Ask Lemmy

There are two big ones at the moment. The first is that I made my own cyberdeck, and I even have an assembly animation for it:

https://dalek.zone/w/oSAxetbgfQBrYHTgz4AXLB

It took me several months and two iterations. But I'm very happy with the end result. It could use some more tweaks, but it's been working well so far.

The second is that I've more or less completed a multi-player video game called Sunken Barrels:

https://codeberg.org/Sir_Thominick_IV/Sunken_Barrels

Just like my cyberdeck it could use some polish, but again I'm very proud with the result. It is fully playable, it's fun, and it fills the nostalgia from the original Garry's Mod game its based on.

made a concrete sidewalk on the side of my house… 67 concrete bags mixed with a drill and attachment

I’m a musician. I’ve been in a lot of bands, but I’m especially proud of all the music I’ve released as a solo artist for the past 5 years.

If my contribution counts, then my daughter. That was mostly my wife’s making, though. But I’m pretty damn proud of that.

Aside from that, in my last year of high school I had a composition project for music class. After handing it in, the teacher said it was the single best submission he’s ever received and asked me if he could pull some strings for me to get into a composition program at a fairly prestigious music university. I had other plans so I declined the very generous offer, but last I heard he still uses my composition as an example to his students for what the project is capable of.

Kids' memories. Well, they were kids then but adults by now. I had to plan a monthly adventure/field-trip for an after school program aged k-3rd grade. We toured the inside of a telephone exchange where the employee guide explained to the kids that every phone in town had two wires connected to the the massive room they were viewing. They went through a bunch of details about batteries, electricity, and phones -- and most of it may have gone over the kids heads, but the size and scale of all those wires had mouths agape.

We had some other good adventures like finding our own fossils and growing seeds, and each seemed to spark interests in different kids. I don't have pictures and I don't know how the kids turned out, but judging by their reactions, I feel certain tiny brains formed new connections on those outings even if that spark event has been forgotten.

My kids

I made a DaaS product https://kaleh.net/trace. A lot goes into it:

• endpoint location
• transformation of records into canonical model
• storage/indexing
• WWW html & copy
• Billing integration
• the whole thing

It took awhile to plan out and develop, but I am proud that it exists and that I have subscribers. Now that I have a dataset, I am working on other product offerings atop that dataset.

I grew a small weed grow into a large weed factory, during the times where you could still go to jail for doing so! Always follow your dreams kids and shoot for the stars.

The folder of abandoned novels I have on my desktop

I really wanna finish them sometime but in the meantime I think trying to write something has helped me understand myself and the people they were influenced by a bit more. Also one of them was a SciFi novel and I learned a few fun facts about Saturn while writing it

I took a massive dump this morning and I’m not flushing it until my wife has a chance to look at it.

A mod for a game, despite its updates taking a while, and a few programs (even when company leadership called it bad despite customer loving it and loving working with me).

I fixed a Y2K bug.

I was tasked with making a backup solution for this company and during it I learned about piping over ssh and I was just giddy over the solution. Main server was backed up to disks on a remote server that also acted as the hardware backup. Like a 5 min disaster recovery. It was mac to which was kinda at what would be the height of mac stuff to me. While they still had a rack server offering.