Lower Left Fountain Pen Posts – Hack Club Scrapbook

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 01 — Starting & Planning Phase 🌱 Today I wrote my very first Java code. It wasn’t huge or complex, but the fact that I figured it out on my own made it special. This is the beginning of my coding journey. I want to build things, break stuff, fix it again, and slowly learn what real development feels like. Right now it’s just me, a laptop, and a lot of curiosity. Let’s see where this path takes me. #C016G8A6MKJ #codingjourney #C01504DCLVD +

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day 23 • wrote my first java code during matching & selection for college. If they start asking me to code java during the test I'm cooked😭 • I slept 11 hours and still got a headache, what is wrong with you body • I started drawing again:doge-wx: • did some econ and math • day 4 of wikipedia speedrun🔥

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Day 17/365 Today I made a low quality hytale custom biome mod tutorial, alongside wrote a script for a better video. Had a hack club meeting!!! Today we did polygon, whilst eating grub we got from grub :D It was pretty fun but we did run over time. We ran overtime so much that we had to leave because the library closed! However my dad was talking with his boss (my dad's boss' sons attend my hackclub) and we are going to arrange a new venue, one where i wont be stressed about going over the time limit. I did not work on aces today. Oh well. You win some you lose some.

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Day 14/365 me when the <#C09HDTRNZJQ|> Tasks I made progress on: • Khrome ◦ New project I made for #C09EZSEMB16| to try and get the hours for Overglade... ◦ I finished nearly all the basic systems - levels, the main mechanic of switching states, basic UI ◦ Nearly 5.5 hours of work done today - the most this year! Streaks • Journal ✅ • Reflection ✅ • Commits ✅ • Medicines :red-x: not again... Reflection Mood: 4/5 Productivity: 4/5 today was a very locked in day. Wrote a bit in reflections. I also woke up today and read a book instead of opening slack first thing in the morning :yayayayayay: didnt move the new quotes to the vault tho :noooovanish: anyways there isn't much I can show about the game itself cause you can't show the mechanics in a single screenshot so here's the main menu splash screen thingy, will change in the future

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Day 13/365 all the streaks Tasks I made progress on: • Signalbreak ◦ FINALLY MANAGED TO REMOVE THE HEADER OFF THOSE GODDAMN GRAPHNODES. ◦ Also setup C# for the project, had to install .NET twice because I was stupid and didnt realize I had the non-C#-compatible version of the project. ▪︎ Why go through all this suffering, you ask? (Ok it wasn't that much work it was just mildly fustrating but) You know what requires fast code? Audio generation. Yea I played with audio generation that was why I did allat was to hype up the fact that I was doing audio gen. uhh. yea hope you enjoyed reading that block of text. • Personal Knowledge System ◦ added an iframe to the dashboard so I can now see hackatime from obsidian Streaks • Journal ✅ • Reflection ✅ • Commits ✅ • Medicines ✅ ladies gents and enbies we did the drugs Reflection Mood: 4/5 Productivity: 3/5 Wrote a bit in my reflections. Had some relatives come over today, and I went to school to pester staff. Here's a snippet of my dashboard that includes my streaks and the hackatime thing. Note to self: change the colors for mood and productivity it's very hard to differentiate between them. Also yea I haven't written any (evergreen) notes I should do that aosjfoiaejsoejgoieg Also technically it is day 14 now hence why the logged time is so little, I should go sleep-

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Day 12/365 mfw I wrote yesterday's day as 10/365 Tasks I made progress on: • Signalbreak ◦ Added a bunch of stuff - worked on how the data flow between nodes would work, setup a SawGenerator module, designed a SignalSpec class that's basically a stack with all the primitive waves and modifiers that gets compiled when needed. And a bunch of other stuff. • Made a new T1! Technically T0 if that exists cause it's more along the lines of RP and bot interactions. #C0A85KEAZKN|! ◦ (i actually did this yesterday but shush my tiny brain forgot) Streaks • Journal ✅ • Reflection ✅ • Commits ✅ • Medicines :red-x: I KEEEP FORGETTING AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Reflection Mood: 4/5 Productivity: 3/5 Got some stuff done today! Also yapped a lot in my personal reflection, continuing a conversation rehearsal I had about what I'd tell a therapist, which did give me a bunch of juicy data that I catalogued to make today's note the new largest note! See the attached image for proof - 4 whole dots! Also I wanted to stop everything else at 11 and do reflections starting then but I got carried away by Signalbreak. Oh well. Atleast that's a good problem to have, that I was too locked in.

