@Amber – Hack Club Scrapbook

Wed, Aug 20

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Wed, May 7

been working on a new personal website! i've been setting a few challenges for myself recently, one of them is to ride all of the train operators in the UK (and metro systems) so i've been working on adding a challenge page for it to my website. i'm no web designer or developer at all, but i'm happy with how it looks the thing that's the most unique about this website though isn't the challenges, but what powers it. i decided to write it in :vapor: Vapor for :swift: Swift! Vapor is kind of like :rails2: Ruby on Rails but for Swift and it's been really nice to work with. repo is at github.com/transcental/website if you wanna take a look, ~beta site is deploying, i'll add a link when it deploys because it takes a looooong time (~~15 minutes)~~ beta site is up at beta.transcental.dev!

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Thu, Apr 10

oh hi again scrapbook. to nobody's surprise i have continued to work on @PostmanPat and he now produces a graph with mail stats by country and has a postie leaderboard! unfortunately afaik there isn't a way for me to put them next to each other so they have to go below each other. anyhow, i think these graphs are cool even if i sent an obscene amount of time fighting with matplotlib commit

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Thu, Apr 10

Hi scrapbook people! my latest work on postman pat is very cool, if i may say so myself. whenever a manager visits the manage mail view they'll be shown a pie chart with up-to-date mail stats fetched from airtable (generated on the fly) but that's not all, the pie chart will also be dark mode after sunset/before sunrise for the user, or light mode in the day :D this should make it nice to look at whatever time of day it is (assuming you use automatic theme, which i do) (light mode attached is simulating sydney where it is 11am, dark mode is leicester where it is 2am)

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Tue, Apr 8

the most complicated thing i've done with a slack app - permission based app homes with a navigation bar. @PostmanPat has four levels of permission - nothing (most slack users), posties (on the team), managers (can update anyone and add/remove posties) and superadmins (can create/demote managers) really happy with how this is coming along, already learnt a lot today including about airtable quirks and somewhat obscure python features (list.extend, class properties, lazy type hinting) github.com/transcental/PostmanPat/commit/91dc69508e98bd63f368d0b97bfb2a4fbf4df364 github.com/transcental/PostmanPat/commit/df8518cf834991f6db4fcce5319c80e66b92d36d github.com/transcental/PostmanPat/commit/179a779b50123e0fc53029af20bfb5bc663e8c34

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Mon, Apr 7

today I'm working on @PostmanPat ! As I've been making more slack bots recently, I've been making them more maintainable and extendable! Currently I'm working on an extendable permission-based App home that shows you different stats and menus depending on your permission level within airtable :D For now I'm implementing 7 different types: unknown user, postie view (on hiatus and off hiatus) and manager view (postie (on/off hiatus) and not postie)

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Sun, Mar 30

I added Apple Music unfurls to @DJOrpheusX ! (my fork of @DJOrpheus which I fixed :D) now it's more convenient to open apple music links on your streaming service of choice! was pretty easy to add too which is always nice music.apple.com/gb/album/awful/1440905650?i=1440905814

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Fri, Mar 14

Do you like spending money?:flying_money_with_wings:Maybe you spend too much and want your friends to question your finances? :money-money-money: Say hello to :monzo: Monzo for Slack! Whenever you have any transactions on your Monzo account, have it logged to a Slack channel of your choice so your friends can embarrass you for spending money at all those questionable places - such as 🐶 Pets at Home! For now, this just logs transactions but it will become much more powerful soon, to the point where Slack can be your go-to banking app. Unfortunately, due to :monzo-dark: Monzo's very sensible API restrictions, only specified users can use your OAuth app so if you use Monzo and want to use this, you will need to host it yourself. Luckily, I provided instructions to set it up in the README! Check it out on GitHub here: github.com/transcental/monzoforslack

