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days 5/6 of 50 days till 2026! didn't get to making an update yesterday as I had to finish up some schoolwork and then immediately crashed and fell asleep. I did get 100 on my deeply procrastinated essay though! I did a bit of work on improving test coverage of the code and got tests implemented for all of the api routes! I also discovered I have $250 worth of claude code web credits that expire on the 18th so I decided to see how much I could get done through there. The web ui turned out to actually work fairly well but I definitely wish I had those credits as api credits instead. I'm still trying to figure out a good model for how to organize transcripts but I did the preliminary work on organizing them into classes and having waitlists for classes to open up.

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Hey everyone! Something really cool happened yesterday! Want to hear about it? I hope so, because I'm going to say it either way! I went to a local hackathon called Island Hacks which is hosted every year. I went to this same hackathon in September 2024, and had such a good time I looked for more hackathons, which eventually led me to discover Hack Club! It was basically the point when I stopped doing beginner courses and really started to code regularly and actually make projects. I've grown so much since then, from growing my html and (basically nonexistent) css and js skills to coding 100 hours on one project for #C088UF12N1Z|, and designing PCBs in KiCad to running my own club with @Slloom , and so much more. I can't say I owe it all to Island Hacks - more organizations and people have been part of my journey than I can count - but it was definitely part of the start of it all. Anyway, I can tell more of my story later. Right now, I want to talk about yesterday's Island Hacks. It started at 9am with breakfast and a three-to-a-team puzzle/riddle thing through google form. I joined up with two girls named Amelia and Aria who were sitting at my table. After the first team completed it, they announced the theme: Make something that solves a problem of someone in your life. Both Amelia and Aria had never really coded before, so we stayed for the beginner's workshop that immediately followed. By the time it finished, we had a solid idea of what our project would be: A website that generates icebreaker questions to help you get to know someone. Aria did the art, Amelia helped with function design and created the questions (60+ of them!), and I did most of the programming! Funnily enough, our team actually shaped out to be pretty similar to the roles of the three Team Cherry members lol. Demo site here: kerhylonkava.github.io/IcebergQuestions Repo here: github.com/KerhylonKava/IcebergQuestions You can read the pitch Amelia wrote for it below if you want to:

Have you ever struggled to really connect with someone?

In my family, we often have the problem of not knowing what kinds of questions to ask each other. We want to actually learn more about one another, but are too often faced with distraction or a lack of ideas. We want something that will be fun and actually tell us more. 

That's why we created our website, Break the Ice.

The purpose of this website is to provide a fun and engaging way to get to know other people, through asking the right questions.

 Our website generates questions in three levels. Basic questions, which help you learn about what's on the surface of a person, Mid-level questions, which offer ways to dive deeper and begin to understand them, and Deep questions, which provide thought provoking prompts to help grasp their core beliefs and identity.

Anyone can search up a list of "Get to know you questions" but wouldn't you rather have a website dedicated to their curation, with a fun command-on-click user experience? I sure would. We hope this website inspires more connection between people, without the barrier of brain fog.

Anyway, I need to add to/edit this tomorrow, I haven't even got to the good bit, but it's late now. Good night!

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Yo Hack Club! 😎 So I hopped into the 50-Day Challenge with a couple of goals that I really wanna lock in before the year ends, and honestly… it’s been going well so far. My goals are: 1. To build a solid robotics team at my school. 2. Make better use of GitHub and jump into more collab projects 3. Level up my web dev skills + overall tech stack And today I’m hyped to share a little win: I just crossed 400 GitHub contributions! Slowly building that clean-looking contribution graph, one commit at a time 😌 This whole 50-Day Challenge is kinda my way of squeezing the most out of the last stretch of the year learning, building, and having fun with it. More goals getting crossed off soon. Stay tuned 🚀💫 GitHub: <http://github.com/Louis2324|github.com/Louis2324>

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its-a-me, day 5 of :50days: • (Not an Incremental) Added a new "Action" class with a bunch of inherited objects that you add under nodes that need them and they run specific code like obtaining some stat or purchasing something! Might merge this with the upgrade system somehow • (Not an Incremental) Added a new platform to test it. Also, made a Platform class that listens to the signal bus (added that as well) for a sign that the platform was purchased • (Not an Incremental) Basically a bunch of infra for the game. And now I'm stuck with the looming horror of designing the actual game :noooovanish: On another note: • Gym today, push day raaah • stopped listening to white noise and started listening to the alan becker lofi livestream • today was much more productive, maybe tomorrow I can actually go back to doing my regular 5hrs/day? not yet 10/day tho can't post video cause too lazy to open OBS or download a clip thingy so here's a pic of after the purchase

