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7 June 2026, Sunday, Day 158/365. Domingo. --- Yesterday, +21:02 • Sleep • what is scrappy doing :fear: • Day trip to other city • Went to the zoo in other city ◦ Restless tiger sat down in front of me • Claimed a payphone for #C0B0YN5PW73 in a whole different Australia n city • Some nice photos • i got a massive stray insult thrown at me bro :wiltedrose: News: • Idk Enjoyment: 5/10 Productivity: 5/10 Streaks: 1. Coding: no 2. Art: no 3. Documentation: this *414 more days.*

To cheese or not to cheese

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6 June 2026, Saturday, Day 157/365. Sabatho. --- Yesterday, +22:00 • Sleep • Absolutely nothing • Hell • I feel (well felt) bad • I feel like I need a recording microphone for an extended art project News: • persona implemented or something Enjoyment: 3/10 Productivity: 1/10 Streaks: 1. Coding: no 2. Art: no 3. Documentation: this *415 more days.*

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Day 158 / 365 Today was fun, since I went to the movies. But not for any normal movie, no, i watched The Amazing digital circus final episode premiere :D i like the episode it was good. im not going to spoil it dont worry. but it was like really cool since it was the first time ive: 1. driven that far alone, 2. gone to the movies alone. Very interesting. And i also went to dennys after :D and then once i got home i uh. played a lot of noita, and coded a bit on one turret, just for half of it to be conflicting with a version i forgot to commit on the upstairs studio pc when i was watching the dogs last time up there. oh well. in particular, im working on getting it so the tileset is FULLY procedural in the one turret recode. its functionally the same as modding. I think its a good way to approach designing a game, to make it as if your modding the game. A game i used to mod a bit, called dysnced, had a similar mentality. like. the vanilla gameplay WAS a mod. you could disable it if you wanted to. idk. i like good design like that.

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4 June 2026, Thursday, Day 155/365. Jueves. --- Yesterday, +21:31 • Sleep • Spanish test. Did alr ig. • Put :canberraisbetterthansydney: in there. • Finish badge design ig • I am cooked • Nonconsentually infiltrated by malware :fear: • My scrapbook posts have made it to google's front page Hell. News: • Canberra teachers shall strike a whole day 7 days from now. • Henry Nowak :dove_of_peace: Enjoyment: 4/10 Productivity: 4/10 Streaks: 1. Coding: yesish 2. Art: yes 3. Documentation: this *417 more days.*

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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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Officially Day 157 Personally day 20!! WOOO Milestones!!! Anyway I saw a lot of really cool animations online revolving around music, and I'm going to see what I can do with Godot as a result! I just learned how to do multimes so >:D I have a lot of devious plans for audio visualization This one is the rings version for now Anyway, Coming back from a coding slump I plan to put some time into #C0AKAQN2VJQ and #C0AGKQ6K476 for the cmf buds and the logitech mx master 3s respectively 😄 I have to think about what to make for horizons though.. Ideas / music recommendations welcome! dms or thread, no matter

5 June 2026, Friday, Day 156/365. Viernes. --- Today, 23:55 • Sleep • Badminton school olympics competition Round 1 ◦ This is doubles with a friend ◦ WON YESSS :rac_lfg: 7-8 • Submitted design assignment ◦ I am told the rationale is only due next week :wiltedrose: ◦ I've been working on this assignment all day and barely had any time to focus on myself :tired: • Listen to friend's amateur radio transmissions from his WebRX ◦ I need to learn ham radio join #C0B2256L7PF • Try to fix my remixed project I thought I already fixed yesterday ◦ I hate this idk why this cache isn't working • Got email from Duolingo to save my 136 day streak ◦ Oh yeah I saved my 136 day streak yesterday. ◦ I havent touched it since last year until I got duolingo family plan ◦ Oh yeah my friend randomly got duolingo family plan and added me News: • I heard Mark Keyes, among the most depraved men of Canberra, was released last month (on parole). This angers me. ◦ I know this because someone got this story from a 2024 newspaper (for like hygiene and stuff) they read after refusing to do a chicken wing dissection ◦ Yes, a chicken wing dissection, the food item from the supermarket. Enjoyment: 5/10 Productivity: 5/10 Streaks: 1. Coding: yesish 2. Art: yes definitely 3. Documentation: this *416 more days.*

