Thinking Posts – Hack Club Scrapbook

Day 5/365 wow so consistent hopefully nothing bad happens Tasks I made progress on: • essays essays essays essays ◦ SUBMITTED HMC! yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee • Music Production ◦ Watched a tutorial on synths and now I understand everything :think: I also did start playing around with the knobs, filters, envelopes, LFOs and things so • Explore Gender ◦ Made a picrew! I might set it as my pfp in a few days, might setup a poll in my pc too ◦ Ok maybe this isn't a good enough like uhh entry for that but it's my goals? so I get to decide what goes in and stuff Streaks • Journal ✅ (so many entries) • Reflection ✅ yeppers • Commits :red-x: noooooooo not again • Medicines :red-x: guh Reflection Mood: 2/5 Productivity: 3/5 I worked on HMC mostly today... Submitted it! (One-sided) shouting match with my dad about college stuff. I'm bad at arguments. But I also worked on some fun stuff like playing around with synth controls and presets, and also made my picrew :3 so mood is not totally through the floor :heavysob: Images images images (Dynamicland so cool)

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Day 4/365 Tasks I made progress on: • essays essays essays essays ◦ Worked on college essays • Music Production ◦ Setup Reaper and finagled with some plugins, Streaks • Journal ✅ (so many entries) • Reflection ✅ yeppers • Commits :red-x: noooooooo i got carried away with music prod • Medicines ✅ actually yipeee, morning routine is also improving slowly Reflection Mood: 3/5 Productivity: 3/5 I finished my essays! On the music side, I think what I'll do is force myself to choose a set of random instruments and make a song out of them. I also journaled a bunch so that is an improvement, mostly just yapping about random thoughts but I'm hoping that once I get into the flow I start tracking more deeper thoughts and stuff. Some things I should do tomorrow: • Fill out everything else in the Common App • Play around with the plugins I didn't get to try because of some issues with loading them • Work on my aces project brainstorm or one of the slackbots Random image go: Partypheus!

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Day 2/365 Tasks I made progress on: • essays essays essays essays ◦ Worked on college essays Streaks • Journal ✅ (not as much as I would've liked but I need to get into the habit so I'm letting myself off easy with this one) • Reflection ✅ • Commits ✅ • Medicines :red-x: aoifawefaewiewfojaweijwfwejfo Reflection Mood: 3/5 Productivity: 2/5 just worked on college essays for the day, didn't do much else other than set up a few things. Watched a few cool videos though: this one on MOGAI, this one on infinitely fragile primes, and this one on critical thinking. I need to think of setting up an Omnivore container for all the media I consume. Maybe after college apps? But yea, nothing much happening. Today's photo? Here, have this screenshot I took of birthstones because it popped up during a nice random conversation.

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Day 2/365: Hey brochachos, • Did a slow run • Committed a total of 4 times I think • Last few days before winter break ends so trying to enjoy my days • Worked on my github profile readme

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Day 1/365 Tasks I made progress on: • Get my personal knowledge system/digital garden running comfortably ◦ Set some basic stuff up in my old vault, like ▪︎ a new theme (pink so pretty :yayayayayay:), ▪︎ Calendar/Daily Note system • with quick journalling using a command, ▪︎ a dashboard using canvasses and Dataview ▪︎ Zettelkasten note templates (Literature, Fleeting, Evergreen) and commands to add them (Literature, Fleeting) ▪︎ Quotes system to append to Literature Notes ▪︎ Syncing with Fleeting Notes (the app) ▪︎ Installed and set up a bunch of community plugins, some of which I won't be able to see in action until some time into the life of the vault • College applications ◦ Worked on just one essay, was too locked in on vault creation :noooovanish: Streaks • Journal ✅ • Reflection ✅ • Commits ✅ • Medicines :red-x: I have to get used to taking them again :heavysob: Reflection Mood: 3/5 Productivity: 4/5 Overall, it was a productive day! Haven't been this locked in in a long time, almost rivalling my #C073L9LB4K1| times... new year magic? Mayhaps :shrug3d: But also this is the third time I'm building a personal vault from scratch so that also might have something to do with it :heavysob: I should think of adding gimmicks to my daily routine, maybe a small random challenge everyday? And also to these posts too... :thonk: Parents were out the whole day, so it was a lot quieter at home. Maybe that's partly why I was so focused? Don't think I would've noticed it subconsciously anyway with me blasting white noise at max volume through my headphones :heaviesterstsob:

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:50days: day 50 I am writing this at 12:21 AM, January 1st, 2026, which technically means that I missed my update for today, but who cares? Today, after not getting a lot of sleep, I mostly prepared all of my goodbyes and tried to tie up loose ends. Spent much too long drafting my holy yapparonie for #C0818RRJGDA|, dropped a fragment for an ARG (:eyes_shaking:), and dmed a few people that I still have stuff to finish up with. you know, this is my own challenge and i've only achieved 2/8 of my goals. I didn't ship Fireside, learn Rust, or finish #C09MJJV82QY|. I missed 3 days. many of my updates were nothing burgers. but maybe that's not what really mattered. maybe what did matter was coming back (mostly) every single day, trying my absolute hardest to make these 50 days count. and I think I succeeded. I made two projects that made people smile, I solved a bunch of AoC puzzles, I learned about code organization in Godot, and I kinda understand Rust now? I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. Maybe this under-13 fiasco is just an elaborate prank. Maybe they're going to give me a few extra days here. As I write this, I'm still living in the world where my Slack account is active. I have no clue what's going to happen next - tomorrow, over these 3 months, over the next 3 years. But I'm grateful I got to hack and build during these 50 days alongside all of you. catch you on the flip side <3 (also, yes, hand reveal :shocked:)

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day 49 i think???? • been busy with science fair :aaaaa-disintegrates: ◦ its due in a week and im only like 10% through • i had ideas for games maybe because my brain is so wired to making games so yeah cool :pf: • handed out black hole rewards (finally sorry guys :yayayayayay: ) • i dont think im gonna survive the transition back to school cuz i have not been efficent and sleep schedule is cooked, also kinda sick :heavysob: • coming up with new year new me goals??? (prob not gonna stick to them :aaaaa-disintegrates: ) message of the day • almost the new year guys remember to take breaks/have a lil fun if ur working urself too hard :thumbup: picture of the day • new milkyway room update yeaaa

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Guys, I made a site where you can pay for 3d printing, I know that other people have similar things but I thought why not create another one :ultrafastparrot:. I also created an in web slicer which you can drag and look at the file you uploaded. I think its pretty cool! Give it a try! I would love to get some feedback for improvement! You can try it here: printstack.org

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Hello brochachos, only two days left bruh lowkey can't believe ts 48/50 (43/50): • Skimmed through two physics chapters over the course of 1 hr 30 mins • Ran my fastest 5k so far :yayayayayay: • I found a guy (specifically a senior dev at huge company) that has built something the like my app with very minimal features (basically not all that) , sooooo I am thinking to finish of this app and maybe email him? Idk I need opinions on whether this is a good idea, he seems to be still working on it, so yeap, maybe I could ask for a partnership or work together, idk (please lmk if this is the move bruh :heavysob-random: ) • I have hit 35 hrs+ on building the finance app, the web version + now the recently app asw

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day 45:50days: • can't update my original msg 😞 but bascially I finished owrking on my website and also managed to code for 40 days(I gave up today on milkyway. I think I deserve a break after 40 days.) • V loafed on me!!! and gave me a side eye too • also made a mini terrarium at my friends

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:50days: Day 44/50 (04/10) Added extrainfo on airport's popup, I've added the plugins for geodesic lines on leaflet but i'd like to make smth where I can select travels to see the whole thing idk. Like select Midnight and I'll see BES-CDG-VIE :shrug3d: Continued to read Animal Farm and Refactoring English, i think i'll finish animal farm by tmrw/after tmrw

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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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[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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I just shipped an update to libreassistant.vercel.app!! Libre Assistant is an open-source AI chat interface that uses ai.hackclub.com to provide free, unlimited access to over a dozen models from 6 AI labs, including but not limited to Gemini 3.0 Pro, Gemini 3.0 Flash, and GPT-5.1 Thinking! The update I just shipped added three things: 1. Gemini 3.0 Flash, Qwen3-Next, and Qwen3 VL 235b 2. A new free search tool that uses search.hackclub.com to provide accurate and fast agentic search 3. Keybinds for both MacOS & other systems

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[37/50] today i did: • tried to persuade school to sponsor #C09TH69T5DJ| • new pronouns :eyes_shaking: • fixed @Winterflows-U0A025PMWCX • think i'm out of burnout now! • tim :very-mad:

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:50days: Day 35 of 50, I: • don't have enough time to write about today before midnight :pf: • will talk about today in tomorrow's post :thumbup-nobg: • talked to !subteam^S0A2GA88MCZ about something idk (can't think right now) so enjoy the jolly uncle roger 182 emoji at highest quality (see below) :jollyuncleroger182:

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:50days: day 34 + 35! not much,,, still burnt out,,, 34: worked on #C05B6DBN802|, ran a lockin call, more ideation for #C09RKNVS5SB| and some other projects 35: sent today's #C05B6DBN802|, packed a secret santa gift, did hw, tried to hack a vibe coded website (all the admin validation is client side i think :skull_cry:) here's goosepheus

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:50days: Day 35/50 I added a bunch of tags to scrappy-doo but I forget to push so I lost everything :noo: so I had to redo everything again :sad-pf: (feel free to give suggestions) I looked at coolify cuz i think i'll host it on my server because systemd and bare docker is kinda pain No midnight reviews :hdheavysob:

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:50days: Day 32/50 I have automated the 50 days post on starblog to update the progress bar based on days until 2026. After that I submitted it to midnight I continued to work on my archiving tool and will make it public soon (i think) I started to make keyshield because when I shared a message from david-leeker to #C06089401GT| it exploded my monthly limits for apiflash :hdheavysob:. Keyshield is a reverse proxy between an API (i.e. apiflash) and your frontend (i.e. Slack) for hiding your API keys and add a caching layer (because apiflash store the apikey in the url parameters :skull_skeleton: ) I think I'll spend the 7 hours left for Midnight on this

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didnt do hackclub today again :wiltedrose: but i finished all my schoolwork and practiced a little guitar! also talked to my crush and we in talking stage now i think? idk its complicated youtu.be/YwSkIBqZwwg

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:50days: Day 30/50 Today's AoC was easy and it's cool because yesterday was pure hell, part 2 was just part 1 with extra steps I started working on midnight and publish "old" project (projects starting after midnight start dw), I submitted my ondrive-proxy and i'll submit @Scrappy-Doo & starblog (i won't publish it to #C09JQE8P8EA|) once I finished them I think I'll spend the 12 other days of december trying to optimize my aoc's solutions cuz some are really bad

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Day 30: • Worked on Burning Rain in a huddle! I think I'm gonna ship it soon :D • Did a bit of work on my website • friend stuff 😐 Got a job tomorrow which is nice, but it's be all day so I'm gonna be exhausted afterwards :(

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Day 29: • More bugfixing on Milkyway Pets. I need to be testing builds via WINE or my vm because otherwise stuff keeps breaking in production which is not a good look. Worked on Burning Rain in a huddle. • Got one :aoc: from day 6. It's not much but it was fun • Made some drawings for my website! • I downloaded the demo for UNBREAKABLE after Hex4 linked it and wow. I only played for like half an hour, but it felt like style was being injected directly into my veins. That's the level of cool I aspire to have in my games one day. Thinking a lot about the interactions between setting/aesthetics and story. • Also found the phone that I've been missing for most of the year. Turns out my mum put it in the back of a drawer and forgot about it :skulk: There's a few 2FA things it'll be nice to get back, but I don't really have a use for it now (especially as it's missing a power button)

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day 29 of 50 days to 2026! Today was a fairly quiet day. I took my C++ midterm and had a good chat with one of my friends on the impact of ai in our society (which also helped solidify some parts of my speech!) and then fixed a few small shell things and made 2 days ago's aoc vis! I also had an interesting idea for a passkey style badge that could be used at a hackathon. I still would like to find some cheap 1 cm by 3.5 cm e-paper displays as I think that would be the perfect badge size but I haven't seen any and especially not any with a smd driver chip.

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day 27:50days:: • the crystals are so pretty! can't wait to see the alum crystal tomorrow:heartarrow-blue: • I finished escape room 1... and I'm kind of sad. I feel relieved that it's 'over', but at the same time as if I've abandoned a part of me...:yay-mimi: • ALMOST 100 HOURS LET'S GO! I joined sometime around 3 months ago so that would be I coded around 1 hr a day(def not the case, but it makes me happy to think this) • long day at school tmr(8:30-5pm) :P

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day 26:50days: • made a supersaturated solution for growing alum and copper sulphate crystals today, the copper had a really pretty deep blue color but I couldn't get the beauty on camera 😕 • Obsessed with Moon in one's cup's nostalgic feeling. That one rising arpeggios made me think of another song(golden hour) and my brain is still tingling very much • milkyway

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:50days: day #C097G4WJ55Z|: • I finally got around to watermarking all of my photos for the photography section on my personal site! • I crocheted more octopi • I will be doing more reading before bed! (I think my day count was off bc scrappy keeps deleting my messages every once in a while, but I promise I’ve been updating every day)

