Life In Progress, as of 2024-08-19
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- Learning Stan Rogers’ + Bluenose on mandolin and voice +
- Building a few games in the TIC-80 fantasy console +
- Deploying my own “Pages” server +
- Building a Forgejo Action for deploying game builds to Itch.io using + butler +
- Building a custom WordPress Docker container that uses SQLite +
- Starting my own business +
Music
+ +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!
+ +Game Dev
+ +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.
The farming experiment game lives on +Itch.io and the TIC-80 +Webzone.
+ +Tech Dev
+ +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.
+ +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.
+ +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.
+ +Entrepreneurship
+ +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.
+ +Gaming
+ +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.
+ +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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