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*day 8/50* more work on README! spent a while scrolling through old event photos and scrubbing through Hack Club videos to make this little Polaroid collage thingy for README's homepage. also made some CSS fixes and wrote some more content. I think tomorrow I'll add table of contents stuff and some style settings, then deploy so others can start writing

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day 7/50 again I didn't do much today beyond dragging myself to school and taking a calculus test. I think I did pretty well? I completely blanked on one of the differentiation problems at the end but everything else made sense. I did a bit of investigating for a C++ assignment that is coming up where we have to make an algorithm to execute the most optimal battleship moves and sink the opponents ships before their algorithm sinks ours. I have some interesting ideas on how to execute this (one being training a small ml model which would be hilariously overkill for this). We don't get the source code of the library that actually runs the battleship logic though so I did a bit of digging through ghidra to see if I can find anything useful. Didn't find much but it was fun to play with for sure.

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day 8/50 • cleaned up the anicept cel printhead a little bit to make the parts easier to print • started renovating the X axis - I think I'm making pretty awesome progress!!! • crashed out at school

• fooled around with friends

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Day 6 1. Went into school early to study for my afternoon Level 3 Economics exam (Year 13 exam, I’m in Year 12) 2. Had my exam! It went pretty well and I think that was an excellence! 3. Got home and had a meeting for #C08HX0F11BP| 4. Started making the budget for #C08HX0F11BP| 5. Played games for the rest of the night to relax for once, no exams for a week so will be working on #C07KRNHG339| bts! Not crazily productive but had an exam that went well so it evens out (Had to repost to add an image for scrappy 8 hours later

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oello its uh day 7 of

i believe I decided to work on my ysuii (jk its YSWSs there was a massive conversation in confessions) (#C09QZE9D85U| and #C09TG04FFK6|) • (Bossfighting) I think i created this today or yesterday, but I started ideas on the logo design. hopefully it doesn't end up too chaotic • (Partybox) started drawing out all of the drawings from the jackbox gamenight in affinity (which i just downloaded today so a lot of the drawings are scuffed, compounding with my severe lack of drawing experience

) • (Partybox) redrew the mascot (partypheus) in affinity instead of aseprite this time (dk why I thought drawing it in aseprite initially would be a good idea) and it looks kinda cute In other news, • Went to the gym

it was pull day, preacher curls are always fun tho bicep go boom • Joined some personal channels today! oh yea here's the partypheus redesign

im bad at art ok lemme have this

I guess I have to end this with something funny or deep or something uhh "Build with each other. Be brave in reaching out, and be forgiving in your interactions." alr bye

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Day 6/50 Today wasn't very productive, I've scraped and archived a bunch of stuff like thevalleyofcode because it's so cool I don't think he'll keep it free For this I used python, regex and ai.hacklub.com (for converting html to md) I'll try to make a website tomorrow so I can read them

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day 7/50 • finished anicept cel printhead!!!!!!!!!!! really happy with how it looks. Wire routing I think is pretty decent, but may need work depending on how flexible the hotend wires are • did research for it, and started making a nice clean BOM • moved a random component for no reason • school + piano

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Day 4 of

: I spent most of today coding • Spent a while trying to implement a system tray icon for Milkyway Pets. Spent a while attempting to implement a system tray icon for Milkyway Pets. SDL3 is fairly new, so the Rust bindings I'm using didn't have a wrapper for the tray API - meaning I had to implement my own. I don't know whether it was the way I wrote it, but the API just wouldn't play nice with WaitEvent, which blocks the application until events occur, reducing CPU usage. In the end I went for a hybrid solution which updates a minimum 4 times per second, or whenever events occur. Hopefully this will suffice until I can work out the kinks in the API (and maybe even merge it upstream 👀) • Did some thinking on my YSWS • Bunch of housework lol

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day 4!!!! goals for today: ✅ show up today

❌ drink more water (still 20oz

) ❌ get 9hrs sleep (got like 7hrs

) ✅ touch grass/have fun with friends • played volleyball at school!!!!

