Now: Then (a history of my Now page)

Am finishing up my Snobol adventure from last year - I’ve been working on the writeup off and on for about a month now. I’m so close!

Learn Snobol - DONE! but now I need to document what I did

Working on a friends-and-family-only "social media" site

Family has needed me. I’ve halted projects.

This is the twilight of this accursed year, 2024. I’m having to change course.

After a five+ month hiatus, I’ve started back up on the Hiss game builder project. I’ll probably just keep quietly working on it (and updating the dev log) until I’m done. (Update: It had to be paused again.)

I’ve also been learning SNOBOL - here’s a card: start-snobol

There have been more updates in the cards.

I have been playing more videogames to pass the time. I made a card with my notes on my Linux gaming setup: arch-gaming

Near future: Assembly Nights Season 3! (Edit: Alas, nope…​)

Still adding repos pretty regularly :-)

Began the December Adventure 2023!

DONE! meow5 (Concludes Assembly Nights Season 2)

DONE! NaNoWriMo with reduced word count goal of 500 words per day.

DONE! NaNoWriMo with reduced word count goal of 500 words per day.

Finished: October’s Inktober. See art and scroll down 'til you see the image with the thumbnails.

Just finished RepoRat and am slowly adding repos to my new repos section of this website because.

In the spirit of getting this finished and closed, I’m determined to finish Meow5 one way or another. That’s my new "morning project". (It’s going well! Check out my mez repo, created to facilitate this!).

Finally cleared my email inbox and the big second wave of replies to my replies. :-)

NaNoWriMo in November? (Reduced word count goal, though. Thinking 500 words per day.) awesome.

My "The Year of the Microcontroller" (here) is currently on hold. :-(

It’s now 2023, two years after I joined the trend and I’m seeing "Now" pages on a lot of the personal websites I’m visiting. I think that’s totally awesome.

This page is a really nice way to brain-dump what I’m into at the moment.

Clearing my dang inbox. If you’ve written to me and not heard back in a while, you’re sitting in my inbox. Sorry.

Getting back to needle felting is a 2023 goal that I will certainly do.

Also a 2023 goal: finishing/updating my htmx live reference.

Glacially/Painfully: Working on my ray tracer (github.com) in Zig and the top-secret side-quest (very exciting in a slow way). No promises about 2023 for this one.

Finished RetroV - Uh, I basically lost my mind for two weeks and wrote some JavaScript and a heck of a lot of supporting material.

Finished my Forth talk 2023 (with a ton of drawings).

Finished Hoo? A solo journaling RPG for a game jam with lots of art (including an entire Tarot deck!)

Finished my book-guided OpenBSD tour openbsd.

Finished Mr. Tree Goes Down!!! (Dec 7: And the print copies just came today!)

DAILY and BACK ON TRACK: 2023 is my The Year of the Microcontroller! You can check my progress there, broken into "chapters".

BACK ON TRACK: Assembly Nights: Season Two has started creaking and groaning back to life. The big deal here is making a tool (in Zig) to help me debug my ELF output. Writing the tool is helping me walk through the ELF header more sysetmatically and hopefully I’ll find my bug.

Off and on: Learning to play the Irish Whistle one tiny bit most nights.

Just started trying out a new phone app to learn the German language. I like it so far, but I’m not gonna start praising it publicly until I’m past the first impressions stage.

Still "gardening" on this website regularly. Check the Updated dates on pages.

Currently doing Inktober over on Mastodon: https://mastodon.art/@ratfactor