Announcing Tildes' Make Something Month (Timasomo) for 2023!
Timasomo is "Tildes' Make Something Month": a creative community challenge that takes place in the month of October.
This is its FIFTH year (can you believe it?!).
If you would like to participate (or simply follow along), make sure you are subscribed to ~creative.timasomo.
The Roll Call thread will be posted there on October 1st. That is where people will formally commit to projects for Timasomo.
FAQs
What is Timasomo really though?
Timasomo is a chance to create something/anything!
There are no restrictions on what you can choose to make.
The best way to get a feel for Timasomo is to check out the previous showcase threads:
These showcases are the culminating event of Timasomo -- a public gallery of participants' creations. Each item in the showcases was a project that community members chose to complete for the event.
In the weeks leading up to the showcase, discussion threads will be posted where people can share their progress.
Can I participate?
Yes! Timasomo is open to anyone on Tildes! Please make sure you are subscribed to ~creative.timasomo.
The greater Tildes community is also encouraged to participate in discussion threads even if you are not actively working towards a creative goal. This is meant to be an inclusive community event -- all are welcome!
If you are interested in participating but do not have a Tildes login, please e-mail the invite request address here for an invite to the community.
How do I sign up?
Make sure you are subscribed to ~creative.timasomo.
On October 1st, there will be a Roll Call thread. By posting your plans to participate in that thread, you have formally signed up for Timasomo!
Didn't it used to be in November?
Yes. Timasomo was originally inspired by NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month, which takes place in November.
Initially, I wanted people participating in NaNoWriMo to be able to share their work with Timasomo as well. In the entire time it has run, however, no participant has publicly submitted any work from NaNoWriMo to Timasomo. Instead, Timasomo has gained its own identity independent of NaNoWriMo.
Many participants from previous years have shared that October would be a better month for them personally, so we moved the event to October.
Also, the event was so fantastically popular that it regularly upstaged American Thanksgiving, thus we only felt it fair that Canadian Thanksgiving be targeted as well.
What are the rules?
Timasomo is self-driven and its goals are self-selected.
On October 1st, participants will commit to a creative project (or projects) that they plan to complete within the month of October.
There is no restriction on the methods/products of creativity: writing, painting, code, food, photos, crafts, songs -- if it's creative expression for you, it works for Timasomo!
Though most will be participating individually, collaborations are welcome too!
What is the schedule?
Timasomo begins October 1st and ends October 31st.
All creative output towards your goal(s) should be confined to this time.
This week prior to the start of October is for planning. There will be a few days at the beginning of November given to "finishing touches" before we have our final thread, which will be a showcase of all the completed works.
Below are the dates that I will be posting weekly threads:
Sunday, October 1, 2023: Roll Call Thread
Sunday, October 8, 2023: Update Thread #1
Sunday, October 15, 2023: Update Thread #2
Sunday, October 22, 2023: Update Thread #3
Sunday, October 29, 2023: Final Update Thread
Sunday, November 5, 2023: Timasomo Showcase Thread
Do I have to share my creation(s) publicly?
Tildes is a privacy-respecting site, and you are not obligated to share your creation here if you do not want to. We'd still love to hear about it though, if you're willing to share process and details!
Is it Timasomo or TiMaSoMo?
Either.
I personally use "Timasomo" because I think it looks cleaner and because too much time on the internet has made my brain incapable of reading "TiMaSoMo" as anything other than sarcasm, but go with whichever you prefer.
The best option, however, is “𝑻𝑰𝑴𝑨𝑺𝑶𝑴𝑶” for reasons that are self-evident.
This Thread: Planning!
Post your ideas.
Give feedback to others.
Set up collaborations.
Ask questions.
Everything in this thread is non-commital! Bounce around ideas and figure out what you'd like to do in our communal brainstorming session.
Also, please do NOT start work on your project yet! Stage setting, planning, and other preparations are allowed (e.g. getting supplies/materials, setting up workspaces, etc.), but save the creation initiation for the 1st.
Get excited for a FIFTH YEAR of awesome projects!
The ~creative.timasomo group has been created again now (and I moved this post there). I've also automatically subscribed everyone to it that was subscribed to ~creative.