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:50days: day 5 of 50, I: • was outside from 6-7 (AM-PM), a total of 6 + 7 = 13 hours (please don't cancel me) :sixseven: • still have a lot of homework; probably won't code tomorrow and definitely didn't today :blob_sad: • @jollyroger182 got me to rename my personal channel from #lraj23-space to #C09KUCDAXFE| :lraj23-picrew: • made 0 contributions on GitHub (was outside for too long) :githubparrot: • REACHED A DUOLINGO STREAK OF 800 DAYS (see below) :duostreak:

:hc-spotify-logo: Day 4/50: • I went to school as Saturday is for the nerds :nerdy: and I'm one. :hs: • I will probably be not able to code these days as exams • No Github activity today • Did Physics and Maths • How does a 3D print even break like that???

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:50days: Day 4 of 50, I: • accidentally fell asleep; that's why it's 00:35 on the fifth day for me :sleeping_accommodation: • had too much homework (including finally finishing the previously mentioned paper roller coaster), so didn't code :blob_sad: • @jollyroger182 responded to my speed run of creating a bot ( @Tim-TalksWelcomer(lraj23) ) by creating @welcomerspeedrun , though the amount of time taken is not confirmed :jollyuncleroger182: • made 0 contributions on GitHub (see homework above; image below), breaking my 7 day streak of GitHub contributions :githubparrot: • reached a Duolingo streak of 799 days :duo-knife:

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Day 4: Parthenon! The hackathon started and it’s so great. I’ve been having a ton of fun conversations with Hack Clubbers. It’s such a great reminder of how big the community is and how there are so many people having life changing experiences in Hack Club and aren’t on the Slack every day. It really makes Hack Club feel very real talking to people in person. Huge shoutout to @phthallo , @reem , @phaedra , and the entire organizing team for making this happen. This weekend is gonna be amazing

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:50days: day 4 of 50 days till 2026 well today was fun :pf: I had a trip to the ER because I kept coughing to the point of dry vomiting and being unable to breath. I got to try some really not nasty at all medicine that should hopefully calm my throat down and we shall see if that works. I don't have a super good visual for this one but I added a copy code button to thistle and did a bunch of work on getting the cleanup to work well on long token heavy transcripts. I also updated murmur so it bases the estimated progress on how long the input audio file is which should improve that quite a bit. I also had a fun time with calc (not sarcastic it was actually fun) this morning in a review session before our exam next tuesday. I relearned how to do limits at infinity which I wasn't feel super confident on and now am feeling pretty good about the exam!

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day 4/50: • today was the hackathon demos, we came 5th :pensive-wobble: • ate a lot of thingies • stayed until 4am to code :sickbro: • going back home tomorrow, need to prep tomorrow and (today?) for RMO which is on sunday :exhausted: heres pics of the school im visiting :3

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:50days: *day 4/50* alright, due to recovering from being sick and procrastination ™️ I have not gotten much done today, though I did rewrite the kk slider implementation, prepped some things for release, and started on a readme for tanuki! here it is with the (default :hs:) tray icon

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:hc-yubico-logo: Day 3/50: • Went to school we had a class party. Enjoyed af at the party + it was out last day at school (Saturday is for the nerds :nerdy:) • I gave prints to nimit to print hopefully he does print them • I will prob be not able to code these days as exams • No Github activity will see if i can code a lil and make a normal auto committer. • I added some logo emojis to the slack. • Now Im gonna study Physics and Geography and a lil Maths

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screen time ran out yesterday but here's what i did: (i think im getting better at birbs! :birbpet:)

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Day 2/50.... I finished writing the background for all of the characters for the "game." I did more picrews for the character images as well. I also worked on writing more code. I finished adding all locations to the print statement for choosing a location, and I moved around some parts of my code so that certain variables and methods could be accessible throughout all of the code. I'll try to work way more on the actual code tomorrow if I'm not sick. I read more of 1984 earlier this morning, which is helping me get toward my reading goals for the remaining 50 days :]

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today i did: • school as always • flavortown finishes ups + merge pr • math hw • play dispatch new eps • siege code • long yap in #C0869S20RMM| thread • eepy

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:50days: *day 2/50* today was a smaller day since i'm sick (why is everyone else getting sick too???) but I did manage to make tanuki save the selected game to a persistent store! i had to add quite a lot of checks and some workarounds for Svelte not marking things accessed in await as dependencies (why??), but it does work! here's some of the code, ignore the typescript errors :pf:

