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Day 22/365 i feel sick ugh Tasks I made progress on: • Khrome ◦ Added a timer and a deathcount ◦ Added the typewriter effect to the level info display ◦ Added hover anims to the keys ◦ Fixed a bug where the cool effects from yesterday were blocking inputs from reaching the pause menu... just set their input handling thingy to disabled ◦ renamed the levels from numbers to their level names and changed the level storage system from a dict to an array so I can drag and add levels as I please in the inspector. ◦ maybe some other stuff idk im so tired uhhhhhhhhhhhhh Streaks • Journal ✅ • Reflection ✅ • Commits ✅ • Medicines :red-x: :tired: almost there Reflection Mood: 2/5 Productivity: 5/5 lotta lotta lotta stuff done tday, but I'm so tiredd aaaaaaaaaaa I just wanna go eep Also applied for the singapore visa today, hopefully it goes well :prayge: as a ss uhh here's a screenshot of the recording of the game cause im too tired to open up godot again for ts

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Day 22/365 I was out of the house most of the day so I wasnt able to get all that much done, but i did experiment more with hytale ui! I tried getting a progress bar ui element loading (like a healthbar) but it kept erroring so i think i might have to code it manually :C oh well you win some and you lose some!

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DAY 22/365 • Set up Lidarr for downloading music :sickbro: PROGRESS ON MY GOALS • Soldered bullet terminals for the motor of my rocket hopper:yesyes: • Printed servo arm extensions for leg deployment servos:yesyes: • Journaled:yesyes: :streak:22 days

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Day 22(or 1) Started on making a cross device monitor. Did a bunch of work on our robot for Vex. Got the data gathering portion of the resource monitor done (thanks psutil) Played way too many games Did my math final exam, maybe did alright. Pictured below is the data I extract from the system.

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day 21/365 & day 22/365: • fixed weekly wrapped logic + add widget settings back • had tests today and yesterday • studied a bunch • not to much done lowk

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Day 21/365 im like oscillating Tasks I made progress on: • Khrome ◦ Made a cool effect when you switch between states ◦ Made a key-door obstacle with animations and sfx ◦ Made the level finish orb have a hover animation ◦ changed the colors of the player and the level finish orb ▪︎ Made the player's outline swap to fit the phase it is in ◦ tried to fix a bug where selecting a level from the level select doesn't update the game ui's level text, to no avail. Might be a race condition. Streaks • Journal ✅ • Reflection ✅ • Commits ✅ • Medicines :red-x: :tired: i keep doing half of it never the whole routine Reflection Mood: 3/5 Productivity: 4/5 lotta lotta lotta stuff done tday, the colors for the doors/keys still look ugly so might work on fixing that... guh. buh. Here's a screenshot with as many of the things I worked on today in a single screenshot. The red door is opening because I just collected the key for it, and keys can also exist within the different phases so you have to look out for them (eg the yellow key to the botton center of the screen that opened up the blue door in the back).

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Day 21/365 Due to me finally settling down at my pc a lot later than usual, I really didnt get all that much done. I played and talked with friends, and I added a bit of features to the capture the flag game i was on about last post, such as randomized teams. My favorite minecraft roleplay-ish server announced that they are closing down the server the day after its 1 year birthday. Its sad but it was a great run, then again I could have seen it coming for various reasons. I played around with even more hytale plugin stuff and got a custom hud to show up, and you dont even need a command to make it appear! I will probably turn this into a cool stat-bar soon for a game im trying to recreate

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Day? Billy Vr

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Check out taskflow-admin, my new dashboard implementation app! (Its broken right now, it works well on localhost though :] )

DAY 20/365 • Made my #C0A8CMWM0CR| page :yay: PROGRESS ON MY GOALS • Continued coding the firmware for my robot for WRO:yesyes: • Journaled:yesyes: :streak:20 days

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Day 20/365 why. Tasks I made progress on: • Khrome ◦ Tried to make music, didn't work out. Streaks • Journal ✅ • Reflection ✅ • Commits ✅ • Medicines :red-x: :tired: Reflection Mood: 2/5 Productivity: 2/5 ... welp I guess I have to lock in on programming tomorrow had to go to school today for college stuff, talked to my old cs teachers about hackclub which was fun! They might be calling me to talk about it in school. Most students have exams now tho so itll be just the 8th graders. yappapayappayapaayapa what is grass I haven't touched it in so long here's a photo of LMMS for today's photo

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Day 20/365 I looked into hytale plugins a bit (i didnt get far). When my friendgroup got a bit bored and were struggling with games to play we just made a capture the flag game on roblox lol!!