• played in a ssbu tournament in church!!!! (we didnt finish)

❌ lock in for school (no time

) ❌ log 1hr for #C09EZSEMB16| (only 20mins

no time) other (random): • midterms came back!!!!! got As in everything but one subject cuz they did the math wrong i think or smth

still really happy abt that tho!!!!!!

goals for tmmr: • show up tmmr • drink more water (20oz -> 25oz) • get 9hrs sleep • socialize w/ ppl • lock in for school • log 1hr for #C09EZSEMB16| message of the day!!!!! (ig im doing this now, kinda like a journal entry???) • progress!!!!!! even just a little bit keeps the flame going!!!!! funny that im using fire as an example cuz im burnt out... get it??? anyone??? • now that its the weekend, ig i can recover and prepare myself for the week coming... • gl everyone!!!!!! still got a ways to go...

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Day 2 1. My Physics exam was today! It went well which I'm happy about, I think I got Excellence in Mechanics and Electricity and Electromagnetism, and probably Merit in Waves. Now I'll have a bit more time before my next exam! 2. Went for a run this morning - was an amazing way to clear my head!! 3. Did a ton of study before the exam too 4. Had a relaxing evening! Ready to start it over tomorrow but put more of a focus on my coding projects! 5. Didn't do any work for #C08HX0F11BP| or #C07KRNHG339| but will make up for it tomorrow! I also treated myself today and got a pair of AirPods! For more context you can check #C07PKEP7U94|! Excited for what tomorrow will bring : D

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[3/50] today i: • made this profile page for the hackathon (ik its simple don't judge pls) • worked a bit on a ti-84+ ce to esp32 connecting thingy • got a new game that i'm instantly addicted to • did not fix my sleep schedule

i'll sleep by midnight though... i think

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Day

/50: • Sat my Physics exam! I think it went pretty well, I was confused a bit by the DC Circuits section but having spammed past papers helped a lot :) • Found out that apparently the test conditions for the license exam will be changing next month?? Gonna call and book my test tomorrow • Transcribed some sheet music from an arrangement On The Sunny Side Of The Street that I'll transpose and start practicing tomorrow

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[2/50] today i: • worked on hackathon website for my school (what do you think about the design?) • plan to be in bed by 11pm (hopefully i can actually do it

) • learned a bit of ruby and maybe gonna use rails in the future?

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Day 1/50: Finished goal #1, I think. I just hope China doesn't block Cloudflare, hmm... aaand here is a speedtest result with my OpenVPN server on: www.speedtest.net/result/18465692167

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Day 1/50! Today I've: • Done ~1 hour of work on my games for #C09EZSEMB16|. I got a friend to play through my platformer and by the way she was struggling I can see that I need to make the player movement and level design a lot more forgiving. Also massively reduced the CPU usage of my Hackatime desktop pet • Spent most of the day studying physics at school with a mate, now doing past papers in preparation for tomorrow (Feeling confident for Mechanics, less so for Electricity) • Sat a practice test for my licence exam and got 33/35!

I think the strat is just to spam practice exams until I feel confident enough to do the actual exam • Cleared out my Anki backlog for Japanese

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Day 2 update: Sadly I'm still sick and I didn't get as much as I wanted done. Did a small amount of prep for Parthenon this weekend. So excited! My sister baked cookies in my house for every attendee, so it smelled like cookies all day. Had a meeting with a partner to talk about some 2025 plans. I'm trying to get all the orgs that care about coding to align on helping people make actually real projects - and Hack Club can help with that. Did some thinking on dashboarding. We really need a good way to understand how all the current fall 2025 programs are tracking. We had that for summer and don't have that now. Reviewed our 990 before filing it and gave the last round of edits before it's submitted. Did a little bit of thinking on how to better surface and communicate awesome projects by Hack Clubbers. When you make an awesome project - whether you're a beginner or really advanced - you should feel super celebrated by the community. It's also important that projects are curated in some way for the community - or else it can feel like everything is slop. When the truth is if 20% of projects are not super high quality (everyone starts somewhere) but there are just a lot of projects overall, those 20% feel like 100% of the projects. I'm almost wondering if something like Hacker News but for Hack Clubber projects could be cool. Or some other way to explore really cool things. Here's one really cool project by a Hack Clubber for Summer of Making I saw for the first time today: github.com/SamoZ256/hydra And that's kind of all for today. Leaving at 6:30 AM tomorrow to drive to NYC for Parthenon. So excited!

