Making Things and Sipping Juice

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The day’s coming to an end (okay, actually, it’s like 12:30 at night, it’s been over), and I’ve done a lot. In my last post I talked about spending all of my free time over the course of 24 hours making a function that pushes my blog posts to Mastodon. Well, after all of that, I went to bed, woke up, and started on something new …

Almost half of my day was spent fixing and upgrading the haxPunks page on this website.

Basically, I noticed that the image modal was not only opening within its parent div (main), but also producing a scrollbar WITHIN that div, and it was very clunky and bad looking. So, the goal was to figure out a better way to do it. And then I stumbled into problems, where I had a position set in one of the CSS elements, and because of that one freakin’ thing, the modal would not stop opening and showing on page load.

This also looked bad.

And it took me HOURS to notice what I did wrong.

But I fixed it.

And I got the modal functioning correctly.

And I formatted it to work nicely on mobile (I think).

Then, it was done.

After that, I took a look at what is now the Second Life page, and decided to delete everything I’d written in there, and made something new. It showcases my store, and then my land. No big story about where I came from, where I’m going, how things went wrong, and where we’re at now.

Just the stuff that currently exists. Which is good, I think. So people don’t have to read a history book about why I’ve done what I’ve done, and what my goals are.

But I wasn’t finished after that. I needed to do more.

I took to Gimp, opened OBS, and recorded my process of making a haxPunk, and then uploaded the video, plus the result (to the haxPunks page). Yes, you will notice in the video there’s a “generative” layer, and that’s entirely because this is a PSD from when I was still subscribed to Photoshop, and totally innocently looking at what exactly the feature did (lol).

But, here’s that video:

And here’s the punk:

As you can probably tell, I’ve modeled this one after the current version of my Second Life avatar, and I think it turned out pretty neat.

I’ve been making these things since before I said, “Wait a minute, NFTs are stupid.” But the thing is, I enjoyed the process of making them so much, that even after exiting the whole “NFT” thing, I wanted to keep making them. I’ve had these going for a long time, and I want to make hundreds of them. Just for fun.

Lately, that’s pretty much the reason I do most things. On my website, on Github, or through Python on my VPS. I just enjoy doing this stuff!

If at some point I happen to get paid to do any of it, hey, that’s awesome (please pay me to do these things at some point oh my god please).

Just kidding

… unless?