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Create a todo list to check out how convex works and build the UI for the authorization server

day 20 • I did NOT need to get 9 and a half hours of beauty sleep on the night before an exam😭 • anyway tired already and 2 tests tmr, finger crossed I'm praying for myself🤞 • also magazine got approved for half a page yay • photo: crude aluin crystals I made

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Day 20/365: • Tons of school work, plus huge ahh backlog • Kept up with commits • Add functionality to two new widgets, plus made categorization better

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Day 19/365 publishification of the stateful piece of software known as a video game Tasks I made progress on: • Khrome ◦ Made all the other levels ◦ some misc updates to ui and stuff ◦ fixed some bugs ◦ published the game! catgirlownsacafe.itch.io/khrome Streaks • Journal ✅ • Reflection ✅ • Commits ✅ • Medicines :red-x: :tired: Reflection Mood: 3/5 Productivity: 4/5 I published the game! Apparently I worked for >5hrs today? which is crazy. I guess I was too tired to question if I was in the flow state. Although now I am DEFINETLY not in the flow state, and I DEFINETLY need some eep. Photo? uhh here's a photo of the itch page ig. and of the hatched milkyway egg? I'm so behind on the milkyway lore I just realised the ship was accepted when trying to take a ss of the hatched egg thingy lmaooo :heavysob: so you get the juicy reviews from the reviewer too

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Day 19/365 Played around with even more hytale biome generation yayay!! I sent in a request for an HCB nonprofit for my hackclub! I also started work on setting up steam workshop for my game One Turret.

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DAY 19/365 • Played drums :spinny_cat: PROGRESS ON MY GOALS • Continued coding the firmware for my robot for WRO:yesyes: • The robot should now be able to estimate its position form the wheel encoders • Journaled:yesyes: :streak:19 days

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day 19 • survived a presentation and an interview😤 • my github streak is dying but I don't have time to code bc of stupid exams😭 and after exams I need to do competition😭 senior year is not ok • submitted escape room for magazine, let's see how much space I can get, I'm hoping for half:eyebrow: • did a really fun spatial dimensions puzzle in physics today instead of actually prepping for the test tmr at least we were the only ones who finished it lol

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working on personal site ig

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made this goofy devlog lol

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major work on hackboard in the last few months, testing theme switching with new menu options

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I ♥️ archiving

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New personal website

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Day 19/365: • worked on #C09LY6P34D6| • doing maths • overall chill day

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Day 19/365: • worked on #C09LY6P34D6| • doing maths • overall chill day

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Day 18/365 im so tired Tasks I made progress on: • Khrome ◦ Added SFX and a SFX system ◦ Added UI to display the current level ◦ Made two levels - one significantly simpler than the other... Streaks • Journal ✅ • Reflection ✅ • Commits ✅ • Medicines :red-x: :tired: Reflection Mood: 4/5 Productivity: 3/5 Today was overall a sleepy day. Got some quality lock-in time in the evening though, so managed to finish some of the smaller stuff. All that's left to do is make the levels then ship the game for V1! Speaking of levels... Introducing the monstrosity known as Carousel Part 2. Half the obstacles aren't even visible. My last two braincells can't figure out how to make it work without angling the sun, which makes it practically impossible to control the player's landing. Maybe when I wake up in the morning I'll know what to do.

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Day 18/365 Made even better hytale custom biome mod tutorial. I was out for most of the day so I didnt get much else done. I did add custom games to my aces project, now you can edit things like player count, cpu count, dice count, and more settings to come probably

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DAY 18/365 • Studied Chemistry • Played piano PROGRESS ON MY GOALS • Assembled TVC vanes for my rocket hopper:yesyes: • Journaled:yesyes: :streak:18 days

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DAY 17/365 • Attempted to study but procrastinated the whole day on YouTube:noooovanish: PROGRESS ON MY GOALS • Printed TVC vanes for my rocket hopper:yesyes: • Journaled:yesyes: :streak:17 days

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Day 18/365: • worked on the app, fixed some issues related to saved receipts, and what the api was receiving, also fixed issues related to auth • submitted a website for #C09LY6P34D6| • doing maths rn as i am typing this

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personal webpage

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day 18 animal crossing outreach hack club campfire call

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Days 16 - 18/365: - Did ~40 minutes of work on my flavortown game - started learning Onshape using this tutorial, got through 9 videos - I'm working on CADing P03 inscryption now