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Thu, Mar 13

I made a Slack bot that integrates with Monzo (my bank) to log all my transactions to Slack! Why? who knows! unfortunately i had to pay to test my code, so I've donated $2 to #C0730NR4JH1| lol (2 because I forgot to add the webhook the first time :pf:) GitHub.com/transcental/abd there's, uh, not a readme yet, but I'll add one soon

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Tue, Mar 11

Playing around in Unity - these three capsules are all completely separate, but are being controlled together and if one collides, none of them can move. This is the most complex mechanic basically done now so time to improve it - the collision detection definitely needs some work

Sun, Mar 9

Today I made #C08H6U4BQKB|! It's currently built out of 14 workflows and 4 lists. It's by far the most complicated thing I've made with workflows, and it's really fun seeing everyone trying to figure out what the solution to the puzzle is! (rip my slackbot notifications though lol, i'm getting so many)

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Sun, Feb 23

Day 2 of #C045S4393CY|! I started implementing caching to my HCB Slack App. Learnt about Valkey, set up a Valkey database and added some functions for interacting with it :D It's coming along, but there's a lot of work to go. Now to do godot work :pf:

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Sat, Feb 22

Day 1 of #C045S4393CY| - Got card grants almost fully working and added a bunch of error handling! The only thing not working currently is merchant name locking (regex). Why? Not sure! It's not working through the UI either so at least it's not my code :p

Sat, Feb 22

Been working on my HCB grant bot more! Now it has fuzzy organisation & merchant category searches along with some backend work - this is actually a quite tidy codebase, probably my best yet for a slack app check it out here if you want: github.com/transcental/SlackHCBGranter

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Fri, Feb 21

Late scrapbook post from yesterday! I got HCB OAuth working in a Slack app and have been experimenting with the V3 & V4 APIs to get data from HCB :D Also made a modal for sending grant cards with specific settings per card!

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Sun, Feb 9

:neodog_box: Arf, arf, wrrf, wrrrf!!! :neocat_box: Meow, mrrow, mrow Do you get parcels from a random place called hack club and want to see what's on the way and its status? eh, maybe not. But I do, and I don't like going to the shipment viewer because it's outside slack, i need to put in my email, get a link, annoying on mobile, ugghhh. (joking, it's a great site :) ) But what if you didn't have to do that? What if... it was in Slack. Introducing @PostPuppy ! Visit the app home to see all your packages just like you would on the shipment viewer. you can even opt to get notified when the status changes. oh, and if the email you use for slack is the same that you get mail to, it'll auto sign you in! (If you use a different email, you can open settings, enter an email and get a verification link sent to you) :neodog_melt_happy: you can open the app home to try it out here :) :neodog_aww: ty to nora for letting me auto sign ppl in! want the code? check out github.com/transcental/postpuppy

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Sun, Jan 12

Here's a behind the scenes peak for #C087QT3QUV7|! Progress is going pretty good and it's really satisfying to watch :D

Fri, Jan 10

I'm working on #C087QT3QUV7|! It's going to be a Slack ARG where you solve puzzles throughout Slack to join channels and progress through the game. Sounds simple right? The catch is that it's entirely written in Slack workflows with only 1st party functions, no integrations. I've been hammering out the functionality today and have built a system that lets you put in your answer to a puzzle and if it's correct then you'll get added to the next channel! This system has error handling too - if you get it wrong then you'll get a message telling you that it's wrong. There's also random text for when you submit, get it right or get it wrong. It's basically functionally finished now, I just need to create the puzzles :D (I have a few Slack windows open - this is currently made up of 4 Slack Lists and 7 workflows)

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Fri, Dec 6, 2024

Been working on a React Native Android app that can share my location to a server so that I can store my location for use in some projects. Eduroam has been a pain today, but I've finally got something that fetches my location in the foreground! Now to make a server, send it to the server and add background tasks. Sounds simple enough...