I'm scared to participate honestly.
I've always failed at these kinds of zero-consequence commitments, and I feel like participating only to quit a couple of days would make me feel bad.
Still, my brain started thinking of ideas. I could write a (very small) video game, and this would help me get back into drawing pixel art. And making music as I'll need a soundtrack. It could hit all the creative spots in my brain.
Or I could be kinder to myself and just write the music, or just do the pixel art, or just do a software project without any art involved.
I'll think about it. :)
I've been kicking around an idea for a while for a text "editor" that doesn't allow you to backspace or reposition the cursor. The hope is that it will help writers who have trouble silencing their inner critic get into a flow of "doesn't matter, fix it later, just keep writing" and bash out that first draft.
When I've mentioned it to people before, reactions have been either vague interest or deep horror, so I've never really been motivated to try to put it to code. Maybe now's the time?
I actually really like this idea. You should look at FocusWriter for inspiration. Its a word processor that opens full screen and shows no UI elements aside from the document itself unless you hover near the top or bottom of the screen and comes with options like daily writing goal streak tracking and typewriter sounds to help you stay focused.
Frankly this idea would be a excellent addition to FocusWriter itself if you want to submit a PR for an existing project rather than write your own.
Building it yourself is more rewarding, but Ghostwriter actually implemented that. They call it 'Hemingway mode:
That is the trouble with internet and creative projects. Someone else has already done it. Always.
I use a similar technique when word-vomiting; to silence the self-censure, I have to make myself unable to see what I'd already written.
The way I usually do this is by shrinking a text editor to display only two lines, and putting two carriage returns between ideas.
If you were to whip up something with good usability, I'd be genuinely interested.
Honestly I would really love such a tool. Most of my writing ends up being journaling because any kind of creative writing ends up in a cycle of write-rewrite-delete-repeat. My perfectionism will be the death of me.
Gotta say, this sounds amazing. I'm a former writer who hasn't written anything in a long while and I'd use that.
Alright. Probably pushing the boundaries on the rules here, but it says there that there is no limitation on what to make. So,
I’ll make S P A C E.
My house is cluttered and in general disorder. Paperwork not filed, books flying around and things lacking a place to live or that need to leave.
(There is also a photography challenge due on the 15th that I am participating, plus I really need/want to finish my next part in a collaborative mixtape I am putting together.)
it's valid and very much in the spirit of the challenge - and frankly it's an amazing idea in my opinion. I could also benefit from some S P A C E in my life/apartment, so I'm definitely considering joining you in this challenge!
cc: @elguero, @WiseassWolfOfYoitsu
Just chiming in to say that creating S P A C E is 100% in line with the spirit of Timasomo. I love it.
Gonna make a Mary Rose-style archery leather arm guard for this one. See yall in October!
I'm at a crossroads:
One path is the "sit out of Timasomo" path. I don't want to do this, obviously, and it feels a special type of wrong to me as the person who puts on the whole event in the first place. Nevertheless, it's a practical, tempting path for a couple of reasons.
As I read through the responses here, I kept identifying different situations that people brought up that matched my own. @0x29A mentioned not having energy after their workday and workweek. @0d_billie mentioned hardly having any time in October. @arqalite mentioned their worries about participating and not succeeding. I've got a bit of each of these: I'm always exhausted but especially so this year (I've got a challenging batch of students); my October is absolutely packed with nary a free moment in sight; and I'm 2 for 4 on successfully completing Timasomos so far (a statistic I'm genuinely self-conscious about) which makes me a little gunshy on committing to something this year.
This all sounds negative, but honestly, my hesitation to commit right now is actually because I'm in a good place, albeit one that's in a particularly delicate balance. Even though I'm exhausted from work, I'm still eating right and exercising and sleeping decently well and doing all of those health-focused things that I need to do. My mood is up and stable, which is a huge and welcome change after my recent depression. Sidestepping Timasomo will, hopefully, help me keep this current balance -- one that is genuinely important in light of some of the bigger health issues I'm facing which are what are driving me to prioritize all of this so strongly in the first place.
