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can anyone give me an advice to make it better🙂

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Day 167 / 365 Heheh. heheheh guys. guys. if you. if you remove the one. its. its. 6. 7. kyajyaYA so funny right right right (i regret everything). Today was good i liked it a lot. Since its summer im going to be meeting with my hack club more, and we met up today!! yay!! We were originally going to meet at the church at 1 (1 hour than usual), but due to some stuff my two hack clubbers didnt actually have anyone to drive them, and their dad was at work so he couldnt open the church for us. so we instead decided to meet at the library, which took them an hour to get a ride from their oldest sibling since they were out at their part time or something. i think. im going to be frank i dont really know im just guessing lol. anyways. we ended up at the library at 2. We just sat at this one really small table, our laptops making a triangle in the center lol. We worked an hour on our hackpads, designing the pcbs!! as for my godot wild jam submission, I eventually got the custom texture upscaler to a good point, and i also made a working "basic brickbreaker" loop for me to add my weird stuff ontop of!

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i remade orpheus in blender :orpheus:

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Here's that diagram for how the program currently interacts with itself. • Anything purple (besides the background) is a temporary connection/file. • Anything green needs re-worked • The "Services" group contains files that are completely static in use, and are accessible globally. It's still a bit messy, but that's partly due to the temporary/need re-worked files. There's a still some spaghetti code due to that. The shader files I do look a lot like spaghetti as well, but that is mostly do to positioning. It's pretty basic, as the ui/ and system/ dirs aren't in there either (system/ is simulations + any computations that would need to be done (ex. translating data for one renderer to another)).

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Day 166 / 365 I slept in today so intotality i wasnt all that productive lol. Other than some homwork, I did code 2 tracked hours!!! I decided that im going to be doing godot wild jam, but might as well track the hours too and submit to stardance (i should probably ask if thats okay before i fully ship). Anywhom, the theme incase you didnt know is "mutation", and given my brickbreaker / breakout streak, i thought "what if i made a kaplin flavored brickbreaker". this is eerily becoming a trend, since my last few hack club games were "what if i made a kaplin flavored pet sim" (raise a ceiling), "what if i made a kaplin flavored clicker game" (A.V.I.C.G.T.I.T.M) and "what if i made a kaplin flavored autochess game" (Engrams of chaos). Anyways, tangent aside, the game isnt actually that complex and also plays into my recent noita addiction. Basically, you can apply genes onto your very living and sentient ball (the ball will comment on your bad gameplay). Levels get progressively harder with stronger bricks, and you have a limited number of shots each round. Fail to do that, then your run dies. At the end of each round you get funds, so you can either buy a gene or get a "charity gene" for free. You dont actually know what this charity gene is until you equip it, and once you equip it you cant remove it. Those genes are fairly gimmicky, so its meant to be like "Your desperation caused a curveball to be thrown. Maybe you can adapt and make it the best thing ever?" in my 2 hours today i made some simple ball movement and paddle movement. But how on earth is that 2 hours, you ask? Well i also tried making a few things to replicate a visual effect i once saw in mindustry. So in mindustry the sprites are really smooth, evne though if you scale it up in a art editor they actually arent? So without much research i assumed that they were using some sort of shader to make smooth triangles between pixels (i dont think they actually do that, but thats what i assumed). So i tried replicating that with a shader. It failed. So now im coding my own image upscaler that generates triangles between pixels. Its NEARLY done, but has a few tiny bugs here and there. idk theres probably a name for this but im going to pretend im really smart for coding it myself. oh also uh stardance rng i got 882 i love gambling stardance rng day 2 🎲 882 · ranked #50 so far

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I'm working on my Engine project. Just redid most of the data management in the PathTracer renderer. I'm almost done with this development phase, so that's fun. Tempname: Engine (yes that's the name) is a custom-built 3d engine that will support rendering complex scenes not only in a very stylized manner, but with a suite of techniques not normally seen. The renders not only will be high-quality and efficient, but will also have the ability for basic animations (no keyframes, but a simple system of startpos-endpos or along a drawn curve w/ velocity controlled by a graph). I like to think of those GIFs of scenes that have simple things like grass blowing, or a flag blowing in the wind. There's so much more to this that is way to much to fit into a small explanation, but there is more information at the github page: github.com/pkncoder/Engine/tree/Phase-III (ignore the main branch). Here's some random images from it (no textures yet, that should be soon. Then the backrooms really will feel like the backrooms):

