Projects I'm working on

20250321

While drinking my favorite energy drink brand, who I will not explicitly say in the hopes that they don't care enough to yell at me,
I acknowledged that I really like the colors they use for their cans. From what I can find, there's not really an explicit list of what these colors are,
but through hard work, determination, and google chrome extensions, I found them:

• #6851ad - Spring Edition
• #e87bac - Pink Edition
• #f28c0f - Amber Edition
• #71b03e - Green Edition
• #007fbf - Sea Blue Edition
• #006ab0 - Coconut Edition (text)
• #26266e - Blue Edition
• #f5c400 - Yellow Edition
• #c43123 - Red Edition (watermelon)
• #182569 - Original Blue
• #0094d4 - Sugar Free Blue
• #a0c6eb - Zero (monk fruit)
• #d93b7c - Summer Edition (2025)

I'll add to the list when they come out. I may also start keeing track of the flavors and my opinions on them.

20250419

Started using this for this website. Make it a bit more personal, lol.

20250322

Unfortunately, or fortunately, I don't like working with Windows 11. I don't like the forced AI, I don't like the reimagining of the UI layout,
and maybe it's all because I'm stubborn, but before I have to use Windows 11, I'd like to see if I can figure out a workaround.

The goal of this project would be to replace Windows functionality of the following:

• Steam
• Music Production in Ableton
• programming
• discord
• ease of maintenance similar to Windows

Currently, I'm thinking I can make a Steam Machine with SteamOS, maybe get a mac for Ableton, and then some Linux distro for everything else.
Possibly, it will be easiest to suck it up and use Windows 11 for some of this, but I'd like to minimize Windows 11 as much as possible.

20250404

Apparently steamOS isn't really a thing? Or at least it's not as supported as I initially thought. Still going to try and put one together though,
but other projects are slightly more important right now.

20250501

The development server I run had the idea to dedicate a month to figuring out linux. As this ties is really well with this project,
I decided to make it into my Q3 project for this year.

20250510

Another potential setback...Ableton seems to only support Mac and Windows. I've never been a huge fan of the Apple Ecosystem,
though through networking I have learned to appreciate it. I'll probably need to either suck it up, learn a new software,
or accept that I may need Win11 for music.

20250518

Started working in Ubuntu for a different project. Very windows like. A buddy of mine already uses is as a daily driver. I could be convinced...

20250510

Had an idea to make my own VST for a while. I have a few audio effect chains set up in Ableton, and I thought it'd be fun to try and figure out how to make and share it as a VST.
Didn't really ever think about how to go about doing it, googled it a couple of times, and finally found JUCE.

Unfortunately, all of this is C++. It's been years since I did C++. I'm going to have to relearn C++.

20250517

Got the inspiration from this video to try and make an alternative to streaming services by replicating the TV watching experience from when I was a young child.
I decided if I were to do this, I could make an entire process out of it and call it a learning experience.

Step one is digitizing my physical media. To do that, I decided the best thing to do was to try to get A.R.M. working. I decided for no real reason to use Ubuntu 24.04 instead of the only supported OS (Ubuntu 20.04).
This and not reading led to massive problems that are easily fixed with a clean install.

20250518

A clean install was the best choice to make progress. After finally finding my install media I made yesterday (I have 7 of the same USB), I took note of user info and made it my only user in the OS to simplify the process.
Install was pretty easy following the guide, the only real issue was manually granting permissions for every made folder and rerunning the first step in this guide.

Currently testing, hoping for the best. I only gave my container 1 core from a gen 7 i5 so speed is not an attribute of my system currently.