Fri, Nov 22, 2024

Setup two DNS repositories on GitHub with OctoDNS and Cloudflare. One for myself - managing transcental.dev and transfemme.dev and one for #C0730NR4JH1| managing revohacks.com github.com/transcental/dns github.com/revolution-hacks/dns OctoDNS is pretty cool and easy to setup, fun!

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Mon, Nov 18, 2024

I've been working on a way to see events from events.hackclub.com in Slack! You can check out @EventManager ’s home page to see what I've got so far :) (Buttons are not yet functional)

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Sun, Nov 17, 2024

Today I've been writing mail! (Only one of these is actually fully written - I spent over 3 hours on it, the others just have the envelopes done for now :pf:)

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Sun, Nov 17, 2024

I started before midnight and it's now after 3am. But I've finally got Tauri's update checker working with GitHub Releases! It checks for updates when you open the app and when you hit the little update icon. This was not fun to setup :heavysob: but I'm so glad that I can jsut forget about it now and hopefuly will never need to touch this bit again

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Fri, Nov 15, 2024

Wow, it's been a while since I last scrapbooked! Today I started building my first :rust: Tauri app with :svelte: svelte! This has been a really fun project to work on so far - I'm new to both Tauri and Svelte and it felt really nice using them together. I'm building an app for creating custom quilts and animations for the Looking Glass because the official tools are really limiting and quite often broken. (I had to patch the Blender plugin to get it to work properly 😭). Here I've started creating a page for sorting files - this will take x folders as input and then in a new folder, y, return the first 1/x views per frame from folder 1, second 1/x views per frame from folder 2 and so on. The main thing I've done is getting all the UI in place and making sure that there are only valid files in the folders. Anyway, this has been super fun and I'm going to be continuing work tomorrow :D Oh, if anyone is interested, the code is at github.com/transcental/quilter

Sun, Oct 20, 2024

Worked on a website for Minecraft YSWS! Really happy with how this turned out :D

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Sat, Oct 19, 2024

wow, been a while since I’ve scrapbooked, I should really get back into this! Today I finished the schematic and PCB for my #C07LESGH0B0| submission! This is my first time doing anything like this and it was pretty fun! Tomorrow I'll be working on the case and, if I finish that, the firmware!

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Sun, Oct 6, 2024

Maybe you don’t use Spotify but you want a way to share what you’re listening to? Or what if you want to share the Steam game you’re playing? Look no further than @SlickStats ! You visit the app home to connect it to your account and then input your last.fm and Steam API keys for your status to magically update with what you’re listening to or playing! I spent a looong time working on OAuth for this, but I’m really happy that it’s finally done. I’m open for suggestions of other services to add! One caveat: your automatic huddle status will get overwritten because it’s not technically a status - I’ll fix this eventually It’s all open source at github.com/DillonB07/SlickStats if you want to check it out!

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Fri, Sep 27, 2024

Today I worked on my Minecraft Fabric Slack <-> Minecraft chat relay mod! I've added all the core functionality: • Sending messages to Slack from Minecraft • Sending messages to Minecraft from Slack • Sending advancements to Slack • Sending death messages to Slack • Sending server start/stop messages to Slack • Sending player join/leave messages to Slack There's still more to add, but this is good progress and it's been fun to make! If you want to check it out, the repo is here: github.com/DillonB07/SlackBridge, I do have a workflow to build the mod but it doesn't work so I'll fix that tomorrow/

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Sun, Sep 22, 2024

I learnt about Minecraft Fabric server-side modding today! I'm making a Slack chat relay mod. This is my first time properly using Java and it's been... an experience. I successfully got Bolt setup and running on a Minecraft server in socket mode after a lot of hassle which is good progress! I also got a config file setup and working... except I used a client side mod, whoops. Need to fix that tomorrow. github.com/dillonb07/slackbridge

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Sat, Sep 21, 2024

I updated @MailTale to use a multiline input instead of several different fields for address lines. This makes it a lot easier for me as people can put in the address in the correct format for their country. I also had to manually update 36 addresses to the new format and have read a lot of PDFs about addresses today :pf: Also wanted to make the lower stack views update once you update your information, but I discovered a bug in Slack’s API that prevents me from doing that which is amazing. Filed a report and hoping to hear back Monday!