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I'm back with a fresh batch of improvements to hawksley.dev my personal site! I'm Ethan Hawksley on most platforms, but to make me easier to find I created hawksley.dev/elsewhere where I've listed all my profiles in one location, with rel="me" so search engines know I'm the same person. I've switched over to logical units (inline and block) instead of physical (width and height), and added dir="ltr" to my html to aid internationalisation down the line. Fixed a flash of white that chromium-based browsers would occasionally experience whilst navigating the site. Now using astro-compress to minify the resultant site so it's even smaller Also set up stylelint to run on save so my css stays in an idiomatic order. And finally my print styles have been improved so if you do Ctrl+P on my site, it should look nice! My GitHub is github.com/ethan-hawksley and you can check out my repository at github.com/ethan-hawksley/ethan-hawksley.github.io it's fully open source!

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Day 165 / 365 Today was good! I worked a lot on my brickbreaker club ysws. By that i mean i made a better example project. I updated the original project i used to even propose the workshop (the game is called autumn breakout but uh you wont find it on my itch since its unlisted). I added some new features, but i made sure to add each feature in its own branch before moving it into one combined main branch, that way if someone wanted to learn how to implement XYZ they could see it without any distractions to other things!!! :D Anyways the features are: Main menu, multiple levels, sturdy and glass bricks, and sound effects. But given how easy I found it to add each of those, I think im going to hold off on making a tutorial for those. Better to learn naturally, no? also i suck at this game, even though its just a simple brickbreaker. (meme attached drawn by my friend night emerald. long story short its a tadc reference when we were watching an episode and the steam popup for me playing one turret showed up, to say "maybe your genuinly bad at one turret", and now whenever i suck at a game he puts new text) anyways outside of that, I played a good bit of noita. I had two really good runs. The first one, I died when I got to the holy mountain right before the underground jungle. One of the enemies on that area can apparently tunnel through walls??? so they went up, tunneled into the holy mountain, angered the gods by doing so, and got the cop enemy guy to show up and kill me instantly. Love this game. And for the second run i actually got to the boss! First run i was able to do that. But i didnt get that far into beating them, only getting them to 90% but im still really happy i got that far!!!

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i made a guthib (github.com/trstnd3) and my parents got me my first raspberry pi 4b YAY

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Day 164 / 365 Today was generally cool. Had to wake up early to bring my brother to swim. Then the two of us got some breakfast after at a resturant and it was cool and good. Then i went home, played for an hour, then left again lol. But this time, to a hack club meeting!!!!!!!!!!!! While previously my club was every other week, now that summer has started we are going to every week. Infact, we are actually going to be try doing it a bit sooner than every week. Im planned to meet up with them on tuesday. Anyways, In our meeting today we didnt really do a workshop. Instead, I got them started on hack club stardance ysws!!! Yay!! We were trying to come up with projects to do (i even brought the hack club magazine for inspo) and we eventually decided the 3 of us would make hackpads through the stardance hackpad mission thing. So uh yeah. We got started on that. If i remember correctly, we got the schematic made and next we are to actually make the pcb. But to be honest we were having some issue with hackatime (because im dumb) and we only started using lapse half way through to track time. Its even worse for me since i accidentally stopped my first recording, so i deleted it and made a new one. Oh well! I have a feeling we have plenty more hours left on this project.

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Hey everyone! 👋 For the past few months, I've been building AXIOM, an AI-native workspace designed around the idea that working with AI should feel less like chatting and more like collaborating. Instead of living inside a single chat window, AXIOM combines conversations, visual thinking, coding, tasks, files, browser interactions, and autonomous workflows into one connected environment. One of the core ideas is Space — a visual workspace where thoughts, notes, plans, tasks, agents, and project context can all come together and evolve as work happens. I'm currently preparing the first public release, which is planned for Tuesday, 16/06/2026. The repository already exists, but it's private for now while I finish the remaining work and polish things up. It will be made public on launch day: GitHub: github.com/fireboltmagnum/AXIOM There's still a lot to build. Would love to hear thoughts, suggestions, feature ideas, or things you'd want to see in a tool like this.

