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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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Side project: I'm about to do a 5 hour timelapse of the tide. The towel is holding the gimbal down because it is windy now. The gimbal is going to do a slow left to right sweep over the course of the 5 hours. I also have cables to keep the gimbal and phone charged

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Forgot to post this yesterday, but I worked on my slack bot for stardance! github.com/GhostService/HC-stardance-slack-bot I hosted it on nest, so we ball ig. I messed up my wakatime settings so it only logged 20 minutes for some reason.

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Day 152/365: (more of a general update than a daily post) Updates from last post: • 80 days without an update is kinda crazy... • In Europe now for summer vacation. Was in Sweden for a week, now going to be in Greece for the next month. • The Macroepad has been fully soldered, but I wasn't able to get the firmware working. As I didn't bring the Macroepad to Europe, I won't be able to work on that until I'm back home in August. The case also ended up being badly measured and the Macroepad doesn't quite fit, but I can fix that just by cutting off the top ledge over the hole for the USB-C cable (shown in picture) • Haven't worked on the rp2040 project in ages. I think I'll still finish it eventually if just for the practice with pcb design, but it's a low priority as of now. • Have a new laptop now! It's my first device running Linux (Ubuntu), and I'm definitely liking the OS so far, though I haven't learned how to do much on it yet. • Fully caught up with JJBA anime, it may have peaked in part 2, but the rest was still great. I'm not going to read the manga until Steel Ball Run finishes airing. Goals for June: • Make a game for snake ysws. • PLAY SILKSONG - I haven't touched this game since January and I need to finish it so bad • Practice animating (will have to get a new drawing software since Krita does not like my stylus) • Get OpenUTAU and practice UTAU tuning • Maybe also work on general music composition, we'll see how much free time I end up having

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Day 152 / 365 Today wasnt bad, but i was out of the house most of the day. I had to drive my dad to a medical appointment, and also brought me, my brother, and my dad to get haircuts. Now i feel refreshed :) Though it did hurt a bit since for some reason one of the razors caused bleeding? i dunno. even the stylist was a bit confused, since she had used that same razor before on me. oh well. she applied some stuff on it, and as of writing it no longer hurts. In the little bit i coded for one turret, I got the multi-tile tiles to work properly processing wise. So the furnace building works fully. Hopefully tommorow I can be a bit more productive lol. I have a sneaking suspicion. wink wink nudge nudge. on a side note, after dinner (which was also out of the house), i tried to get some ingredients to make some DIY ferrero rocher. Had to replace the hazlenut with pecans since they didnt have any at the store. and i didnt want to spend 15 bucks on maple syrup im going to use one time, so i replaced that with honey. so uh. wise words: Do not eat the pecan + honey + cocoa powder + vanilla mixture. tasted horrendous imo. I think it might have been the cocoa powder maybe.

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1 June 2026, Monday, Day 152/365. Lunes. --- Today, 20:45 • Sleep • Woke up and down constantly ◦ I had a lot of uhh.. interesting dreams to put it simply. • New deploy workflow for ancient wild ai project • Got new krita brush pack ◦ Default Pen3 works good too • Set 2 new pingwords • Realise Spotify is stalking me :fear: ◦ >Never use spotify, sign up once ◦ >Account somehow doesnt exist ◦ >Open Spotify link for last fm music data ◦ >Gets recommendation for unrelated song ◦ >I listened to unrelated song a lot • Filled my journal with some data of past days • Work on the code for my Robotics project (in google docs) ◦ Good news, I dont need to read/write from an sd card :thumbs-up: • Drew things for design with the brushes • What is this golden Stardance devlog News: • Oh god so much has happened on the slack for the one day I was offline • #C01270P3XFV Read-only • #C0APH2MMHH7 launch • Zach Latta <https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Qd4r3SzDhlw|cameo >in ThePrimeTime (youtuber) Enjoyment: 5/10 Productivity: 7/10 Streaks: 1. Coding: yes 2. Art: yes 3. Documentation: this *420 more days.* If and when, becomes is.

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Day 151 / 365 Today was a pretty simple day. I just worked on one turret recode lol. I did some totally complex math stuff to figure out tile rotating better as im starting to implement the 2x2 tiles. I probably could have just looked up what I needed lol. The main issue is that in my game, tiles will always have a root at the bottom left, so rotations arent truly around one tile, but rather the center of the building which gets a bit icky. So ultimately its just the rotate around 0,0 but offsets are applied based on tile size. I still need to add placing them, but then im nearly done (excluding the very special behaviors like the constructor / combiner and the drill which is a producer tile that has to read the map tiles). So yeah overall fairly productive in that regard. Dont have much else to say lol.

