Asklemmy

Two nights ago I finished the minimum viable product of the app I've been working on for a while. I've been a programmer in one form or another since I was 8 years old, but here I am now in my twenties and I'm only just getting my first app ready to publish. I've done small stuff for my friends before once or twice, but this is my first public app. Part of me is ashamed it took this long, but a bigger part is excited! The program is a desktop client for e621 (if you don't know what that is, it's probably because you aren't a furry, and I'd advise you not to google it) that has some nifty search features the main site doesn't. It's not ready to publish yet, but I do have a first draft working, GUI and everything, and I'll probably have at least some version public (alongside the GPL'd source code) by the end of the month, hopefully by the end of the week (since that's when school starts back up).

I actually had all the backend code working for this a few months ago, wired up to a Discord bot that I had never gotten around to making public. Unfortunately, about a month ago, my laptop's SSD got corrupted (due almost entirely to my own incompetence) and I lost all the code for that bot along with all the other data on that laptop -- and hadn't made any backups. It was tough. I bounced back, though -- I rewrote the backend code in record time since I remembered how I did it ~~and since the power of horny compelled me~~ -- and the rewritten version even has some features the original didn't. I rearchitected the entire search query parsing algorithm and made it roughly three times as complex, but it was worth it because the spaces between terms in the search query are OPTIONAL now!

In all seriousness, if anyone reading this who knows what e621 is would find this program useful, please let me know, and I'll get you a beta copy. Bug reports and feature suggestions welcome!

I taught my dog weave poles and he loves them!

Yesterday, I made a choice that was very tough for me to make. So three years ago, I had a best friend, and we both liked each other. Things got hard because my feelings went too far, I became emotionally unstable and turned into an attention seeker. So because of that, I then ended the friendship.

Recently, she added me back. I thought we could be friends again because I felt like I improved my mental state in the last two years and won't turn into an attention seeker again. Well, a week later, I was the same as I was three years ago.

It was ruining my mental health severely. I couldn't focus on anything. But I still wasn't ready to give up on the friendship because she was a very nice friend, and I still liked her for some reason. So I refused to give up. But things got worse real quick, and then I decided to write a long message to her explaining why I can't continue this friendship and then I blocked her everywhere.

At the cost of ending all probabilities of a future with her, I feel much better now.

Gotta do something about this attention-seeking thing, though.

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Over 2 calendar months without a drink today. Coming from 2-3 beers a day, previously. Did February, but told myself that didn't count since it's a short month, so now I've done March. I thought I would start drinking a bit now to "celebrate" but it's funny now that I'm here the urge is gone...

I'm going to Muslim wedding next month, so now I'm thinking I'll at least keep it up until then, just to make going to a dry wedding easier on myself.

I'll see after that. I definitely don't want to go back to daily drinking again.

Getting a gf and convincing her to have sex.

100 days of studying Japanese every day

I was on time for an event that happened before noon.

The bar may be low, but for once I cleared it!

I did "Friend Like Me" for karaoke with coworkers. It took quite a bit of practice, but I got most of it.

Speaking of friends, I had dinner with a friend I haven't seen since high school. They hadn't had falafel before so I made falafel, hummus, muhammara, and tzatziki. Those are two achievements: rekindling a past friendship and honing my hosting abilities.

I got a number of patches merged into Movim & after a new release is cut, I plan to ask for a review on my first NixOS module (currently complete, but no one has reviewed)

I just reached the final cut scene of Nioh where the main story ends!

To me, the difficulty is OK and my biggest challenge is the lack of free time to play it. Free time to play video games is a luxury because not only I need to have free time, I also need to decide if I want to use it on playing video games, among lots of other hobbits, and learning, upgrading work skills. It was a struggle but I managed to finished it without feeling too guilty.

Last week I ran my first ever under 1hr 10k(56:20 to be precise). I had run 10k before but my PB was 1:08:00.

I learned to play a cool song that incorporates slapping and fingertapping on guitar, but I re-areanged it to play without fingertapping cause finger tapping on my guitar sounded horrible. Still sounded pretty close.