leila

oops the project is almost entirely down

i made a few scripts that scraped the usenet archive at usenet.trashworldnews.com, sanitize it, and make a directory that includes the id’s and header information of every thread. then i used the Bubbletea lib (which is the only reason why this project is in Go) to make a relatively simple UI for it, and i even got my CS teacher to help me figure out how it would’ve actually looked back then! then i just added a start screen and instructions, color highlighting for both of them, and i’ve just added a screen that runs when undersized to prevent a crash. lastly, i spent some time (A LOT OF TIME) getting the ssh app set up with Wish! its already available by running ssh 0.tcp.us-cal-1.ngrok.io -p 19597 !!!

i got rejected :(
it was actually very reasonable though, my linux executable was straight up missing raylib, the library the whole project depends on. for whatever reason i disregarded the fact that raylib is not installed on every linux machine and that i’d need to compile the project statically. now, after spending a couple hours manually making an AppImage, i have a working linux executable! i also needed to update my readme, which now has significantly more information than before (it had the name and description)

It’s done! I’ve added a menu screen at the start with instructions, a 30 second timer, and the logic that brings you back to the menu when you’re finished and shows you your score, accuracy, and high score. Don’t think I’m gonna add anymore, so that’s it! thank you for coming to my ted talk :3

My sibling recently reminded me of Lumosity again, and I remember really liking Ebb and Flow. Unfortunately, Lumosity is almost entirely paywalled, so I could only (have a chance at!) playing the game tomorrow. Instead I grinded within a day and coded most of the game! It has leaf textures (that I drew with an image of the real one side by side) and all of the games logic working completely, including score counting and a minor green or red background flash depending on if you got the answer correct or not. All that’s left is a menu and a timer and I’ll be done!