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What creative projects have you been working on?
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My daughter tore an (unintentional) hole in her favorite overalls. I wanted to try and mend them, but I wasn't confident I'd be able to do it in a way that wasn't obvious, so I decided to just do the exact opposite and make it decorative instead.
I think it turned out pretty nice, and while I was at it I did some backstitching around the edges of the hole that was already in the knee to keep it from tearing like this again quite so easily, or from fraying further. All in all I was pretty pleased with how the whole thing turned out!
That’s super fun! It adds quite a bit of character.
I must admit I cracked up when I clicked on the photos and realized there was also an intentional hole in the overalls (justifying the clarification in the first sentence). Thanks for posting!
I'm not sure if this counts but I've been trying to figure out how to add brushes of art and fantasy to my forum and blending that fantasy flavor into modern web design. An example would be here where I'm using a custom frame for a hover profile avatar: https://imgur.com/a/silenced-MpGx135.
It's very tricky to do well because modern design has a certain preference for functional UX, bigger fonts, less crowding, and flexible layout while art doesn't easily fit into that.
If anyone has ideas, I'm all ears.
This is something I'm interested in as well. I'm a longtime contributor to the homebrewery which is an app for creating TTRPG content, historically geared towards D&D stuff but not exclusively so.
Using a web platform and html/css to create what is ultimately "print" materials is tricky because of the differing goals for output: responsiveness vs static print. The typical solution is to print to PDF and then share the PDF. But a lot of users just want to share a link to their Homebrewery document directly, rather than sending PDFs around, and most readers likely want responsive documents rather than pinch zooming and panning around a PDF meant for a US Letter Page rather than a mobile screen.
One thing that will help is the newer
shape()function that can be used in some CSS properties, as well as the cutting edgeborder-shapeproperty. These will make it easier to have non-rectangular elements, and have them stretch at certain flexible points in a frame while keeping other elements absolutely positioned relative to other points.Also, you can check out the Game UI Database and other similar collections of how video games handle things.
I've never heard of Homebrewery or Game UI Databases - thank you for both, super useful!
For my forum I've decided just to not do mobile cuz its way too much work but it is hyper responsive on desktop. I really like how Homebrewery looks and I think I want to study it a bit deeper to see if I can thank some design cues. For example currently I have just regular headings 1, 2, 3 and maybe for style its more fun do the tall first letter capital style + a line. I want to optimize both for a great reading experience but also fit a lot of words on the screen. Should add that my editor is not mark down its node-based so gotta consider how to design new inline blocks well so they stay performant for serialization and rendering.
Been working on music (and digital art / covers / etc to go along with it). As always, multiple unfinished projects, but have actually made decent progress on some which is tough for me to do. Different projects in different genres, and lots of unpursued ideas too.
Trying to decide if I'm going to resurrect my "music recommendations" blog which has been on hiatus for like a year now. I might speedrun catching up on that year and make a massive "recs from the hiatus" post, not sure yet.
this all sounds awesome! i hope you post it here on tildes when you finish!
i appreciate it! if you want to hear a sample of the latest track i'm working on, it's available to listen to here. this one is a bit more death/doom inspired than the rest of the tracks i've worked on so far
this is dope! thanks for sharing. looking forward to hearing it all together!!
thanks!!! :)
I know there’s like four days left on this thread.
But I was writing stuff recently. And I thought I’d see how LLM’s would help with it. Especially since it’s been revealed that almost every working writer uses it to some degree. I’ve used all of the main ones. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok. They all have their specific weaknesses, but they all have the same issue.
They’re really bad at giving feedback, identifying problems, and coming up with suggestions. Supposedly what the writer’s that use these do is have AI give you a setting or a situation to happen next. I think this is the worst use of it because the situations are always terrible. Don’t even get me started on the dialogue it’ll throw in. The scenes are always too fast, don’t build up enough, and misconstrue whatever themes you’re getting at.
The feedback it gives is completely overpraising. Whatever “weaknesses” it identifies seems to be randomly chosen. I’ve even done a thing where I’ve uploaded a script, and also uploaded feedback I got from a human, and tell it to evaluate the script based on that feedback. And it completely misunderstands what the human feedback was getting at.
The only useful thing I’ve found is that it makes it easier to do research. Like asking it to show you an example of how to write something in a technical way, as in how to do that on the page, it can show you how to do it. Or if you want to know how the inside of a building you’ve never been to looks like, you can do that too. Before LLM’s I would spend much longer googling a lot of that stuff. That being said, I think going the longer way will result in something better than relying on what an AI is telling you.
I do think the writing I completed with the help of LLM’s is pretty weak. And I’m not like a super strong writer either, but I think it makes you go down certain paths that you would otherwise avoid. And then when you try to fix it, you have to fix the fundamentals of the story just for it to flow in a more sensical manner.
I have been on vacation for the past week and a half, with the first week being spent camping in the mountains. Especially on vacations, I leave my phone behind and carry my camera around instead. So now I am starting to sort through the pictures I have taken. One thing I have started to get pretty good at is taking pictures while riding my bike, so have some nice pictures from that which will be fun to edit.
Continuing to practice soft pastel painting with some fruit & veg as well as a proper little still life scene. Also tried bolder lines and colors with this fish head piece. I want to try out larger paper next and paint something big. I really like the strong marks you can achieve with pastels, but I feel like I'm losing some of that texture by working small. Only problem is I draw on a sliver of counter space that can't accommodate a big sheet of paper, so I need to reassess my working area. Maybe a standing easel? Anyone here have experience with easels that can be packed away when not in use?
My wife and I have been working on landscaping our small property slowly between work, life and whatever. We have enlisted help from our neighbors and workmates, but we've hit a couple big milestones recently. A free to me pile of bricks from work became a 4.5m^2 patio and after deleting some hedging, we have some trees being delivered to go along the driveway and next to the brick patio. We are planning a tall garden with hops, wisteria and honeysuckle to go between the boundary with our neighbors.
It's taken good thought and planning but the hardest part was really just free time to get it done. (I had two pallets of bricks in my yard for 4 months...) Once we completed the first bit of framing and built up the fill material to level for the bricks, it quickly just completed itself. This led us into knocking out the tree prep and now waiting(dreading?) the start of our interior renovations. Thankfully these are being completed by professionals but that has its own issues.