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I thought I figured out where in memory to store my code so that nearby keys don’t break. People on the internet said saveSScreen is a good buffer with nothing using it, and it did seem to work! I was able to call up a test menu when F5 is pressed (albeit with some visual bugs)!
Until I ran chi-square in my bio class and my calculator froze completely. I’m just glad it wasn’t during a test.

Last-minute touchups and bug fixes before shipping! I also added a 404 page.

Added high contrast mode!

Learned about accessibility guidelines (aiming to meet at least WCAG AA standards), added a skip link and various alt text!

Added a couple of stylistic stuff (visible markdown syntax on some headers - using a different font because the # sign on IBM Plex Mono is lowk kinda horrendous for this purpose), fixed a few visual bugs in blog pages, and added a new page for project items without links. I think if I don’t force myself to ship soon I’ll be making little edits forever.

Made cool footnotes and sidenotes! Footnotes for short pages, sidenotes for longer blog posts.

Spent way too long changing the font and deciding the colors. I changed from Courier New to IBM Plex Mono because Courier New was kinda hard to read for long paragraphs. I also experimented with various background shades of beige until they all looked the same.

This is a project I’m resuming that’s about ~70% done I think. I made a minimalist page and it technically has all the content I need? The dark/light theme took a while to get (still not fully smooth in the contact form iframe) - it’s the only feature that needs javascript.

Remaining goals: make website more accessible, change font/styling of website to be more readable, finish projects and about page

I floundered around with assembly and hooks before figuring out that I need to use a combination of a GetKeyHook and a system flag for the alpha key modifier to detect F5! And broke the emulator lots doing it (as seen in the pics).

Some blunders I’ve had:

• Trying to use the two other types of hooks (RawKeyHook, GetCSCHook) instead
• Trying to make a menu hook for F5 (it looks like a menu… and acts like a menu… but isn’t classified as a menu for the purposes of hooks.)
• Mixing up include files and assemblers (eventually settled on ti84pce.inc and SPASM)
• Trying to make an interactive menu with display text

Thank you so much to this one french guy from a calculator forum in 2015 who had a working calculator-wide shortcut key that saved me from hook purgatory

Note: I have 8+ unlogged hours on this;; because SPASM doesn’t work with a mac and I don’t know how to set up hackatime with docker containers.

I’m working on my first project! This is so exciting. I can’t wait to share more updates as I build. :D