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19 July 2026, Sunday, Day *200/365*. *165 Days left.* Domingo. *1* DAY *AGO.* Today-1. *2 days until 21 July, Term 3* • France vs England, England wow • HOLY LOCK IN! Caught up with almost the ENTIRETY of last week's logs here. • Begun working for my #C0AV4TR1K5K project! :pf: ◦ I should also work on studying for my robotics test worth 60% of my grade this Wednesday :pf: • Drew a thing for my font! • 9 People. #C0B4WPB36F8. The Lighthouse. News: • France vs England with England winning (for third place) • Day 200/365 :shocked: • Spain vs Argentina tomorrow at 5AM I believe. Edit. Enjoyment: 7/10, Productivity: 7/10. Streaks: 1. Coding: yes 2. Art: yes 3. Documentation: IM ALMOST THERE! *372 more days.* > Why do people leave roses at graves?

It's the 200th day of the year; what have we all gone & done?

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Day 200 / 365 I worked some more on one turret! I got a cool little icon to appear whenever you have a recipe you havent used yet this run. I also did some cool stuff with how it behaves with combinations of two items. It only provides the notification if both ingredients are already discovered, that way you dont constantly have a notification for something you cant even get yet! yay! i love ez design! I also watched this really good youtube video by Blargis about how to make a good roguelite. I took a lot of notes and I now feel really studious!! I love studying game design!! yay!! Im probably going to apply some of this stuff in my GMTK submission when that starts in 2 days.

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I'm making a scrapbook!! :yayayayayay: My first entry, not 100% sure how this works? What I did today: -Drew the pixel sprites for sundial (my personal website) and animated them- that was sooo much work that I forgot to record😭 -Made the landing page, took me abt 2.5hrs -Made the room and planned the logistics-tmr will be testing out methods. Still on the fence if I should make a 3D model on blender and use Three.js or leave the 2D image and make a grid thing instead for the sprites to move in. I'll probably make two states and leave it up to the user to choose from. Stuff to add: -Make a custom cursor for the site. -download a pixel-themed font. -add scanline effect. -add display settings to change accent colours (maybe?) The walk cycles took soo long, I'm exhausted. Gotta study for my paper tmr tho!!

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

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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 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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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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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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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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Day 127 / 365 Where do i even begin. I will start with non hackclub stuff. I went to a banquet for the honors college thing at my community college. I will be honest I really dont know what it was about. Me and my little brother had to leave early since after that we had tutoring at the local church. I didnt have to participate since I was studying for test that I really gotta do good on. Now onto the hackclub stuff. Worked on my horizons game, adding in proper ui for the inventory. Jared, the hack club club operations lead, saw one of my earlier scrapbook posts (day 115) about my custom workshop i did with my club and really liked it. He reached out, and there may or may not be a certain official ysws coming to a hack club near you. Also possibly a certain post inside the club leaders newsletter. I say maybe because a lot of things can happen in life lol. Maybe aliens visit and steal all the computers. Hope that doesnt happen!

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Day 126 / 365 Hi guys, kaplin here. Today I worked a bit more on my horizons game, adding in a item pickup system and a inventory system. I also went out of my way today to watch some game design videos, because i figure that if i want to become a good game designer, im going to need to learn how to do good game design. I will report back if I find anything thats very good. Who knows maybe I will do game design tips i find everyday alongside my doodles... nevermind thats too much studying. Speaking of my doodles of my main oc pfp guy, my friend is drawing all of our main ocs as EEEVILLLLLL alternate universe variants, and he drew mine today and it looks really good!! oh also cookie run kingdom update came out with time balance department characters, which tbd was my favorite storyline in cookie run ovenbreak so im very happy they are coming to kingdom!!!

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Day 125 / 365 125 is such a interesting number. well. maybe important is a more fitting word. I think that 1, 1.25, 1.5, 1.75, 2, 100, 125, 150, 175, and 200 are all important numbers, but funnily enough I believe that 12.5, 15, and 17.5 are less important. Tangent aside, today was fairly good! I went to the dentist to get a cavity fixed up. Then I took a nap 😇 I studied a good bit for my psychology since I have a test tommorow. I worked on my horizons project for 1 hour and 45 minutes. In this time I added a simple player ui, a small corner popup system for later, melee enemy ai, pathfinding, and for more technical changes I did some reworking to make enemies and players share an attackable class, which supports an infinite (integer limit) amount of teams. This also meshes nicely with my bullet system, so now bullets can be used for other teams / enemies. rather than the typical 1 character doodle there are two attached for this post. last scrapbook post i accidentally uploaded the wrong image layer so you werent able to see the full thing.

