[day 36 of daily making till 2025 ends] whoops, missed a few days! started on my secret santa gift, with a card you can drag around in godot! hopefully this will go smoother than the last card-based game i made... #godot #gamedev

[day 33 of daily making till 2025 ends] still feeling pretty creatively drained :( played more unbeatable (got an A on a lv.14 in arcade mode) and went rock climbing! also did some brainstorming on my secret-santa-but-you-code-something-instead gift

[day 32 of daily making till 2025 ends] more unbeatable + started to install etterna on my steam deck so i can use it with my usb dancepad. been feeling weirdly demotivated to code lately (burnout??) but i did start setting up my blog with the fuwari template

[day 31 of daily making till 2025 ends] got to unbeatable episode 3! it is definitely absolute cinema so far. also got back to work on README - here's some of the stuff I've written for Part I - Hacker Culture

[day 30 of daily making till 2025 ends] went to my little brother's winter concert, then got home and played unbeatable plus studied. also made this super scrappy sticky note wall with my last-50-days-of-2025 goals! i will lock in on actually making stuff this weekend trust 😭

[days 28 & 29 of daily making till 2025 ends] day 28: #unbeatable released! it's so peak fjhdkfjdkls day 29: went snowboarding at my local hill all day so uh not much making lol but i've been busy

[day 27 of daily making till 2025 ends] new keeb switches arrived today! took the opportunity to disassemble [glyph], clean it out, and apply some mods. also fought with QMK a bunch, but I eventually figured out how to fix the joysticks! the keyboard sounds super nice now :D #MechanicalKeyboards

[day 26 of daily making till 2025 ends] didn't get much done today since i'm getting sick (again 😭) but I did work on a pi pico game engine (coded in rust!) i'm making. after that headed to a bday party, then did homework. also looked into how to start AoC day 7 and a secret project 👀 #coding

[day 25 of daily making till 2025 ends] halfway there!! did a bunch of AoC! completely reworked my day 5 solution so that it doesn't create a dictionary with hundreds of trillions of keys did day 6 as well! i quite like my solution :3 also picked up some snowboard boots #coding #AdventOfCode

the indescribable wave of euphoria that washes over my body when I see this screen #AdventOfCode

[day 24 of daily making till 2025 ends] not much today - did some research on some new tools and started on my day 5 AoC solution! it. uh. runs out of memory but that's a future me problem!

[day 23 of daily making till 2025 ends] locked in on AoC! managed to submit a better day 3 part 2 solution, and then worked on day 4! it was fun, but i ran into many strange quirks of Python. i did manage to solve it though! spent the rest of my time on rustlings :3 #coding #AdventOfCode

[day 22 of daily making till 2025 ends] finally packed some stickers i've been meaning to mail out!spent the rest of the day on AoC day 3 - part 1 was easy enough but I couldn't for the life of me get part 2 to work :( maybe if I have free time tomorrow I can try again. #coding #AdventOfCode

[day 21 of daily making till 2025 ends] day 2 of AoC! part 1 was easy enough (but my solution took 30 seconds on a tower pc 😅) but part 2 has me rethink my strategy. regex to the rescue! part 2 solves in ~3s on the same machine which isn't terrible? also did more rustlings #AdventOfCode #coding

[day 20 🎉 of daily making till 2025 ends] advent of code time!! my part 1 solution had a nasty bug but i eventually managed to crack both puzzles :D also doing some more learning on vim! here's the LazyVim for Ambitious Developers book and my day 1 solution side by side #coding #AdventOfCode

[day 19 of daily making till 2025 ends] didn't do much hacking today 😔 went rock climbing, did some writing for hack club's community newsletter, and also some fiddling with and learning of neovim - here's me working on README #coding

[day 18 of daily making till 2025 ends] finally moved over to neovim today! i'm using the lazyvim config to get started. i can definitely see how things like motions and flash.nvim will let me code soo much faster :D here's me learning rust with rustlings with the new setup #coding

[day 17 of daily making till 2025 ends] back to working on readme! got a chapter navigation bar done :) instead of using tailwind like usual I actually wrote vanilla css, it felt weird but i kinda... liked it? there's something nice about cascading styles down instead of ctrl-cing classes #coding