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day #GMM0VHBBM|: • I worked some more on the key rebind part of the settings menu for Dragonpedia (can’t attach a screenshot of the menu itself bc Godot was being weird, but I can give you a code screenshot) • I will be reading some more of Extras before I go to bed tonight

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Day 2 update: Sadly I'm still sick and I didn't get as much as I wanted done. Did a small amount of prep for Parthenon this weekend. So excited! My sister baked cookies in my house for every attendee, so it smelled like cookies all day. Had a meeting with a partner to talk about some 2025 plans. I'm trying to get all the orgs that care about coding to align on helping people make actually real projects - and Hack Club can help with that. Did some thinking on dashboarding. We really need a good way to understand how all the current fall 2025 programs are tracking. We had that for summer and don't have that now. Reviewed our 990 before filing it and gave the last round of edits before it's submitted. Did a little bit of thinking on how to better surface and communicate awesome projects by Hack Clubbers. When you make an awesome project - whether you're a beginner or really advanced - you should feel super celebrated by the community. It's also important that projects are curated in some way for the community - or else it can feel like everything is slop. When the truth is if 20% of projects are not super high quality (everyone starts somewhere) but there are just a lot of projects overall, those 20% feel like 100% of the projects. I'm almost wondering if something like Hacker News but for Hack Clubber projects could be cool. Or some other way to explore really cool things. Here's one really cool project by a Hack Clubber for Summer of Making I saw for the first time today: github.com/SamoZ256/hydra And that's kind of all for today. Leaving at 6:30 AM tomorrow to drive to NYC for Parthenon. So excited!

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I created and basically finished most of my character boards for the game! (I just need one more). I also updated the code with the added character locations + adjusted the NPC class for creating instances of these characters. github.com/savagerunderscorelex/shirleyjones/commit/3b31642a6dc69efc9d43ed1bc87b2da22398fca9

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:winter-hardware-wonderland: Day one of 50 days till 2026! I wasn't able to get a ton of work done on my main goals but I did some work on registering from spring classes and got a new headshot! I tweaked my github readme a bit to look a bit better and updated my website with a new code block about me as well as giving it the ability to display hackclub emojis through cachet inspired by @Natey');DROPTABLEStudents;-- ! I also got the grant for my split keyboard thyme (thank you @TaranEntitytheIdiotEntity :blahaj-heart:) and started ordering the parts for that! I have almost everything ordered now except for machine pins and JLC getting mad about my board (they are saying its two designs in one which I kind of get? they only want to charge me $5 more though so thats good). I made a bit of progress on internship searching; I found a company called Vertiv which is quite close to where I live and I'm looking at applying for their computer engineering intern role. They seem like quite a neat company and they make products for monitoring data centers as far as I can tell.

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A few days ago I started working on a very ambitious project: an Operating System! I decided to call it DimOS. It's up on my Gitea (gitea.dumiserver.space/dumitru/dimOS). I managed to set up the development environment, code a basic bootloader and create a Makefile. For now, the only thing the kernel does is print a 'Q' to the screen to indicate that it was loaded correctly

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Worked on the site for Plugin, a WIP Hack Club YSWS! Made some really good progress today, I'm excited!

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Finally Finished and published the Website for Hack Club Slovakia :slovakiaparrot:

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github.com/SamuelPhilpott/Rasberry-Pi-for-hack-club how did I do?

didnt code much today lol but i was teaching @Meghana web-dev w/ astro + tailwind on a 2.5 hr long huddle :) this (image attached) is the figma so far + we did some coding (mostly trying to figure out why stuff wasn't working :heavysob: but it was awesome!) tmrw i'm fr gonna work on cursedOS and im gonna try and convince myself to #C0M8PUPU6| my website revamp !!

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Good morning everyone! (oh shoot, it's actually 4pm here rn... it still feels like morning lol) Yesterday Luca ( @Slloom ) and I finished the boba drops workshop with our club! (Almost) everyone was able to submit, but hopefully everyone else will be able to submit it within a few days. Shoutout Natalie (@?) who went above and beyond on her website and kept adding to it in between meetings! Check it out here! I think Luca and I will plan to do swirl in the next few meetings, and then maybe we'll start to introduce limited time YSWSs. I've made some more updates to my personal website, mostly aesthetic. I moved The Ghost to a secondary page so the main page can be more of an intro. I've got a small About Me, some links, and a projects section. I want to set that bit up like the SoM projects page: image, description, links, etc. but I'm not sure how... Yet. Apart from that, I think I'll try to do Blueprint, since I never got to submit the project I made for Highway, but I may not get to it till after Nov 9 when I finish the play I'm part of, The Play That Goes Wrong. I'd like to do Moonshot, since I really enjoyed Juice, but my parents don't want me to go to any more travel HC events after Neighborhood (even though I wasn't there), which I get for safety reasons, but also I've found no other organization that does what HC does in terms of travel events. Maybe in a year or so, if HC implements enough safety policies and such to my parents satisfaction, I'll be able to go to another. We'll see. (If someone at HQ wants to hear what safety stuff, dm me, cuz I'm sure other parents would want them as well) Anyways, on a completely separate note, Everyone keeps mishearing "Hack Club" as "Hat Club" so I wonder if we should rename the club from a very boring school-name-hack-club to The Mad Hackkers. What do you think?