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Day 8/365 I was about to skip this day but then the alarm I set rang. Thank you, alarm. Tasks I made progress on: • Be more cultured ◦ Watched Neon Genesis Evangelion the entire day Streaks • Journal ✅ ehh • Reflection ✅ a lot. • Commits :red-x: • Medicines :red-x: Reflection Mood: 3/5 Productivity: 1/5 Didn't lock in in the slightest. Neon Genesis is fun thooo. Also I made a proper reflection for once, catalogued some of my shower thoughts + a few more of my own on my gender identity and stuff. I think I wrote about 600-700 words (I know what you see in those numbers. I'm watching you. :suspicious_acorn:) in the span of 20-30 minutes. I hope I can continue to remember to catalog them. The whole day wasn't a waste after all :3 Posting an image of the Calendar plugin including a wordcount indicator for each daily note. For context: The first dot in the calendar for each day just means that something was written. Since I have a template for daily notes, an 'empty' note would still have words denoting its structure (headings, dataview code, etc). tl;dr it's easy to get the first dot but takes a lot of writing to get subsequent dots. Something to that effect. I should go to bed.

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Day 1: • Biked around a bit testing out my microphone and GoPro. Intended to post it for #C0A69F5VC22| as a sort of week 0 pilot but my GoPro is acting funny. • Wrote some go for the first time! Loving the built in tests. Syntax is weird, I've grown accustomed to TS syntax apparently. • Clean a lil • Read more of the fly.io blog, specifically: ◦ fly.io/blog/tokenized-tokens ◦ fly.io/blog/wrong-about-gpu ◦ fly.io/blog/operationalizing-macaroons ◦ fly.io/blog/carving-the-scheduler-out-of-our-orchestrator ◦ and also, dev.to/wsoltani/i-built-a-game-to-understand-flyios-orchestrator-flyd-operator-sim-35ca Overall decent day. Going to sleep now. Turns out my new migraine medication commonly causes fatigue and tiredness, so that kinda ruined my day lmao.

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Day 44 shipped my milky way project. Bet was broken and wouldn’t count my art hours. Wrote essays. Yep. Cats fighting a lot

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[44/50] today (or rather yesterday) i did: • college apps! wrote one larger essay and… that’s it :hs: gotta lock in • finished haxmas! woohoo • got an invite to #C09L1BDSC68| :ultrafastparrot:

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day 40:50days: good night world my head is so full it's about to burst • wrote 2 essays. tbh I don't think i'll have any time for school work anymore:heavysob: • improved my personal website, it's actually looking really professional now • got a really cute bear in a cup as a early christmas gift from my neighbors(they're spending christmas in italy)

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[41/50] today (or rather yesterday ig) i did: • work on my college apps, figuring out my core values on the way • cuddle huddle (iykyk) • finally wrote poc to get all public channel message events instead of only channels the bot is in :yay: of course adding user message subscriptions would do that

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DAY 40/50 (2025-12-21): • Setting up Caddy version of proxyparty (again) for #C07H1R2PW9W| and friends - gitlab.com/recaptime-dev/infra/proxyparty-caddy • Wrote a bit of the blog draft for my December 2025 status update blog post while #C056WDR3MQR| is down (pending migration of my Ghost blog to my homelab box soon) during the lockin huddle earlier • literal long nap in the afternoon to recharge for the late night grind • also joined the vibecoding debate organized by @eps on Zoom (thanks btw) as audience

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[39/50] today (or rather yesterday) i did: • campfire org check in call 1! was quite helpful indeed • wrote a helper script for common app that checks your recommendation statuses for you (github here)

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[38/50] today (or rather yesterday) i did: • worked a very tiny bit on coding • worked a very tiny bit on college apps • i think i finally self accepted as :spinny_cat_transfemme: • even wrote a journal (woah!!)

