So I've made a new blog page. I already had one (it's still there), but the format there is very restrictive (turns out writing on a narrow topic about a game you hate isn't fun), and I haven't felt the impulse to add to it in a while. This page is "Blog2" only to keep links to that page where they are.
Speaking of this page's URL, it might look a bit weird. It's like that to allow me to add pagination later if I want to, something I can't do for the old blog without changing links. I don't know if or when it will matter, but I want to keep myself open for the future.
Mostly I've been busy with university for the past few months. The workload has been a lot, and I've been struggling to find a good way to escape. There are a few highlights, though:
A few weeks ago I did my school's game jam. The theme was "The Elements", and mine was one of two(!) submissions. I had a lot of fun making this game. My roommate did the music, but I did everything else: the code, the art, the gameplay, etc.
The game is an hour-long incremental with way too many currencies (one per element). You combine simple ones to get the more complex ones. It's live if you'd like to play it. Send me an email if you do play it, it'll make my day ☻
There are a couple of things that I want to fix in a post-jam version of the game when time permits. Primarily, I want to make the layout mobile-friendly, but there are a few other quality-of-life changes I want to implement before calling it done. When I get around to making that version, I'll post about it.
I set up SSL for my nginx server. That's what runs cdn.gdane.net, and it's primarily where I host files too big to send through Discord. Some other stuff lives on that server, too, though. One day I should post about the behind-the-scenes architecture of this site, since it's kind of nutty.
I went home to see my family. We played games, and I got to see my one-year-old nephew. I deeply hate the drive (two hours each way), but I enjoy the company.
I've started actually using an RSS aggregator day-to-day. I'm self-hosting Miniflux, and following a few blogs, mostly the remnants of who I was following on Cohost. I'm trying to replace the time I would be spending on YouTube with reading. So far, it's going quite well, although I'm looking for a bit more to read. Actually reading blogs is a big part of the reason I want to try writing a blog again.
Here's a highly disorganized list of things I want to do in the near future:
Finish Bakery 3.0
Update Increlemental
Containerize a Factorio Archipelago server
Write about my server architecture
Fix up my latest Quaver chart and push it for rank
I hope to put more here soon, although I'm a bit anxious I won't keep up with it. If I don't it's not a huge deal; the stakes are low. Thanks for reading what I have to write.
Until next time,
- BakersDozenBagels
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