Posted on December 17, 2024 at 09:28 PM GMT
I've been thinking for some time that I should update this thing with a new journal entry (or blog entry or whatever you want to call it), I imagine that the few people who visited my Neocities site thought it was a one-and-done thing that will never see an update again, so I guess this journal entry exists to prove them wrong lol
There's not really much to say because I haven't really been working on any of my personal coding projects in the past few months. I was intending to spend some time updating this site to have more functionality, but I ended up having other priorities such as working on my video game idea, which consists of a forever project that I've been restarting over and over through the years. I've previously tried making this game in Unity, but certain things annoyed me about that engine, so for a while I was considering just writing my own thing in C++ with Vulkan serving as the graphics library. Well, I spent some of November reading up on Vulkan, and the result of that research was that I now have some newfound appreciation for the game engines we have these days! I also looked into Godot (since I don't want to go back to Unity) and liked what I saw, at least initially, so once the time comes for me to start programming my game again I can definitely see myself using Godot to do it, or at least until I find something in Godot that upsets me at which point I'll Start Over Again.
I also spent the past several months getting on what I jokingly call the Jocko Willink sleep schedule since he infamously wakes up at 4 AM to exercise. Since I injured my eyes last year I'm basically no longer able to do computer stuff in the evening because they start hurting A LOT, so I either have to basically wake up at 5 AM to do all my fun stuff or I don't get to do it. There are pretty much no downsides to living like this, plus I now have guaranteed free time every day so long as I stay disciplined and wake up on time, so hopefully more progress on my personal programming stuff will be made in the future. So far I've been using the time to do the aforementioned research on what method of gamedev I'll be using next, but also to read something for my game which I will maybe cover in a later journal entry.
I guess that's it for this update. Hopefully I'll do another journal entry before the year ends, likely the typical retrospect most people do at the end of the year, but the bigger hope is that it won't take me another two months to write the next entry (lol). It would be cool if I could also put in some time into adding more functionality to my Neocities site, but since it's currently not a priority for me it might take some time before my site becomes as fancy as most other Neocities sites. Thanks for reading, and until next time!
Posted on October 05, 2024 at 04:13 PM GMT
I've decided to publish this site before fully finishing everything on it, mainly because I have too many ideas for it and if I wait until I finish implementing all of them then the site will never get published. Basically this website exists for me to try out different ideas I've had for a while, such as seeing if I can make my own markup interpreter (every blog entry and article on this site is written in my loose interpretation of WikiText and is then rendered as an HTML page using a script), and seeing how much of a functional website I can make by pushing "pre-rendered" HTML and assets to Neocities. That doesn't really sound like something worth making what is basically your own version of WordPress for, but there are several features I plan to add that you can't really do with WordPress OOTB, plus I don't really like all the JavaScript bloat that most of the pre-existing blogging solutions generate on the page, plus writing my own thing is more fun lol
Anyways, expect more features to be added to this website later on, such as a theme for it that's less boring than the current boxes on a white void that were inspired by Yahoo's Japanese site. Until next time! Hopefully I'll feel like writing a proper blog entry by then because I just kinda forced this one because this website needed an introduction.