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layout: corrupt_now
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tabtitle: Now
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author: Bill Niblock
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pub: 2024-08-19
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# Life In Progress, as of {{ page.pub }}
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- Learning [Stan Rogers'
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_Bluenose_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZVpvJsqTMM) on mandolin and voice
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- Building a few games in the [TIC-80 fantasy console](https://tic80.com)
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- Deploying my own ["Pages" server](https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/pages-server/)
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- Building a Forgejo Action for deploying game builds to Itch.io using
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[butler](https://itch.io/docs/butler/)
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- Building a custom WordPress Docker container that uses SQLite
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- Starting my own business
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## Music
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Adam and I continue our semi-weekly jam sessions! We've settled on [Stan Rogers'
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_Bluenose_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZVpvJsqTMM) for our first piece. I
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normally pick up lyrics pretty quick, but this song eludes me. We worked on the
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chord progression last week, and I've been actually practicing!
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## Game Dev
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Still having a blast with [TIC-80](https://tic80.com/). I made a small farming
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experiment game, to learn [Fennel](https://fennel-lang.org) some more and also
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nail-down some basic design principles. Some of the ideas in that experiment,
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namely generating the map with a loop and `mset` instead of using the built-in
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map designer, gave me some insight for solving my darkness troubles in
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Nightgolf. I'm still wrapping my head around it, but I think this will be a
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solution.
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The farming experiment game lives on
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[Itch.io](https://vagabondazulien.itch.io/farm-experiment-1) and the [TIC-80
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Webzone](https://tic80.com/play?cart=3965).
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## Tech Dev
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[Forgejo](https://forgejo.org/) continues to be rewarding, and I'm looking
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forward to expanding my deployment of it by deploying my own ["Pages"
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server](https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/pages-server/). This will allow me to
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deploy my static sites on my own infrastructure. I'm also working on an "Action"
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for leveraging [butler](https://itch.io/docs/butler/) to publish games I publish
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the source code for from my Forge to Itch.io.
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In preparation for both my own use, and my business use, I need to learn more
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about Nextcloud. I'm also working on building a custom WordPress Docker
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container that relies on SQLite instead of MySQL.
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Hovering about all this is backups and monitoring, both of which I sprinkle into
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my learning voyage. I'm looking forward to writing up some documentation about
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my implementation.
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## Entrepreneurship
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I'm happy to report I was accepted into New York's Self-Employment Assistance
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Program, [SEAP](https://dol.ny.gov/SEAP). I will be starting a business offering
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managed online services, such as website design and deployment, personal cloud,
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and email. I would like to offer these services to local small businesses and
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not-for-profits. I think of it as "Silicon Valley experience" at reasonable,
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local prices. I'm excited to dive into the parts I'm not very familiar with,
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namely the business side of things. I have extensive technical experience and
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mastery, but I lack any significant business experience.
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## Gaming
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I've started a new playthrough of [Darkest
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Dungeon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkest_Dungeon). It's mildly
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frustrating, but mostly fun. I have fun yelling at the game; it's like stress
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relief. I've been generally successful, but the Crimson Court has been very
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rough to me. It is a game about challenges and loss, though, so nothing
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unexpected.
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I've continued my play-through of
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[Sundered](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundered), though have put it down for
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a bit. I'm playing it on my Steam Deck using [Lutris](https://lutris.net/), and
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it works very well. Lutris continues to impress me, and I want to try writing an
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installer for a game.
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