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project 1 (oct 5 to oct 18) - my personal website getting a much needed revamp day 2 i worked on some code + some design :) i expected the coding aspect to feel much harder lol next steps - more coding + refine the friends page i have a test tmrw so i likely wont code much until after 6pm my time lol.

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Hello I am back from the dead designed one club poster for my club (that im attempting to restart again), also wrote an announcement to be published once we got the authorizations ready i'm planning to make one poster a day, each one with a different design until i think we have enough poster designs also did a pull request to fix the hackclub webring since the code to join it was actually interpreted as html code github.com/hackclub/webring/pull/249 very nice day

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starting a new challenge for myself to ship a new technical project every 2-3 weeks. hoping to be able to stick to this and by the time i graduate i should have 12 new projects at the minimum :) project 1 (oct 5 to oct 18) - my personal website getting a much needed revamp i've had the same website for almost a year and a couple of month now and it's in html/css which about a year and a half ago was the only web-dev stuff i was proficient in :heavysob: i'm now good with astro :P so i'm gonna be revamping my site in astro and today i started working on the design for it! spent like 5 hours in a huddle with some friend in my channel locking in :) next steps - start working on the code + figure out the rest of the pages

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Luca ( @Slloom ) and I hosted our first ever Hack Club meeting on 9/25! We had way more interest than we expected - 8 people! We handed out snacks and stickers, and then had everyone get Github, VS Code, Slack, and generally get set up to code. Then on 9/30 we hosted a Boba Drops Workshop, and had even more people come - 10! Almost everyone finished the workshop in the time they could stay for (1-2 hours). It was super rewarding to see people who had literally never touched coding in their lives code a website they were proud of! There were a few who themed their websites around their favorite video games, and another kept working on it after and came up to me yesterday with a second page with lots of poetry :) It was cool to see how what they were passionate about leaked into what hopefully will become a new passion! Doing the Boba Drops workshop reminded me that I have a website that I should work on, but so far I've only made minor changes (I've been really busy with schoolwork and I'm in the school play!), so I'll save an update on that for another time. Keep an eye out for a post on 10/10 when we do demos of the websites people made!

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I made this in a few seconds in ibis paint, I also submitted it as a potential hack club logo on #C089NANT5B3|

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finally fixed packages by reinstalling CMake and visual studio tools ( c ++ desktop tools and win 11 sdk the ones causing me all this trouble ) and tested them , they are perfectly working fine for now, i have to make changes to my initial code as i downgraded from python 3.13 to python 3.10 (64bit)

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I'm working on adding support for different tempos and time signatures to my rhythm game. So far I've got the initial BPM being read, but not any tempo changes throughout the song. It's been really fun so far because MIDI and SMF don't really seem to have any accessible C# libraries or quality documentation (that I've been able to find so far) so I've had to make everything from scraps of other people's code, technical documentation, and my own two braincells.

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Hey guys! I've just finished my CodeClicker clicker game! It's a web-based clicker game, where you can click to write 'code' (the in-game currency). You can use 'lines of code' to get upgrades which allow to get more lines per click, and also unlock autocoders, which code for you. There are also some epic cosmetic upgrades, like matrix rain, click effects, crt screens and more! Demo: madavidcoder.github.io/CodeClicker Repo: github.com/MadAvidCoder/CodeClicker SoM Devlogs: summer.hackclub.com/projects/11639

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after an 8-hour-long rabbit hole of learning how to convert text to morse code with minimal dependencies, i’m back to my main app <3