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I've made my own GUI based Motif GUI editor called MotifDesigner! Take the hassle away from coding hideous amounts of code just for a simple app, just embed it on your own C++ app with an automatically generated header (.h) file ready for your use! This entire thing is written in C++ and highly optimized for MaXX desktop users, but don't fret! Other Linux users can try it (Wayland users require XWayland) and make their own Motif apps with ease! It's open source, too! github.com/zeankundev/MotifDesigner

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day I don't even know • I just woke up and had a very weird and long dream(read below if youre interested) • I've been playing the card game hearts, it's so infuriating but I'm trying to be grateful everytime I'm not bullied into taking a card. it's much easier to live if you focus on the good parts actually. like it didn't rain when i was biking to prom or that summer vacation will begin much earlier this year • I am playing piano and drawing again after a long hiatus🌸 dream: One of the most chaotic dream ever. First I was a doctor. I was standing somewhere when one of my coworkers came over all red-eyed. Apparently they had turned into a vampire and wanted either a blood bad or my blood. I started running away in the empty hospital, all scared. However, the door was locked and I couldn’t get out through the window. Panicked, I made the time stop(lucid dream?) and restarted the run, this time getting out through a narrow gap in the window(like 2 cm) and went hiding in the bushes. All the grass was fake anyways and formed chains of plastic. I covered them onto me and lay still. My coworker then left through a medieval fancy carriage. I was relieved until they came back and spotted me. At that point I was like how could you do this to me?? Then the dream went to the second stage. I was inside and the coworker was now a friend? I threatened to break their favorite kettle and cup if they didn’t listen to me. Now they were all scared and I watched the kettle boil while I checked my phone. Whatsapp now has all sorts of popups. Ad every time you click somewhere. I tried calling someone but the app wouldn’t let me. I couldn’t leave the building. We were isolated with no way to contact the outside world. My friend told me that it’s the apocalypse. The world is ending. This group of people has taken over the world, and that there are seats for the selected few to survive, but limited places. His dad told him. I asked how I should get a place, and he said to just ask whatsapp. So somewhere I typed “I want a place”. There was an immediate answer, asking basic details etc. I told them everything and the price was 200 million. I tried contacting my family to let them know, but in the end I could only tell one. And then the dream shifted again, we now lived in a typical american 3 story house, friends and family and strangers came over, we ignored the apocalypse, took a lot of fun pictures and sent it to the sus organization, which was very surprising. (this is definitely inspired by the dystopian sci fi stories my dad sent me when i was very young. One was that capitalism became so extreme wealth became more and more concentrated, in the end only 1 person had all the money and the rest had to pay for air etc. in the end we were shipped to another planet because the rich guy didn’t want to see us in his backyard anymore. Oh and also there were robots watching your actions so you can’t even steal or plunder.) The third dream was simple. I was on a trip, i needed to find my hotel room but it was soo dark and blurry. I couldn’t find my hotel room or ask for help. My teammates had already found theris and i don’t remember which rooms they had. Some boys threw a stink bomb so I went downstairs. We(me, coach, a random professor) were on the second floor balcony overlooking a fancy lobby. More stink bombs so i kicked them off the balcony but they were still inside. I went downstairs to get them outside. It was a cute hotel, made of colored glass and had a middle eastern twist to it. I walked through the garden, talking with the flowers and looking at the exotic flowers. The air was moist and warm, and everything had this gaussian blur to it. In the end I had to use my flashlight to look at the room number plates one by one to finally find my room. Sadly the inside of the room is pretty dark too, the lights sucked and I didn’t have enough time to check my setup before tomorrow. Oh well.