[day 16 of daily building till 2025 ends] (missed yesterday but I was doing my math wrong so turns out today is day 16) been pretty tired recently so i haven't done much, but i did get a lot more of Mixtape's system prompt done

[day 15 of daily making till 2025 ends] slack is back up! spent most of today catching up on s4 of stranger things, but I did start rewriting mixtape's system prompt

[day 14 of daily making till 2025 ends] hack club slack is down :( but that means I got a lot done for mixtape! i set up a sveltekit route to hit my AI proxy, wrote a system prompt, did some frontend debugging, and Mixtape is now able to write Strudel code all by itself! #coding #strudel

[day 13 of daily making till 2025 ends] played minecraft! played d&d! fixed the deployment workflow for README! and added a play button to Mixtape that interfaces with Strudel's CodeMirror editor - one step closer to being able to completely hide the editor! #coding

[day 12 of daily making till 2025 ends] finished up the first page for README, and started on my new project idea - i'm calling it mixtape! Strudel made it really easy to use in my project - i just import @strudel/repl and create a <strudel-editor> element! here it is so far, its not much 😭 #coding

[day 11 of daily making till 2025 ends] uh didn't get much done today but i did do some research on a new project idea - what if you gave an AI access to a strudel.cc workspace and asked it to give me some background music for working? i'll be using ai.hackclub.com and cloudflare for this

[day 9 of daily making till 2025 ends] did some writing for school, and then some writing for README! made an <Emoji> component to easily use Hack Club Slack emojis and did a bit of the "an attempt at an introduction" section #coding

[day 8 of daily making till 2025 ends] 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.

[days 6 and 7 😭 /50 of daily making till 2025 ends] made some fixes to Tanuki, it should work better on more systems now. still weird on Wayland though. also started working on README, a fun, concise guide to the community for new Hack Clubbers 👀 it's an Astro site with Nutshell #coding

[day 5/50 of daily making until 2025 ends] fixed bugs and fiddled with github actions a ton, but tanuki (alpha) is now ready! still needs some more testing before the full ship but it is up: github.com/Hex-4/tanuki... #coding #animalcrossing

[day 4/50 of daily making until 2025 ends] procrastinated a ton today, but I did manage to rewrite tanuki's kk slider code to make it less buggy! also started a readme and set some things up for release! here it is with the default (😭) tray icon... #coding #animalcrossing

[day 3/50 of making stuff daily until 2025 ends] still sick, but I did manage to add K.K. Slider songs to tanuki! you can now select the "k.k. slider" game, and you'll get a new button allowing you to skip a song. there's also a new "random" game option! #coding #animalcrossing

[day 2/50 of making stuff every day till the end of the year] since i'm sick I didn't get much done today but I did figure out how to get tanuki to save the selected game! i used tauri's store plugin, but had to do some workarounds since async doesn't play nice with svelte $effect. #coding

THE GABECUBE IS REAL, TAKE MY MONEY

[day 1/50 of making stuff every day till the year is over] (this is yesterday's update that i forgor to post) i added rain sounds to tanuki with their own slider! tanuki is a Tauri rewrite of nook.camp, a desktop app that plays Animal Crossing's hourly music #coding

tomorrow, there will be 50 days left in 2025. i'm challenging myself to make something for each and every one of those 50 days, and share it with the world let's see how this goes :D

to get motivation, you have to start to start, you need motivation help what do i do

random fact: the 88x31 buttons on hex4.xyz are arranged in alphabetical order by filename

why are all the cool new fun apps only on ios or macos 🥀

build your own things

i am making a godot game, and have not used print() yet. i consider this a good sign.

had an idea: "twitter, but every character costs one cent" turns out stripe is really annoying to set up so instead of paying real money you do jumping jacks. yes, really. centences.pages.dev :) #webdev

it's done. https://hex4.xyz

new personal website coming soon

just remembered my bluesky password

w-wait my cat has a bluesky account???

my #gmtkjam game is out now! it's not everything i wanted it to be but is considerably higher quality than my other jam games. go give it a try! dimaverse.itch.io/circuits #gamedev

game jammin'

@hex4.xyz and InfiniteDiamond have secretly been pouring hours of our life into a new game. it's a very serious adventure platformer about an adventurous little adventurer that adventures through the mystical lands of Slimetopia. dimaverse.itch.io/slime

uh oh

concerning todo list item