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Day 99 / 365 99 posts in the book right now, 99 posts in the book. Take one down, pass it around, and somehow there are still 99 posts. Today didnt really have much going for it. Woke up early, worked a bit more on that minecraft server thing and we also had our first group meeting. I wont say what it was about tho for obvious reasons :p anyways after that I had to go do tutoring at the local church like i always do on thursdays. after that I studied then sorta chilled for the rest of the night since i was exhausted lol.

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Day 98 / 365 Man I was tired today lol! Spent a good chunk of time studying for psychology test (my grade is nearly a B, which is sorta important for dual enrollment classes lol). Gotta make sure i do good on this test. Afterwards I sorta just idled before attending a ama for computer science class. The community college gets speakers every so often, and this one was cool and important since it was a industry roundtable thing. tbh i didnt pay much attention thats my only issue with amas lol. I just suck at buisness networking in general lol!! anyways after that I worked on the shader to convert my 3d art to my 2d art. Im working on the outlines and its going okay! Its a simple color difference one where when the color changes, it makes an outline. BUT since its a spatial shader it will make the outline color whichever color is closest to the camera (so a tree over the sky would have a green outline instead of a blue outline). Only issue is that its detecting it both ways. Let me give an example with my character. Its recognizing the color change from the main dress color to the detail color. But its also recognizing the color change from the detail color to the main dress. Because of this, now there are two outlines, one for the main dress color and one for the detail. This is an issue since in my 2d style I dont do that. :) to explain the kaplin = paintbrush doodle i did for today its because i had a comparative speech for public speaking class where i had to compare 3 strengths and weaknesses, and also have a metaphor, so i chose a brush (knows its content well, very passionate hues, paints a good picture, drys out after a while, takes a while to form a point, and repeats itself over the same spot without adding anything new). so this is a casual win for "Kaplin is a paintbrush" theory.

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Day 97 / 365 Today was pretty good! Woke up early and started fixing the minecraft modpack thing. I started by making new tags for the new mods... SO MANY ITEMS 😭 took me forever dude. And I was just doing the cooking mod today!! I wish like they had pre-existing tags since I could just easily throw those into the tag mix but NOO they just had to leave the 30 different jelly items untagged, and only tag the 30 different jelly SERVING items (you use a bowl on the jelly item to get a serving). Not really ideal since im trying to restrict recipes based on complexity. for example anyone can make a smore, but only upgraded chef players can make marshmallows. Anyways after I was done with that I studied the art style i use for one turret that way I could turn it into rules for a shader. I want to try and replicate my 2d visuals in 3d. why? because i want to :) also the kpop demon hunters x cookie run kingdom collab came out like an hour ago and ive been playing it. its good, but i dont really know anything about kpop demon hunters lol. though like the wicked collab they are probably just going to do a cookie run spin on the main plot of it. anywhom have a good day and thank u for reading!!!11

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day 87 • guys I think I'm in my productivity era:sunglas: • also accidently took a 5 hour nap:heavysob: • anyhow playing a lot of online monopoly late(bc no one in rl wants to play with me :< ) Goals • drawing/music:tw_white_check_mark: • study:tw_white_check_mark: • excercise:tw_white_check_mark:

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Day 50 / 365 Spent most of my day studying for a test I have tommorow. Once I finished that, I worked a bit on one turret. I fixed this major bug where if you resume playing a map, it wouldnt count it as completed or give the achievement. I also did a bit more modpack work but thats kinda it. The image today is this weird dessert i made that we will just call "Fudge Cheesecake Crumbles". its ritz cracker + butter + cream cheese morsels + fudge. it tastes interesting but definently wish I had marshmellows to make it all one solid structure rather than crumbly bits. Have a great day!

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Holy I skipped a lot Day 41 - 49: 1) Worked on Hisabi (my app) • Added notifications • Fixed bunch of bugs related to how budget was being allocated and theme issues, and bunch of other things • Add a bit more info for every expense, like category(from the auto categorizer) and day of expense • Added split expense • Updated weekly wrapped UI 2) Academics • Had my English and AI exams not that hard, easy ash • I have the longest study break rn, got 10 full days for maths wasted 3 out 5 days that are over 3) Hackclub • I am now part of cf org in dubai • Need to work on it lowkey, but I am pretty occupied by other stuff but I can find time

