In a comment I’ve made a little bit ago, I mentioned that I was tasking myself to discover music that was played on an old radio program that I listened to from the 2000s. And it is looking to be a lot more prolonged and tedious than I had thought. I’ve been able to find a program that has done an amazing job at removing the host’s voices to where, I can’t tell where they start or stop talking, I get hints that there were points of voices being there, but it’s non-existent.
I’ve tried before in the past to use Audacity, but being that all recordings were done in Mono and not Stereo, no matter what I tried, the voices would still remain. So now that hurdle is done with, the next task is to go through all 139 episodes and all episodes average 1 hour to 2 hours. That’s a long time if you’re doing radio or podcasting, it’s a lot of talking to do. Then it’s a matter of listening back and forth at one points certain songs begin and end, marking times to point them out with.
I might pick out some standout favorites, episodes that contained the most songs that I would have wanted the most from them. Then once all of that is figured, the next course of action is to clean up the sample audio, because most of these episodes were recorded in Mono so there’s going to be a lot of distortion and muddiness.
Then once all of that is done, the next challenging task is, actually finding someone who’ll be able to identify what is played. I don’t know electronic/techno music too well, I’m not entirely familiar with artists outside Daft Punk, Celldweller, 3Teeth and Pendulum to name a few. The only thing that sortof helps narrow things down is that they were all played on DI.FM at the time, so it may or may not help.
From there, it’s just hoping I find them out there online.
It’s a big project, but I’ve listened to these episodes for 18 years now and what kept me coming back to them besides nostalgic purposes, was the music played in them that never got identified.
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I’m saving up for a new gaming machine and/or a mini pc. I have a Mac mini right now, but I’m mostly done with Apple since Tim Apple keeps bootlicking drumpf. So I’m looking to get back to Linux. Plus with all this fucking age verification shit, I wanna go to Linux since that may be the last bastion of freedom.
Anyway, it’s gonna take me a long fucking time. But I want to do this
I’m making a graphic audiobook for my novel. I’m close to finishing recording all lines with the voice actors and I’m now assembling all of the 20 chapters together. I’ve been working on this since October so I guess you could say it’s a major project.
Any teasers you’d share?
This is the cover art for chapter 0
After the non interest of my (revolutionary!) P2P project, I’m just building a “slow game”, 12 action points twice a day to go do quests and slay dragons 'n stuff.
It’s up and running, gotta hone out some stuff and finalize the first months of quests before putting it live (maybe a beta-run first) to see if there is any interest.
I made a free esoteric knowledge app for android. It’s named Baba Yaga. It has tarot, runes, astrology and some shamanic guides.
Currently I’m in the progress of reworking visuals to look better, after which my goal is to add herbs and dream symbols.
I started a visual novel game. I have no idea what I’m doing but I’ve gotten really into it. The characters are really starting to grab me.I guess I’ll need to learn how to do digital art when the script and logic is done.
New campaign in my D&D world.
700 years ago the moon fell and devastated the land.
This island in particular almost split in two entirely, and a minor god died in the process of saving it.
Now the characters are sent on a mission to prevent a war by destroying one side of the land. In the process they may uncover how they are being used, by who, what really happened back then, who the god was, and the real danger to the lands.
Or they can just do what they were told and blow stuff up… except one character is a secret agent hoping to destroy the other side if it comes to that.
I finished Microtonal music grid :
https://newdawnowl.itch.io/microtonal-gridIt’s a step sequencer that lets you play in arbitrary scales, and arbitrary even temperment music systems, and it’s so simple to use a child could do it.
I finished a bill database manager in django. It sounds fancy but you just choose where a file is and where you want it to go, or where a file is, and say how much the payment was and why it was done. It’s to help manage tax returns or the like. I made it very, very simple on purpose.