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30 May 2026, Saturday, Day 150/365. Sabatho. --- Today, 10 PM • Sleep (in because first class cancelled) • birthday lunch • go out with friend • photography with friend • Huddle in #C0ANDKD8DJB & #C09H93AKCLA > "all i have made is trump running away from children, which of course we know wouldn't happen in real life" > Quoting Taran • fixed up and ordered pcb ◦ (i didnt tknow silkscreen shouldnt be on the copper pads and through holes oh well hope it doesn't break everything) • Astro to gh kinda works now?? Just need to make it public News: • Idk $250 dollar bill? [re: Omar Agamy] Enjoyment: 5/10 Productivity: 6/10 Streaks: 1. Coding: i got astro to gh working somewhat ig 2. Art: no 3. Documentation: this *422 more days.* Live with remorse, and not regret.

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Day 150 / 365 Wow! Its like day 100, but a little bit extra. well. maybe not little bit. 50% is definently not a little bit, is it? Anyways, a good portion of my day today was spent doing hytale stuff! Im going to try learning hytale's npc system stuff for a mod idea i have. Though, a lot of my day was spent watching tutorial before trying, reading docs, and actually setting up the dev enviornment instead of actually coding. But I also am going to start working a bit on one turret now here and there. Today I fixed a bug where conveyors could lead into themselves due to a logic error inside of the new default transfer item script in the recode. Previously, if a tile had the freeinput tag inside of the json, it would take inputs from any positions. But any position included the tile it was leading into (which looks really strange). So i changed it to exclude any output tiles. On a side note, I helped my family set up the new curtains for our gazebo on our deck. maybe with it actually covering properly i might try coding out there. Maybe. I despise bugs. both coding bugs and real life bugs.

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okay so i found an lg webtv app (in dutch) and looking into it its very janky but they left in... a debug console!! after a bit of finagling i got it working, for nothing to show up turns out even if i set the debug vars to true, it still wouldnt let it log anything, so i just changed the function to have it always log to the element yes, it uses green courier new as the font and font color.. eh, ive seen worse.. but it works!! kinda pointless but i like the UI and everything in it, gonna see about repurposing its CSS and images in it for a jellyfin UI mod, idk i like how it looks okay unfortunately, the UI elements are mostly all images but its nothing a bit of photoshop magic cant fix.... maybe ill log it with hackatime thatd be a good idea

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29 May 2026, Friday, Day 149/365. Viernes. --- Yesterday, +106 minutes • Sleep (in because first class cancelled) • Borrowed a camera for photography assignment over the weekend • Almost skipped another whole hour of class.. • Work appointment • Taught my friend the secret of code blocks and pageless in google docs ◦ As is required by our cursed assignment • Other friend sharing shenanigan plans ◦ :sonimcrine: this is illegal btw • Badminton competition over lunch without eating lunch ◦ Lost 5-15 :skullpray: ◦ How do I counter smash spam bru ◦ :aniqtoohigh: • Drew a portrait as a birthday present for someone • Huddle in #C09H93AKCLA ◦ I got into starboard • Put absolutely anything on my silkscreen because I somehow have all my hackpad parts except the actual pcb News: • COGE • Super El Nino Enjoyment: 5/10 Productivity: 6/10 Streaks: 1. Coding: I made a silkscreen 2. Art: Drew a birthday present 3. Documentation: this *423 more days.*

We are Australia,
We carry the cheese,
We fight for Canberra,
We'll honor Zach Latta.