On the other hand, there's another path that I really want to take: making a few custom beatmaps for Beat Saber. I was excited at the prospect of trying it out nearly a year ago, and I did some preliminary setup stuff for it but never actually followed through with the mapping itself. 20 years ago, I spent dozens of hours making dozens of custom DDR stepfiles for Dance With Intensity/Stepmania -- songs that then got dozens of hours of playtime out of me. I delighted in dancing to them over and over again, following the steps that I, myself, created. The idea of doing the same thing in Beat Saber is very alluring to me, and would be very fulfilling if I could see it through.
I haven't decided what I'm doing yet.
I'm going to mull it over, that timeless dilemma: balance, or Beat Saber?
I slept on this. I’m clearly overthinking it.
‘Tis better to have Timasomoed and lost, than never to have Timasomoed at all.
I’m in.
You could spin the challenge on its head and make your goal "organizing Timasomo 2023", which you're already doing. Helping others be creative, can be creative :)
I have a few projects that have been floating around to try, pondering which to do...
#2 is the one I should probably do, but #3 is so tempting and fun sounding, since it's had quite a bit of "this sounds like it should be so easy, why has no one made it before" followed up by "Oh, THAT's why it's more complicated and no one has made it before" in the couple of days since I started researching it...
wrt technical details of #3 for those curious - ARGB computer fans use WS2812B addressable LEDs and hence motherboard ARGB headers are just simple WS2812B protocol emitters. Writing the protocol is pretty easy - you can do it with an Arduino, it's emitting PWM pulses representing 0 or 1 by their width at 800khz with 50ns low blanking sections between groups. It's 24 bits RGB for each pixel in a row - the pixels are sequential, and the first once consumes the first 24 bits and uses it to light itself, then only transmits down the line after it receives its 24.
Reading the protocol, on the other hand, is a bit more complicated due to the timing involved.
So, we have established problems with the various approaches. Normally, my solution now would be "Install WLED on an ESP32 - it can already establish 10 independent ARGB lines, which is plenty for any normal PC". And I did order an ESP32 with a built in LCD intending to install it inside the case glass as a computer stats monitor panel (kind of like the one you can buy for the Ceres, but not the obscene $99 that TT charges for it, combined with their horrendous software suite). But that smells like giving up to me ;) So, potential solutions!
Broadly speaking, the solution I've been looking at involves using high speed binary countdown ICs, specifically TI CD74HCT40103E. You set it with a binary count, then it counts down to 0 and sets a pin high/low to indicate that it's hit 0. We'd be using it like something of a frequency divider, without the timing constraints of an actual frequency divider. Count up to the target number of bits, use the 0 indicator to both pause the count and enable the passthrough transistor, then use a missing pulse detector timer circuit to detect the 50ns blanking pause and reset the circuit.
Of course, things have to get at least a bit complicated - 24 bits per pixel is not a factor of two, so a naive use of the counter to do both the bits per pixel and the pixels delay counting will require Math that is nontrivial if you're wanting to do it in raw circuits while also minimizing part count. Also, the countdown timers seem to be limited to 8 bits, and I want this thing to be settable in a range of up to 32 delay bits - the per pixel delay is 5 bits, and that would be 5 bits, and 10 > 8.
So that puts me down two potential paths I'm considering for the next step, and this is where I am now (and am going to pause until October). Path A, use two countdown timers. One hard-set to 24 (or at least to eat some part of it including the div-by-three part) and the other using jumpers to set the pixels delay in binary (plus any remaining div-by-two from the previous stage if a smaller IC is used). Path B, try to use just a single countdown IC set to 24 and then use the Arduino/ATTiny to process interrupts on a per-pixel boundary instead of a per-bit boundary. Still have to deal with getting the enablement timing right, but that would be slow enough that it should be possible since most of the slowness is in setting up the edge trigger and the reaction after it happens should be reasonably prompt. It might also eliminate the need for the missing pulse detector circuit since that timing could theoretically happen internally to the microcontroller.