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Thu, Sep 19, 2024

I spent most of my day working on @MailTale (bot for #C07KS2794LX|) and fighting Block Kit! You can now manage your subscription by running /subscription. This includes pausing/cancelling it, updating your address and updating delivery notes.

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Sun, Aug 25, 2024

I've made a Celeste themed welcome bot for my channel - #C06R5NKVCG5|! I spent quite a long time on small details such as dialogue delays which are handled in a special dialogue system. I'm pretty new to Slack bots (except for my lastfm status) and this was really fun to make - there's a lot more planned to come with it. You can try it out by joining my channel and there's also the GitHub repo: github.com/DillonB07/Slackeline

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Fri, Jul 5, 2024

[test] a

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Sat, Jun 29, 2024

test

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Sat, Jun 29, 2024

test

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Fri, Jun 28, 2024

A little while after Arcade launched, I made a few PRs to improve the site github.com/hackclub/site/pull/1241 github.com/hackclub/site/pull/1235 (Please work Scrappy)

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Sat, Jun 22, 2024

A few days ago, I updated the shop website to show more information about items. Here’s the PR link: github.com/hackclub/site/pull/1235

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Wed, Jun 19, 2024

Yesterday, I worked on the Arcade shop a little and now it has delivery information for the items when you press the little package icon! PR: github.com/hackclub/site/pull/1241 You can check it out with /shop

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Tue, Jun 18, 2024

Day (I lost track, sorry) of #15-days-in-public! Been super busy helping out with Arcade questions so I didn't get much time to hack. Today, I started displaying the code to display projects on club pages! Took me a while to figure out a type issue (I was missing a pair of brackets 😭) and I learnt about flatMap() which was cool

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Mon, Jun 17, 2024

I improved the shop page for #arcade and made a PR! Now the shop shows more info about items and looks more consistent github.com/hackclub/site/pull/1235

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Sun, Jun 16, 2024

Day 9 of #15-days-in-public Create project functionality is in and fully working! I also fixed a few small bugs elsewhere in the codebase and tidied up the project. Next time I need to work on the UI a lot more and make it so that you can view tasks & projects from club pages

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Sat, Jun 15, 2024

For day 8 of #15-days-in-public I... made a server action to create a project and then did something else instead. I worked on the website for Arcade and improved the item displays & added a modal to show more info.

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Fri, Jun 14, 2024

Day 7 of #15-days-in-public! Today, I added the ability to create tasks for clubs! Basically scrapped the work from yesterday as none of it worked so started again. Also did a little refactoring to make stuff work better. Tomorrow I’m going to add project submissions to tasks and then get a UI for it made on Sunday.

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Thu, Jun 13, 2024

Day 6 of #15-days-in-public (I unfortunately missed 4&5 😭) Started work on creating tasks! My computer was really mad at me whilst doing this so I had to stop programming because of how bad the lag was. Here's a commit with what I've done though! github.com/DillonB07/club-dash/commit/e5232ea18c1cc6779f146e04173f3a759597ca40

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Thu, Jun 13, 2024

Just made a PR to hackclub/sprig to add the first version of Celeste: Sprig Edition! github.com/hackclub/sprig/pull/1759

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Mon, Jun 10, 2024

Day 3.5 of #15-days-in-public again! Added club editing feature to club dash (only accessible to club owner of course)! The logo on the modal updates when you change the logo URL. If it’s an invalid URL it’ll show the normal Hack Club logo.

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Mon, Jun 10, 2024

Day 3 of #15-days-in-public! I’ve made a club details page. All data is fetched from the database, it’s not a mockup!