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Day 156 / 365 Today I attended a cyber security conference held at the local community college with my dad. I would say it was fairly fun, though a bit boring at the start. I was there for most of my day, having to leave a bit after i woke up and then stayed at the conference till a bit after dinner. While we were there, me and my dad listened through some talks (i mean its a conference what else do you expect). I lowkey didnt really pick up much, only thing i took home is: "Dont leave auto-update on for extensions and packages" and "Ai today should not be used for the final product, but rather the rapid testing phase". But after the talks, me and my dad skipped the rest of the talks to do the capture the flag thing they were doing there. We made a pretty good team i feel. I did a lot of the forensics and cryptography ones, and my dad did some of the "ai category" stuff they had. The organizers used an IRC to setup a handful of chatbots you needed to interact with to get the flags, like lying to an ai chess bot to win since it cant remember the board. idk. thought that was neat. we got 5th place (pretty good given there were a handful of hard code cyber security peeps there) they had some food there, but after the conference me and my dad had some dinner out of the house. And I also got some really nice dessert at a bakery. I got a salted caramel, white chocolate, cookie sandwich. but we in the industry call it diabetes in a circle. it was really sweet. once i got home i was pretty tired so i just chilled for the rest of the night. so no coding. also with the image today, i wonder how it plays into the greater kaplin86 narrative (there isnt one btw dont worry)

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Started my MasterSketches for the project

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1231 ⭐ globally Yeah :yeah: finally hard work paid off

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Using HTML, CSS, JS to build a 2D timepass game 🔥 2nd project on Macondo :yesyes:

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Day 155 / 365 hi silly scrapbookers and scrapbookers who choose to not be silly, kaplin here. Today was fairly productive. I worked on the recode for my game One Turret, and solved a massive problem with the new odd-shape-building support. The issue was that rendering would always use the bottom left tile as a pivot, which would become an issue because lets say you have an L shaped building, and you rotate that 180 degrees. now theres no left corner, so where would the tile be rendered from. So my solution was having it where inside the tile definition json, you define where the "root" of the tile is. Now, rather than rotations being done (and then being offset to be in the same place), it now rotates around your mouse cursor, the tile at your mouse cursor being the root. The texture is also placed at that root, since that root would always exist. I got offsets and such working, which also handles the rotations perfectly. So now not-rectangular buildings work on One Turret yeaaay!!! Outside of that mess, I worked a tad bit on my club ysws site. I WANT to dedicate tommorow to it, but i have some important thing tommorow morning so i lowkey dont know how i will feel after on an unrelated note, today i had like 4 instances where i randomly remembered dreams i had in the past? and not like a oh-hey-i-remember-that type of way, more like a dejavu way where i only remembered it for like a second

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New Sketches

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3 June 2026, Wednesday, Day 154/365. Miercoles. --- Today, 22:50 • Sleep • First class cancelled. • Turns out 2nd class also cancelled • I could've come to school 3 HOURS LATER if the school did its job • soldering at school is a mess thx john last solderer • completely oxidised tip :pf: • 2 people ask for a portfolio uhh • New pfp! no more bisexual color cat ig • hey astro starlight works with normal astro now • I am cooked • My scrapbook posts have made it to google's front page News: • If someone submitted aliens.gov to a ysws, I hope all reviewers reject it immediately • Canberra rains later at night • Zach Latta I want to cheese can now be seen by outsiders. Enjoyment: 4/10 Productivity: 4/10 Streaks: 1. Coding: yes 2. Art: uhhh 3. Documentation: this *418 more days.*

Manana, tiene una examen Espanol escribir, y soy es muy frito

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output from a domain coloring program i made. f(z) = a^z iirc

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Just finished gantry crayon CAD

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Day 154 / 365 Today I started work on my club ysws site aint that cool. yippee! i lowkey didnt get a lot of progress on it since it was lowkey late. in the morning i was doing a mix of sleeping in and working on the jobs+ minecraft modded datapack thingamajig for the group server project i yapped about many posts ago (still happening, we are actually getting close to opening the server i think hopefully idk). I cant say too much about today lol. uh. dont do illegal things. thats my advice of the day 😇

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Today i spent almost 3 hours trying to design my PCB and case for my hackpad, and for the life of me i couldnt figure out how to model the case in fusion. Im going to try again tomorrow when im on my flight to vacation. github.com/GhostService/hackpad

Made a sketch to help visualize the gantry system

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Day 153 / 365 Today was good but... strange. I dont know where all my time went lowkey. Like. I remember sitting at my computer a most of the day like usual, but I dont remember what i really did. I worked on one turret though. I got constructor building working (in specific the "combiner" tile behavior), and even tried a little experiment with a 3-item-combination in a new tile. Previously, it would have been a nightmare to add, but now with the recode its just a simple change in like one json value. I had a call with jared (hack club club operations lead) that went realy good and now I know all i gotta do for my ysws >:) so i will probably be doing that tommorow :) but im going to be real i think the reason i dont remember doing much is due to my issue with like anticipated times. like i will specifically hold off from doing something if i know theres a time where i need to step away from whatever im doing. so i end up just watching youtube until the thing in question happens.