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day 37 of 50 days to 2026!!! I am happy to finally launch Indiko! Indiko is a indieauth / oauth 2.0 compatible auth server that allows users to sign in to any indieauth project with their domain as well as any custom clients that I define. Through custom clients I can also create custom roles and assign them to users with invite links which allows me to do some pretty awesome stuff on my homelab! I also had a fellow student from cedarville come and break my battleship server by stack searching and reading the memory. They wrote an awesome writeup at dunkirk.sh/h/MCTNVG (the link uses hop which is secured by indiko btw) and we had a hilarious conversation about it. Sadly I have now patched that threat vector by segmenting into separate processes which can't read each other's memory. Doing this made it really easy to also let users play agains the bots so now I have a play page! Try it out at battleship.dunkirk.sh :) youtu.be/DSo9Q9pRsHg

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day 28 of 50 days to 2026!!! I got to do a long study sesh with a few friends focusing on Calc and C++ which was fun. One of my friends ended up writing out a hilarious short story prompt for a program that we wrote to test all of our concepts. I also released bore today with a youtube video for it! It is a super fancy reverse proxy tunnel manager like ngrok but running entirely on my own infra! It is based around the open source frp software which is great on its own but a bit annoying to use in the oneshot command type way I was used to with ngrok. I wrapped the client cli in a nice gum interface and used nix to package it with a super fancy man page and shell completions! Bore also has a really cool dashboard at bore.dunkirk.sh which shows active tunnels and how much data has been transferred along them as well as a few other stats. It also has a really fancy 404 page which I'm quite proud of. Also working on my shell config I setup zmx which is a light weight tmux alternative that just keeps persistant sessions. It works quite well for my needs and I also set up ssh pooling so connections are next to instant now! I also did a bit of work on crush adding support for refreshing api keys whenever encountering 401 errors. I also whipped up a quick nix flake for it as well and got that working! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ztWxaYOL7E

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DAY 26/:50days:: • Just did 5hr long cpp programing test thingamajig my brain is cooked (vector<vector<vector<int>>> connections(node_count); gonna haunt my dreams :ok-cry:) • Made npcs wander.. as well planed out a bit more here have the crazy dev note i wrote in #C09JDFGQ88N| :xxdd:

Now after they got nothing to do they will wander around just for funnies :DD
(as i am making this game to have unique levels each time i will make this be semi random [big random number pool, like doom does it ;DD])
Next up -&gt; make em speak/ exchange info and remember where was something or someone so they can pass down this info :))

yikes I've gotten behind on these updates; here goes... Day 23 of 50 days to 2026 accompanied by the beleaguered days 21 and 22. The last few days have been busy but fun! I wrote and completed a battleship testing program (battleship.dunkirk.sh) for my uni's C++ end of term assignment. I implemented a geicko-2 rating system that ranks submissions over a period of round-robin style matches against the other submissions running 1000 matches for each pair. In early testing it works pretty well! I would love to test it at a large scale with the whole class but we shall see if thats possible. The submission workflow is also all over ssh with the awesome wish library from charmbracelet. I've been consistently working on AoC and made a little website 2025.aoc.dunkirk.sh with visualizations from days I find cool! It currently just has today's day 4 problem since it presented so well graphically. I also have a really pretty cli interface for running my solutions over at the tangled repo tangled.org/@dunkirk.sh/aoc-2025. I've also had to start the hard process of finalizing where I'm going to college next semester and all the fun headaches that come with that. Oh and last but not least I updated my dot files shell scripts to use gum and they look so pretty now!!!!