In theory, I find the chained counters to be a cleaner and prettier circuit, but I'm also looking at cost for the parts (since I'm wanting to put out the specs afterward so people can build their own), and the timers are a lot more expensive than bulk ATTinys... then again, this is more of a "because I want to" kind of project than a "because it's necessary" kind of project, so I guess I don't need to pay that much attention there ;)
Exciting! I haven't participated in a couple of years, and I would be keen to give it another spin this time to to try and knock out one of the (hopefully) simpler musical projects I've been toying with in my head for a while. That should be doable in theory, provided the arrangement and recording all go smoothly (unlikely, in my experience!). So I'll tentatively say I'm going to work on arranging and recording a heavy metal cover of an instrumental folky tune that I love.
Having said that, I have just looked at my calendar and I have at most 10 (and more likely 7) free evenings where I would be able to spend any meaningful time creating something. So what may result out of my TiMaSoMo is sweet fuck all. If I get to the halfway point of the month and realise I've not been able to dedicate the time to my craft I would like I plan to pivot towards researching and creating a system for maintaining more time in my life for unstructured, self-directed projects.
Either way, it should be a good month!
ah, this sounds fantastic!!
maybe i'll use this to wrap up some stuff i've got 90% written of, or work again on one of my writing projects, or do a first draft review of a completed project...
Woop woop! I love timasomo.
Last few years I've done some metalworking stuff, this year it's coinciding neatly with a slightly woodier project I've been pondering for a while. So I shall make a charging station. The area in our kitchen where all our stuff gets charged is getting out of control, both hard to use and ugly. Not to mention our old USB power station is getting a bit underpowered for modern devices. So I'm going to build a thing to hold cables, hide (updated) electronics and provide storage for both devices during charging and the assorted crap that accumulates around such things - because despite most things charging from USB there's still plenty of assorted proprietary connectors on the other end of those usb cables!
I've already got most of what I need because I've been sort of planning/putting off this for a little while before I remembered it's nearly October. However, despite buying some bits I have done nothing more than clamp some plywood to try to make it flatter. Which is something that needs doing in advance anyway.
Last night I got a little carried away and ordered some veneer, which I've never done before, and I priced up some gold wire for inlays but I suspect that's not happening because it got quite spendy quite fast. Maybe some silver or brass will be involved though, or perhaps some gilding. The design is still coming together in my head but there will be quite a few techniques I've either never done before or only done a couple of times. No sense in making things too easy, right?
Hopeful this year of finishing, and making something both practical and beautiful. Thanks @kfwyre for hosting once again!
This is such a cool project idea, mat!
Now, it's hard to beat your LAZERHAMMER™ in terms of raw awesomeness, but the homebody in me absolutely loves the much more utilitarian concept of a custom charging station. I can't wait to see how it turns out!
Thanks! I took the LAZERHAMMER (as it will now forever been known) camping this summer and it was a solid meh. Just didn't quite work. Looked and felt great but somehow didn't really gel with our camping setup. I was going to remake it for timasomo but the charging station project is more needed and also things have got a bit out of hand with the design..
This is exciting! A few weeks ago I decided to teach myself watercolor... with no previous art experience lol. I'm going to use this week to find some good beginner drawing and watercolor tutorials. I'd like to work up to urban sketching!
Any suggestions are very welcome! Classes, videos, books, techniques, anything.
Ack! Timasomo already!? I'll be working on an illustration. It'll be a lot bigger than I'm used to, and I want to try to add animated components and maybe some sounds. I'm hoping to get help from my friend who does video editing. I want to push my own skill and try to really execute my vision for this. It likely won't take all month, but I'm looking to really put a lot of time into it.
Good luck to those participating. I can only write occasionally so I really have nothing to offer myself. ^^;
Even if you're not participating in creating something yourself, it's nice for people to have someone to chat with as they post updates, as well as an eager audience for when they debut their work in the showcase. If you're wanting to participate that way, feel free. That's a valuable part of Timasomo too!
I missed last year's TiMaSoMo for various reasons and you'll be unsurprised to hear that the Big Block Tercel Project is still in the works and now that the Texas summer seems to have transitioned to false fall, it's time to get back to work on it. Been a minute since I posted and update on the Tercel as other projects took priority and some motivation was lost, but it has since renewed and two weeks back I repaired my engine hoist, mated the engine to the transmission, and put them in the Tercel. It's a big milestone and important step since the transmission is required to be in place for me to put the rest of the front suspension and upgraded brakes onto the car.
