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Day 26/365 3am uh Tasks I made progress on: • Khrome ◦ Implemented speedrunning ◦ Implemented prologue unlock when all levels in a chapter have been speedran ◦ Implemented a functional dialog system :yayayayayay: for the prologues ◦ Prologues... Streaks • Journal ✅ • Reflection ✅ • Commits :red-x: I FORGOT TO COMMIT THE SPEEDRUNNING FEATURE AAAAAAA • Medicines :red-x: :tired: e Reflection Mood: 3/5 Productivity: 3/5 I love starting work on optional parts of my game that take a shitload of time to implement. Thankfully, a good part of that was completed today, all I need to do now is make the goddamn prologues. I think I'll skimp on the save system for this ship. siufhsiuelhgeogiurehgisrg we're so close to overglade aaaaaaaaaa images uhh here's the dialog system working (rn I have it hooked to plain area3ds so you're able to refire them, will have to fix that) also lore uh "its very specific" said one person that read it so yea it'll be interesting trust

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Day 25/365 I got the steam workshop to sync to the pre-existing modloader i had for github mods. If you hit subscribe for the item, it properly subscribes to it on the workshop! Only real difference is that with the github one, It would retrieve the mod data json so the game knows which version the mod belongs to without needing to download the full mod, however steam does not have such a feature so the "Same version" "same update" and "all" filters dont effect steam workshop mods. When I get more updates out (or more mods come out), i might opt in for the beta steam workshop thing where workshop items are available for specific builds only, meaning you cant download outdated mods. i think. idk. Next I have to add uploading the mod! What im thinking of doing is making it so it auto parses for tags, since my modloader can know what type of elements the mod contains! the weather wasnt that bad today tbh. Its really just a bit cold thats all. We didnt get any power outages like my parents feared!!!

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Day 24/365 its uh 2 in the morning on day 25. For good reason! i think Tasks I made progress on: • Khrome ◦ Shipped the game a second time! catgirlownsacafe.itch.io/khrome ◦ Added a few levels ◦ Decals don't work when exporting to web so had to change that to a plane ◦ added a grid thing! press z or c while in game to cycle between the X,Y,Z planes ◦ Streaks • Journal ✅ • Reflection ✅ • Commits ✅ • Medicines :red-x: :tired:gahhh Reflection Mood: 4/5 Productivity: 5/5 go play the game :cat-gun: in other news nothing much uhhhhhhh im too tired to talk ailjjwfiawfa i tried waking up early today to lock in, I think I did lock in cause I remember seeing 7hrs in the dashboard, i mean the wakatime tingy in godot, but there was a big gap in between the morning and evening locked in phases... eepy time ALSO uh images uhhhhhhh here's the itch page ok gn gng byeee

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Day 24/365 Today was a nice and cozy day! I set up steam workshop fully for one turret!!! Well sorta. In terms of the workshop bit, its all complete. Now I just need to get things like the ingame mod browser and ingame mod uploader to use steamworkshop. But via the steam ui, i can subscribe to items and it will download it properly and my game reads it into the mods!! It also started to snow... oh well I dont think the snowstorm will be THAT bad! (odds are i am going to regret my words)

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Day 22/365 I was out of the house most of the day so I wasnt able to get all that much done, but i did experiment more with hytale ui! I tried getting a progress bar ui element loading (like a healthbar) but it kept erroring so i think i might have to code it manually :C oh well you win some and you lose some!

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Day 17/365 the lock in doth come before the lock out Tasks I made progress on: • Khrome ◦ Did 1 hour of work ▪︎ I was finagling around with two different audio software trying to make one of them work with Vital before I scrapped my projects on both of them, restarted on LMMS and realised there was an instrument specifically designed to import external VSTs into LMMS. Well. Hmm. ▪︎ So I gave up on music, played Cobblemon for an hour or two, then after a few spontaneous chores and stuff got back and added the pause system for my game. That's all I did. Streaks • Journal ✅ • Reflection ✅ • Commits ✅ • Medicines :red-x: :| Reflection Mood: 4/5 Productivity: 2/5 Today was NOT a productive day. The lock-in-turned-lock-out huddle was fun tho! The pause menu isn't anything too fancy, I'll prolly change it a bit later down the line. The main reason it wasn't done in like 10 minutes is because my UI is jank so I had to devise a clean way (debatable) to trigger the pause menu while pausing the game and not allowing other things (state change) to happen in that time. Work for tomorrow: audio. I'll first start with sfx, then spend the rest of the time working on game music. I think something either dark techno or something similar to the vibe of Bloxorz would fit the game.

