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Ask the Midnight: What are you up to?

~nsilvestri

Shamelessly stolen from Orange Website.

Hello, fellow patrons! The ~bartender got me a peach cider from a local place down the street. Have any of you been working on any personal projects recently?

I've been off work for four months (and starting my new job and first startup job [literally employee #1] in a day, but that's a story for another time!) and have embarrassingly little to show for so much free time. Still, I've managed to start working on a little VR freeware game that's been bouncing around my head for a while. I've even purchased a domain for it, so things are getting pretty serious. Rubik's cube competitions are back where I'm from, too, so I have to spend some time practicing blindfold solves.

What projects have y'all been up to?

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~shiloh wrote:

Honestly, since school has started, I haven't done many projects. My guitar-playing and drawing have gone out the window, replaced mostly by accounting. I have been working out pretty often, and going to the Arab and Asian grocery stores nearby. A yesterday, I did a 50-mile ruck challenge. I was a 50 mile walk with a 20lb weight plate plus water and snacks. It took 20 hours, and the sky never showed, all wind and rain. I got a good night's sleep, then went to the store with a buddy of mine, and now I'm just enjoying some rum with 2 crushed kaffir lime leaves, a pinch of mahlep (I have no idea what it is, some kind of cherry it seems based on the label?) and a spoonful of jaggery. I think its going to my head a bit quick... Anyways, nothing too exciting or creative, unfortunately. It's just easier to put exercise in my schedule, I guess.

Cheers to all of you.

~bitdweller wrote:

Well aside from tinkering with an ever evolving Raspberry Pi that does different things for me, I'm working on a loooong project. We two actually, and they are ever-connected:

To begin with, I am a fucking dad now, 2 months already, so that's a project, right?

But the most interesting for you guys, or the one not everyone does, is that I'm writing a daily log of what's happening on her life. The things we do with her (sing, take her to the doctor, etc), the things she does (crying, babbling, smiling, shitting the walls, etc) and how we feel around all of this (Happy, stressed, blessed).

I decided it will not only be a "log", it will be a small website with other maybe-interesting stuff, like milestones (first smile, first word, first trip, stuff like that) and other bits of info that can be interesting or funny. Like a list of places where we changed her diapers outside of home, with name and geo coordinates. Or a list of trips we have made with her, or, if you wanna call it like that, places she has been.

I'm writing it in english, so that she will have to learn it or get better at it to understand.

I really hope she will be interested in this! This is for her of course.

It is taking the shape of a Gemini website. I'm hosting it on flounder and on my raspberry pi as well.

~tatterdemalion wrote:

I'm not producing much in terms of personal projects, even Gemini-related. My main personal project for the last month has been reading "The Mysteries of Udolpho" by Ann Radcliffe. Otherwise, I've been consumed with family and household work and activities.

At work I'm deep in legacy code and eye strain.

~edisondotme wrote:

Does it have to be orange website themed? I joined a bouldering league recently and it's gotten me to try a lot harder than I normally would. I completed two V6 problems in the past two weeks after not having done one in many months.

Bouldering grades

I've also been working on physical training a lot in general and I'm starting to get some decent results, gonna get shredded >:)

It's camping season where I am so I've also been doing a lot of outdoor climbing and camping, fall is beautiful.

~ew wrote (thread):

Uh, lots of busy folks? Good on you! I managed to get alpinelinux and openBSD running on a small machine. I even learned how to run a gemini server without the TLS part, and get the latter as a service from nginx. Quite nice! I managed to compile emacs from source and toy with a straight based configuration, which must be offline-proof. That includes full offline email with mu4e and offlineimap (note to ploum). I had somehow managed to trigger "phoning home" at every start. No, thanks. And yesterday I have started to understand more details of this RISC-V machine I do have (Sifive unmatched). Lots to learn about boot loaders. Goal: get Debian running, and alpine, and maybe something like Genode/SculptOS (stretch goal, clearly). In real life I give a weekly Linux class, and I try to keep a small sports club afloat. Not exactly a project, but a time sink nonetheless. Look Ma! No computers!

Cheers!

/me nips at my hot chocolate

~eaplmx wrote (thread):

Ha, cool. The first step is always buying the domain :)

I've played only a few VR games on HTC Vive, my favourite one was 'Final Soccer VR', pretty realistic and fun for me.

~eaplmx wrote (thread):

Hey! Cider! 🍻

Well, I've been working for a few days on a game based on the classic 'A Dark Room', but using the GPS of your mobile. The idea is to walk out of your home and find digital stuff around.

~starbreaker wrote (thread):

I've been working on a new novel called "Shattered Harmonies" with nothing but a fountain pen and a notebook. I manage 5-6 pages of closely-written text on a good day, with about 200-350 words per page.

~ploum wrote:

Trying to get my emails available offline with mutt/mbsync so I can connect only once a day. Also Deleting as much online accounts as I can. And trying to work on a protocol called Offmini.

All about trying to reclaim my living time.

~gert wrote (thread):

It's not exactly a project but I've been learning how to take better notes and journals.

Congrats on your new job!