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I'm currently building an agentic AI that can dynamically remind you of things that don't necessarily have a fixed date or time. If you ask Hyplex to notify you when GTA V has a discount on any platform, instead of searching for a fixed date (there is no fixed date), Hyplex will periodically check Epic Games and Steam for a discount, and when it finds one, it will notify you. Hyplex is not just for discounts! For example, if there's a movie you watched in theaters, and you want to watch it again digitally but there's no info on when it comes to digital platforms... just ask Hyplex to notify you when it drops! Hyplex will check the internet until the movie finally goes digital, and when it does, it will notify you!

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Day 163 / 365 Hello everybody, kaplin here, back with another scrapbook post. Today. I uh. existed :) woke up early, did my chores and summer schoolwork, played some noita, and got good progress on 2 projects. Project 1 being my club ysws site. I added a small gallery section. Also added the hackclub flag to the corner like all of the club ysws sites. I think I only really have to just figure out the numbers now!! and also run through the tutorial to make sure its all good, alongside maybe even making some miniguides to help with specific features? Idk. Might just make a total one with all the features in the mini guides. Idk. Project 2 of today was the recode of my game One Turret (available on steam btw go wishlist it or buy it) (dont buy it yet its not really good right now. this next update is all about making the game better rather than new content). I got the decors to load! I suppose i will explain how one turret does its maps. You feed it a tileset and then you can place the tiles and all that. You can rotate these tiles and also edit them to be not-placable-on for gameplay. You can also add full images called decor as decoration for maps. These are handled differently, since its one big image for one tile, rather than a normal tilesheet. anyways its now loaded with the new resource-based system (compared to the old .zip based)!!! So in totality, i think that the map loading is done. Next is the enemy manager!!!

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Day 162 / 365 I wanted to wake up at 8 am and lock in and such but i ended up sleeping in till 12 lol. Still made decent progress on stuff! Inbetween having to drive my dad to the doctor and my brother to the pool (my mom was out of town so i gotta drive my brother to the pool), I played some noita but also worked on the recode for my game one turret! I got the new recoded ores finished, got that hooked up with the drill building (that part was the easiest) and also fixed a bug where factory tiles bigger than 1x1 couldnt give items to other tiles that are bigger than 1x1. this is due to the fact that while they share more than one tile, the processing only actually happens on a set root tile for the whole building. previously, it was checking if an item input came from a building that matches one of the input positions of the target, but since it was only running on that root tile, it only checked if the root tile for the building was in the input position. for buildings larger than 1x1, rarely will this be the case, so i just made it check the root and all associated tiles (which was easy since im a good programmer and already added an 'associated tiles' field to the tilestate resource)

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Day 161 / 365: Somehow I did less things than yesterday, and I even woke up earlier than usual!!! raa!!! So yeah my day mostly consisted of: Doing some work on the self paced summer class, doing my chores, and then playing a whole lot of noita. I worked a tad bit on one turret, but it was more of planning stuff. Im going to be recoding how things like ore work. and also going to make it so it can actually generate ore positions without spawning ores at the same time. thats one of the issues with my old code that im fixing in the recode, it has a lot of do-it-at-the-same-time-all-at-once chunks, where functions that DO make sense happening together are FORCED to happen together. Doesnt help that the few times it isnt forced, its based on the name of the root node of the scene... which is really bad godot practice by the way. not good at all. and now that im cooler and smarter and more handsome (not really) i know that i can use exports to easily make scene-specific code changes in godot!!! but yeah most of my day was spent on noita lol. i also got boba. not the best boba in town since theres... well... a better place, but the place i went to was the closest one to the resturant my family went to for dinner. Fun fact: its the same one i mentioned a handful of posts ago (day 146).

