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Day 182 / 365 Today was a generally productive day! While I didnt work on any homework, I worked on the readme for my game Helixxed (the one i made for godot wild jam and am also submitting to stardance) so i could finally ship it. I also worked on my form thing i mentioned yesterday and its fully done! I also made an art sheet for the turret from one turret (the name of the turret is called "one turret" btw). why? because im going to be participating with artfight!! but i uh sorta wasnt able to add the character because the site went down. maybe i should have added 'em before the event actually started lol.

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Day 181 / 365 Today I think i roughly finished off the workshop form for my club ysws, but I need to do some minor testing and then il be certain. I think I want to code some stuff tommorow. either that or work a lot on my homework stuffs. Anyways I tried making monkey bread again and it actually came out REALLY good!!

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Changed my mind on shipping, however I do now have a landing page! I still have to do things like changing the color palette (it's alright now, but I want something different I think), adding little details to really sell the "Rendering" aspect of this, etc. etc. Here's the landing page, please check it out & give any feedback! pkncoder.github.io/Engine/index.html Since I changed my mind on shipping, here are those images that I was going to use!

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Day 180 / 365 Today was fun but i still wasnt really all that productive. I atleast worked on my homework and did a bit of work on my club ysws, working on the workshop form. but yeah no thats basically it. i did play a lil bit of among us tho and watched a friend play some games outside of that cause i felt really tired. Had a headache all day too... i think i need more water.

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day 179/180? • programmable badge(probably the closet I'll ever get to doing hardware) we'll get doom on there someday(and maybe eventually gta6)👍 • it's so hot 😞 • finally done with school tests!! • also ARTFIGHT!! if anyone attacks me I'll gladly revenge eheheh 😈

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Day 179 / 365 Today I lowkey just watched my dad play deltarune chapter 5 all day. im not even joking. from 9 am to 6 pm, and then picked back up at 9 pm!!!!! he was off work today so thats why. i plan on locking in tommorow!! but when have plans like that ever worked? I also attempted to make monkey bread but i cant send a photo since its still in the oven edit: i burned the monkey bread. maybe the fact i cant edit images in later is for the better.

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Just got done with some renders on the engine, been working all day on implementing the things needed. Along with the images, I added: Shadow Mapping for the Rasterizer (only 1 emitter) Tone mapping to the Rasterizer Fog to the Rasterizer A vignette effect to the Rasterizer Transparency maps to the Rasterizer Settings & presets for the renders * A new "Queer Room" modeled by me in blender for the Path Tracer (going to post it on ship). I honestly have had so much fun with this. Currently working on a landing page to go in place of my "Online Demo" on stardance (since this isn't that kind of application D: ). Here's the github: github.com/pkncoder/Engine/tree/Phase-III! At some point I'll be redoing the README as well for more info. Also, these images aren't even the best ones, I'll leave that for the ship :3

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Day 178 / 365 I had to wake up really early to drive my brother and dad to a swim meet 1 hour away from home :) so hu yeah from like 6 am to 1:30 i was out of the house. then I had to leave for my weekly hack club meeting!! Il be honest it didnt really go that well. We were working on our hackpad projects, but were running into issues with using fusion360. specifically with moving sketches or whatever the 2d thing is called. idk. theres also the fact that they wildly updated the tutorial, so now our stuff is a bit far from what the tutorial says (for example, our pcbs have a lot of empty space, while the pcbs in the tutorial were strictly around the buttons. and the connector bit was directly underneath a button while in ours thats not the case since we didnt know you could do that). so im going to be looking into how to use fusion360, and maybe if theres any other programs we could use that would be more preferred for my club members.

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finished the frame alignment feature!

I forgot about acceleration structures, so I planned that out as well in the renderer. Currently just: • BVH (Bounding Volume Heirarchy) for Ray & Path Tracing • SVO (Sparse Voxel Octree) for Ray Marching (Hypothetically) These acceleration structures make rendering methods like Ray & Path Tracing, Ray Marching, Ray Casting, etc. feasible for real-time by "cutting out" data (objects) similar to how a Binary Tree works.

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Day 177 / 365 Today i tried out a little game called "ultimate chicken horse" with some online pals. Dispite the game coming out in 2016, ive only heard about it like once from a high-stakes competitive gameplay vid about it. idk. games pretty fun! Today, me my dad and my brother all went to a baseball game. We mostly went because my dad's work was having a banquet there since they are a big sponsor or somethin. While Im not the biggest sportsball guy, i especially didnt like this game because they kept on playing random meme audios. like pipe falling sfx and that stupid oo ee a e cat thing. like, they could have atleast do something more up-to-date?? oh well i probably wouldnt find it funny anyways. I always feel very awkward whenever i hear any sort of internet meme outside of any internet scenarios. I wonder what that says about me as a person!!1 atleast i got icecream from the game as well :)

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Day 176 / 365 Woahh!1!1 hi guys its me kaplin today i coded a bit on my indie game. called one turret. available on steam go buy it. I worked on the recoded enemies a bit. Outside of that I played some minecraft, creating a really cool airship. i will be remaking this airship using schematic cannon in survival later. i used a bunch of modded copper blocks added by create since those are really cheap, only costing one copper ingot for two blocks. cant forget the fact of just how much copper you get from a single ore block.