So my 2023 TiMaSoMo will be continued work on the Tercel, highly unlikely (read impossible) that it'll be running by the end of the month, but it would be nice if it was at least able to sit on the ground on it's own. Weather is not the only renewed motivation, the other is that my wife and I are planning to move out of Texas early next year and it'd be really nice if I could actually drive at least two of my three projects by that time instead of having to trailer them all.
Good luck with the move! Also, no pressure or anything (and I mean that seriously!), but I am so personally invested in your Tercel and can't wait to see what you do with it next. 😂
Thanks! I too am personally (and quite financially considering the car was free) invested in the Tercel and can't wait to see what I do next. :]
It does look like I need to go take the engine/trans back out though. Was casually going through the factory service manual for proper torque settings when I happened to flip to the clutch page that discussed the throwout bearing and I am about 70% sure I didn't actually have it installed before mating the transmission to the engine and 100% sure I didn't check first. Since it'll only be more difficult to remove later, I'm going to have to remove it to check instead of hoping and finding out later.
Two steps forward, two steps back, then two more steps forward to get back to par.
My partner and I have been discussing making a magical girl board game. I think we found one card game, but it was the wrong vibe. Several TTRPGs/modules, but we're interested in a board game. We've got some ideas for themes, inspirations, game mechanics, and a couple artists we'd be interested in working with, but it's about time we got down to the nitty gritty.
I think I'll try to participate! Just not sure how. My main thing is writing, though I'm also a bit of an amateur artist. Maybe I'll use this as an opportunity to start my idea for my "Life After Dad" comic.
A comic sounds fun - what's it about exactly, though? Not sure I understand the "Life After Dad" title.
My dad died last month. It's obviously been a rough month, though my journey's a bit different from the norm due to being neurodivergent (wrote up a long post about it already). I'm largely okay rather than actively grieving and devastated, but it's still a bit of an adjustment.
I've been playing with the idea of a light-hearted comic strip about daily life and little changes after his death. I got inspired by the fact that my dad was the cook, and my mom and I... Definitely aren't cooks. I never was, and it turns out my mom isn't as good as she thought.
I've been making a list of comic strip ideas and it's already up to 39. Just need to figure out how to draw my mom, and consider where to upload the comic.
I'm sorry for your loss. I did see your post about it, but I didn't remember the username.
It's a really interesting concept, and I would probably enjoy reading your comic - so I'm rooting for you, hope it goes well.
I had a craft project lined up last fall but I got sick and never got started. Here is my chance.
This is so cool and I'm disappointed I didn't realize this was a thing here until after I fully quit Reddit.
I'm already working on making a chess engine in Godot, but given that this is very challenging for me, I expect that it will easily still take most/all of October to finish. Anyone have any thoughts regarding whether submitting this already-started project would still be in the spirit of Timasomo? I see that "all creative output must occur during" October.
Finishing an already started project is totally fine! Timasomo's "rules" have always been loose parameters rather than rigid requirements, and I'm more than happy to bend them in any way that supports people's creative processes.
Okay! I just spent all afternoon rewriting most of the project so it will certainly take me a while haha. Glad this is a thing!
I was not terribly successful on this last year so I have two ideas, both aiming to scale back a bit:
This will be made a little more complicated by having a week of business travel as well as a family visit at the end of the month, but I am hoping to accomplish something fun without setting too high of expectations for myself.
Maybe this will be the motivation I've been needing for a programming/game design project I've been working on!
I've been procrastinating on the idea of recording and mastering any of my music. I perform almost exclusively live, but friends and family have been asking for something with some permanence.
This'll be my first year participating.
I'll definitely jump on a neglected conlanging project, but not sure which one. There are two that I'm probably deciding between:
Oh yeah! This sounds perfect. I've been dying for an excuse to make my upcoming novel into a short puzzle game (like old infocom stuff). I've been looking at Gruescript and thinking it might be a simple way to make something fun that could be shared online. This sounds like a perfect excuse to make a short game during spooky month. Thanks, guys!