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oh crud I forgot day one

better late than never I guess. day 1/50 • worked on the anicept cel: completely redid Z axis • did a fire school presentation and got a lot of laughs (good laughs. not bad laughs) • did a team policy debate that I've been preparing for for months and did well I think

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Finally got IBL (mostly) working in my OpenGL renderer. I spent most of yesterday debugging some weird artifacts I was getting, but I'm pretty sure it was just some crazy high values from the HDR map I was sampling, because it works fine now after I switched to the hdr map used in the learnopengl.com tutorials. (So I just need to add some clamping to the values I think).

Yeah I think I broke my VPN

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:3 hi hi! project 2 (oct 14 - oct 28) - finishing the basic stuff with cursedOS day 8 - more memory stuff

this was a pain lmao because stuff just kept on not working. this is where we are at :D commit i also tried to setup kicad wakatime so i could work on blueprint but that's not working so i need to start thinking about my next project that isn't for blueprint

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project 1 (oct 5 to oct 18) - my personal website getting a much needed revamp day 6 - was supposed to post yesterday but got caught up in fd work 😭 all i did was add the embed as seen in v1peridae.me

i've been working on waht im gonna teach meghana today! i think im ready to ship the site then finish up working on CursedOS (rust os) !

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Good morning everyone! (oh shoot, it's actually 4pm here rn... it still feels like morning lol) Yesterday Luca ( @Slloom ) and I finished the boba drops workshop with our club! (Almost) everyone was able to submit, but hopefully everyone else will be able to submit it within a few days. Shoutout Natalie (@?) who went above and beyond on her website and kept adding to it in between meetings! Check it out here! I think Luca and I will plan to do swirl in the next few meetings, and then maybe we'll start to introduce limited time YSWSs. I've made some more updates to my personal website, mostly aesthetic. I moved The Ghost to a secondary page so the main page can be more of an intro. I've got a small About Me, some links, and a projects section. I want to set that bit up like the SoM projects page: image, description, links, etc. but I'm not sure how... Yet. Apart from that, I think I'll try to do Blueprint, since I never got to submit the project I made for Highway, but I may not get to it till after Nov 9 when I finish the play I'm part of, The Play That Goes Wrong. I'd like to do Moonshot, since I really enjoyed Juice, but my parents don't want me to go to any more travel HC events after Neighborhood (even though I wasn't there), which I get for safety reasons, but also I've found no other organization that does what HC does in terms of travel events. Maybe in a year or so, if HC implements enough safety policies and such to my parents satisfaction, I'll be able to go to another. We'll see. (If someone at HQ wants to hear what safety stuff, dm me, cuz I'm sure other parents would want them as well) Anyways, on a completely separate note, Everyone keeps mishearing "Hack Club" as "Hat Club" so I wonder if we should rename the club from a very boring school-name-hack-club to The Mad Hackkers. What do you think?