I’m working on a spending tracker, in django again, and trying to create an android app that can scan receipts so you can send data from pictures you take into it. I’ve got the DB running, I’ve got the android app sending data into a placeholder in the DB, and the next step is to create some adjustments to the android app so that you can clean up and structure the text into decent entries and put them into the db that way.
I need to clean up the microtonal grid codebase, put the bill db manager on my personal server, and start recording videos for publicity and code breakdowns and demos etc so I can build some kind of publicity arm.
I’m just out here surviving. Who has time, energy or money for projects?
It’s a little shocking to read about successful people who apparently have 36 hours in a day and don’t sleep. I can’t figure out where the energy comes from and how they do everything in such compact periods of time.
I have been working on myself and somehow improved my mental health a bit through reflecting, journaling, talking openly with my close ones and a bit of therapy.
On a technical side I have been redoing the architecture of my home lab without it ever working before. My end goal is pangolin on my vps, a dmz, a vpn net, opnsense firewall vm, authentik and the of cause all my services. I am working backwards as I want to build a functional base so my buddy can deploy services again if he wants to, using authentik finally. Its a journey. It can be exhausting but to be honest I rely on llms writing boiler plate or example ansible configs for me to take off quite some load. It speeds up the process quite nicely.
My other project I am working on is a light controller software based on a steam deck that is supposed to work like the robe robo spot follow spot system. Most of my backend is done, I need some redesign of how data flows but basically its only the output layer that is missing. Its a huge project and I am learning soo incredibly much about software architecture and software engineering. I am very grateful for my prof that he sometimes takes time to help me rethink my architecture.
I saw a few people about how they find it overwhelming that so many people work on stuff. Donr be hard on yourself. We only portrait here what we choose to. My server project just crossed the 2 year mark. It tales time to learn and learning is exhausting. Some people don’t like working on a project for this long wich is fine. Some people find life exhausting wich is also fine. I have a few privileges in life that makes it easier for me and also enjoy working more than social life which can be tough mentally as well. Also, if you find stuff interesting, just dip your towes in. No one expects anything of you. I often find myself having 2-4h more energy a day than expected, specially if I like the topic or project.
“Working on” is a pretty hazy definition at the moment.
My three biggest projects (finishing an aircraft for X-Plane, programming a minimalist word processor, and working on what will hopefully be a pixel game similar to Panzer General) were all functionally tanked when my desktop died. I could still do little things here and there on my underpowered laptop, but for all intents and purposes, I’ve been hamstrung for about four months now.
Finally picked up a new/used computer and just have to work through a few more glitches to get it up and running.
If you do that little pixel game, HMU if you need a tester!
And get a backup 😱 even a thumbdrive is a good start!
Oh yeah…it’s all backed up. That’s not a worry. Just don’t have a computer powerful enough for 3D modelling, or editing at the moment. So all I can do is write code and hope that when I put it together with the 3D it actually works (it won’t, because honestly I’m pretty terrible at coding but I refuse to vibe it.)
What’s your PC? I mean I made computer games in 3D 25 years ago!
PC is nothing until I can get the parts in to get it running.
Everything at the moment is being done on a 4gb Chromebook that I’ve wiped and installed Linux onto. It’s surprisingly capable in a lot of ways, but not capable enough to do more than some very basic blender modelling.
Oh that males sense, good luck!
My car’s suspension is currently a pile of old parts below it and new ones in boxes. Trying to be slow and methodical, but it’s daunting. I wanted to do one piece (pair) at a time to assess improvement, but I don’t have the time anymore. So instead, it’s all one long project of aprts amassed across 4 years. Probably going to total over 2 weeks of sitting. Really minor in the grand scheme of things, especially when lensed as a true project car, but this was my weekend car and even my daily for a year, so it’s hard to see that perspective.
But the golden lining is that it means I feel comfortable enough with my other transportation that I can lay this one up for a while.
Suspension work is not my favorite, but depending on what it is, it may be not too bad. The proper tools make a huge difference.
