Blog(gish) by Dan @ ritual.sh

👋 Well that was a longer break than I intended, about four months since the last weeknote.

🌐 Rebuilt my API this week using Laravel.

I built a website that eats itself.

🫐 I’ve been working on a few projects this week, but mainly the Hackberry Pi CM5. 🚀 I’ve been working on my own custom launcher for it written using Ink - react for terminal application!

🐇 This week I ended up making a static site deployment tool - avalanche , but that wasn’t the original plan… 💬 It started off with an idea that would require my own IRC server, so I set that up. 🏠️ It needed to be public, so I figured it would need a home…

🕸️ I took a little break from Tiddler and went back to another old project, a tool for scanning a website and then suggesting common IndieWeb tools and patterns - scan.fyi 📡 The technical parts were pretty simple, I had the main gubbins of a passwordless…

Most web applications ask for your email address, then store it in a database alongside your password hash, your profile, your activity history.

🎣 I am still fully consumed with building my cosy fishing game, Tiddler. 🗺️ This week I spent most of my free time fleshing out the small maps for the game to make them more interesting. 📦 I also researched a fair bit about the wild fish I didn’t know much

I’d not really had any experience with Tiled but when I found out about it, it seemed like a great choice for having quick and transferrable map editing that I could then apply into Godot.

I should preface this blog post by saying that prior to this I had no real knowledge of shaders in Godot, or shaders at all.

🌊 I started the week not knowing much about Godot Shaders.

Since actually finishing and releasing Whittler a few weeks ago I’ve been thinking hard about what kind of game I want to make next.

👾 Spent a decent amount of my spare time this week working on my next game, a cozy fishing game. 🎣 I’ve got a good number of the core mechanics in place, including: The main fishing game A day/night cycle and lunar cycle both impacting fish availability a…

My set of Badgeware badges arrived this week and I wanted to take a minute just go over unboxing and my initial thoughts.

🎮 I actually released a game!

🎮 Wrote the majority of a game engine for choose your own adventure style text based games.

🗨️ Added the ability to send and receive webmentions to the blog. ✉️ Received an actual real life email from Dan to let me know he had sent the first one and it wasn’t showing up, so I had to rush out the code to actually display webmentions, too!

This post contains large GIF files, apologies.

I’ve seen a lot of these popping up around the tech space and find them very interesting to see what tools and apps are peoples go-to for various every day things.

❄️ It’s been pretty cold and we’ve had the lightest sprinkling of snow. 🏠️ We’ve started getting the house ready to go on the market ahead of a move this year. 📱 I did a mobile pass on some of the pages on this website, it works a bit better on phones now.

Quick note: This isn’t an “AI bad” rant.

🎆 Happy New Year!

🎄 The family had a good Christmas, the kids enjoyed it and that’s the main thing!

Welcome to my Bloggish!