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Have you ever used SSH to connect to a remote server? Or somebody's personal portfolio? Or @zrl ’s <http://sshtron.zachlatta.com/ |SSH Tron>? (sorry zach for ping :pf: ) What if I told you that @DuckyBoi_XD(Braeden) and myself made... ✨ Poker Over SSH ✨ This is a *terminal-based game* played through SSH, where you connect to a server and play Poker with other people who are online. If no-one else is online, you get to play with AIs :openai:; just don't underestimate the AIs, they are quite... intelligent But wait, there's more! Sick of browser or desktop games? Want a retro experience? Just fire up your terminal, type ssh play.poker.qincai.xyz -p 23456, and play a hand of Texas Hold'em - no account or sign-ups needed, just SSH. • Multiplayer: Play with friends or strangers, right in your terminal • Bots: Outwit the AI if you're solo-ing • No install: No client, just SSH • Cross-platform: supports :windows-7:, :appleinc:, and of course our most beloved :linux:. (and other OS with the OpenSSH Client installed) • Open Source (duh!): Hackable, <https://github.com/poker-ssh/PoS-Docker |self-hostable>, and contributions welcome! The code is open, the server is live (for now), and it’s all just a keystroke away (quite literally). 🚢 #C0M8PUPU6|ed! GitHub Org: github.com/poker-ssh Website & Guide (WIP): poker.qincai.xyz

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Yesterday was very interesting as we participating in the hack club where we are building scrappy stuffs to have fun. Let's see what we will have at the end #C09CV6QDGRW|

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Today is so amazing,exciting and enriching. As our first time participating in a Hack Club activity, it is really a fascinating experience as we learned how to think out of the box and come out with the most crazy and useless ideas. Thank you Sir Josias for such a wonderful experience ✨. #C09CV6QDGRW|

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Ive just written the best python file of my life CLI args, multimode operation, fully user (when building / training) adjustable and inbuilt error messages that point to usable lines of code instead of blank space all to help the user build a Neural network to their specifications and usage case linked is the file in the repo and the SoM project, and a video of the code. i am so incredibly proud of this python file 🙂 github.com/English-Garfield/CompSci_IK/blob/main/data_processing/training.py summer.hackclub.com/projects/7411

Alright so received my pincil today, and i forgot the actual solder... to solder my pcb... decided to try to make the keyboard anyway, seems like iit doesnt work, at least the firmware i flashed actually worked also did more research and decided to use rgfw since it only uses software rendering (i think?) which makes it use less then 50mb (41mb) for the optimise ysws, kinda sad i couldnt figure out how to turn on software rendering on the other libraries but whatever, ii gotta code something now!

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Seeing the @/ ping prevention hack in help channels and how this could be made better, I decided to make @NoPing , a Slack bot which automatically converts all mentions with lookalike links that won’t ping. It’s very simple: /np before your message. It doesn’t work in threads for now (slash commands don’t work in threads); I’ll use some sort of composer (like the edit modal, which I’ve implemented) and a “Reply to this thread” shortcut. I intentionally made it work without databases (by using text checks before executing edit functions) which might backfire

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day tree (three get it? no its a lame pun, okay..) finished learning about go (literally was bored reading text) and watching a few talks about go (while playing roblox so that wasnt productive) finally decided to work on a project, im going to be working on flit, which is a git copycat, that will be written in Go (wont be compatible with git repos because that was the original idea, but i dont know how to do that) started writing some code for flit, definitely very interesting writing in go, im not sure if its better then rust but coding in it seems pretty cozy (currently working on the flit init command, which is just like the git init command)

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today i did: • Boston trip with @afonso(fonz) , @3kh0 and @louisa • walking 🥀 🥀 🥀 • F1 racing (do NOT ever let me drive in a car vro) • Walking more i think • Uhhh Mexican food (burrito was fire ) • ~missed the fucking escape room~ • Arrived late • Did the scape room and almost got it (fun fact it takes more then 4 Hackclubbers to read a clock 🥀) • Walk / eat insomnia • Google store + Apple Store + Tesla • Eat Chick-fil-A :3 • I go back via train lol • also did some code at 4am 🔥 🔥 🔥

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Finished my game "Match my Shader" for #C0956A8CL86|, made in 21h 51m 24s "Match my Shader" is a game where you have to code a shader in Python to match another shader

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Today I made the mistake of adding CodeRabbit to a repo out of curiosity - it made 70 comments on my code (a mix of hallucinations, extreme nitpicks, some useful suggestions, and it even caught a few bugs). So, that's fun I guess. github.com/zakkbob/mxguard/pull/1 Oh, I also messed up a rebase and now my last 50 commits say they were done today. :yay:

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Worked a lot on logging, testing and error handling today. Progress is slow, but I'm trying to learn how to write cleaner code since I now know how easy it is to make a tangled mess. Not really sure what to link, so here's the commits github.com/zakkbob/mxguard/commits/development/?since=2025-07-12&until=2025-07-13

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