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finally soildered my macropad I got months ago

giving LLMs a "visual Brain" via a 4d Physics Sandbox llms struggle with spatial geometry because they process text tokens, not dimensions. I am building a physical sandbox framework to act as an external visual cognitive engine for AI. how the loop works: • Code Gen: LLM generates logic to spin up a 4D cloud workspace (3D + time). • Offloading: Heavy orbital mechanics and structural math offload to my custom GPGPU physics engine. • Self-Correction: Live telemetry logs from simulation failures pipe back to the LLM to auto-patch its code. Update: Prototype Done, Moving to Realism! The agentic loop prototype works. Now, I am building the first 4 planets of the solar system using: • NASA Maps: Real elevation data in a Three.js frontend. • Atmospheric Clouds: Custom GLSL shaders for dynamic layers. • Newtonian Orbitals: A multi-body backend gravity matrix. Pushed the core builds to GitHub: github.com/williamjosh-dev/Physical-Sandbox-v1.0- I'm 15 and currently trying to balance massive planetary scales without breaking my WebGL views. Let me know what you think ...

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Yesterday I started development on a new project called GROW which is a farming robot for your garden stardance.hackclub.com/projects/3245

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Today I cleaned up the structure of my code and I implemented 2 new features. One is a whitelist for slack ids (currently stored in ENV but i will be making a command later) and the other is an echo command that does exactly as it says when a whitelisted user runs the command.

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Side project: I'm about to do a 5 hour timelapse of the tide. The towel is holding the gimbal down because it is windy now. The gimbal is going to do a slow left to right sweep over the course of the 5 hours. I also have cables to keep the gimbal and phone charged

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Forgot to post this yesterday, but I worked on my slack bot for stardance! github.com/GhostService/HC-stardance-slack-bot I hosted it on nest, so we ball ig. I messed up my wakatime settings so it only logged 20 minutes for some reason.

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Day 152/365: (more of a general update than a daily post) Updates from last post: • 80 days without an update is kinda crazy... • In Europe now for summer vacation. Was in Sweden for a week, now going to be in Greece for the next month. • The Macroepad has been fully soldered, but I wasn't able to get the firmware working. As I didn't bring the Macroepad to Europe, I won't be able to work on that until I'm back home in August. The case also ended up being badly measured and the Macroepad doesn't quite fit, but I can fix that just by cutting off the top ledge over the hole for the USB-C cable (shown in picture) • Haven't worked on the rp2040 project in ages. I think I'll still finish it eventually if just for the practice with pcb design, but it's a low priority as of now. • Have a new laptop now! It's my first device running Linux (Ubuntu), and I'm definitely liking the OS so far, though I haven't learned how to do much on it yet. • Fully caught up with JJBA anime, it may have peaked in part 2, but the rest was still great. I'm not going to read the manga until Steel Ball Run finishes airing. Goals for June: • Make a game for snake ysws. • PLAY SILKSONG - I haven't touched this game since January and I need to finish it so bad • Practice animating (will have to get a new drawing software since Krita does not like my stylus) • Get OpenUTAU and practice UTAU tuning • Maybe also work on general music composition, we'll see how much free time I end up having

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Day 152 / 365 Today wasnt bad, but i was out of the house most of the day. I had to drive my dad to a medical appointment, and also brought me, my brother, and my dad to get haircuts. Now i feel refreshed :) Though it did hurt a bit since for some reason one of the razors caused bleeding? i dunno. even the stylist was a bit confused, since she had used that same razor before on me. oh well. she applied some stuff on it, and as of writing it no longer hurts. In the little bit i coded for one turret, I got the multi-tile tiles to work properly processing wise. So the furnace building works fully. Hopefully tommorow I can be a bit more productive lol. I have a sneaking suspicion. wink wink nudge nudge. on a side note, after dinner (which was also out of the house), i tried to get some ingredients to make some DIY ferrero rocher. Had to replace the hazlenut with pecans since they didnt have any at the store. and i didnt want to spend 15 bucks on maple syrup im going to use one time, so i replaced that with honey. so uh. wise words: Do not eat the pecan + honey + cocoa powder + vanilla mixture. tasted horrendous imo. I think it might have been the cocoa powder maybe.

