#web dev stuff

[impzone]

here's my progress on that character repo page im working on :D the css is nowhere near final i just wanted to show off the layout

[l0stw00d]

CSS has VARIABLES?

[omeletcat]

guys we gotta stop this, literally all i do is draw pixel art for my games and code, and i go on the godot discord to see some GENIUS SAY WORDS THAT PROBABLY HAVEN'T EVEN BEEN INVENTED YET.

QUATERNION?? NOWAY THATS A REAL WORD.

[sincerely-sofie]

Check-in for 01/28/24

It's been a while since I did one of these. Time to remedy that!

I've been doing well in my assignments, but due to some registration issues at the start of the semester I was unable to sign up for any web development or programming classes :< It's nice to take a break, but I'm really worried about getting stagnant in those skills, and maybe even losing what I've learned over time.

This is where a couple of new projects come in: A blorbo database and a tool for drawing pokemon from memory. These things are going to keep me avoid stagnancy and help me develop my web dev and Python programming skills, and I'm real excited to talk about them.

First up, let's talk about that tool for drawing pokemon from memory. I love drawing pokemon from memory, but it's a bit of a struggle to find tools online that work well for a solo experience when you're doing this challenge alone. So I made a program in PyGame to solve this problem, and I've actually already completed it! It was a great learning experience when it came to getting a taste of APIs, and PokeAPI really helped me do all the heavy lifting with it. I also ended up using ChatGPT to help me understand how to phrase my questions and the things I needed to research. This is the end result:

If you click "Get Random Pokemon", the program will provide a pokemon's name. The point of it is to draw the pokemon as best as you remember it, and then click "Show Pokemon Image" to see how you did. You will then have the option to get a new random pokemon, which clears the image from the window.

There's a lot of stuff I don't understand about how the program works--- APIs evade my understanding, and Tkinter is a dark art beyond my comprehension. But I was able to make a program that solved a genuine problem for me for the first time, and that's super exciting to me!

Now, for web development--- long story short, I'm making a website dedicated to cataloguing my OCs that's very much inspired by tumblr user @snekkerdoodles's personal site on neocities, which I regularly stare at in an effort to motivate myself to make cool things like it (everyone reading this should check his page out IMMEDIATELY and tell him how cool it is). Here's the screenshots of the WIP I'm chipping away at right now:

I don't have much to say about it, as the interesting stuff will really be the content of the pages, and I still have yet to finish the template page I'll be filling with my OCs' information. However, I can say that I'm very upset with the lack of proper teaching that took place in the first (and currently only) college web dev class I've taken. I spent an entire semester doing my own research to learn everything they were supposed to be teaching us. I'm still very peeved about that.

To summarize this very rambling post I'm too sleepy to edit properly, I'm making a digital blorbo encyclopedia, and I finished making a little desktop app thingy, which means I need to summon a new programming project. I'm tempted to make it a video game... maybe I should turn back to that visual novel idea I had ages ago and boot up RenPy!

[glassrockgathering]

Here we goooo, a short comic set in the Star Steel Smackdown universe, by @mcbrauart!

In this weekly short comic, you will follow Stickshift, our grungy mech(anic), during his extremely busy work day :)

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[konakoro]

Burdened by a million game ideas but no ability with/knowledge on coding and game dev

[real-magic]

Going to start sharing my hobby web dev stuff!

I've gotten rly into indie web things in my abundant post-orthopedic surgery leisure time

Check it out if U want (ღ˘⌣˘) ℒ♡ⓥℯ ㄚ♡ⓤ

~~moving gifs on page~~

I'm still very new to coding so bear ʕ⊙ᴥ⊙ʔ with me

Currently working on an imitation old school captcha generator- already seeing big returns in the form of silly word combos

[commandersya]

WAIT YOU KNOW JAVASCRIPT? (im curious lol why? are you a compsci major?)

oh yeah! i did like two diff compsci degrees because there was an overlap in the classes that saved me doing like... an extra year and a half than if i were to do both degrees normally one after the other, so i actually learned a whole bunch of languages from both like:

Web dev stuff (HTML/CSS, Javascript (with focus on Jquery), PHP (which everyone seems to hate but is my beloved))

Java

Python

SQL

some AI-adjaecent/logic-solving languages i've long since forgotten (Haskell, OWL, Prolog)