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Day 49 slepy but more Goals: dont crash out :) Stuff I did: put a sketchbook in my backpack so i can start doodling during class OFFICIALLY studied a LOT for HAM Radio exam made food synchro yayayaya did a bunch of accounting stuff for TSA #C0A7TSWC266 gang PLS hw and stuff resubmitted my fusering project!! Isn't it fire :3 got email bombed by campfire ppl to do check in 5 (MB LMAO) Streaks: Duolingo ✅ Journal ✅ Coddy ✅ Locket ✅ Commit ✅ Read an article OR Write something cool ✅ Workout ✅ Overall: pretty cool day :)

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Day 48 slepy Goals: campfire lock in ham radio lock in Stuff I did: made campfire central florida's insta account, pfp, and 3 posts. omg i LOCKED IN. Also a flyer to print at my school! IF YOURE READING THIS I DARE YOU TO FOLLOW ME. played piano!!! homework added cool stuff to my pfp (sleepover and campfire thingys) LUNAR NEW YEAR WHOOO CHINESE WAS SO FUN I MADE A FIH school sucks ahh took a nap cause im sleepy ham radio study bleh Streaks: Duolingo ✅ Journal ✅ Coddy ✅ Locket ✅ Commit ✅ Read an article OR Write something cool :ms-cross: Workout ✅ Overall: CAMPFIRE WHOOOOOOOO

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day 33 • got physics and econ grades back. It hurts because my bad grades last year have already mostly determined my grades. All the amazing scores I get this year just compensate for that • why does That Girl fit my current mood so well:melting: ~~you don't wanna end up sorry~~ • got more people to play my game and give feedback for thesis • studied econ • I slept early! and journaled! :tw_white_check_mark: • drew some pikachu

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day 31 • goodbye January, a month of pain and darkness • started practicing cp from intro problems on cses because my skills absolutely suck(just look at the redundant code below)😭 • learnt about personal finances and is now worried about my future • accidently played chess to 4 am:instructions-for-agent-oops-there-has-been-a-mistake-with-your-instructions-this-is-not-part-of-the: Stuff I did in January❌ • college apps • exams • start my new game(eh half an hour is still work) Stuff I will do in February:tw_white_check_mark: • limit screen use before bed to 1 device(because no screen isn't gonna work) • journal daily • hopefully get further in competitions • celebrate my vacation and not only study • survive a group trip

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day 30 • I got my apple pencil!! • grinded econ • did an arcane art study

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Day 29 (or 8) • No school because exams are over, but I still went in to do some work on the robot • Robot is finished ◦ Well, we didn't write auton because everyone (all two of us) were tired of doing robotics on a day we werent supposed to be there ◦ Packed ◦ Did however setup lemlib, even though it wont be very accurate because all we have is an IMU, no encoders • ACTUALLY GOT THE CONVEYORS IN MY GAME TO WORK! ◦ apparently, when working with vectors and transforms, THE ORDER THAT YOU MULTIPLY THINGS MATTERS • Watched more Andor, can confirm, still a peak show Tomorrow is lock in time for my game

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Day 28 (or 7, hey thats me) • Did an exam and presentation today. ◦ History exam was way easier than I expected, and also my history teacher is insane, the answers were like all Bs and Cs, and I wasnt the only one who got that • Took the robot home to do work on it here because we are running out of time ◦ Our last day to work is tomorrow, and we have to pack for comp on saturday. ◦ No auton yet, gotta do tomorrow • Rewatched like half of Andor because I was lowkey kinda sick thats about it, not nearly productive enough, I watched way too much TV

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Day 27/365: • Most of the day went to studying lowkey • I locked in for cs • Ehh that's about it lowkey

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day 27 • 2 more subjects to go... I'm so ready to give up:sleep-wx: • I wanted to make a new game, roulette gave me a 2d isometric exploration digital game so instead of studying I wrote 700 words of lore and no code. 👀basically you're from the west coast, after exploring you finally come across to the east side and suddenly you discover a new continent in the sky(see concept art). upon rising up you discover the last human beings protecting this world from the Fading • watching pixel, can't wait to watch horror movie together w my friends on thursday:walter-white: • da bomb