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1 June 2026, Monday, Day 152/365. Lunes. --- Today, 20:45 • Sleep • Woke up and down constantly ◦ I had a lot of uhh.. interesting dreams to put it simply. • New deploy workflow for ancient wild ai project • Got new krita brush pack ◦ Default Pen3 works good too • Set 2 new pingwords • Realise Spotify is stalking me :fear: ◦ >Never use spotify, sign up once ◦ >Account somehow doesnt exist ◦ >Open Spotify link for last fm music data ◦ >Gets recommendation for unrelated song ◦ >I listened to unrelated song a lot • Filled my journal with some data of past days • Work on the code for my Robotics project (in google docs) ◦ Good news, I dont need to read/write from an sd card :thumbs-up: • Drew things for design with the brushes • What is this golden Stardance devlog News: • Oh god so much has happened on the slack for the one day I was offline • #C01270P3XFV Read-only • #C0APH2MMHH7 launch • Zach Latta <https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Qd4r3SzDhlw|cameo >in ThePrimeTime (youtuber) Enjoyment: 5/10 Productivity: 7/10 Streaks: 1. Coding: yes 2. Art: yes 3. Documentation: this *420 more days.* If and when, becomes is.

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Day 151 / 365 Today was a pretty simple day. I just worked on one turret recode lol. I did some totally complex math stuff to figure out tile rotating better as im starting to implement the 2x2 tiles. I probably could have just looked up what I needed lol. The main issue is that in my game, tiles will always have a root at the bottom left, so rotations arent truly around one tile, but rather the center of the building which gets a bit icky. So ultimately its just the rotate around 0,0 but offsets are applied based on tile size. I still need to add placing them, but then im nearly done (excluding the very special behaviors like the constructor / combiner and the drill which is a producer tile that has to read the map tiles). So yeah overall fairly productive in that regard. Dont have much else to say lol.

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30 May 2026, Saturday, Day 150/365. Sabatho. --- Today, 10 PM • Sleep (in because first class cancelled) • birthday lunch • go out with friend • photography with friend • Huddle in #C0ANDKD8DJB & #C09H93AKCLA > "all i have made is trump running away from children, which of course we know wouldn't happen in real life" > Quoting Taran • fixed up and ordered pcb ◦ (i didnt tknow silkscreen shouldnt be on the copper pads and through holes oh well hope it doesn't break everything) • Astro to gh kinda works now?? Just need to make it public News: • Idk $250 dollar bill? [re: Omar Agamy] Enjoyment: 5/10 Productivity: 6/10 Streaks: 1. Coding: i got astro to gh working somewhat ig 2. Art: no 3. Documentation: this *422 more days.* Live with remorse, and not regret.

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Day 150 / 365 Wow! Its like day 100, but a little bit extra. well. maybe not little bit. 50% is definently not a little bit, is it? Anyways, a good portion of my day today was spent doing hytale stuff! Im going to try learning hytale's npc system stuff for a mod idea i have. Though, a lot of my day was spent watching tutorial before trying, reading docs, and actually setting up the dev enviornment instead of actually coding. But I also am going to start working a bit on one turret now here and there. Today I fixed a bug where conveyors could lead into themselves due to a logic error inside of the new default transfer item script in the recode. Previously, if a tile had the freeinput tag inside of the json, it would take inputs from any positions. But any position included the tile it was leading into (which looks really strange). So i changed it to exclude any output tiles. On a side note, I helped my family set up the new curtains for our gazebo on our deck. maybe with it actually covering properly i might try coding out there. Maybe. I despise bugs. both coding bugs and real life bugs.

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okay so i found an lg webtv app (in dutch) and looking into it its very janky but they left in... a debug console!! after a bit of finagling i got it working, for nothing to show up turns out even if i set the debug vars to true, it still wouldnt let it log anything, so i just changed the function to have it always log to the element yes, it uses green courier new as the font and font color.. eh, ive seen worse.. but it works!! kinda pointless but i like the UI and everything in it, gonna see about repurposing its CSS and images in it for a jellyfin UI mod, idk i like how it looks okay unfortunately, the UI elements are mostly all images but its nothing a bit of photoshop magic cant fix.... maybe ill log it with hackatime thatd be a good idea

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29 May 2026, Friday, Day 149/365. Viernes. --- Yesterday, +106 minutes • Sleep (in because first class cancelled) • Borrowed a camera for photography assignment over the weekend • Almost skipped another whole hour of class.. • Work appointment • Taught my friend the secret of code blocks and pageless in google docs ◦ As is required by our cursed assignment • Other friend sharing shenanigan plans ◦ :sonimcrine: this is illegal btw • Badminton competition over lunch without eating lunch ◦ Lost 5-15 :skullpray: ◦ How do I counter smash spam bru ◦ :aniqtoohigh: • Drew a portrait as a birthday present for someone • Huddle in #C09H93AKCLA ◦ I got into starboard • Put absolutely anything on my silkscreen because I somehow have all my hackpad parts except the actual pcb News: • COGE • Super El Nino Enjoyment: 5/10 Productivity: 6/10 Streaks: 1. Coding: I made a silkscreen 2. Art: Drew a birthday present 3. Documentation: this *423 more days.*

We are Australia,
We carry the cheese,
We fight for Canberra,
We'll honor Zach Latta.