I also programmed a whole-ass game in C# despite not actually knowing it for an extra master's level class i took for fun, after you know a few similar languages a lot of the basics are actually the same!

and i will say that DESPITE all the bad rep JS gets, i actually find it's very useful for browser extensions for shit that really annoys you or could be more streamlined. for example:

i recently edited a pre-existing extension to add the fic info to my ao3 bookmarks so if they get deleted i still know which fic it was (and then can try to find it on my archive of downloaded fics or on the wayback machine)! i have well over 2k bookmarks so as you can imagine. i didn't really feel like doing it by hand for all the ones i already had.

i used to have a bookmarklet for nanowrimo that automatically deducted my initial pre-nano wordcount when i went to update it to save me the work of having to do it on the calculator

there's already instructions out there for how to make an ao3 bookmarklet to save your filters and apply it to whatever page you're on (saving you the work of having to add your excluded tags, preferred language, etc) but with javascript you can make a similar one for other situations like these!

[piixandria]

[alisheaburgess]

Dev Diaries: Day 9- Setting a good base!

Dev Diaries, Masterlist

June 5, 2023

Okie dokie!

Today, my goal is to finish up the UX Prototyping course. It's a bit boring because I'm not planning on using these programs myself. I want a good understanding of the basics of most programs though. It's probably a ✨sparkle worry ✨ issue, but hey. I did see a lot of posts and content by UX designers saying that they wish they knew more programs. It makes sense to me, but I love learning. 😋

I'll probably get in a HMTL and/or CSS course today. I did the math...it's about 40+ hours of video time between the two courses. That's a lot. I want to make sure I really absorb it so I'm gonna take a bit longer. I don't plan on finishing them this week, that is for sure. I'm going for balance this month, no cramming! 😅😂

I am going to start my first portfolio project today!!! I don't know which one I'm gonna do yet, but I'm gonna do it! I'll probably find a challenge somewhere first, maybe. Even if it doesn't make it to my portfolio, it will be good practice. I have a project of sorts that I was working on, but I'm not sure it would work for this. It will take awhile to get done though, so I'll be doing it along with the other projects.

The AI got to me!

So, you know how I said I was gonna get seduced by the AI dev classes... They found me, and I think I'm a goner. 😋😁 I wanna take courses that discuss it but don't cover any coding yet. Like I said yesterday, I need to know what it's gonna do before I learn how.

I'm also looking at Learning Experience Design. This is something I've always been interested. Might as well take a course on it while it's available. Try it on for size, if you will...

P.S. I'm not sure I like having a list of things I'm "supposed" to do each day. I have tried it a couple times and it feels like a demand (no bueno) and I have more fun when it's just written about instead...😊

I have a list of things I wanna get done eventually and that tend to work better. Making a daily list just adds too much to do. Little lists tend to turn into big lists no matter what I do. If I make something bite size, I just take bigger bites...

Here's to code snacking! 😂🥰

[impzone]

ok i wrote a new entry for my site! and i have decided i want to add more gadgets and fun things to it so does anyone know where i can get those?

[l0stw00d]

guy talking faster than anyone u've ever heard in a tutorial: "so you need to install live preview extension and also javascript snippets and bootstrap and shoelace and also offer a blood sacrifice to the almighty server in the sky and-"

[r0semultiverse]

Anyone gotten these variations yet? 👀

[cextra]

I haven't been able to draw for weeks because I've been too focused on programming but the other day I did a little zelda link doodle on my personal notes. Here's the rest of the notes I've been taking down I'm really proud of my handwriting in some of these spots. You should've seen my handwriting in school it was terrible terrible unreadable you get a little bit of that in some places here when I'm rushing. Anyway I'm working on a little personal project I'm trying to build a website for artist to upload and share their work but with some twist. I was really inspired but the art fight website and I want to see if I can also contribute to the art or zelda art community in some way. But no promises I'm a terribly slow coder and so this will prob just stay a learning project. It has been sorta fun tho piecing everything together. I've just barely set up a login session system using passport lmao 💀 ☠️ its like 50 lines of code but it took me days to process it in my head. Anyway hopefully more zelda drawings next month idk!!!

[glassrockgathering]

Page 2 of the Star Steel Smackdown short comic, by @mcbrauart!

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[little-eye-guy]

just for funsies i want to remind everyone that i have a WEBSITE and there are THINGS on there to LOOK AT