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Sun, Jun 9, 2024

Day 2 of #15-days-in-public I spent an hour making my club dashboard so far look presentable! I also fixed a bug from yesterday where the user isn’t added to a club they create and added a navbar button to sign in if you’re signed out!

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Sat, Jun 8, 2024

Day 1 of #15-days-in-public Added club creation functionality to my club dashboard! At the end I’ve spotted a little bug where I’ve not added the user to the club they created, whoops! Please don’t mind the CSS, I was fighting Prisma for ages on this lol

Fri, Jun 7, 2024

For the last three months, me and 2 friends have been working on an interactive planetarium show as part of our final XR Design assessment. Now that it's complete, I'd like to present......... THE BLACK DOME! The Black Dome is a short animated planetarium show where Fleeb, a teacher, takes his class back to 1348 - when the Black Death arrived in England. The interactive part of this is a website where the audience get to vote on what they want Fleeb to talk about. Here's a video showcase. The first 2 and a bit minutes you can see the project in action in a simulated dome. The remaining time is us breaking down the project and discussing different aspects of it. youtu.be/rLW9x-yicfU We were unfortunately not able to get the voice lines we recorded in before our deadline but they'll be coming to an update soon. This project has been so fun to work on, but so exhausting too! Some tech used: Blender, Unity, C#, websockets, Bun, Express, will power & plot armour Until next time, live laugh & love Fleeb!

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Mon, Jun 3, 2024

Club dash progress! Just been working on a Navbar. I forgot how to CSS :grimacing-hole: Clubs have been manually created for now (prisma studio <3), but on the navbar you can now select the club you want to view the feed for. If unauthed, it defaults to global and the dropdown doesn't exist

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Sun, Jun 2, 2024

Fixed up the website for my planetarium project. Now, if you disconnect for whatever reason, refreshing will show you the polls that you haven’t voted in still! Or if you join late or anything :) Also fixed a few bugs that had slipped into prod including a very large one that I’m sooo glad I found (it stopped the entire thing working)

Sat, Jun 1, 2024

Some mockups for club dash, I spent wayyyyy too long thinking about these but they should be pretty helpful!

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Sat, Jun 1, 2024

More backend progress club dash - switched from Auth.js to Clerk and got Clerk syncing with my db. I have since been battling with React types and CSS. Popped my source code so far onto GitHub: github.com/DillonB07/club-dash

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Fri, May 31, 2024

Started a new project! A dashboard for managing my club Setup a new Next app with Prisma and auth (mostly done but not enough to commit)

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Wed, May 22, 2024

Introducing... Musical Pie v0.5! Do you have a Subsonic-compatible server? No, probably not. How about an RFID RC522 reader and abundance of NFC stickers? Bit more likely but probably not. A 16x2 LCD? Maybe? A Raspberry Pi? Quite likely! Well, if you're like me and have all of the above, you can use my Musical Pie project!! Musical Pie is a Python program that will play music that's attached to NFC stickers from a subsonic server. A sticker could reference an artist, album or track. When the sticker is scanned on the reader, it will play the music. Headphones/aux and USB speakers are supported. I also added a potentiometer for volume control. In the full release, there'll be two push buttons for toggling play/pause and for skipping to the next song. Here's a quick demo which went perfectly to plan with no hiccups whatsoever. Everything worked first try, if you disagree then I think you forgot to get distracted. Anyway, the code is available at github.com/DillonB07/Musical-Pie and I'll be working more on this soon! If you've got any feature suggestions, please leave them in the thread, I'd love to add more stuff to it.

Wed, May 22, 2024

Mon, May 27, 2024

Ported my Figma design for a website for a college assignment over to a React app and made the least responsive website known to humankind!

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Sat, May 25, 2024

Started my first proper Slack app today, if I pull through with it, it'll be really cool!