I haven't been knitting since the whole... well the past year with my partner. I need to spend some time this weekend hunting down needles and yarn (I really don't need to buy more) but I think I could do a small hand warmer project or something. And it would probably be good for me
I have a number of Warhammer AoS/40k mini’s that are in various states of incompletion, this sounds like a good incentive to aim for completing one of them end-to-end.
I didn't know Timasomo was a thing, that's exciting!
I've been meaning for a while to start blogging, but always procrastinated it. I think that's the most impactful project I can commit to! I'll convert my personal website to Zola and publish four small articles in October!
I have always struggled with setting aside the time (or feeling like I have the energy) to do things I love- one of these is writing music and lyrics (if not instrumental) and recording them, or even song covers. Just, creative work in the music space in general. Maybe this would give me a bit of a motivation to do it.
I should always remember I can start small. An ambient tune, or maybe just a chorus or verse and really nail one of those down. Or a super short song, etc
Would love to release an album or more someday- with projects across multiple genres but after my workday and workweek, although I have the time, I rarely want to expend the mental energy necessary
We're in a similar boat apparently.
It's not that I don't have time, I have plenty, but I keep filling it with anything else besides music, despite me really wanting to make music. And when I do sit down to make music, I find something to distract me, or quit because I can't start a decent-sounding idea.
So far, my plan for Timasomo seems to be "just finish one song" which should be fairly achievable in a single month. I'll flesh out the details of whatever that's supposed to mean to give me some creative constraints and see how it goes.
I did try to write a house track last night to get some practice in, and it didn't go well. I spent 30 minutes making the bass only to end up hating it lol.
Yeah my issue is that I always take the path of least resistance (watching some media like podcasts, YT/Twitch, or listening to music) instead of anything that requires mental effort (creative output, reading, even video gaming). So I end up actively avoiding things I love doing, which just sounds maddening to me. The lack of mental energy makes me feel like I'm wasting years of life just unable to dig into other things I enjoy because I always can fall back on easier, more restful activity and shut my brain off.
I think my plan will be roughly the same. I'm purposely leaving what "one song" means loose for now until it starts to form into something. It could be a 2 minute simple instrumental track, or a simple ambient track, or even a song cover if I really struggle with original writing- as a last resort. Just going to try to put myself behind my instruments and give things the proper time and space a chance to start forming on their own and see where it leads me.
re: the house track you started on- I don't see spending 30 minutes on a bass line you don't end up liking as a bad thing- I think the success was in the creative process, not necessarily the end result- think about any musician really- for all the musicians that release 5-10 songs- imagine how many hundreds of parts, recordings, attempts, etc never got used- it's all a part of the process. by figuring out what you don't want or like to create, you're just honing what you do want to create
I guess my issue is that I don't know what I want/like to create. I listen to and enjoy so many different types of music, from classical to pop to electronic/dance to hip-hop/rap, so I feel like focusing on one genre means I won't learn to make the others, and trying to fuse them all leads nowhere because that's a complex task.
Also I feel like I don't know how to learn from my failures. When I make something I don't like, I don't know why I don't like it - I just don't like it, close the DAW and go do something else, so I don't leave with any kind of takeaway/learning opportunity from that session. I should probably learn to do some analysis on that - figure what makes me cringe exactly, and note that down so I can focus on it. (i.e. I don't like how the drums and the bass sound together - focus on mixing and sound/sample selection, or something like that, I don't have any idea)
I think over time you can hone that. I used to hate almost everything I created, but over time I slowly had some breakthroughs where I was like "oh, but i do like this" or I would record something, listen to it back and wouldn't have that cringe response (which I used to have for anything I recorded, especially vocals). I'd still be incredibly self-critical, but my ears would actually go "oh... actually this isn't half bad"- and as critical as I am - I figure if even I don't hate it, maybe that means less-critical others would like it? Who knows, haha
Usually I just tweak things to all hell until I get something I can start jamming / banging my head to, or something that just has a really nice texture or sound. Just huge experimentation, over and over again- instead of stopping when I don't like something (though guilty of that too sometimes).