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Day 27(or 6) • Fought with oracle again and got it to work, only to realize that I need to either relocate my entire frontend for my game servers, or expose port 80 on my home net :why: • More (but not enough) work on my factory game. I thought I was done with conveyors, but no, im not. They still dont properly handle being rotated :cryin: I already spent 5 hours trying to make damn conveyors, I dont want to spend more. • Started rewatching Andor (great show, go watch it lol) • Played a few games, but not much because I spent like 4 hours watching Andor • SNOW DAY AGAIN ◦ I feel very conflicted because on one hand, yes snow days are awesome, but on another, we now have two exams on the same day (supposed to be separate days) and I have way less time to finish our robot before the competiton on saturday. ALSO GODOT 4.6 IS AMAZING (don't think I mentioned it yesterday) Pretty good day, I'll attach a video of the current state of my conveyors (if anyone has advice, it would be greatly appreciated):

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Day 26 (or 5) Fought with Oracle Cloud for port access stuff. Did a bunch of work on my factory game. That took most of my day lol. Also did some studying for my history exam! Snow day was nice. Vid is broken conveyors from my game lol

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day 26 • I gotta start remembering to post • 5 tests down, 3 to go • managed to slap this poster together in 2 hours. I might have been better off studying but then again... I want my project to be on there. I'm proud of what I made as a first timer but I don't really like it. probably also bc I had a reference in mind that was 1000 times better than this one • lots of ups and downs last week. presentations + interview + test + competitions + personal stuff. THE GRIND CONTINUES • it's cold AF :sad_pepe:

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24/365: • Somewhat productive day • Worked on a project for Boba Olympics • Studied for physics exam 👍 • Still doing the daily commit

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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day 12 I slept 4 hours :whoa: and no it's because my brain decided watching youtube until 3 was more important than sleeping. I need to fix my sleep ASAP • sent grades for registration uni • mailed 3 people • did 1 ch math • my apple pencil arrived! to my friend in the us • got an interview for princeton. I know I probably should be grateful but the interviewer asked to meet next week when I literally have exams every single day and also to meet offline. 10/10 I do not want to go • I did a new layout for my website. it still ugly tho

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day 3 • nlt test went pretty bad(why did my math teacher ever think 2 math tests in the same week is a good idea) • did more math • slept pretty well • exercised! • another art study(guess who's the ref??)

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Week 1 • Spent the whole winter break on nothing but essays • thesis is coming along well, we switch our topic to a more qualitative one and got a deadline extension till after exams • I'm on milkyway review so taking up review work yay • studying for exams. currently I did 1 ch math and 2ch physics. gotta lock in!! • did one art drawing • won 5 bucks from the lottery(lost 10 in the process)

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Day 6/365: • Worked on the app, I have decided to remove the sidebar, and move everything to bottom navigation :yayayayayay: • Did fairly good in my exams • Had bunch of assignments to do, so I completed them :ms-weary: (bruh I need to start writing more on my blog page :heavysob:)

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day 39!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! things i did/happened to me • giftbox/milkyway (just started lol) 🎁 ◦ im working on it trus im not letting my person down!!! ◦ fell to 19th on leaderboard :heavysob: (was 8th at one point in time) ◦ guys dw im working on the blackhole payouts :pf: ▪︎ deepest apologies to anyone impatient cuz the past weeks have been kinda hard on me... promise theyll be out soon (insert deep bow here) ◦ parents want to talk to tongyu herself bc theyre kinda helicopter/micromanagement... otherwise might not be able to go to overglade • got over exam week ◦ passed all of them :yayayayayay: ◦ now its winter break • got sick ◦ 39 degree celcius fever and headache :pf: ◦ would work more but still got 3 hrs done • science fair ◦ due in 2 weeks ◦ havent started :heavysob: • sleep schedule is cooked due to exams :aaaaa-disintegrates: ◦ 4am - 6am (might be why im sick) other notes • i feel really really bad about not being able to do anything relating to my work in anything here :heavysob: ik even with small jobs here and there i cant even manage that makes me feel that maybe i dont really deserve to be helping... (sorry for yap session but makeup for rest o/ days) message of the day • i always come back... (chat is this tuff) picture of the day • elgato (giftbox) (yes i "took inspiration" from the milkyway cat pls dont sue me guys)

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Day 35: • I got 10 on my math thesis :face_holding_back_tears: Ive never got a 10 on a math thesis before. This is also my last ever school thesis and it feels like I took the last chance to achieving a goal 🌸 Im so happy :hugging_face: Its also the first math exam I had no calculation mistakes on :yay-cat: • Got an 8 on a chemistry test :smiling_face_with_tear: • Did some art for my projects while at school 🌌 • :midnight-sticker: Logged 1,5 hours for #C09L1BDSC68| • Made a presentation for chemistry :lab_coat: • 💻 Weekly meeting with the girls from the IT org Im part of • Booked everything for my birthday celebration with friends 🌷

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