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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 148 / 365 Today was the exact opposite of yesterday. I slept in and got barely anything done. I did record a hytale video and edited it. but thats it. as of writing i havent finished it yet but im nearly done editing it. I had a few other things I wanted to get done today but eh. might try waking up early again tommorow and locking in. Small thing that happened is that the left arm rest thing for my chair broke (the screw snapped in half) so I "engineered" a new one. Two attempts, one better one worse. The successful one, i just reused a sponge and taped it to the chair-arm-stub. Hopefully my mom can find the warranty paper lol.

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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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xbox 360 controller cleaning! this is the most disgusting thing i have done theres like ear wax or something all along the edge of this thing (dont buy from goodwill)

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just trained a 135m parameters base model. i trained it on FineEdu 10b and how just need to fine tune it to make it an chatbot i am not able to decide what to fine tune it on (which dataset) any ideas will be helpfull.

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Day 146 / 365 Today was fairly average. I woke up to do some summer class homework, then played lol. I think theres a issue with the course since one of the questions in the lab assignment thingamajig, one that had unlimited answers, has the incorrect answer. Ive tried what i think is the correct number, and all numbers around it. Still incorrect. oh well. In my current pokemon infinite fusion playthrough (that ive been playing for like a week now, great fangame), i did a certain sidequest to get a certain pretty pink mythical pokemon 😇!! Today I also had some yummy dinner with family friend whos in town. After it me and my brother walked in the (very light) rain downtown to go get some boba.. but the boba shop was closed for some reason so we had to walk all the way back to the resturant. I also did some thinking about it and looking at some stuff in the horizons channel. Im fairly certain i can get my grants after the event, so I would be fine to go to nexus. Tommorow I want to lock in. like REALLY lock in. so im going to try and wake up really early. probably going to regret it but trust it will work!! trust!!

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Hey! I'm Ethan Hawksley from the UK and I've been working on my personal site and blog for a while now, and I think it's finally at a point I'm happy to ship properly. Why: I wanted somewhere to write my blog posts and show my work that actually reflects me technically, instead of just a LinkedIn profile. How: It's built with Astro for zero-JS by default and proper MDX support. I put real effort into a couple places I've not seen many others doing. IBM Plex fonts subsetted with pyftsubset to just the unicode ranges I'm using. Full JSON-LD structured data representing myself and my site fully programmatically. Light & dark mode support with no initial flash of white and js-less fallbacks. Syntax highlighted code blocks with copy buttons. WCAG AA compliant accessibility Support for plenty of web standards, such as openpgpkey, security.txt, WebFinger, and llms/llms-full.txt 100/100 PageSpeed score Where: hawksley.dev and the blog at hawksley.dev/blog

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Day 145 / 365 Hi guys. Kaplin here!! Today was a very nice and chill day :) I did some concepting for a game idea that me and my friend group might try making. basically its a not-so-cozy farming game where theres a bunch of procedural plants. these plants have attributes (like spiky, glowing, explosive, etc.) that determine a lot of stuff. But also the plants dont have names, so you have to put your own name for each species in your logbook. You also have to experiment to find certain traits in a plant. You could also use a camera item to add photos of the plant to a book. I also played plenty of games today so thats not out of the ordinary. I didnt work on any of my horizons projects... and lowkey im wondering if i even want to go to horizons to begin with. I also have to ask about the flight grant stuff, and if I can get those after and still have a proper reimbursement. My parents are also worried since the venue really isnt public. Which is good, I dont think it should be public, but they are worried about me going if it looks like hackclub hasnt havent figured it out yet themselves.

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made stupid github commit thing for my website that does like a 3d graph of contributions with configurable x, y, and z axis options and a thing for you to put a github token in to get past rate limits and track your own github info and what not lowpolyphosphor.us/commits.html uh html something something three js and such

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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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yess... in theory if i don't get any more hours I can at least get minecraft bundle

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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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Yesterday I unboxed and assembled my Framework 16 which I got from Flavortown, today I installed Windows and CachyOS now I have to transfer my files!

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