Now

I stopped drawing daily, and I ran out of immediate ideas for tech-no “gag cartoons.” I’d like to get back into the “regular” drawing habit, but without a clear goal, that’s been harder to motivate.

Finished watching seasons 1 and 2 of “Spy Family” with my daughter. Started “Komi Can’t Communicate” with her.

Started watching season 1 of Pantheon, which is good so far.

Still hoping to write more, and build more of a portfolio. Would also like to put more “artistic” stuff, gag cartoons, stories, on another domain.

Previously …

In other news, 2025 came and I have some “Don’t Break the Chain” goals, which has led to me wanting a basic app for tracking this stuff. I already had a need for a little custom tracking app, and I think I can shoehorn “chains” into it easily enough. The only problem is that the app is non-inspiring to write, and I’m too curmudgeonly to let an LLM build it…

2025-02-18: I never got around to building out this app. I have kept one streak alive, and the other one is dead.

Underploy sort of took a back seat in spare time computing projects, and a conversation at work sparked my interest in compiling to Go, again. Long ago, I played with compiling Scheme to Go, and it was too ambitious compared to my interest level. I fear this new idea will have the same fate…

2025-02-18: I wrote a very basic statically typed language and compiled it to Go. It sparked my interest in exploring something bigger, though the increased scope is making it harder to stay motivated on it. I should probably take a different approach to this once more.

Now-ish

2024 sparked an obsession with linocut. Still hoping to carve and print a Mickey Mouse piece that I drew.

Underploy is going well and I’ve identified a number of ways to meet my goal of really small, but useful as a bootstrapping language. And by bootstrapping, I don’t mean “OS,” I really mean bootstrapping projects written in Underploy that requires only a C compiler, rather than some other interpreted language. My efforts to play around with SML solidified this need.

– Last Update: 2025/02/18