June started with preparations for vacation and then vacation itself. 3-day Rock im Park in Nürnberg, a quick trip to Dortmund (not the best time here as they were preparing for the Euro Cup), and finished trip in Helsinki.
Week at home, and here we go again: a new trip, this time to Arsenal Fest in Kragujevac.
Besides this: meetings with friends, cinema, stand-up in English, etc…
I have a multilingual blog, and most of the time it was Russian by default. Once I switched it to English, but soon after, I reworked the whole concept and reverted things back. And now I’ve done it again.
PICO-8 is a virtual machine and game engine created by Lexaloffle Games. Games are written based on LUA language, you can play in browser or natively. “Cartridges” are png-files.
The most important difference in development is the token limit (8192). Tokens are variables, operators, etc. Thus, developers often have to be creative, plus the games are short (if they are not roguelikes).
Only Parkway Drive is the same as last year (by track). Top Artists has become more towards metal (metalcore in particular). Top Songs still consists of tracks I’ve been playing on repeat.
From July 12 I started to film year movie. It was an idea in the my mind corner for a some time. I knew about all these “1 Second a Day” movies, and Timur Zarudny constantly mentioned his movies (he’s been shooting since 2013). He even released a course (as newsletter), but then 2022 happened, popular mailing services left Russia, and only recently Timur relaunched his course. I thought about purchasing for a few hours, then paid for it. I wanted something new and interesting.
There are several formats of such movies, the most well-known is to film one second each day, which I already mentioned. I think, it’s the simplest one, with numerous apps available to ease the process of shooting and editing.
Initially, I planned to do the same, but I also made a 2-second version for comparison. And after getting some feedback from my friends I decided to stick with this format. There are multiple episodes on some days, so the rules are flexible. The limitation helped maintain a rhythm and reduced editing complexity.
Unfortunately the stats are only from September, as I had to change my account. But I’m very surprised by Top Songs - yes, I listened to those tracks on repeat, but it seemed like some others I listened to more often.
I recently noticed that the demo site for my Hugo theme Anubis is disappeared from Hugo Theme catalog. At first, I thought the script fails and the demo site would be there on the next update.
It didn’t happen. But I found one theme with an enabled Demo button, checked it, and discovered a new parameter in theme.toml config - demosite.