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:50days: Day 22 of 50, I: • had to redraw an entire poster (thankfully only in pencil without color), which took me many hours for some reason (and I'm still not done) 🖌 • didn't have a lot of homework 🎒 • had more than 20 Slack pings but like most of them were from #C09TXAZ8GAG| (yeah ik it's a private channel) :ping: • realized that while i'm at school, @:jollyroger182: sleeps (then like wakes up right before i get back from school), though @tsd said something slightly more interesting :uuh: • wrote a readme for my siege project from last week :pf: • also I apparently made 1 contribution on GitHub yesterday and not 0 :shrug3d: • made 1 contribution on GitHub :githubparrot: • reached a Duolingo streak of 818 days :duo-knife:

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[19/50] yesterday i did: • of course more @Winterflows-U0A025PMWCX dev, it’s coming along pretty fire! got separate dev and prod bots now, with separate helper accounts hehe • wrote a plans document for @undefined ! • wrote an essay for UC, got 3 more to write in 2 days :yayayayayay: as well as the activities section

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:50days: day 17!! back to working on readme! got a chapter navigation bar done :) instead of using tailwind like usual I actually wrote vanilla css, it felt weird but i kinda... liked it? there's something nice about the styles actually cascading instead of having to copy and paste class names

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(re-posted from bsky.app/profile/hex4.xyz/post/3m6ghh46jyc2g) :50days: day 14! hack club slack is down :( but that means I got a lot done for mixtape! i set up a sveltekit route to hit my AI proxy, wrote a system prompt, did some frontend debugging, and Mixtape is now able to write Strudel code all by itself!

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GUESS WHO SHIPPED THEIR HACKPAD!!! i think i forgot to scrapbook yesterday because i thought of doing it, wrote the entry in my mind, and forgot i didnt write it in slack the lock in call really helped, i missed making the speed devboard tho 🥀 i just have to make one more t5 project and i might be able to go to prototype idk tho about my schedule and i still have to ask my parents for permission i finished two school projects, my health project and my photosynthesis biology project this took two nights of 2am sleep for some reason i feel more awake the later i sleep, i think im just weird 😛 i think i finally found my true friend group at school, they kept me motivated when i was locking in in all of my work at midnight 😄 discord is such a peak social media platform, no hate to slack ofc but its more of a workspace type thing, i love discord activities and all the fun little things in discord like soundboard and gifs i need to lock in for my ftc team, i need to cad a robot design for our qualifier soon, we are kind of a rookie team and we are all learning how to do all the robotics stuff like cadding, coding, 3d printing, etc while managing like a dozen other activities and school and everything 😞 i love onshape for cadding, sketching and extruding is just so satisfying :star-struck: i also have to learn more godot so i can do well in skillsusa this year, hopefully nats?? and i need to make my ev build and ento binder for scioly 😛 ❤️ thats all for today i gotta sleep now ;)

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GUESS WHO SHIPPED THEIR HACKPAD!!! i think i forgot to scrapbook yesterday because i thought of doing it, wrote the entry in my mind, and forgot i didnt write it in slack the lock in call really helped, i missed making the speed devboard tho 🥀 i just have to make one more t5 project and i might be able to go to prototype idk tho about my schedule and i still have to ask my parents for permission i finished two school projects, my health project and my photosynthesis biology project this took two nights of 2am sleep for some reason i feel more awake the later i sleep, i think im just weird 😛 i think i finally found my true friend group at school, they kept me motivated when i was locking in in all of my work at midnight 😄 discord is such a peak social media platform, no hate to slack ofc but its more of a workspace type thing, i love discord activities and all the fun little things in discord like soundboard and gifs i need to lock in for my ftc team, i need to cad a robot design for our qualifier soon, we are kind of a rookie team and we are all learning how to do all the robotics stuff like cadding, coding, 3d printing, etc while managing like a dozen other activities and school and everything 😞 i love onshape for cadding, sketching and extruding is just so satisfying :star-struck: i also have to learn more godot so i can do well in skillsusa this year, hopefully nats?? and i need to make my ev build and ento binder for scioly 😛 ❤️ thats all for today i gotta sleep now ;)

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Day 11 of 50 days to 2026! Today was a good day! I got my pcbs for my keyboard and I finished writing my battleship code! It ended up being crazy effective and I can't wait to test it against the rest of the class's bots. I wrote a crazy detailed detailing how exactly my implementation worked and I added a graphic from that below.