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Hello I am back from the dead designed one club poster for my club (that im attempting to restart again), also wrote an announcement to be published once we got the authorizations ready i'm planning to make one poster a day, each one with a different design until i think we have enough poster designs also did a pull request to fix the hackclub webring since the code to join it was actually interpreted as html code github.com/hackclub/webring/pull/249 very nice day

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haven't posted here in a while but i just finished (the mvp) for my project rustytime :D (currently at ~75h) • what is it? It's like

WakaTime but FOSS and made with a

Rust backend,

Sveltekit frontend and

TimescaleDB (Postgres extension) • why? I though it would be a cool project

• is it good? Idk

but you can judge it for yourself here :P • is it fast? It's pretty speedy! Over 1500 heartbeats/second on my machine! repo: github.com/ImShyMike/rustytime (you should give it a star

) please send stuff you think i should add in the thread :) edit: also check out timesplit if you want to use this + hackatime at the same time! (ship post here)

summer.hackclub.com/projects/13130 I just did the 2nd ship of my minecraft mod, Dutch Foods 'n Stuff! It is a minecraft mod that adds typical Dutch

Foods (snacks, etc) and other Dutch stuff. Think of stuff like: • Bitterballen • Cheese • Stroopwafels • Kale (boerenkool) • Oliebollen • *More* I even updated the mod to 1.21.9 already! You can get it now on Modrinth, where you can also view more info about the mod, such as what it adds and all recipes. (Also an "older" showcase video) Definitely give it a try! (Pleaaasee!)

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6/365: • book: color theory... honeslty i already knew it so i just threw some colors and moved on main course. so today i was at art shop and got myself some cool art supplies, wich inclued but are not limited to B2 pen, H6 pen (was intending on H3 [WHO PUT H6 IN H3 ;-;]), mecanical pencil AND CHARCOAL SET :DD (Holy shit i love it already, bit messy but worth it as black couldn't be more black, as well so fun to draw with as you can just let yourself go with the flow, HIGLY RECOMEND :DD) • Time: bout hour and half • Yap: As i said it was color theory in the book.. BUT IT'S BOORING so i decided to have fun with pencils that i just got, and IT WAS AWESOM

, and drew some random things to test em out and at the end my big days work (i think it looks cool AF

[if you don't take the perspective as i simply can't it's too hard ;-;]), so yeah was sick to draw with charcoal FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE :))

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am thinking of creating a budget recording app... honestly just because i want to learn some swift thing and also dont want to pay 10 bucks for the financing app i found LMAO

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3/365: Drawing some trees (actually one, mimic of a tree

), i am gonna be honest i haven't used color in WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYY to long so i am soo happy to see that i still have some good coloring in me :DD (used crayons since they were lying around from yesterday kek) Time: took me bout 1 podcast bout socialengineer (1hr 10min), 1 yt documentary (20min) and a bit of hard metal band logo solving vid (20min) so bout 1hr 50 mins :)) Yap: so in start i drew a tree and saw that few of the branches looked organic even, so i decided it's gonna be mimic tree :DD then drew everything using marker (took bout 1hr) then i saw crayons on my desk and had this urge to add color... so i wasted another hr just doing that

, anyways i think the end result is super cool :)) (altho i still can't draw anything human shaped ;-;)

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went to cognihacks and create a webapp called locked out with teammates! the headset isnt really working so we worked with virtual headset and simulation for the data, and worked on various different functions. i really love this team and we got to work actually on different parts of the webapp, so no merge conflicts (and conflicts) came out! i also implemented spotify control with web playback api since the normal web api auth was not working well after like 3 hours ish of testing out..? i think we are pretty close to the award since so many judges came and expressed their appreciation, but somehow the winner was someone with fake backend since no data can really be collected from the emotiv headset and how were they about to make prediction??? but whatever i love this team and i hope future hackathons as good as this one! the judge was even like "can i take a photo with your team" and asking for our linkedin

i feel so close to winning but maybe next time

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Hello guys.. I made a simple wallpaper scalper... I was out for most of the summer vacationing and just got back... all that to realize that the summer hacktime has almost ended ALREADY 😢 .. anyway I needed wallpapers for my other project and decided to work on this project as an addition to the other project.. if you guys ever wanted new wallpapers or are just wanting a slideshow of random pictures on your desktok feel free to give a try ( I have to go through verification and everything so it will be a while before I ship my project) but even in its raw state I think it works pretty well.. leave any suggestions to anything that I could fix or add github.com/TechnobladeSSM/wallpaper-scalper