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day 18/365 #C07MLF9A8H5| submission launched worked on #C0A3MN3GYLT| STICKERS YIPPEE

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Day 17/365 the lock in doth come before the lock out Tasks I made progress on: • Khrome ◦ Did 1 hour of work ▪︎ I was finagling around with two different audio software trying to make one of them work with Vital before I scrapped my projects on both of them, restarted on LMMS and realised there was an instrument specifically designed to import external VSTs into LMMS. Well. Hmm. ▪︎ So I gave up on music, played Cobblemon for an hour or two, then after a few spontaneous chores and stuff got back and added the pause system for my game. That's all I did. Streaks • Journal ✅ • Reflection ✅ • Commits ✅ • Medicines :red-x: :| Reflection Mood: 4/5 Productivity: 2/5 Today was NOT a productive day. The lock-in-turned-lock-out huddle was fun tho! The pause menu isn't anything too fancy, I'll prolly change it a bit later down the line. The main reason it wasn't done in like 10 minutes is because my UI is jank so I had to devise a clean way (debatable) to trigger the pause menu while pausing the game and not allowing other things (state change) to happen in that time. Work for tomorrow: audio. I'll first start with sfx, then spend the rest of the time working on game music. I think something either dark techno or something similar to the vibe of Bloxorz would fit the game.

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Day 17/365 Today I made a low quality hytale custom biome mod tutorial, alongside wrote a script for a better video. Had a hack club meeting!!! Today we did polygon, whilst eating grub we got from grub :D It was pretty fun but we did run over time. We ran overtime so much that we had to leave because the library closed! However my dad was talking with his boss (my dad's boss' sons attend my hackclub) and we are going to arrange a new venue, one where i wont be stressed about going over the time limit. I did not work on aces today. Oh well. You win some you lose some.

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Day I forgot "Lock in" Ikea Greg

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hi, i'm doing a flipper zero like project for my blueprint project, what do you think, can it be only 2 layers or no? at the moment this is the best that i've accomplished.

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Day 17/365: • worked on the app, changed up how ai response comes out, and switched to a faster model (need to work on categories), some UI changes (on a side note my buddy briyan has helped me with the UI, and it looks AMAZING) • Here's how the wrapped looks like • bunch of maths • oh also i forgot to mention before, I added automatic reciept reading so your job has become less tedious now

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started on a very simple Password generator. It is absolutely not secure and I am fully aware of that 😌! I found a password generator by Proton, but it was written in Rust… and for educational reasons (and also to torture myself), I decided to translate it into React instead.

DAY 16/365 PROGRESS ON MY GOALS • Assembled servo attachments and leg deployment servos on my rocket drone:yesyes: • Started planning out next season of WRO with my team:yesyes: • Journaled:yesyes: :streak:16 days

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Day 16/365 locked in so hard ong. Also, 2^4 day!!! Tasks I made progress on: • Khrome ◦ Did about 6 or 7 hours of work. ▪︎ I made gold and grey versions of each obstacle, and also made multiple types of lasers scenes. ▪︎ Made 4 levels ▪︎ Got billboards working after a bunch of finagling, I needed them specifically in such a way that I can incorporate keyboard shortcuts Streaks • Journal ✅ • Reflection ✅ • Commits ✅ • Medicines :red-x: buh... Reflection Mood: 4/5 Productivity: 5/5 Today was a really productive day... yea i'm kinda conked out after allat work. Also had a fun semi-lock-in call in my PC :3 Screenshot of the second level. The goal is to reach the white box in the end. Also has the billboard in it! I probably need to adjust the colors of the gold obstacles a tad, and maybe mess around with a player character? Although the bean does have its charm.

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Day 16/365 I published my hytale mod from yesterday onto curseforge, and it already has 100 downloads!! Most of the day I was playing around with hytale lol (And doing irl stuff). I also started work on my first draft for the hackclub magazine! Tommorow after my club meeting im going to try and lock in on aces. If I dont have 30 hours in by the time my classes start on monday im gonna be worried!

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day 16 day 16 this means something figma alot of figma slack annoyance site stuff lots of that cool slackbot thing yeah stuff

Day 2/30 Today was chill and I went hiking. I was tired after that and only could solve some usaco problems and planned BOM for my project.

Day 12/365, 13/365, 14/365: • Worked so fricking hard on hisabi, it has lowkey burnt me out • School so bunch of school stuff like assignments, and study • I have also been working on something called genius hour, where we present our most Innovative projects, the final presentation was today • Kept up with the commits, haven't missed a day

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