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Day 10/:50days:! I'm still feeling sick, but it's getting better and I think it'll be gone by Monday. I set pretty low expectations for myself today, but I did more than I thought I would so that feels good. • I wrote an about me page for my new personal website! I lowkey dread writing but once I got in the flow it was pretty fun! • I went through a past reading paper for Japanese. To get the the most points you basically need to be understanding everything and including it in your answer + analysing the implications or subtext. I can translate the text easily, but it's that deeper understanding and being able to use that information to answer the questions that I find harder. I don't think this counts as study, but I watched the film Happyend with subtitles and really enjoyed it. • Did practice tests for my licence exam - I'm feeling more and more confident that I'll be able to pass :) • Did a little work on my game.

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:50days: Days 8-9 of 50 (I accidentally missed yesterday), I: • had a bunch of homework and stuff 🎒 • amongst the homework, I wrote a 2000 word (actually 1999 words) horror story for English :fear: • NEED TO CODE TOMORROW! I won't have time on friday, saturday, or sunday for #C08SKC6P85V| and I still haven't started my ~~bot~~ project for this week :siege: • observed as @:jollyroger182: renamed his channel from #jollyrogers-jolly-abode to #C08ENR1LQMC| AFTER I renamed my channel from #lraj23s-lavish-abode to #C09KUCDAXFE|, proving that he follows me and not the other way around :jollyroger182: • decided to, instead of mentioning people, to @ their emojis of their pfps; (see below as example) :happy_ping_sock: • made only 1 contribution on GitHub over two days :orphanage: (see below) :githubparrot: • reached a Duolingo streak of ~~803~~ 804 days :duo-knife:

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:50days: *day 9/50* spent a bit writing a story for school, then wrote a bunch for README! I made an <Emoji> component to easily use Slack emojis in the writing, and did some of the "an attempt at an introduction" section.

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:50days: *day 8/50* more work on README! spent a while scrolling through old event photos and scrubbing through Hack Club videos to make this little Polaroid collage thingy for README's homepage. also made some CSS fixes and wrote some more content. I think tomorrow I'll add table of contents stuff and some style settings, then deploy so others can start writing

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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 #Juice, 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. At the end of the day, we presented our website, and waited while the judges deliberated. And then something entirely unexpected happened. We won the Judges Choice Award!!! I never would have expected us to win. The project was certainly much better than the project my team had made last year, but there were a ton of cool projects this year - which I suppose makes the win even sweeter :) With that, let me just say a huge thank you to the Island Hacks team. They worked so hard to put this on, and I would highly recommend attending next year if you live in the bay area (find them at island-hacks.org). And of course, a shoutout to my amazing team. Our project would have not been possible without them: Aria did all the art, Amelia helped with function design and created the questions (60+ of them!), and I did most of the programming. They were both so much fun to work with! See the demo here: kerhylonkava.github.io/IcebergQuestions And the 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.

If you take one thing away from this, go to a hackathon! They can be so much fun and they allow you to connect with people with similar interests who you might not otherwise meet. Anyway, thanks for reading! There was also a speaker panel, so I might post the advice I learned from that. Keep an eye out!