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Day 175 / 365 Today i played deltarune. all day. its really the only thing i did. im not kidding lol. i woke up like 30 minutes before it released, and then immediately got to playing. luckily i didnt have anything i HAD to do (like chores) today so I played it nonstop. for 9 hours. :) i did live stream it on youtube but it was mostly so i could record my reaction without taking up my storage space

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Day 174 / 365 Today was a lot like yesterday lol. I played a lot of minecraft with a friend of mine!!! We flew around in our create aeronautics airship and did two trial chambers (well, one was a moded variant called a shrine, but same premise). Very fun, but that is what i spent most of my day on lol. I did work a bit more on one of the forms for my club ysws, alongside some small summer class junk. Soon I think i will have something interesting to say in this scrapbook. No this isnt forshadowing, this is me saying it to will it into existance also deltarune tommorow!!!!!!!!!!!! always bet on papyrus knight theory

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22 June 2026, Monday, Day 173/365. Lunes. --- Today! Never mind didn't get to send it on time. Yesterday, sent 18:15 hours since. • 4/4-day weekend :wowzers: • I AM wasting my time :tired: • Wrote 21 June's log late :pf: • Code more parts of my slackbot • Wait I might be cooking ◦ Open Meteo API hmm ◦ Slack block kit experiments • HOLY CRAIC KEIR STARMER RESIGNEDD • Birds for some reason (why is bro looking up bird yaoi?) ◦ Fujoshi birds? News: • HOLY CRAIC KEIR STARMER RESIGNED ◦ Goodbye to the first 67 openly gooner prime minister of the UK! ◦ www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/6/22/live-uk-pm-keir-starmer-expected-to-announce-his-resignation Enjoyment: 5/10 Productivity: 5/10 Streaks: 1. Coding: yes 2. Art: idk 3. Documentation: this *399 more days.*

All people should think for themselves.

> I search "bird yaoi" Youtube knew exactly what I wanted. Whatever steams your willy bro Oh yeah here's the cover for the princess book I forgot to show

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Officially Day 174 Personally Day 21 (lolz) I'm really not that active huh.. Anyway im back from Horizons Nexus and fully recharged from (not sleeping a lot) sooooo Working on fixing up bugs and polishing the game we made at nexus! Doesn't work great itch rn because of insert reasons so @avni @katsu and I will (probably) touch it up and make it more fun to play still tho itch is pixelsaver.itch.io/cat-debt

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Day 173 / 365 Today was pretty productive! In the morning, I dropped off my car for repairs (just like general maintenence stuffs) and then I worked on summer class stuff. but when i was done i started working on some of the forms needed for my club ysws :) im not going to elaborate lol!! I also got the minecraft server from yesterday setup and started playing it. Im working on a cool new copper airship thats way bigger than the first one! maybe i can actually put a farm or two in it!! (for the people in the slack from the happenings channel, i edited this image to add the copper airship even though its like later in this thread lol. to my scrapbook readers uh dont question this bit)

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Day 172 / 365 I got home from the trip aaaaaand i dont really have much to comment lol!!1 played some modded minecraft with (extended) friendgroup :) (by extended its like themain friendgroup plus a few extras from a diffferent one its like colaborative idk) and since my friend regonold's pi is terrible at hosting im buying a server for the group so now im working on getting a good modpack yay also idk what the doodle is supposed to be

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It's me, Ethan Hawksley, and I've just finished pushing out another large update to my site hawksley.dev! I've written a new blog post, all about how you can add JSON-LD to your own personal websites to improve how crawlers see them: hawksley.dev/blog/json-ld-explained-for-personal-websites It uses lots of examples from my own site, so you can easily copy-paste and edit to fit your own site. I've also now added my photo to my website too! It's in all the link previews, and on my home page. However, I was intentionally really careful when I added it. To maximise performance, I used the AVIF image format, with a PNG fallback. I've also inlined a low-resolution base64 AVIF directly into the html of my home page, so that it instantly loads in when you visit, and a higher quality AVIF loads on top of that once the page has finished loading. I'm really happy with how it turned out, the image is only 2.5KB! After some careful rearranging of my home page, it also fits in just under the size requirement for the first TCP packet group at 14KB, meaning it only requires one round trip with cloudflare for it to load. My PageSpeed Insights score is still 100/100/100/100