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Day 21: • Did coding for 6h 25min(can have done hrs if I had taken it seriusly and didn't watch movies..) • For cursor effect I had to do these:

a. Identify current country or Ocean
    1. Get coordinates of raycaster (Vector3)
    2. Convert it into geojson coordinates
    3. Get country details and its coordinates
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I did a1, a2, a3 but later found that my coordinates are wrong idk why, I think I am missing something or doing something wrong hence I will repeat it today. Day 22: • DO coding for 9 hrs today • Make the cursor effect a reality somehow but don't ask anything to AI(not even math formulas..) • Study for 30 min atleast

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Log #1 @ Scrapbook about MOONSHOT!! As of right now I am at a total of 31.8 hours!! I'm on track for 75 if I can do it, and if I can't well, I'm sure I'd be disappointed on missing out on NASA, but hey? Its a learning opportunity yk? Yet that doesn't let me stop from trying - no problem in trying right? Well at least that's what I think! My current project: keep track of updates at my other profile on scrapbook: scrapbook.hackclub.com/Ashlesh!!

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:50days: Day 21/50 AoC was a bit harder (especially part 1 compared to part 2). I've made a custom background for starblog using some kind of noises (very light), I think i'll publish starblog soon for #C09JQE8P8EA|

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DAY 20/:50days:: • Tought of idea for my secret santa ;)) • Made more assets for #C09EZSEMB16| still wip but i recon in about 2 days • for mut4rr i worked on npc brains so nothing grand to show as i will have em think of themselfs instead of taking predefined paths ;DD Just short and simple as i am bit tired as per usual XD (Don't want to write paragraphs of text lol)

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Day 19/50 • Showcased Milkyway Pets in a huddle! I was really nervous so congrats to everybody else who participated in either showcase :blahaj-heart: It's so inspiring seeing everybody else's projects and just makes me more motivated :D • Worked a bit on my personal website. I don't think I'm gonna finish it by the dealine for #C09JQE8P8EA| but I'm fine with that. • Played piano for a bit, cleaned my room, backed up some files to a 2TB HDD I got from SoM Screenshot is from the huddle, the game is 21st Century Love Story by Kaylee and Athena.

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:50days: Day 17 of 50, I: • woke up kind of late I think then got up to code :sleeping_accommodation: • FAILED TO GET MY CODE TO WORK :noooovanish: • spent a long while doing homework 🎒 • watched a 3 hour long movie :movie: • raised an important issue in #C035D6S6TFW| with @:jollyroger182: at the start of the day (technically all that was like right after midnight) :scrappy: • made an entire bot as part of a speedrun, this time outrunning @:shadowlight: instead of @:jollyroger182: (see below; also haha double emoji ping) :slackbot: • need to come up with an idea for my Science Fair project (some kind of website or other coding project that's "useful to society") :reactparrot: • got 1 contribution on GitHub :githubparrot: • reached a Duolingo streak of 813 days :duo-knife:

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day 16!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! stuff i did today: • worked on milkyway :yay-mimi: ◦ worked on line clear effects & sdf speed issues... • studied ◦ i think i bombed my tests :aaaaa-disintegrates: ◦ still havent finished overdue assignment :pf: todays pic: • clearing line effect (clearing tetris)!!!!! :yayayayayay: message of the day!!!!! • a mistake isnt a mistake, its an opportunity to grow and learn and do better next time!!!!! :yayayayayay:

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:50days: Days 12, 13, 14, and 15 of 50 (yeah I missed a bunch of days + also Slack migration), I: • don't have school until next Monday because of Thanksgiving break :thonksgiving: • drove to Northern California for my brother's marching band state competition on Sunday; they got 2nd place :baritone: • stopped on the way at my friend's house for a sleepover on Saturday since the drive was like 4.5 hours :sleeping_accommodation: • woke up really late on Monday (like 11ish I think??) 🛏 • planned filming and stuff for my English video project on Monday 📜 • actually filmed the English video project clips on Tuesday (today) for 2 hours 📹 • went to the dentist for a normal checkup; everything's fine 🦷 • finished @ToneTagFramework(lraj23) , my Siege Week 12 project, on Saturday and Tuesday :tone-tag-framework: • started @lraj23SelfBot(lraj23) , my Siege Week 13 project, on Tuesday :lraj23-self-bot: • survived the Slack migration, but ended up joining the IRC anyways :slackbot_thonk: • came back on Slack to 36 or so pings, at least one of which was from @:jollyroger182: (yes at this point there's like nothing to ping about anymore lol) :pingfest: • got a total of 12 contributions over 4 days (see below) :githubparrot: • reached a Duolingo streak of ~~807~~ ~~808~~ ~~809~~ 810 days :duo-knife:

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:50days: Day 12/50 I started to read Refactoring English but eh there's 150 pages and I already have a lot of books to read Yesterday (UTC+1), I went to my hackclub in Brest where we made design for a laser-cutted snowball. And today I think I'll try to fix onedrive-proxy

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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 12!!!!!!!!!!!! (think its time to simplify its taking me too much time to do this everyday :pf: ) stuff i did today: • worked on milkyway :mimiawesome: ◦ didnt realize art hours counted for time, so i shipped those hours :yayayayayay: ◦ worked on a new tileset for my pieces and currently working on effects for the game!!!! (extremely difficult :pf: ) • took a break... wanna freeze in (opposite of burn out???) :mimo: todays pic: • amongus opener in my tetris game :yayayayayay: message of the day!!!!! • when im doing anything i think the most important piece of advice is to just do it... you learn more when actually doing the thing even when it sucks... you learned to walk by trying to walk... :yayayayayay:

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11/50 (7/45): • Made small changes to the personal website • Solder a PCB for the first time :earthquakyeyes:, I messed up the first time, but with the help of my friend i think i nailed it almost • got a haircut • played val for a bit asw

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:50days: Day 11/50 Today I continued to play MHRD but I didnt did much I've discovered that onedrive-proxy don't refresh its token so I need to fix it somehow I'm thinking about buying the early-access of Refactoring English but I don't know :shrug3d: Reallyy not productive today but tomorrow will be better cuz I'm going to LPH

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(idk if its day 10 or 11 but ill just go with the crowd) day 11!!!!!!!!!!! goals for today: ✅ show up today :yayayayayay: ❌ drink more water (only 25oz :pf:) ✅ sleep 9hrs :yayayayayay: ✅ socialize w/ people • played ssbu w/ friends!!!!!! :yayayayayay: ➖ study • studied a little, not as much as i wanted ❌ log 1hr for #C09EZSEMB16| :mimisad: • focused my time to work on some art for milky way... its ok I still have time tmmr to keep my streak alive other (random): • i drew quite a bit of art for milky way but its too late rn so ill do it tmmr • found my art on the actual milky way site!!! i actually contributed smth to the community!!!! :yayayayayay: goals for tmmr: • show up tmmr • drink more water (25oz -> 30oz)) • get 9hrs sleep • touch grass / socialize w/ ppl • study • log 1hr for #C09EZSEMB16| message of the day!!!!! • im tired so ill sleep... i think thats a good mindset to have... :mimo:

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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: Day 9/50 Today wasn't very productive, But I've read a lot of docs about gowarc cuz I tried to make my scraper in Golang but it wasn't working on windows (cuz it was using /etc/resolv.conf), so instead of using my laptop (raaahhh debian 13 on top) I tried to fix the library and adding Windows support (which was unsuccessful) So today I've only added a config file to it, and refactored the depth system cuz it was weird and vibe-coded. I think the next step is to add threading to it so it would be even faster. I've also had to buy Andromaque for school today so I had to walk across Brest, uhhhh... Related to books I've continued to read Animal Farm, I'm pretty sure i'll finish it before the end of the year

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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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day 7/50 again I didn't do much today beyond dragging myself to school and taking a calculus test. I think I did pretty well? I completely blanked on one of the differentiation problems at the end but everything else made sense. I did a bit of investigating for a C++ assignment that is coming up where we have to make an algorithm to execute the most optimal battleship moves and sink the opponents ships before their algorithm sinks ours. I have some interesting ideas on how to execute this (one being training a small ml model which would be hilariously overkill for this). We don't get the source code of the library that actually runs the battleship logic though so I did a bit of digging through ghidra to see if I can find anything useful. Didn't find much but it was fun to play with for sure.

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day 8/50 • cleaned up the anicept cel printhead a little bit to make the parts easier to print • started renovating the X axis - I think I'm making pretty awesome progress!!! • crashed out at school :loll: • fooled around with friends

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Day 6 1. Went into school early to study for my afternoon Level 3 Economics exam (Year 13 exam, I’m in Year 12) 2. Had my exam! It went pretty well and I think that was an excellence! 3. Got home and had a meeting for #C08HX0F11BP| 4. Started making the budget for #C08HX0F11BP| 5. Played games for the rest of the night to relax for once, no exams for a week so will be working on #C07KRNHG339| bts! Not crazily productive but had an exam that went well so it evens out (Had to repost to add an image for scrappy 8 hours later :3kcursed:)

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