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# Devlog 3 for https://stardance.hackclub.com/projects/13469 > Note: This project is still a work in progress and may contain bugs or incomplete features. ## What did I do? I added the following slash commands: - /blob-about: This command basically gives the uptime of the bot and a few info. I also replaced the @ping responses with an ai chatbot using the HackClub AI API. (ChatGPT helped me a bit because i couldn't figure out how to add a history to the chat) > Note: The AI chatbot feature may be removed in the future. And also the responses are a bit slow. I also updated the /blob-help command with these new commands and I added a pfp to the bot. ## What will I add? Right now I don't know what I could add but tomorrow I may come up with some new ideas. ## Where can I test the bot? The bot can be tested in #crislzys-testing-channel on HackClub's Slack ## Used Packages - @slack/bolt - axios - dotenv

Hello #C0M8PUPU6! Long time no see, I am here again to ship a another slack bot for the community of wack club! Nudgebot is a Slack bot, written in Python, that manages your personal channels simply and easily! Although, this bot is for my own channel, I still would like to share this creation to the world so people can my bot for their own channels :) I built alot of features for Nudgebot, you should read the README to learn what Nudgebot can do! repo :github: | macondo project page :macondo:

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Day 160 / 365 A few important things for me today. For starters: Deltarune chapter 5 release date got announced, so i cant wait for that. My game router rebellion finally got fully approved for horizons (after 30 days including the reship), so now im comfortable with working on it again. I wasnt comfortable before because it felt like i needed to reship because i added new content since my first ship when i was talking with the reviewer. and to be frank i dont really blame horizons or really anyone involved. hack club seems very busy right now, and last i remember fraud squad (or is it called fraud department? lowkey i dont remember) was going through some stuff or smth i dont pay enough attention. In one turret, im working towards getting the drill building to work. but first i need ores. and to get ores i need maps. and im going to be recoding how maps work. Previously, maps were stored in zips. like it would just dump the images there. But im going to be switching to godot resources as they are more scalable and just easier to work with all around. it will shorten my scripts by a whole bunch. im still slightly on the fence about it, because one of the benifits of the zip is that you can disect maps. maybe i can make a special button somewhere that allows you to export a map as a zip? one way, of course. im not going to add a zip -> resource, that removes the whole point of switching in the first place imo. also played a whole bunch of noita. I got a quality of life mod that allows you to keep track better of where you have been, so now i can properly clear the floors and get all the collectibles without going in circles (cuz going in circles causes you to get attacked by enemies which means you need to beeline to the holy temple to heal which sorta locks you out of that floor until you get to floor 3 in which you can backtrack, which at that point there really isnt anything valuable on the earlier floors). Also tried making some cookies but there was too much dough in the pan so it came out as a large tablet of cookie. the inner parts were still raw though so i took off the edges then rebaked the center... for some reason whenever i try to use this specific type of only-add-egg-and-butter batter it always ends up being a clumpy mess instead of... cookies. the image is the inner portion after i rebaked it.

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Working on my stardance project! This is a fictional AI coding agent, but when you go to sign up, or go anywhere, it is actually a captcha game! So far this is what I have for the Captcha (just HTML, CSS, JS)

macondo.hackclub.com/projects/2722 worked on my cli music player. I improved the logo function for better and easier future customisability.

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Day 159 / 365 I really wanted to like lock in today but most of that locking in came in the form of working on the self-paced chemistry class im taking over the summer. I finished the midterm. And other then that, I helped my family with some stuff (like picking up the dogs from the groomers) and also playing a lot of noita. I was having a really good run right, i had a wand for teleporting, a good destruction wand, and a near-one-shot wand in the form of lightning bolt. My run ended when i found this one perk in the holy temple. The one called "Electricity Immunity". It makes you immune to electricity. Knowing this, I tried blasting some lightning near me to see if i took any damage. I then proceeded to get one shot and my whole run ended :heavysob: i suck at this game and that was my first run that actually resembled a good run!!!! so yeah turns out lightning bolt also does explosion damage... And also my ceiling plush finally arrived!!! for those not in the know, there was a ysws called ceiling that gave this specific seal plushie!!!11 :D so cute

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7 June 2026, Sunday, Day 158/365. Domingo. --- Yesterday, +21:02 • Sleep • what is scrappy doing :fear: • Day trip to other city • Went to the zoo in other city ◦ Restless tiger sat down in front of me • Claimed a payphone for #C0B0YN5PW73 in a whole different Australia n city • Some nice photos • i got a massive stray insult thrown at me bro :wiltedrose: News: • Idk Enjoyment: 5/10 Productivity: 5/10 Streaks: 1. Coding: no 2. Art: no 3. Documentation: this *414 more days.*

To cheese or not to cheese

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6 June 2026, Saturday, Day 157/365. Sabatho. --- Yesterday, +22:00 • Sleep • Absolutely nothing • Hell • I feel (well felt) bad • I feel like I need a recording microphone for an extended art project News: • persona implemented or something Enjoyment: 3/10 Productivity: 1/10 Streaks: 1. Coding: no 2. Art: no 3. Documentation: this *415 more days.*

What?