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Day 171 / 365 Second day of my trip. Today we went to the international spy museum. I found this one pretty cool, especially the codes and cryptography stuff. After that we went to a giant mall called "Tysons corner". Got some lunch there, then we walked around quite a bit. I got myself this little pokemon figurine blind box. I havent opened it yet, il probably open it at home, but theres a few options it has. the 6 options are: Pikachu + altaria, Rayquza, bronzong + unown, piplup + oshawott, sylveon, and dragapult. id be fine with any of em except the rayquaza one. Im not a big rayquaza fan personally. So uh yeah no programming obviously lol. I go back home tommorow so maybe il do some then. odds are im just going to get home and play minecraft lol.

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Day 170 / 365 Today I was out of town. all day. teehee. We went to D.C. and i got to see the whitehouse (From a distance) so that was cool. After that we went to the smithsonian's national air and space museum. It was cool! but tbh i only really cared about the space stuff (im not a big plane guy) (nor am i a WW1 guy either). After that we got some dinner at cheesecake factory :) if your curious i got a plain mac n cheese burger (so like just a burger with the fried mac ball ontop). Then we went to "beat the bomb". If you dont know its a "real life videogame experience". second time going to one!! In this one, in the path we chose, the games were: Number game (tap numbers on screens around room from lowest to highest, with some gimmicks like bad numbers and dissapearing numbers), One where you have to walk in formations for batteries, One where each player had a specific color and had to hit their band on the colors, one where you had to dodge really buggy lazers, and then the final one (the bomb) was... a brickbreaker!?!?!? WHAT???!! THESE BRICKBREAKERS ARE FOLLOWING ME SOMEONE HELP!!1!!1!1 hehe lol anyways so yeah we had to beat 10 brickbreaker levels. We only beat 8, so we then got blasted with foam :) so uh yeah thats really all i have to say lol. Attached is a terrible doodle of biblically accurate kaplin drawn on laptop trackpad, alongside a few photos of the museum visit that i found interesting.

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Sooo this is my first devlog :> like ever ngl genuinely ever-ever so i duno if this is alr orrrrr wuhh :sobs: I’m making this website called Pagewalk and it helps people learn through memory techniques (the Method of Loci being the center around it). Basically the goal is to make learning more fun and magical :happi: So far I’ve doneee: the planning (i attached one screenshot with one section of the planning file) updated the README doc started drawing the library hub started making the ‘magical’ books MY FAVORITE PART BTW - storyboarded the animation and did a blue draft animation layer to plan it out <3 and so far built some of the layout (i’ve done html and css for now :p) i know this kinda doesnt count i’ve also asked chatgpt to give me a refresher on css since it lwky had been a while :p:

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I was done with doomscrolling Instagram so i made an app that only lets you see posts from your friends (works on the official instagram app btw). apart from this banger feature, it has a suite of features like • block apps, short form videos, websites • count how many reels/shorts you scroll • many more (idk too long to paste here) All Free and Open Source! Star the project or learn how it works: <https://n|https://>github.com/nethical6/curbox website: <https://g|https://>curbox.app/install-android (sorry for the poor video quality :broken-fart: )

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Day 169 / 365 today was funny. on one hand i locked in on the jam game (3 hours) (godot wild jam btw) and on the other hand i played a whole lot of minecraft. The server im playing on has the create: aeranautics mod on it so i made a airship. Im going to be out of town for a few days so that airship is probably going to be destroyed, raided, or lost by the time i get back lol. In the jam game project i added the entire genes mechanic and a shop.

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does anyone have the link to the submission form because it says page not found when i clicked on it.

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I have finished getting albedo (basic color) textures loading. To get this working I had to redo how meshes were loaded completely, but I finally finished that. The biggest problems I had was getting the backrooms model to render correctly, as the previous models I had, all of the textures were in a "baked" form, which my renderer does not support. Finally I found a free non-baked one that was really good, but there was just a few issues with normals, and after I fixed that in blender shading issues showed up, and then UV issues. However the model is mostly fixed now! If you would like to try for yourself, the github repo is here: github.com/pkncoder/Engine/tree/Phase-III. The repo is large currently, as I still need to compress the files, or remove them (gitignore). The Path Tracer is currently disabled, as I need to swap the textures to handles, and then modify the PathTracer to work with the textures. It will look really good once I get that working though!

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Day 168 / 365 I dont really have much to say about today. Woke up late. I worked on my club ysws a bit more, and i think i have it mostly finalized!! Outside of that i didnt really do a lot of coding lol. I played some noita, then modded minecraft with some friends, then i played among us :) it was very chaotic since it was like 9 people in the vc lol. anyways tommorow i really want to lock in on the wild jam game. im going to try and wakeup early!

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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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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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