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hi, i'm doing a flipper zero like project for my blueprint project, what do you think, can it be only 2 layers or no? at the moment this is the best that i've accomplished.

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Day 15/365 locked half-out? half-in? semi-locked-in? Tasks I made progress on: • Khrome ◦ Did about 4 or 5 hours of work, got into the flow state during the last hours or so and finished basically all of the obstacles for my game. Now all that's left to do is make levels, cleanup the ui, add audio, and a mini tutorial. Streaks • Journal ✅ • Reflection ✅ • Commits ✅ • Medicines :red-x: guh... Reflection Mood: 3/5 Productivity: 3/5 kinda ehh day today, locked in a bit for overglade but that's about it. Was afk for a good bit. I'm continuing the habit of waking up and reading a book first thing in the morning, which is nice. Here's a screenshot of a level I made to test out all of the obstacles. I think some of them (spinner, moving platform) should be more visually distinct or indicative of its purpose, and also I should add some particle effects to the 'fan' (translucent thing) to indicate its direction but that's about it. I should also make the gold and grey variants (the core mechanic is you switch between two states [blue and gold], grey obstacles exist in both states)

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Day 14 (I think) Minecraft Ikea furniture Music Figma design stuff for magazine

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Hello everyone My name is Saurabh ,17, from UP India ,I have build two award winning projects I m in class 12 ,I learned coding in school,still learning, I take help of AI to complete many things of projects, I m skilled in Arduino ide,C+,esp32,firebase,github and other microcontrollers like raspberry pi I am very optimistic about 3d printing and learning some of it I have deep interests in hardware cum software projects I m new to slack help me learn it ,I think I have found a good community already ❤️ CHECK OUT MY PROJECT AT GITHUB github.com/svlmp347-star/smart-grain-atm

Day 11/365 Today I got a good chunk of progress on my aces game. I planned out some cards im going to add in the near future, Tweaked the shader coloring, user-card targeting, and made this neat metaball-esque effect for UI. I dont think it looks the best though so I might redo it. Outside of aces, I cleaned up the repository for one of the games i made for shiba (Engrams of chaos), and submitted the game for #C0A8CMWM0CR|! I hope it gets accepted :D

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Day 10/365 Today I spent all day hanging out with my 2 friends at a waterpark. after the waterpark we went to this snow tubing place where they had snow generator stuff. After a while I noticed that some lanes were faster than others and my insticts made me want to like write it down in a spreadsheet and figure out which is fastest most the time. but i didnt because yknow im kinda like just trying to have a fun time (i didnt have my laptop either lol). Anyways I didnt actually make any progress lol. Im thinking of changing up the color pallete in the shader. While it IS source accurate I think its a bit bad to look at. (example of new one photo)

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

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Day 9/365 Today I spent most of my day at the hospital, staying with my mom while she was there (she was REALLY dehydrated somethin like that idk. Shes fine now dont worry). By the time we got out of there it was 6 pm which I then picked up my friends who were staying the night so I legit didnt spend any time on my project today. But I did think a LOT about the ui for my aces project. I think i might try recreating the "lava lamp"-esque effect the game "Cult of the lamb" has!

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for my first web des in figma i think i did good, tis for #C0A7AJRN97X|

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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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implementing a blinking mechanic in my game (this was the only way i could think of to make it lmao)

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Day 8/365 Today I made my aces game look a bit better! I added sprites for "other players" and threw in a shader I got from @/armand 's "space game" project they made for shiba (really good game, you should <https://nanomars.itch.io/space-game|check it out >btw). Anyways the shader has color pallete support, and since my game is themed around occult stuff, I made a color pallete using the rider waite tarot cards and threw that in. Though due to a lack of purple I manually added some shades. I think it turned out pretty cool!

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Added a drive in sequence! It’s crappy but in the next few days I’m going to purchase Aseprite and make some game art. I’m thinking of adding a cinematic transition, where a couple trees flood your screen and then you get to some black background with a familiar object and a loading screen thing. I need it to look polished!!

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
    4. Convert country's coordinates back to globe coords
b. Highlight the color of that country
c. Add particles on hover and delete on moving away

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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