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Day 158 / 365 Today was fun, since I went to the movies. But not for any normal movie, no, i watched The Amazing digital circus final episode premiere :D i like the episode it was good. im not going to spoil it dont worry. but it was like really cool since it was the first time ive: 1. driven that far alone, 2. gone to the movies alone. Very interesting. And i also went to dennys after :D and then once i got home i uh. played a lot of noita, and coded a bit on one turret, just for half of it to be conflicting with a version i forgot to commit on the upstairs studio pc when i was watching the dogs last time up there. oh well. in particular, im working on getting it so the tileset is FULLY procedural in the one turret recode. its functionally the same as modding. I think its a good way to approach designing a game, to make it as if your modding the game. A game i used to mod a bit, called dysnced, had a similar mentality. like. the vanilla gameplay WAS a mod. you could disable it if you wanted to. idk. i like good design like that.

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4 June 2026, Thursday, Day 155/365. Jueves. --- Yesterday, +21:31 • Sleep • Spanish test. Did alr ig. • Put :canberraisbetterthansydney: in there. • Finish badge design ig • I am cooked • Nonconsentually infiltrated by malware :fear: • My scrapbook posts have made it to google's front page Hell. News: • Canberra teachers shall strike a whole day 7 days from now. • Henry Nowak :dove_of_peace: Enjoyment: 4/10 Productivity: 4/10 Streaks: 1. Coding: yesish 2. Art: yes 3. Documentation: this *417 more days.*

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Day 157 / 365 Cant say particularly was my day. I woke up at 3 in the morning from a stomach ache (ate too much sugar yesterday), but my go to whenever that happens is just using the restroom, drinking water, then eating cheese for some reason. then i went to bed and woke up relatively fine!!! Then i woke up at 6 for some reason (i think its cuz my brother and mom left for his swim thing). took a shower. went back to sleep again. and then after that whole mess i woke up at 12, and like an hour after I woke up i had to drive me, my dad, my brother, and my brother's friend to the mall. It was fun i guess. We didnt buy anything lol. Except some boba, so i guess that was good! idk a lot of guessing here.... Anywhom, we got lunch, dropped off the friend, and then went home. Then i proceeded to be fairly unproductive. Not even playing games, just watching youtube. I got to a point where i just sorta like forced myself to work on the study app for horizons. So i got a hour in on that, making it so you can now go backwards in the ui (like back to the main screen) and allowing you to edit the bindings on a quiz. So uh yeah. I tried to buy my ceiling plush from the ceiling ysws, and had a jumpscare when after i bought it, the actual amount on the grant didnt go down, but my bank account didnt go down either. Turns out amazon only asks for the money right before it gets shipped?? idk. hopefully im right on that. I also tried to buy a movie ticket using my grant from haxmas, but since it wasnt enough i had to turn it into a reimbursement... And i literally couldnt use the reimbursement on hcb since it kept leading to a "page not found" page when i hit submit. So I emailed the hcb email and in the email i had mailed them about the issue. so that was a fun chaotic experience, but all the things today made me feel pretty down. On days when i feel down from stuff like this, I get in my head a lot, but heres my advice in the case YOU are in your head right now for whatever reason: Do Not Falter To Adversity, Because Faltering To Adversity Will Make You Give Up and Giving Up Causes More Adversity Than You Started With