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Day 149 / 365 Today was... somehow more unproductive than yesterday!! >:C But it was a generally fun day even though I didnt play that many games. I worked 20 minutes on my horizons quiz game project thing, adding in some cool preview images for each of the gamemodes. I also got "deleting" datasets to work. In reality it just changes it so it hides the quiz. If you attempt to add a new quiz using the same csv, it will just toggle it back to being visible, that way all the configs for that quiz are still saved! Rest of my day was spent out of the house with my dad and brother. I dropped my brother of at swim and ended up just having a bonding moment with my dad at the closest mall. Its a generally unoccupied mall. not a lot of buisness happens there (in terms of the internal mall stuff. the clothes stores and resturants on the outside of it do get a lot of buisness though). me and my dad walked through and had a chat, even walking into a craft store. didnt buy anything but still chatted. We also got some handsoaps that we thought my mom would like :) We got two of a vanilla almond one. One for me. Because I liked it. :yay: i love vanilla smelling things. and cinnamon! anyways after that me, my brother, and my dad went to applebees. im mentioning this because thats like a once-in-a-blue-moon-during-a-solar-eclipse thing and its lowkenuinly been like 3 years. when we got home it turns out my mom had recently gotten hand soaps. so now we just have 15 things of hand soap. please help. 5 hand soaps per sink including the kitchen😭 and on my horizons stuff. I think ive ultimately come to the conclusion that im NOT going to be going to nexus for various reasons. One of the reasons is the hours required. Especially given hackclub stardance is happening soon. I plan to be starting a thing with my club to get them into stardance so they can make some stuff. Also that club ysws, and other stuff. Im going to be getting a lot busier soon so im less confident in getting the hours. other reason is I dont think i really want to go anymore. Dont get me wrong it sounds fun but like. is it really worth all the hours? I mean I definently think I had great memories at hackclub shiba, but that was a whole week. nexus, last i checked, is a nonstop hackathon over a weekend. So yeah uh. i think im going to cash my hours and possibly move my study app to a different program (i hear macondo has a lot of good prize options). If i were to ship my moved aces project as is, i would most likely get 2 steam game grants (for publishing a game on steam) and 4 blahaj plushies :)

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Day 148 / 365 Today was the exact opposite of yesterday. I slept in and got barely anything done. I did record a hytale video and edited it. but thats it. as of writing i havent finished it yet but im nearly done editing it. I had a few other things I wanted to get done today but eh. might try waking up early again tommorow and locking in. Small thing that happened is that the left arm rest thing for my chair broke (the screw snapped in half) so I "engineered" a new one. Two attempts, one better one worse. The successful one, i just reused a sponge and taped it to the chair-arm-stub. Hopefully my mom can find the warranty paper lol.

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Day 147 / 365 Today was a nice productive day! I woke up earlier than usual so I could get to working on stuff :) I coded for 5 hours on my horizons study app project. I made the flashcard, memory match, and spelling modes for the game (er i guess its an app but like whats the difference LOL!!!). I also got the mastery tracker working (in quiz and flashcard, if you get a question right or wrong it stores that with the quiz. the mastery just refers the average of the past two attempts on each question). I also did some hardcore cleaning in my room. so yeah overall incredibly productive!!! I think tommorow I might try to make another hytale youtube video since recently hytale updated to update 5 and it added a ez command that cuts 4 minutes off of my old tutorial. plus that old tutorial is outdated anyways. Also yes. the spelling thing is a slight reference to a different game.

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Back to making my family game for Macondo after exams! So far I have finished: 50% of the first game Tic Tac Toe! I have the player turn system and an indicator for the same! Now i just have to make it so my code can detect currently occupied squares and hence check win conditions! I think I'm going to loop through all the squares next to one square and check if 3 in a row matches in any direction (up down left right) to check win. Similar to like a brute force attack you could say on win conditions.

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xbox 360 controller cleaning! this is the most disgusting thing i have done theres like ear wax or something all along the edge of this thing (dont buy from goodwill)

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just trained a 135m parameters base model. i trained it on FineEdu 10b and how just need to fine tune it to make it an chatbot i am not able to decide what to fine tune it on (which dataset) any ideas will be helpfull.

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Day 146 / 365 Today was fairly average. I woke up to do some summer class homework, then played lol. I think theres a issue with the course since one of the questions in the lab assignment thingamajig, one that had unlimited answers, has the incorrect answer. Ive tried what i think is the correct number, and all numbers around it. Still incorrect. oh well. In my current pokemon infinite fusion playthrough (that ive been playing for like a week now, great fangame), i did a certain sidequest to get a certain pretty pink mythical pokemon 😇!! Today I also had some yummy dinner with family friend whos in town. After it me and my brother walked in the (very light) rain downtown to go get some boba.. but the boba shop was closed for some reason so we had to walk all the way back to the resturant. I also did some thinking about it and looking at some stuff in the horizons channel. Im fairly certain i can get my grants after the event, so I would be fine to go to nexus. Tommorow I want to lock in. like REALLY lock in. so im going to try and wake up really early. probably going to regret it but trust it will work!! trust!!