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Sun, May 19, 2024

begun the wackification of #hack-hour - check it out at #wack-hour github.com/dillonb07/wack-hour

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Wed, May 8, 2024

Musical pie! Plays music from my Navidrome (or any Subsonic API compatible server) after scanning an NFC sticker for the song/album/artist you want to play! Displays the current song on an LCD although that unfortunately didn’t come through in the vid

Fri, Apr 26, 2024

Did some web design for a college brand site earlier, still very wip

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Thu, Apr 25, 2024

Did more work on the logo! Might tweak it a bit, but pretty happy with this!

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Thu, Apr 25, 2024

Attempting to make a logo for my Hack Club - so far I’ve just ruined the official one :face_with_peeking_eye:

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Wed, Apr 24, 2024

Using Flasgger, and a lot of yaml docstrings 😭, I've written some docs for the Subsonic section of Rhea's API

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Thu, Apr 18, 2024

made a super simple website for the beta boba drops fund very different style to what i normally do, but i’m pretty happy with it. it’s simple but it works well i think

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Tue, Apr 16, 2024

✨ programmer art/designs ✨

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Sat, Apr 13, 2024

(Stupidly) started a new project - Rhea, a virtual assistant to help in my room ~~and stop my loneliness~~

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Fri, Apr 12, 2024

Got NextCloud setup on my pi!

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Wed, Apr 10, 2024

Got multiple web clients talking to a websocket server talking to Unity!! I’ve never really used Express or websockets before, this was pretty fun to get working but there’s a long way more to go

Tue, Apr 9, 2024

Hack Club application submitted!

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Mon, Apr 8, 2024

Failed to deploy nextcloud with reverse proxy setup and had no time to try again :)

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Sun, Apr 7, 2024

Started work on a website for a hack club i'd like to start soon today

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Sat, Apr 6, 2024

Had to move my pis during room reorganisation - sitting in a lil drawer next to my bed

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Fri, Apr 5, 2024

Made my first system unit - Gnirehtet now gets autostarted on my pi 5 to allow for easy reverse tethering for my phone

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Thu, Apr 4, 2024

Registered for my first AMA tomorrow!

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Wed, Apr 3, 2024

Broken my self hosted Ptero & Wings setup more than it already was when trying to expose it to the internet, wahoo!

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Tue, Apr 2, 2024

I didn't get anything done today so have an easter Orpheus that I drew the other day

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Mon, Apr 1, 2024

Got my domain reactivated today, all my services are back online :yayy:

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Sun, Mar 31, 2024

All the pixel art I have for Celeste: Sprig Edition so far! Really like the strawberry spring and madelines but need to redo all the scenery stuff

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Sat, Mar 30, 2024

Made a lot more progress on Celeste: Sprig Edition (all behind the scenes stuff really :( )! Very happy with the dash detection system although the timings are going to need a lot of tweaking to make it feel better as there’s a fair bit of latency atm. Only upwards dashing is implemented properly now but gonna keep working on that and maybe get some animation in too 👀

Fri, Mar 29, 2024

My first Sprig project has begun! Got this much done in a #hack-hour and am going to keep hacking away :D

Thu, Mar 28, 2024

Rendered a little animation I made in Blender for college. It’s only a 2D render for now, but I’ll eventually make a render for a planetarium. I spent way too long trying to get the seeds to behave, I really don’t want to spend more time on it 😭

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Wed, Mar 27, 2024

Quick demo of my game so far. Got the cyan button working today - it switches the Unity scene via a re-usable component. Expected that one to be a pain to make but it was super easy :D The red button swaps the material on the sphere above it. Trying to make everything nice and re-usable here whilst I get all the functionality stuff in place, pretty happy with how it’s going.

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Tue, Mar 26, 2024

Created my first torrent and started it seeding!

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Mon, Mar 25, 2024

Learning how much of a pita managing Unity Version Control over multiple computers is 😩 time to go back to zipping code and using onedrive 🤩

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