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Officially Day 157 Personally day 20!! WOOO Milestones!!! Anyway I saw a lot of really cool animations online revolving around music, and I'm going to see what I can do with Godot as a result! I just learned how to do multimes so >:D I have a lot of devious plans for audio visualization This one is the rings version for now Anyway, Coming back from a coding slump I plan to put some time into #C0AKAQN2VJQ and #C0AGKQ6K476 for the cmf buds and the logitech mx master 3s respectively 😄 I have to think about what to make for horizons though.. Ideas / music recommendations welcome! dms or thread, no matter

5 June 2026, Friday, Day 156/365. Viernes. --- Today, 23:55 • Sleep • Badminton school olympics competition Round 1 ◦ This is doubles with a friend ◦ WON YESSS :rac_lfg: 7-8 • Submitted design assignment ◦ I am told the rationale is only due next week :wiltedrose: ◦ I've been working on this assignment all day and barely had any time to focus on myself :tired: • Listen to friend's amateur radio transmissions from his WebRX ◦ I need to learn ham radio join #C0B2256L7PF • Try to fix my remixed project I thought I already fixed yesterday ◦ I hate this idk why this cache isn't working • Got email from Duolingo to save my 136 day streak ◦ Oh yeah I saved my 136 day streak yesterday. ◦ I havent touched it since last year until I got duolingo family plan ◦ Oh yeah my friend randomly got duolingo family plan and added me News: • I heard Mark Keyes, among the most depraved men of Canberra, was released last month (on parole). This angers me. ◦ I know this because someone got this story from a 2024 newspaper (for like hygiene and stuff) they read after refusing to do a chicken wing dissection ◦ Yes, a chicken wing dissection, the food item from the supermarket. Enjoyment: 5/10 Productivity: 5/10 Streaks: 1. Coding: yesish 2. Art: yes definitely 3. Documentation: this *416 more days.*

This too, shall pass.

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Day 156 / 365 Today I attended a cyber security conference held at the local community college with my dad. I would say it was fairly fun, though a bit boring at the start. I was there for most of my day, having to leave a bit after i woke up and then stayed at the conference till a bit after dinner. While we were there, me and my dad listened through some talks (i mean its a conference what else do you expect). I lowkey didnt really pick up much, only thing i took home is: "Dont leave auto-update on for extensions and packages" and "Ai today should not be used for the final product, but rather the rapid testing phase". But after the talks, me and my dad skipped the rest of the talks to do the capture the flag thing they were doing there. We made a pretty good team i feel. I did a lot of the forensics and cryptography ones, and my dad did some of the "ai category" stuff they had. The organizers used an IRC to setup a handful of chatbots you needed to interact with to get the flags, like lying to an ai chess bot to win since it cant remember the board. idk. thought that was neat. we got 5th place (pretty good given there were a handful of hard code cyber security peeps there) they had some food there, but after the conference me and my dad had some dinner out of the house. And I also got some really nice dessert at a bakery. I got a salted caramel, white chocolate, cookie sandwich. but we in the industry call it diabetes in a circle. it was really sweet. once i got home i was pretty tired so i just chilled for the rest of the night. so no coding. also with the image today, i wonder how it plays into the greater kaplin86 narrative (there isnt one btw dont worry)

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Started my MasterSketches for the project

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Ah yes Shell is more complex than assembly :sk: Anyway Slack bot in assembly for stardance :yay: stardance.hackclub.com/projects/6658

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1231 ⭐ globally Yeah :yeah: finally hard work paid off

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Using HTML, CSS, JS to build a 2D timepass game 🔥 2nd project on Macondo :yesyes:

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Day 155 / 365 hi silly scrapbookers and scrapbookers who choose to not be silly, kaplin here. Today was fairly productive. I worked on the recode for my game One Turret, and solved a massive problem with the new odd-shape-building support. The issue was that rendering would always use the bottom left tile as a pivot, which would become an issue because lets say you have an L shaped building, and you rotate that 180 degrees. now theres no left corner, so where would the tile be rendered from. So my solution was having it where inside the tile definition json, you define where the "root" of the tile is. Now, rather than rotations being done (and then being offset to be in the same place), it now rotates around your mouse cursor, the tile at your mouse cursor being the root. The texture is also placed at that root, since that root would always exist. I got offsets and such working, which also handles the rotations perfectly. So now not-rectangular buildings work on One Turret yeaaay!!! Outside of that mess, I worked a tad bit on my club ysws site. I WANT to dedicate tommorow to it, but i have some important thing tommorow morning so i lowkey dont know how i will feel after on an unrelated note, today i had like 4 instances where i randomly remembered dreams i had in the past? and not like a oh-hey-i-remember-that type of way, more like a dejavu way where i only remembered it for like a second