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Today is so amazing,exciting and enriching. As our first time participating in a Hack Club activity, it is really a fascinating experience as we learned how to think out of the box and come out with the most crazy and useless ideas. Thank you Sir Josias for such a wonderful experience ✨. #C09CV6QDGRW|

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Pro thinking, pictured. #C09CV6QDGRW|

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i think i finished my favoritemusicbadge thing, it now supports last.fm and listenbrainz! (even made a system to try to get the favorite music from listenbrainz, then last.fm, and youtube if the first one fails) also discovered listenbrainz and last.fm while doing this and it seems very useful/interesting since listenbrainz is open source-ish and there is a vencord plugin for last.fm so people can know what im listening

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day 1 since i forgor yesterday worked more on my note taking app, i think i'll be giving up on fltk because what im trying to do isnt working, why is making a sidebar so hard in fltk? maybe im doing it wrong idk also i think i'll make a simple hash function for the summer of making ship a project this weekend thing

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Alright so received my pincil today, and i forgot the actual solder... to solder my pcb... decided to try to make the keyboard anyway, seems like iit doesnt work, at least the firmware i flashed actually worked also did more research and decided to use rgfw since it only uses software rendering (i think?) which makes it use less then 50mb (41mb) for the optimise ysws, kinda sad i couldnt figure out how to turn on software rendering on the other libraries but whatever, ii gotta code something now!

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i finally got my #C088UF12N1Z| steam grant!!!!!! i submitted it to steamworks today and going to be waiting for payment to go through

also i dont think i ever shipped my juice game so SIGNAL LOST!! (made in march.......) spent 106 hours on it! and its basically a 2d space platformer made in Godot where you are an astronaut trying to find the spaceship parts so you can rebuild it and return home. there are 4 levels, alien sky forest, cave, and city. you get around with WASD to walk around and jump and arrow keys to change the direction of gravity!! and avoid plants. also you can talk to aliens!! using E to toggle and space to lock in answer. also, you have an oxygen bar and your oxygen goes down as time passes. there are oxygen bubbles around that you need to collect or else you will die. i drew all the art in aseprite ;) hopefully y'all will be seeing this game on STEAM soon ‼️ juice.hackclub.com/games?hackerId=reczO1ixMsU7X9x9w github.com/themagicfrog/signalLost themagicfrog.itch.io/signal-lost youtu.be/xOPEmfhwQyI

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I worked on making a basic package for hypridle, hyprlock, and grimblast for alpine linux since i'm planning to switch to it (soon) Finished the text editor tutorial. Now working on the project for the optimize ysws, I think i'll make a text editor, still choosing what framework/libraries to use. (right now in go but will probably change i'm really unsure)

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Today I discovered you can call golang functions from js using WASM and pkg.go.dev/syscall/js which is pretty cool. I think I'm going to try to make some sort of interactive colourful making thingy with it! I also worked some more on the #C096T301L2G| thing and made some actually nice wallpapers I think, like this one which is supposed to be fire-y colours

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Day 8 (i think) today i ate- okay we arent doing this learned/did a tutorial about making a text editor in the command line, did the tutorial from viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo (stoppeed near the end at 7. syntax highlighting) it was very interesting and kinda surprising because i thought there would be a more complex way to edit the text but no its just stored as an array of lines that can be modified, most of the thing is actually just making it work inside of a terminal tomorrow im going to finish this tutorial/thing then i'll brainstorm some ideas for the optimise ysws

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I'm pretty sure it's day 14 - and I will do some physics later but I think today's log should be about the fact that I am watching this numberphile video so you don't have to back to -1/12 after 10 years... last time bro put shame on the entire physics community with his proof that was barely, if even, legitimate... and yeah no idk he decided string theorists were the best people to do maths realting to infinity well there's a reason string theory went off the rails WHAT WERE YOU THNKING anyway after 10 years of controversy he's back and I somehow did not know till now so uh I am watching this 👍

