Yusupov.cloud

yusupov.cloud
url	https://yusupov.cloud
type	Personal web sites
owner	Michel Vuijlsteke
launched	2025
current status	Online

yusupov.cloud is a personal domain and virtual private server operated by Belgian technologist Michel Vuijlsteke. It hosts multiple small web applications on subdomains and at the apex domain. One of these is a MediaWiki installation titled “Yusupov’s House.” The setup is presented as a web-era continuation of the do-it-yourself ethos of Vuijlsteke’s 1990s BBS of the same name.

Overview

Among the projects on the domain is a MediaWiki (at the apex, yusupov.cloud) running MediaWiki 1.44.0 with PHP 8.3.6 (FPM) and SQLite, using the Vector skin and core extensions for citations and template scripting.

Subdomains and projects

Publicly visible projects include:

• acbc.yusupov.cloud — A Cabinet of Brief Curiosities, generating tiny three-sentence surreal/horror micro-stories with an hourly cadence and an archive. (Built with Flask per operator.)
• agenda.yusupov.cloud — A Life in Planners, a structured journal chronicling the final years of the operator’s mother, with calendar, food, medications, measurements, and statistics views (multilingual UI).
• cloud.yusupov.cloud — Cloud, a Progressive Web App hosting a collection of creative coding experiments, simulations, and games, including: a 3D implementation of the classic boids flocking algorithm; Cross ("A lazy person's crosswords"), a crossword puzzle game; an image dithering tool with multiple algorithms and vintage computer palettes; Elite Galaxy Explorer, a procedural galaxy generator inspired by the classic space game; a physarum slime mold simulation; The Chronicle of Hamurabi, a resource management game set in ancient Sumeria; Pipe 2, an endless self-playing isometric pipe runner; a ColorBASIC Home Computer TRS-80 emulator with BASIC interpreter; a ZX Spectrum loading screen simulator; fire and snake simulations; metaballs rendering; temperature visualizations; and a Carcassonne board game implementation.
• digest.yusupov.cloud — Digest, daily seasonal AI-assisted recipes inspired by current events, browsable by meal type and ingredients.
• echoes.yusupov.cloud — Echoes of What Wasn't, an AI-generated alternate-history newspaper presenting richly detailed articles about historical events as if they had unfolded differently. A pipeline scrapes real events from multilingual Wikipedia, uses OpenAI to craft a divergent narrative with period-appropriate prose and DALL-E imagery, and publishes via a REST API. Features article browsing by month, a "Where/When" interactive map-and-timeline view using Leaflet, and a picture desk. (Built with Wagtail 7/Django 5 per operator.)
• quidlibet.yusupov.cloud — Quidlibet, an app that generates fictional books complete with synopsis, author bio, and faux reviews; includes genre and author archives. (Built with Flask per operator.)
• tyov-web.yusupov.cloud — a web implementation of the solo RPG Thousand Year Old Vampire, with Django 5 backend and Vue 3 frontend. (Per operator.)

Operator-reported (not publicly discoverable at time of writing):

• skills.yusupov.cloud — a skills matrix application. (Per operator.)
• resources.yusupov.cloud — a simple resource plannign calendar. (Per operator.)

Technology

The wiki stack is documented on Special:Version. Individual apps are described by the operator as Flask (acbc, quidlibet) and Django 5 + Vue 3 (tyov-web).

Relation to the BBS

The project name references Vuijlsteke’s single-line BBS (FidoNet 2:291/1925) active between 1990 and 1995. While the VPS is not a BBS, its single-admin, self-maintained hosting reprises the early DIY approach.

See also

• Yusupov's House (1990s BBS)
• Michel Vuijlsteke