Modern web design is boring and all websites look the same. I’ll prove it to you. Go to any of your other open tabs and I’ll describe it.
Author: Jacob
7 Days of Nothing, #5
Today I thought about how to define things as being inside other things. Is it when something is fully contained by the container? When no part of the object extends beyond the container’s volume? I feel like this is a good start, so let’s test it:
7 Days of Nothing, #4
Today I thought about Godot’s game object system. Godot is a game engine I started learning earlier today and its system for handling game objects is very intuitive. Everything is a node: scenes, objects, UI elements, everything. Nodes can contain other nodes and there’s no distinction between nodes being part of their parent node or…
7 Days of Nothing, #3
Today I spent the time resting and thinking just a little. I thought about participating in a game jam. I like the idea of making games as an event. Although, I’m not sure if I’m skilled enough. I’d like to do a game jam with a team, but I don’t know anyone who’s into game…
7 Days of Nothing, #2
Today I thought about Manifold Garden and what makes infinity cool. (Sidenote: Manifold Garden’s website is super cool, go check it out!)Manifold Garden is a 3D game about exploring infinity. I haven’t played it yet, but I love the concept and I thought about making a similar game in PICO-8. The problem is infinity. It’s…
7 Days of Nothing, #1
Wind is weird. I spent the time today looking out my window and some leaves would be swaying about and some next to them perfectly still. I saw 20 leaves fall. I don’t know why I counted them.I thought about leaves and the wind and the weather. At the start of the 20 minutes, it…
7 Days of Nothing, #0
Time is a fun mystery ingredient. I want to know what will happen when I mix time with nothing. So here’s what I’m doing: I spend 20 minutes a day, for a week, doing nothing. And each day I write about it. Boring? Possibly, but that’s a risk I’m willing to take. Things to avoid…
Colors Demo (PICO-8)
Today I played with sine and cosine in PICO-8, and it looked cool, so here it is! Press any key (arrows or X/Z) to pause.
Mechanical Keyboard Research, #2
Today I continued my research. There’s so many options! I’m realizing more and more that I don’t know what I want. It’s like when you walk into an ice cream shop thinking you want strawberry, but then you see 175 flavors and you’re not so sure anymore. Here’s what I’ve narrowed it down to so…
Mechanical Keyboard Research
Recently I’ve been reading The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo and I’ve realized that some of the things I have don’t spark joy, especially my mouse and keyboard. They’re just boring. My current keyboard is a Redragon K552 with no backlighting (it’s discontinued) and my…
Motivational Lizard
Today I want to share with you one of my all-time favorite videos: Motivational Lizard. Go watch it. You won’t regret it.
Fr e sh a vo cado
Here’s a meme rendition I made a while ago and forgot to post. Original meme by @Gasoleen.
Thoughts on Tools for Making Things
I’d like to discuss an aspect of tools for making things: the identity they suggest. Have you ever gotten out all your notebooks, pens, books, and been like, “I’m a student. I can study.” And then just plowed through all the work? I have. The study supplies elevate my mindset from “I can’t” to “I…
Rainy Window (TIC-80)
Today I made a rainy window simulator in TIC-80! Hit escape then “close game” to view the code in the browser! It might not look right on mobile, it’s my first TIC-80 upload, so I’m still figuring out what works. This is a project I’ve wanted to make for quite a while and I thought…
Learning to Drift in Forza, #2
Today I practiced more drifting! I’m finding that there’s a perfect angle for each turn and it’s just a matter of keeping the balance. PS – I keep accidentally glitching images:
Learning to Drift in Forza
Today I have something a bit different: learning how to drift in Forza Horizon 4. This seemed like a fun post to write, so here it is! Background: I love car driving games and my favorite thing to do in them is to drift. Although, I have a confession: I don’t really know how to…
No Search Engines for a Day
Yesterday I planned to not use any search engines today, but it didn’t go as planned; I haven’t been online until now. Kind of hard to make observations about using the internet without search engines if you aren’t even online. Here’s the observations I can make: Last night I watched a youtube video about Eizouken…
How Do Search Engines Work?
Today I did some research on search engines after I noticed that some of my pages aren’t listed on Google.