I have a similar genre issue- in that, I want to write music in multiple and very different genres (synthwave, metal, rock, acoustic/singer-songwriter, piano, synthwave, ambient/electronic....etc) as different and separate projects, but not being able to focus that down makes it hard for me to really narrow what I'm working on because I have such a hard time choosing! But I prefer to go that route instead of fusing or combining them, generally. Keeping them separate at least allows me to really (once I choose one), narrow my focus into it more
Yeah, I've been reading Jason Timothy's "Music Habits" and he basically says I need to allow myself to suck for a while, otherwise my perfectionism will keep me staring at an empty DAW.
EDIT: Ironically I managed last night to start an idea I actually don't hate. It's just a loop right now, so here's hoping I can expand it into a song?
I made a thing this week.
I finally overcame my fear of front end development and wrote a typescript / react / electron app - a web app packaged for windows users to solve a problem I had at work, it was very simple and only took a few hours, but it was useful and I already saved time using it.
Using electron-builder I could easily make something I can share with other colleagues too!
Side note - how do I subscribe to things on tildes?
In a group/subgroup (such as ~creative.timasomo) click/tap
Subscribein the sidebar. If you seeUnsubscribeinstead, that means you’re already subscribed.Deimos automatically subscribed everyone in ~creative to ~creative.timasomo when he opened the subgroup, so if that’s what you were asking about, you might already be subscribed and not need to do anything extra.
I messed up last year with a four-track EP plus art, and got half-way through. I've got a concept I'm working on for this time around, and some gear to work with that'll streamline composition, so I'm thinking of a two part EP that deals with my discomfort with large dark objects. I'll probably do some sort of vector-based art for the "cover," a picture to convey the concept/feeling, and go from there.
I'm thinking of constraining myself to two objects for the music: My Analogue Pocket with LSDJ and my Dirtywave M8. The M8 will render directly, and I've already got a process for the Analogue based on what I've done with GameBoys. The challenge, I see, is going to conveying space with a GameBoy, basically, but with the Pocket's option for lower-impedence output it adds the low-end I would need as well, and tracker magic will likely handle the rest.
I've been coding as a hobby on and off for many years. Came out of a bad state last week, my head felt clearer and I started writing code again. This time it's for a simple game.
Economic/incremental, written in Haxe. Text-only output, keyboard-only input. There will probably be a hex/square grid, rendered via characters on a console. Solely focused on code, I don't have to bother with art (for Timasomo. I'll try to keep the logic easily separable from the rendering so it can be moved to a graphics framework in future). I want to extend my old text rendering module to support the game.
I wasn't sure about joining Timasomo when I first saw the thread. Part of the hesitation was because I wasn't sure if I wanted to continue with the project, let alone commit to it for a whole month. But I like the momentum of the last few days and I think I want to keep it going. So I'm cheating and my project actually started a few days early.
I'm also hesitant about putting myself out there, no one else has seen my personal code projects before. But I isolate too much and hopefully this is a step towards breaking that habit. And hopefully also work through (or at least identify more of) my difficulties with writing code consistently, not overthinking and working with large projects.
I can't decide! I have so many things I want to do but I know I might not end up finishing them. I have so many different kits, if I worked with one of them, does that count? Like a punch needling kit. That sort of thing. Not something particularly original.
But I'm also thinking of building a cat house out of all the cardboard boxes and random materials I have. I've got a new cat and I remember building one for my childhood cat as a kid and that was fun.
The challenge would be to only use materials I already have. So it might look shoddy but that's kind of the whole point. I kind of wanted to find ways to recycle.
Also, The cat won't care about aesthetics. Haha.
The other thing I'm thinking of doing is to watercolour or acrylic paint something. I've not touched it in so long.
I'm currently working on a React SPA that would've been perfect for this, but I have some finishing touches to make on it that might take about another week, and I don't want to put off finishing this to work on something else.
That said, I really want to do this!! So I'm gonna tentatively say that I'll build something else, although I'm not sure what that would be yet. A couple options are:
Or maybe I'll think of something else and do that instead!
Please label as 'Noise' once seen/fixed, but I think there's a little typo in the FAQ "What are the rules?":
Good eye! It’s now fixed.