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Hey! I'm Ethan Hawksley from the UK and I've been working on my personal site and blog for a while now, and I think it's finally at a point I'm happy to ship properly. Why: I wanted somewhere to write my blog posts and show my work that actually reflects me technically, instead of just a LinkedIn profile. How: It's built with Astro for zero-JS by default and proper MDX support. I put real effort into a couple places I've not seen many others doing. IBM Plex fonts subsetted with pyftsubset to just the unicode ranges I'm using. Full JSON-LD structured data representing myself and my site fully programmatically. Light & dark mode support with no initial flash of white and js-less fallbacks. Syntax highlighted code blocks with copy buttons. WCAG AA compliant accessibility Support for plenty of web standards, such as openpgpkey, security.txt, WebFinger, and llms/llms-full.txt 100/100 PageSpeed score Where: hawksley.dev and the blog at hawksley.dev/blog

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Day 145 / 365 Hi guys. Kaplin here!! Today was a very nice and chill day :) I did some concepting for a game idea that me and my friend group might try making. basically its a not-so-cozy farming game where theres a bunch of procedural plants. these plants have attributes (like spiky, glowing, explosive, etc.) that determine a lot of stuff. But also the plants dont have names, so you have to put your own name for each species in your logbook. You also have to experiment to find certain traits in a plant. You could also use a camera item to add photos of the plant to a book. I also played plenty of games today so thats not out of the ordinary. I didnt work on any of my horizons projects... and lowkey im wondering if i even want to go to horizons to begin with. I also have to ask about the flight grant stuff, and if I can get those after and still have a proper reimbursement. My parents are also worried since the venue really isnt public. Which is good, I dont think it should be public, but they are worried about me going if it looks like hackclub hasnt havent figured it out yet themselves.

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made stupid github commit thing for my website that does like a 3d graph of contributions with configurable x, y, and z axis options and a thing for you to put a github token in to get past rate limits and track your own github info and what not lowpolyphosphor.us/commits.html uh html something something three js and such

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Day 144 / 365 Got some well needed sleeping-in time. Though, despite this, I cant say I did all that much important stuff. A lot of my day was spent watching anime with a online friend over discord call lol. I did fully implement the quiz game to my horizons study app. I also have some plans for a cool mastery tacking thing by just storing your last two attempts on any of the minigames. If you manage to get all questions right in two game sessions in a row, you would have maximum mastery for that dataset. How cool. anyways im going to be real for a second. Im extremely worried about horizons nexus. The event is in exactly 26 days. You are required to buy the ticket 2 weeks before the hackathon, so I need to get the 15 hour ticket within 11 days. Of my three horizons projects, I have one shipped. The previous ship took roughly 10 days to be completed, only to be denied in order to do a reship with my new hour count. Assuming this ship goes through with no reductions, I will hopefully be able to get the ticket in the next two days. This leaves 23 remaining days until the event. Lets say the hypothetical that I REALLY need to get the flight grant to go. Assuming that ships take 10 days to get accepted, that only leaves me 13 days remaining. A flight from my city to SF costs 550 dollars, and under horizons $8.5 grant per hour, that makes 68 hours. This means, I have to do 5 hours a day. Man. I dont know if i can truly go to horizons at this rate. Lets say in a hypothetical world where it only takes 3 days for a ship to get reviewed, I would only need to do 3.4 hours a day. Rough, but a lot more achievable. So uh. Yeah. Kaplin fun fact. I guess. IDK. I feel generally down today. probably because my little brother was just being a general nuisance for most of the day. but hey, thats little brothers for you. TLDR: Today was a great day with no flaws since i got to sleep in :)

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yess... in theory if i don't get any more hours I can at least get minecraft bundle

