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Quick Note

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Life In Progress, as of 2024-08-19

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Life In Progress, as of 2024-09-24

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  • Learning Stan Rogers’ - Bluenose on mandolin and voice
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  • Building a few games in the TIC-80 fantasy console
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  • Deploying my own “Pages” server
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  • Building a Forgejo Action for deploying game builds to Itch.io using - 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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  • New hardware: laptop, phone, and NAS
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  • TWO game jams!
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  • Finishing up Morrowind
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  • SEAP/Self-Employment Progress
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Music

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New Hardware

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Adam and I continue our semi-weekly jam sessions! We’ve settled on Stan Rogers’ -Bluenose for our first piece. I -normally pick up lyrics pretty quick, but this song eludes me. We worked on the -chord progression last week, and I’ve been actually practicing!

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Framework Laptop

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Game Dev

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This new Framework is great! I’ve only had it for a few +weeks, but it is wonderful. I’ve been slowly sync’ing and migrating workflows +from my various existing options to it. Being able to work for multiple hours +without worrying about battery life is nice.

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Still having a blast with TIC-80. I made a small farming -experiment game, to learn Fennel some more and also -nail-down some basic design principles. Some of the ideas in that experiment, -namely generating the map with a loop and mset instead of using the built-in -map designer, gave me some insight for solving my darkness troubles in -Nightgolf. I’m still wrapping my head around it, but I think this will be a -solution.

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Previously, the Chromebook I have was my go-to remote personal macine. +Considering its age, and the inherent limitations of a Chromebook, it served me +better than I ever could have hoped. However, I knew it’s time was drawing +near, and the Dell I got as part of my work severance was not going to cut it. +Considering I’m starting a business doing technology, I needed a reliable, +“all-day” machine with Linux. The ARM-based Macs are incredibly tempting, but +I am not a fan of Mac. I’ve been eyeing Framework for a bit now, and their +newest 13-inch model with AMD components checked enough of the boxen for me to +dive in.

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The farming experiment game lives on -Itch.io and the TIC-80 -Webzone.

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Phone

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Tech Dev

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For a while I’ve been eyeing Mint Mobile. In the US, they have a plan offering +unlimited text and talk, plus 5 GB of data, for $15 per month. I generally use +less than 1 GB of streaming data, so this seemed like a clearly better option +than the $30+ I was paying for Google Fi. When I decided to switch, they had an +incredible deal offering a Google Pixel 9 plus a year’s service for a great +price, so I not only switched carrier, I also snagged a new phone! I had a +Samsung S21, which was more than sufficient for my needs, so switching isn’t +quite as significant as with the laptop, but it’s still a nice new experience. +The OS and environment on the Pixel is much nicer than Samsung phones, so +that’s quite the plus!

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Forgejo continues to be rewarding, and I’m looking -forward to expanding my deployment of it by deploying my own “Pages” -server. This will allow me to -deploy my static sites on my own infrastructure. I’m also working on an “Action” -for leveraging butler to publish games I publish -the source code for from my Forge to Itch.io.

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NAS

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In preparation for both my own use, and my business use, I need to learn more -about Nextcloud. I’m also working on building a custom WordPress Docker -container that relies on SQLite instead of MySQL.

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I bought a 2-bay Synology NAS from a friend a few months ago, and with the +myriad other changes, decided to set it up proper. I setup +Navidrome for audio, and Jellyfin for video. I had previously used Navidrome, then +switched to Jellyfin for both audio and video, but with the new phone comes a +return to form. I like Ultrasonic, +and Navidrome plays nicely with it.

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Hovering about all this is backups and monitoring, both of which I sprinkle into -my learning voyage. I’m looking forward to writing up some documentation about -my implementation.

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The other big additions with the NAS is more backup scripts, and also pulling +down some YouTube series I like for local copies. More details in a full post.

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Entrepreneurship

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Game Making

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I’m happy to report I was accepted into New York’s Self-Employment Assistance -Program, SEAP. I will be starting a business offering -managed online services, such as website design and deployment, personal cloud, -and email. I would like to offer these services to local small businesses and -not-for-profits. I think of it as “Silicon Valley experience” at reasonable, -local prices. I’m excited to dive into the parts I’m not very familiar with, -namely the business side of things. I have extensive technical experience and -mastery, but I lack any significant business experience.

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Two game jams! One for the entire month of September, Clone +Jam, and a +Mini-Jam. For the Clone Jam, I was +working on building a ray-casting-based dungeon scavenger, similar to “Legend +of Grimrock”, but with less combat. However, while I have made great progress +understanding how ray-casting works, and how to implement it, I won’t have time +to finish such a game. That knowledge won’t go to waste, though! There’s a +game-jam at the end of October where I intend to make use of it. Instead, I’ll +be touching-up and submitting a clone of Minesweeper I made: +TICsweeper.

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Gaming

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For the Mini-Jam, I decided to make a “runner” type game: you maneuver your +sprite to collect and/or avoid certain projectiles. I also made this game in +the TIC-80. While I didn’t pull any all-nighters, focusing +on a single project for 72-hours with as little down-time as possible is still +quite exhausting! My submission was called +RUNR. It ranked 48th out of 66 +submissions, which is honestly disappointing, but not enough to demotivate me +from continuing my game-making journey!

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I’ve started a new playthrough of Darkest -Dungeon. It’s mildly -frustrating, but mostly fun. I have fun yelling at the game; it’s like stress -relief. I’ve been generally successful, but the Crimson Court has been very -rough to me. It is a game about challenges and loss, though, so nothing -unexpected.

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Game Playing

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I’ve continued my play-through of -Sundered, though have put it down for -a bit. I’m playing it on my Steam Deck using Lutris, and -it works very well. Lutris continues to impress me, and I want to try writing an -installer for a game.

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I finally finished my play-through of Morrowind, and one of its two expansions, +Tribunal. (Note: before “DLC”, new game content for existing games was +distributed like the game itself, on a piece of data-storing media, such as a +CD. These were called “expansion packs.”) I have thoroughly enjoyed my time in +The Elder Scrolls III, and I definitely understand why many claim it as their +favorite. I will talk more about my experience in a full post, just like I did +for my recent Fallout 3 replay (I mean, just like I will. I WILL!)

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Business Time

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Alas, while game making and playing are great uses of my time, they do not get +me the resources I need to pay my bills. I continue to work on starting my own +business. I’ve met with two mentors, one business and one technology, to help +get me started and provide guidance. In fact, this week marks what I would +consider the proper beginning of my business. With some dedication, I’ll have +more exciting news to share about this next time!

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That’s All For Now!

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I think the original intention of a “Now” page is to be less verbose, but I +find the monthly cadence of a somewhat comprehensive update to be more +appealing! Until next month!

Bill Niblock @@ -123,7 +146,7 @@ installer for a game.