plua? Well, Google Plus was a social platform created by Google back in 2011. Google Plus closed back in 2019.

I have used Google Plus, but I only posted like 3 or 5 posts, ever. So anyways, why didn't Google Plus work out. Well, it is a bit obvious. And it is one word, uniqueness. Everyone knows Discord, a social platform originally intended for gaming. It succeeded big time because of how unique it was compared to other platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. I think of Discord one of the most unique social platforms out there. Which is probably why for its rapid success.

Back to Google Plus (I was kind of enjoying talking about Discord), it was pretty much and share what's on your mind social platform. That was pretty much it. However, there are already a bunch of social platforms everyone already uses that does that. Facebook and Twitter are the big ones. This doesn't really make Google Plus attractive to most people since everyone else already uses platforms that does the same thing that has more features.

On Facebook, you can message, play web games, shop, post statuses, and more.

On Twitter, you can message people, post tweets, and more. 

On Google Plus, you could post posts, and message people. 

What could make Google Plus successful

Well, I am not sure what would make Google Plus successful. However, it is by Google, who collects massive amounts of data from users. So, Google could of see what problems others may have on other social platforms or even directly ask. Then Google could make a unique social platform that could suit everyone's needs.

Google Plus really looks like they didn't really put much effort into it. Heck, Google probably knew it wasn't really going to survive long so they didn't bother putting too much effort in it. Google Plus even had quite a bit of bugs in the platform as well. One that even led to a lawsuit as a bug involved a user's privacy. This part,

I do have a source about the privacy bug ((37) Is this Google Plus Litigation Email a Scam? - YouTube). Uploaded by Pleasent Green, a youtuber who checks to see what is a scam or not. A scam baiter that isn't afraid to get his hands dirty. The video I list is seeing if an email from Google is a scam or not. Spoiler, it's not.

Conclusion

This is why I believe Google Plus never succeeded. There wasn't anything that it could distinguish by the other social platforms. Meaning, Google put no heart into it. Just something they wanted to do.

If you ever want to make your own social platform, try to find a way to make it unique and try to find other problems with other platforms that you can improve on yours. Advertising is also quite important as well.

New programming language | VariableX (Update 6/23/2022)

 On my website (Which isn't setup currently while I am writing this), I created a simple language which at the time didn't realized I was making one as I created it to be more simpler than JSON. Only details I am giving about it. The prototype, which I like to call it works 100% as I use it a lot when loading up all my projects I make. 

This programming language is a storage type of programming language meant to store data. Like JSON and MySQL.

The name of this programming language will be called VariableX or VX for short. I know, a awesome name. On the prototype, I made the compiler a lot more simpler since it was something quick but I am planning on creating a more reliable compilation. The public version will first be in Javascript, even though the first prototype was in PHP. Reason because I needed it in Javascript first as the new caching system I made was in Node.js which uses Javascript as the language.

Update (6/23/2022 1:05 PM):

I have finished the coding of VariableX, currently it will be set private for a while to test it.

Website new caching system

 This is only available to my website not yet forwarded to the internet.

I use a universal system on my website to help me easily create new projects. To do this, I created a custom programming language, it isn't much though, the programming language is a way to easily store values, similar to json but more simple. This uses a custom file as well that is in each of my Project folder directory, which my websites reads to be able to implement onto my site.

Previously, my website used the PHP file reader. Which I thought was inefficient and could really be prone to DoS attacks since calling files needs more resources. So I created a caching system to cache all the projects in a json file inside an array for PHP to loop through them. This new method caches them to a specified amount of milliseconds. This new system used node.js to accomplish this.

Currently everything seems to be working find. I do have some more future plans to help decrease DoS attacks as well that by theory should be efficient. This new system workings will be confidential to prevent users or bots from making workarounds. But this system will be uniquely new as well. Maybe, it's possible other websites might use this method, but not entirely sure as the system would be completely hidden to just regular users.