What projects are you working on right now?

[JINSBEK]

Thread to discuss whatever it is that’s keeping us busy now! Art, home renovation, decluttering, etc…

Right now, I’m working on my modern personal website for my art. Chiefly, it’s going to be my art gallery, but I’m also going to include a blog, essays, links to my other projects, and a guestbook. Since so many people browse the Internet on a smartphone now, I’ve been forced to create Mobile-friendly responsive designs. Still, I’m trying (and enjoying trying!) to keep a magazine-like quality with things like overlapping images, TTS-friendly drop caps, and different fonts in different faces, weights, sizes, styles, kerning, capitalisation, and colours for emphasis. Typographic hierarchy is near and dear to me, but web design these days seems to be focused on blown-up images.

Most of my work right now is writing the content for dedicated pages of my artworks. I also still need to design how the breadcrumbs will look; I think I’ll get started on that this week.

What about you?

[rejectconvenience]

I just wrapped up my big project haha my next one is to relax a little. I have lots of ideas for the next project, though.

[JINSBEK]

Definitely a great time to be resting, with Thanksgiving weekend coming up in the US!

I’m making steady and decent progress on my art website. I’ll probably take advantage of my upcoming 4-day to try to hammer it out for publishing. After my website is “done”, I’ll hunker down and get all the music I want to offline/local storage, then fire up FL Studio and start composing the Title Theme for a game that’s simmering in my head. I haven’t really used a DAW (digital audio workstation) since a brain injury years ago, so I’m excited to get started again.

[Stefen_Maxwell]

I am trying to build a new iPod manager for Linux. It is slow-going since I decided to also learn a new language for this project, and I am trying to find a job. I want to make it be able to both sync your music and podcasts, as well as restore the iPod. First is getting it to even transfer music, which will take me some time. It is an ambitious project and I don't expect it to be completed anytime soon.

[rejectconvenience]

@Stefen_Maxwell That is such an amazing idea

[Stefen_Maxwell]

Thank you. I will keep you all updated on my progress. Currently, just re-engineer some code, so the project has fewer dependencies. Should also make it "easier" to compile the project for other platforms, so I might be able to compile a Windows binary, but that is really low priority for me.

[JINSBEK]

@Stefen_Maxwell What new language do you have to learn, and what advantages does it offer to the iPod project? This sounds pretty neat.

[Stefen_Maxwell]

@Stefen_Maxwell What new language do you have to learn, and what advantages does it offer to the iPod project? This sounds pretty neat.

I don't have to learn a new programming language, I am just choosing to, because why not. I am learning rust, atm. Initially, I wanted to use the tools that system76 have been using for their new desktop environment. They are coding that in rust, so that's why I started learning it. However, now it is just fun and I like learning.

Some of the advantages it offers for this project, rust really wants everything to be predefined and memory safe. When I say wants, I mean refuses to even build your program if something is wrong. Barring any logic issues, it should result in safe code that doesn't have any memory leaks while being faster than something like python. Will it actually be faster than python? Not a clue.