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Day 143 / 365 Today was really fun! I attended a cybersecurity CTF hackathon locally. I got second place. It was pretty fun, even though I basically knew nothing. I atleast could recognize bitwise stuff from previous experience (i used hashes + bitwise for the generation of fully unique fellas in my hackclub giftbox game last year). We even held a ping pong tournament for some reason. I got lost in both my first match and my losers bracket match. Oh well still was very fun! Dispite getting home pretty late from that, I managed to get a hour of tracked coding in. I added a game definition resource to my study app horizons project. Now I can easily add new games to the game menu. I finished off coding a simple string-to-boolean-check function for the quiz resource, allowing me to add restrictions for some games without having to hard code it. For example, to play the quiz, you atleast need one column defined to be incorrect answers. In my string formatting, the string "incorrectColumn.length|!=|0". Using that, it checks if the incorrect column variable (uses godot's get() function. really handy.) has a length/size/count that isnt 0, meaning atleast 1 exist. Depending on that, the games will not be selectable + have an indicator :)

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Yesterday I unboxed and assembled my Framework 16 which I got from Flavortown, today I installed Windows and CachyOS now I have to transfer my files!

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22 May 2026, Friday, Day 142/365. Viernes. --- 12:00 AM+46 woa im late • Sleep • Go to school 2 hours later than usual because of the strike • Lock in on design assignment so much I didn't have lunch until 5 • Submit my design assignment of desigining the school production's poster • Quote nick bunnyguy and ingo ended up cheesing > Cheese is necessary, cheese is needed, cheese is wanted. > I have to cheese, I am going to cheese, and I will cheese. ◦ This was supposed to get into the hall of fame but it didn't and I am sad • Watch the DMC Netflix anime and it pretty good • ~~Gaslighting~~ Informing manhattan resident person i know about funnies in hctg ◦ *Climax☆JUMPING*! News: • Teachers of all canberra, united • Right to strike enshrined by the UN or something • HCTG is beginning :face_holding_back_tears: Enjoyment: 5/10 Productivity: 6/10 Streaks: 1. Coding: tried 2. Art: Finished design assignment. Have some designs from them. 3. Documentation: this *430 more days.* Change is necessary, change is needed, change is wanted. I have to change, I am going to change, and I will change.

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Day 142 / 365 Today was nice. Rather then adding the games / quiz to my horizons quiz project thing I wanted to try getting a theme loader to work. Idk. I just felt like doing that. I think it was mostly because I havent really ever used the theme system before. Since this project is my chance to really master godot control nodes, themes would be a perfect thing to finally use in it. I made a few themes, and even got custom properties in the theme to work. It automatically applys the theme whenever a new scene is loaded (or when the current theme variable is changed) Also, Im going to a cybersecurity capture the flag hackathon tommorow thats happening near me. I know nothing about cyber security and did not attend a single one of their pre-event workshops (for the record, I only knew i was actually able to go yesterday). My only CTF cybersecurity knowledge comes from a summer camp i did like... 4 years ago maybe. am I cooked?

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Day 141 / 365 I didnt lock in that much today. Tommorow will be my day, trust!! No like i know it for a fact, I need to wake up early for some stuff. Anyways today I coded for a lil over an hour. I made it so my quiz app thing can fully load new csv files, index that into godot resources, and save those godot resources + bindings to a user folder. You can then select all the added datasets. Next I need to just add the different games you can do with the imported data. Also rained a LOT today. We havent had rain in a minute, but the downpour was insane. And update on the horizons event im going to, im probably just going to go to nexus since my friend no longer wants to go to berlin with me (they want to go to the macando hackathon instead, which is in colombia i think)

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day 1/365 Learned Git & GitHub today 🚀 Set up Git for the first time and explored: - git config - global username/email - Git settings Slowly getting comfortable with version control

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hackclub.slack.com/archives/C0A63BZ2AQN/p1779303101240079?thread_ts=1767778047.000329&cid=C0A63BZ2AQN day 141 • I think my thread might be getting too long bc now slack just says loading history and I can't add to it anymore • economics was fine • a little late but physics reactions was soooo funny lmao • it's good to know 87% of all students nationwide struggled they better give us bonus points or I swear the entirety of 6v physics students WILL revolt

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Nothing too much today. Worked on mileswk.github.io/mileswkv11, specifically the project section. Next I am going to work on a theme changer before continuing on the frontend content, as the more css I write now, the more I have to change in the future

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I finished up the starship config

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I made the i3lock screen look amazing with the same color palette as polybar.