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:50days: *day 5/50* tanuki is done! well, at least for the alpha. i wrote a readme, fixed a few bugs, and spent much too long fiddling with github actions but it is up now: github.com/Hex-4/tanuki/releases/tag/v0.1.1 :ultrafastparrot: also made a PR to scrapbook to automatically tag posts sent in this channel :thumbup-nobg:

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:50days: *day 5/50* tanuki is done! well, at least for the alpha. i wrote a readme, fixed a few bugs, and spent much too long fiddling with github actions but it is up now: github.com/Hex-4/tanuki/releases/tag/v0.1.1 :ultrafastparrot: also made a PR to scrapbook to automatically tag posts sent in this channel :thumbup-nobg:

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Day 4 of :50days:: I spent most of today coding • Spent a while trying to implement a system tray icon for Milkyway Pets. Spent a while attempting to implement a system tray icon for Milkyway Pets. SDL3 is fairly new, so the Rust bindings I'm using didn't have a wrapper for the tray API - meaning I had to implement my own. I don't know whether it was the way I wrote it, but the API just wouldn't play nice with WaitEvent, which blocks the application until events occur, reducing CPU usage. In the end I went for a hybrid solution which updates a minimum 4 times per second, or whenever events occur. Hopefully this will suffice until I can work out the kinks in the API (and maybe even merge it upstream 👀) • Did some thinking on my YSWS • Bunch of housework lol

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50 days challenge ❄️ Daily update #1: November 11, 2025 | Streak: 1 day :3 Stuff I did for my goals • I finally figured out Riemann sums! Attached is a picture of my successful work after a long time of toil and not getting what this is bro (everyone says I'm a natural 'slowpoke' at math) • I worked on redesigning social media posts for a small news organization I'm a director for, to stand out more and take less time to create each week! • It was snowing and really cold but I went out for a run and got 5,000 steps! (not including during the day because I use my phone to track steps and can't have phones at school. but in general I don't exercise much since I'm a couch potato and I want to change that) Productive stuff in general (kind of fulfills goal #1 to work on what "serves me") • I completed my AP economics homework a day early • I did my university chemistry homework 2 weeks early • I made a 10 page study guide for my AP bio unit test and reviewed lecture slides, attached a preview of my study guide because I'm happy with it • I wrote two 1,000 word essays for an application to represent my school at the board of education Nice stuff • I went to study at the cafe today and got a croque monsieur bread • There was a nice deal for a slice of green tea cake and a latte for $9 so I got those for tomorrow's study treat • Me and my friend's project involving building a plane is showing signs of life (the prototype is looking promising) • I got to know a kid in this AP computer science principles class that I'm the teaching assistant for and bro is in calculus in 9th grade...

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wrote this license at 4am and i dont remember writing it but hey it looks fine to me so im going to keep it

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wrote a blog about my thoughts on vibe coding (image attached to not have my messages deleted) mebaddev.net/blog/thoughts-about-vibecode.html

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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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TOAD is a CLI web browser written in rust, by me! im super proud of it, and i even wrote the HTML and CSS parsers from scratch. it doesnt have JS but im fine with that, it would just be too large of a scope for this project. you can fully use websites like <http://duckduckgo.com|duckduckgo.com> or <http://wikipedia.com|wikipedia.com>. the whole project was about 55hrs, and it was really fun! SoM link: <https://summer.hackclub.com/projects/11362> it breaks easily and CSS parsing can take like a full second on page load

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Today I started working on a new project: Fantasy Downloader It's an app made with Love2D for mustardOS that will streamline the process of acquiring games/cartridges for fantasy consoles like PICO-8 I created a simple "Hello World" program and wrote a simple design document to hold all my ideas in one place

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coded for 5 hrs today 😭 a combination of stuff for daydream.jumpstart.hackclub.com and jumpstart.hackclub.com/games. made attendee/organizer thing for daydream. and wrote a lot of recap/story about jumpstart on the game gallery page. im pretty happy with how it turned out :] still a few more things i want to add tho github.com/themagicfrog/jumpstart

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A shellcode I wrote in Assembly got merged to Metasploit 😄! github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/commit/bc705b8c5aea4ce62f78db385e5cfb623ae66045