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3 June 2026, Wednesday, Day 154/365. Miercoles. --- Today, 22:50 • Sleep • First class cancelled. • Turns out 2nd class also cancelled • I could've come to school 3 HOURS LATER if the school did its job • soldering at school is a mess thx john last solderer • completely oxidised tip :pf: • 2 people ask for a portfolio uhh • New pfp! no more bisexual color cat ig • hey astro starlight works with normal astro now • I am cooked • My scrapbook posts have made it to google's front page News: • If someone submitted aliens.gov to a ysws, I hope all reviewers reject it immediately • Canberra rains later at night • Zach Latta I want to cheese can now be seen by outsiders. Enjoyment: 4/10 Productivity: 4/10 Streaks: 1. Coding: yes 2. Art: uhhh 3. Documentation: this *418 more days.*

Manana, tiene una examen Espanol escribir, y soy es muy frito

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output from a domain coloring program i made. f(z) = a^z iirc

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Just finished gantry crayon CAD

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Day 154 / 365 Today I started work on my club ysws site aint that cool. yippee! i lowkey didnt get a lot of progress on it since it was lowkey late. in the morning i was doing a mix of sleeping in and working on the jobs+ minecraft modded datapack thingamajig for the group server project i yapped about many posts ago (still happening, we are actually getting close to opening the server i think hopefully idk). I cant say too much about today lol. uh. dont do illegal things. thats my advice of the day 😇

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Today i spent almost 3 hours trying to design my PCB and case for my hackpad, and for the life of me i couldnt figure out how to model the case in fusion. Im going to try again tomorrow when im on my flight to vacation. github.com/GhostService/hackpad

Made a sketch to help visualize the gantry system

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Day 153 / 365 Today was good but... strange. I dont know where all my time went lowkey. Like. I remember sitting at my computer a most of the day like usual, but I dont remember what i really did. I worked on one turret though. I got constructor building working (in specific the "combiner" tile behavior), and even tried a little experiment with a 3-item-combination in a new tile. Previously, it would have been a nightmare to add, but now with the recode its just a simple change in like one json value. I had a call with jared (hack club club operations lead) that went realy good and now I know all i gotta do for my ysws >:) so i will probably be doing that tommorow :) but im going to be real i think the reason i dont remember doing much is due to my issue with like anticipated times. like i will specifically hold off from doing something if i know theres a time where i need to step away from whatever im doing. so i end up just watching youtube until the thing in question happens.

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finally soildered my macropad I got months ago

giving LLMs a "visual Brain" via a 4d Physics Sandbox llms struggle with spatial geometry because they process text tokens, not dimensions. I am building a physical sandbox framework to act as an external visual cognitive engine for AI. how the loop works: • Code Gen: LLM generates logic to spin up a 4D cloud workspace (3D + time). • Offloading: Heavy orbital mechanics and structural math offload to my custom GPGPU physics engine. • Self-Correction: Live telemetry logs from simulation failures pipe back to the LLM to auto-patch its code. Update: Prototype Done, Moving to Realism! The agentic loop prototype works. Now, I am building the first 4 planets of the solar system using: • NASA Maps: Real elevation data in a Three.js frontend. • Atmospheric Clouds: Custom GLSL shaders for dynamic layers. • Newtonian Orbitals: A multi-body backend gravity matrix. Pushed the core builds to GitHub: github.com/williamjosh-dev/Physical-Sandbox-v1.0- I'm 15 and currently trying to balance massive planetary scales without breaking my WebGL views. Let me know what you think ...

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Yesterday I started development on a new project called GROW which is a farming robot for your garden stardance.hackclub.com/projects/3245

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