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Day 140 / 365 Today was pretty chill I liked it :) I started a new project today from my mothers request: A flashcard / quiz study app. (dont know why she asked me to make one, there are already so many online!) So im making that in godot now and im going to be shipping it for horizons :) On the 2 hours I worked on it, I started work on parsing the files and setting up both the dataset selection ui and the header-definition ui. Your going to be able to choose which column has the questions, which one has the answers, and also add as many incorrect answers as possible. This project will be generally smaller scale, with a few "games" like a simple flashcard, quiz, memory match, and maybe even a spelling-based one. Hopefully I will get it in a functional state tommorow :) I also talked with my parents, and I will be able to go to the horizons event in berlin if i get the hours for it.

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No wifi dinosaur game with with a seal! stephanietanexist-maker.github.io/Infinite-seal-game I hope yall like the seal I drew for the sprite :D

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day 140 • ello I'm back ish • just came back from a 6 day trip and I got finals right after:smiling_face_with_tear:(almost failed physics... hardest test I've ever took. never got a fail for physics in my life but this test was so bad) • i made a lot of new friends, was a great trip and got a lot of goodies🌻 • lwk need to lock in... just 2 more tests and then break and then more contest and more tests I have to make up pls I need summer to be here:tw_wilted_flower: • finale boys is out but I don't have time to watch whyyyy • eurovision was cool but gotta say 2024 was still the best and tbh bulgaria's song sounds like it got heavily inspired by some LOL and valorant style songs

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I installed and edited Polybar to look good. I also finished up setting up starship but will probably change it later

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Still working on my the-duckgame.onrender.com , will probably take me 20+ hours and get me stardust for stardance! I'm currently working on the NPC function (#IDK).

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Working on my project for Beest! It is a remake of my website! This features a custom mouse that has some fun animations. Shoutout to twa who gave me the inspiration on there portfolio

Day 139 / 365 What is up fellas. its me. kaplin. Back with another scrapbook post. Today was interesting. So my day started out by not having internet from some random internet shortage. Because of this, I wasnt fully certain hackatime would track (it would have), but i didnt want to take the risk so I held off coding. I instead played two peak downloaded offline fangames: PVZ fusion and pokemon infinite fusion. Kinda funny how both are fusion themed. I started a new save for the pokemon one. I also attached image of my team if anyones curious :) Anyways once the internet came back I got to the coding grind. I added a lot more polish to the game. i added a cool effect for when the players load, made the sky background have a zoom-like effect on load, made the players bob up and down, and I also made it so the other players are color modulated to fit their current aquired followers. But my most important addition was doing cool math stuff to effectively make a cinematic camera generator. I pass in a player position, it calculates face position, and gets a random location based on set angles and a distance. Im going to be using this at the start of a turn, and probably add some cool text that says "Player ??? Turn XYZ". Then it shows them roll the dice and which cards they use. But for now its just moving the camera to cool places. Had to learn a bit on how transform3ds work in godot. I still dont fully understand, but im getting there!!! On a side note, I did some baking. Found a recipe for some low carb pancakes or something and it looked interesting. It was just eggs + cream cheese lol. Turns out i suck at flipping pancakes so it ended up all mushed lol.

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I have a project that I think could be really cool and fun, so I have reached out to people to see what can be done. And no, this is different than #C084UELDWRJ

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Day 138 / 365 Today I did not do that coding grind i talked about yesterday. Only 30 tracked minutes. Then again, I did spend my morning trying to figure out some stuff for my online summer self-paced chemistry class. But more importantly, I spent a good bit of time planning. Im picking up the game from the aces ysws to continue working on it. I mean it already got moved to horizons, so it would be unwise to just let those hours rot. So I did a bit of analysis of my own game. In summary: It sucks. The game is lowkey bad. But I have devised plenty of things to help make the game better, with a bit of feedback from my friends. Started by making a 3d model of the little follower figurines for the board. Previously those were a bunch of 2d images but it looks so much better in 3d. The 30 minutes today was spent switching systems (from 2d image color modulation to swapping textures for the model for the various follower colors) Also did a bit of talking with an online friend. He wouldnt have been able to go to horizons nexus (san francisco), but he said that given the timing and the distance, he could go to horizons europa (Berlin). It would also be cheap hour-to-flight-grant-wise for him since hes in the uk. And if I work 3 hours a day on my projects, I could definently meet the required hours to go all the way there. I will be asking my parents tommorow if its fine with them.

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Seal card matching game! 😄 stephanietanexist-maker.github.io/Memory-card

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making a custom name tag for opensause 2026 via a pcb

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