Getting a driver's license was one of the tings that fell to the side back when my depression was at it's worst. Now that
depression is mostly a non-issue, I'm picking it back up. Sadly, this means less time and energy for programming stuff:(
I'm also getting really into the website I made for my Animal Crossing town. Check the details below.
My big time passion project. Words can't really capture it all so I recommend going to https://snowcape.neocities.org/.
I was showing a friend some of my screenshots from Animal Crossing once, and got an idea. What if I made a website to show off my island?
After settling on the idea of an interactive map, I tried to place one pin on the map and immediately realized doing it manually was a terrible idea.
I spent a few minutes working on stuff every day for a week, and eventually ended up with what I guess can charitably be described as a mapping tool. It's probably a crime against most kinds of best practice, but for a single purpose tool built for one job, it worked.
After finishing the map, I realized there were several things I wanted to show off that don't fit on the map. So I decided to expand the project.
For now, that expansion consists of a section about various clothing pieces I designed in the game.
As a test of my skills, I decided to try and make the code as reusable as I could. The only things I write for each box are the text parts, colors, and which images should be displayed. The positioning of elements(left or right) is set by a single word, and javascript does the rest. The slideshow controls are 100% made by javascript. I'm pretty much as close to reusable components as you can get without setting up REACT.
The whole thing is hosted on neocities, because I feel it fits really well with the indie web personal website type vibe they got going on there. There's something nice about the individualistic, somewhat messy and chaotic nature of the indie web, and I wanted to add my contribution.
Remember Myspace? Well a lot of peolpe are nostalgic for it, and someone made SpaceHey, which is essentially a project to bring back old myspace.
One of the main selling points is the ability to massively customize your profile using HTML and CSS. Which sounded fun to me. So I made a profile,
and I've been messing around a lot with the customization. Check it out(warning: highly silly): Super Duper Cool and Handsome Gamer
PS: hover your mouse over the P switch to make the Mario bros do a cool animation:)
I always kinda wanted to build a pc to see what it was like and also to play cool new video games at high graphics settings. High-ish at least. My 10 year old 1080p monitor still works good so I'm sticking with it.
I also have experience with Linux now because Microsoft wanted me to pay to use their OS while also ending support for Windows 10. So if I'm using a new OS anyway that's the perfect chance to see what Linux is like.(Mainly I liked it being free haha)
I was a bit uncomfortable with writing that I'm a quick learner on my cv and applications, so I decided to prove to myself that do in fact learn quick by quickly learning to mod the game Balatro
My mod can be found at https://github.com/Icyhuman/balatro-greenmod
While the art of the mod may be lacking due to my limited artistic ability, the functionality of the cards shoul be solid.
A lot of employers these days put a lot of emphasis on using AI tools for coding. So I figured I needed at least a little experience with that stuff.
So I put together a combination of a desktop pet and one of those finger skateboards, but with all the code being generated by ChatGPT.
Gotta be honest though, writing the code myself is more fun. But hey, it's a learning experience I guess. Another downside is that the AI would talk about how smart I am every time I suggest a new iteration or a fix for some issue, which felt a bit creepy.
Anyway, complaints aside, the project can be found in this repo.