Thursday, 26 February 2015

I'm not dead

Although anyone who stumbled upon this blog could be forgiven for thinking it had been abandoned that is not the case. What I have is an acute case of procrastination-itis. A condition most expressed in my hesitancy to upload content to the internet. Working out what is suitable to be publicly accessible (in theory) to absolutely anyone gives me a crisis of confidence. Hence why I only end up posting when I have an tangible piece of code to share.

That isn't to say that I have much pride in what I post! Due to my kludge of putting Javascript source code in blog entries they often break when viewed on a page all at once, only working when viewed separately. My mess of a site brings me great shame, so much so that I have stopped posting code to it as I know it will remain messy. Doing the hardwork of debugging my method of presenting programs is not an appealing task.

Because the biggest irony is that while I haven't posted code I have been busy on all kinds of little projects. Some of which I am super proud of and deserve to be given the polish to be presented here. To give a few examples
  • A terrain generator with simple climate and rainfall model which gives names to each island.
  • Von Neumann's Universal Cellular Automata in Space!
  • 3D models built from scratch in WebGL
  • Virtual builder bots who terraform their surroundings into anthill-like pyramids.
  • A goddamn scale model of the Universe
There is all this cool stuff that I am proud of but it has never made the crucial jump from my hobby programming folder to a better platform for it. This is not to mention all the interesting things I have been up to and would love to write about.

But without a clear goal of updating I have let a whole year pass without putting anything up here. It can be rather grim considering the implications of this. By limiting my interactions to offline friends only I am missing out on a whole host of opportunities to share and learn about my hobbies. It is really difficult to remain enthused about a project when I don't share it with others.

So in summary this post is simply to state that I am still alive and intend to bring new content to this blog. I'm pretty certain the internet being the way it is nobody I don't tell about this place will ever find it. I still want a place to be able to easily share projects with friends though.

I want there to be a content post up here before the end of the week. 

Wednesday, 29 January 2014

Tetris

I wanted to try making a really simple game over the holidays and tetris fit the bill.

Saturday, 27 July 2013

Space RTS game

Wednesday, 27 March 2013

Roguelike

Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Cellular Automata V0.2

Saturday, 9 March 2013

Cellular Automata V0.1

Implementation of Conway's Game of Life

A rather early look at what I've been programming recently. A Cellular Automata like Conway's Game of Life.
Its not much at the moment save something to look at but I've got some great ideas of things to do with it. I'm putting this online just to show that I haven't stopped coding completely.