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today i did: • Boston trip with @afonso(fonz) , @3kh0 and @louisa • walking 🥀 🥀 🥀 • F1 racing (do NOT ever let me drive in a car vro) • Walking more i think • Uhhh Mexican food (burrito was fire ) • ~~missed the fucking escape room~~ • Arrived late • Did the scape room and almost got it (fun fact it takes more then 4 Hackclubbers to read a clock 🥀) • Walk / eat insomnia • Google store + Apple Store + Tesla • Eat Chick-fil-A :3 • I go back via train lol • also did some code at 4am 🔥 🔥 🔥

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Day ???, Spent a lot of time probably over thinking tests, but I think I'm making progress in general. github.com/zakkbob/mxguard/commits/development?since=2025-07-14&until=2025-07-14

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Made my library be in an all accessible form, a website. I have used flask to connect the library with HTML and I think it works fine. It needs a bit of polishing and fixing of some bugs, but it is a great start.

I think I might have finished my PCB, here are the images of it and the link to the repository: github.com/GlassyBridge/Keychain-PCB

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Day 2: I didn’t get much work done on the neighborhood project today. Instead, I spent my morning recording a devlog video. Then, I helped a friend with his Proxmox container setup and did some maintenance on my home lab. After that, I got a bit distracted and placed an order on JLCPCB to manufacture my old project from The Trail. I broke mine during the hike, and I wanted to show my parents what I built and keep it as a souvenir. 👀 Then, I got inspired to run a local Meshtastic node in my town and connect with another friend. I’m going to meet with him tomorrow and give him the hardware since I already have some leftover from the early prototyping of my Trail project. I don’t think I’ve shared pictures of my home lab yet, so here they are! (I took them with Project Indigo, my new favorite camera app I discovered today.)

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A few days ago, I discovered TiddlyWiki. It looks like software that's perfect for the way I'd like to take notes! Typesetting programs like Typst and word processors are good for single documents, but not for multiple linking documents like I'd prefer to take notes in. I also don't like block-based text edtiors, and I'm pretty sure this is an unpopular opinion, but I despise taking notes in Markdown, which I've noticed is used a lot by note-taking software. With TiddlyWiki I get to use the capable WikiText syntax and access the wiki wherever I bring the file, as long as it has a web browser! With a USB stick I'm able to access my wiki on any of my computers or even public computers like at the local library without downloading anything or logging into any accounts, which is great! It reminds me of MediaWiki, but I think that for a single user's notes, TiddlyWiki is a lot more practical. I also like it's customizability! Like MediaWiki, you can extend its functionality with plugins and use custom stylesheets. I've already started using both features. I wrote a plugin for TiddlyWiki which lets you encrypt tiddlers independently and by tag. The core TiddlyWiki only allows you to encrypt the entire wiki. There's a plugin with similar functionality, Encrypt Tiddler Plugin by Daniel, but in my opinion my version is more intuitive. It's also possible to have different placeholder texts set in my version! Here's the source code repository: github.com/MacaylaMarvelous81/independent-encrypt and the demo: macaylamarvelous81.github.io/independent-encrypt

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adding notifications, not a frontend dev so please give me suggestions on the notifications in the bottom right. do you think this conveys a message/notification efficiently and concisely? is the close button obvious? is the text too compact?

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I’m happy to share this HSC Cooler Website project I worked on. Check it out here: a website for my friend’s cooler shop, HSC Cooler! This site lets customers explore coolers and send inquiries directly via WhatsApp. 🛠 Tech Stack: Built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, hosted for free on GitHub Pages with a TSL certificate for security. Plus, I snagged a custom domain for just ₹506—talk about budget-friendly! 🌐 Check it Out: www.hsccooler.in This was a fun way to boost a local business while sharpening my web dev skills. I’d love your thoughts—drop by the site and let me know what you think!

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