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Found the tags :yay: They're here if anyone's interested: github.com/hackclub/scrapbook/blob/main/apps/slack-bot/src/lib/emojiKeywords.js yay OSF hooray arrived bin raccoon draw art paint wrote slack pcb figma 3d print covid singapore canada india space sleep hardware roshan sampoder vs code vscode woo hoo celebrate cooking bday pumpkin fall thanksgiving christmas santa snow snowing snowman vercel sunrise sunset google football car driving bank shopping list github twitter bot robot robotics minecraft game npm solder instagram observable js python swift golang rust deno blender salad adobe photoshop inktober storm rain dino school backpack linux hacktober studying react apple cat dog code autumn Happy Birthday Zach debate next.js nextjs movie halloween pizza scrappy bike Big Sur zoom ship macbook guitar complain fight cricket vim docker cake notion fedora replit mask leap discord /z postgres gatsby prisma graphql product hunt java repl.it rick roll BrainDUMP firefox vivaldi ABCO-1 nix ts zephyr summer plane train bus bug debug awesome chart boba bubble tea spotify repair cow doge shibe dogecoin blockchain ticket homework hw piano orpheus chess pr pull request bread nft hns wahoo aoc advent svelte cold tailwind tailwindcss c squaresupply gamelab annoying site redwood homebrew stickers club think thinking cool science research biology brain science fiction sci-fi mexico food sad galaxy plant picture photography assemble sprig laser music 10daysinpublic hardware party ipfs the orpheus show orpheus show podcast quest puzzmo purplebubble summit apple vision nest #C0M8PUPU6| #C6C026NHJ| #CJ1UVDF7E| #CBX54ACPJ| #C02EWM09ACE| #CCW6Q86UF| #C90686D0T| #C0131FX5K98| #C0166QHR0HG| #C012LPZUAPR| #C14D3AQTT| #CD543U2UD| #CDDMDRJUA| #CDLBHGUQN| #CDJV1CXC2| #C01NQTDFUR5| #C02TWKX227J| #C0P5NE354| #C02UN35M7LG| #C02EWM09ACE| #C0168BR5PDE| #CDJMS683D| #CGVCSNLAJ| #C07Q8S73B45| #C06CHS2D05Q|

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A few days ago, I discovered TiddlyWiki. It looks like software that's perfect for the way I'd like to take notes! Typesetting programs like Typst and word processors are good for single documents, but not for multiple linking documents like I'd prefer to take notes in. I also don't like block-based text edtiors, and I'm pretty sure this is an unpopular opinion, but I despise taking notes in Markdown, which I've noticed is used a lot by note-taking software. With TiddlyWiki I get to use the capable WikiText syntax and access the wiki wherever I bring the file, as long as it has a web browser! With a USB stick I'm able to access my wiki on any of my computers or even public computers like at the local library without downloading anything or logging into any accounts, which is great! It reminds me of MediaWiki, but I think that for a single user's notes, TiddlyWiki is a lot more practical. I also like it's customizability! Like MediaWiki, you can extend its functionality with plugins and use custom stylesheets. I've already started using both features. I wrote a plugin for TiddlyWiki which lets you encrypt tiddlers independently and by tag. The core TiddlyWiki only allows you to encrypt the entire wiki. There's a plugin with similar functionality, Encrypt Tiddler Plugin by Daniel, but in my opinion my version is more intuitive. It's also possible to have different placeholder texts set in my version! Here's the source code repository: github.com/MacaylaMarvelous81/independent-encrypt and the demo: macaylamarvelous81.github.io/independent-encrypt

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Did some math and wrote a bit for my history project.

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Day 9 of #C045S4393CY| Today, I wrote a very lengthy project description & if I am planning to charge $$$ and finally got an API key! If anyone is wondering the project description i wrote, i'll add it to this thread!

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:10daysinpublic: Day 9/15 of #C045S4393CY| Today i ended my code for my keyboard for #C07LESGH0B0| • added layers • wrote my BOM (Bill Of Material) for my keyboard it was accepted! yay

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