Hey, Ask Lemmy, we all know that people love to talk about themselves, and I’d love to hear about some of your pleasant experiences. So, please, no matter how big; no matter how small, tell me something that you are proud to have made :)
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Speed the read write speeds of every server and workstation at work by introducing on the fly compression. I hypothised it would work because we had a surprising amount of idle cpu and even where we didn’t a lot of the clock cycles were waiting for IO. Had to design some benchmarks, run on test systems, do a blue field deployment on a few prod servers, etc, but it was really rewarding to go from idea to implementation. It’s was actually noticble to users for start up time too! It lead to a more aggressive compression on some backups that ended up delaying the need for hardware purchases too.
I made this halloween costume out of scrap from a hospital demo I’ve been doing and I’m pretty happy about it.
I build, customize, and paint Gunpla. I finished this one a couple days ago.
Sweet!
How do you customize them?
While technically, anything you do to them outside of building them per the instructions would be customizing them, I was referring to modifications I made to the model itself. For this one in particular, I raised the neck and collar up by 2mm and cut the back of the head back by 1mm to allow for better head movement. Here’s the full list of everything I did:
- made the modifications stated above
- custom paint job
- resin detail up kit (various greebles on feet, legs, front skirts, shoulders, and shield)
- metal detail up kit (verniers, elbow & knee joints, gun barrel, and power pipes around the waist)
- holographic decals
- matte topcoat
Here’s how the model looked prior to any customization:
That’s cool! Thanks for sharing
I make video games on occasion. My portfolio is mostly jams and unfinished prototypes, and while I am working on something special, at this rate it will be a million years before it’s ready for release.
I catch my wife playing this one sometimes and it makes my heart happy
Sometimes I paint minis. These were a couple of characters I played where I made a custom figure
Kurt is technically a kitbash. I took a figure that was originally a bard holding a harp, cut out the harp and gave him some books. He was a gifted kid turned wizard-college-dropout, really pulling from life experience there.
For Robin I made a couple of additions with clay. I’m really bad at that, but it makes me happySolid job on the minis!
I made a DaaS product https://kaleh.net/trace. A lot goes into it:
- endpoint location
- transformation of records into canonical model
- storage/indexing
- WWW html & copy
- Billing integration
- the whole thing
It took awhile to plan out and develop, but I am proud that it exists and that I have subscribers. Now that I have a dataset, I am working on other product offerings atop that dataset.
Back in the 90s, we bought an 87 year old house that had been neglected for decades, but the neglect was what we liked. That meant that nobody had “upgraded” or modernized it.
We spent the next 7 years renovating it, fixing every wall, repairing plumbing, installing a cast-iron woodburning stove, etc.
When we were done, we had turned the ugliest house on the street into a museum piece, and sold it for far more than any house on the street had ever sold for.
I’ve been making plans to do something like this for a while, if only to build something that satisfies my own eccentricities. I’d love to know how the process was for you.
It was a blast. My wife made most of the design choices, which was cool with me, we generally have similar tastes, and I was enjoying learning how to use tools, and fix things properly. It was like a college degree in house renovation.
Most of the time it didn’t feel much like work, except for that one room that had five layers of wallpaper, with several layers of paint between them, and wallpaper on the ceiling with several layer above that. Scraping all that garbage off the walls and ceiling was one of the most unpleasant jobs I’ve ever done. Once it was all stripped, though, the rest seemed easy.
I considered becoming a Flipper, long before that was a thing. I wish I had done it.
Nowadays I barely have energy and time to cook and maybe go to gym. Was it easier back then regarding work life balance?
why did you sell it?
Turns out it was haunted.
We loved the house, and our neighborhood, but we hated the city we lived in. I was self-employed, and could do my job from anywhere, so we sold it and moved to Florida, when Florida was still a nice place, and not MAGA HQ.
I make music. It’s not amazing music but it’s mine and doing it brings me great joy. I have a recording studio in my house, and use much of my down time for writing and recording music. I’ve slowly been teaching myself audio engineering and production, try to drop a song or two each year, and am working on a full-length album.
Unfortunately I can’t really share that here without doxxing myself. I do still maintain a Reddit account solely for the purposes of promotion and networking with other amateur recording artists, only because the music making communities on Lemmy are not very active.
Audio engineer here, if you need assistance let me know.
I built a maze game in Godot. It uses depth first search to make a maze then you have a little wizard dude that runs through it. Each time you complete theaze the next one get bigger.
I made a t-shirt from pieces of other t-shirts. It’s messy as fuck but I wear it with pride. I want to make more and improve.
Pics or it didn’t happen! Lol jk but I am curious because that sounds like my kind of style.
I sculpted this tiki mask in blender and then milled it in aluminium on a 3 axis mill.
You can make your own, if you have a 3D printer or a milling machine: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4636877
Woah, That’s Cool! How did you get the wood-like effect on the 3rd image? Or was it a render? Also, What influenced your material choice to be metal?
Thanks. The third image is a render.
After I designed and 3D printed it I brought it to school when I was an apprentice (now I teach there), where a classmate thought it looked cool and wanted to make it out of aluminium that he got from his job. I got jealous that is was so much cooler than the 3D print, so I also got a large piece of aluminium to make my own.
My son is my biggest one.
Second, I completely redesigned the UI for one of the most popular image editing apps (it had been on Windows for years and my design was v1.0 for Mac). My design was nominated for an Apple design award that year, and Don Norman called my UI ‘innovative’ (I still have that email).
I really thought it was going to say “second, my daughter I guess” my phone was at a weird angle and I saw “design” and thought it said “daughter” and my brain filled in the blanks 😂😂
But seriously that’s pretty cool! The biggest design program or something like paint.NET?
Haha. XD
Not paint.net, but if I’m more specific, I’ll dox myself. It’s the most popular software in its niche.
I wouldn’t have any idea then lol not my scene so no need to doxx yourself to others lol. Either way, great job!
Thanks!
My kids
I admit, I knew I was pretty much demanding this exact response when I made the post, but it’s a really nice one either way. Thank you :)
Something out of myself. Raised poor, lived in a renovated chicken coop for a while. Almost homeless a few times. My wife and I now have two nice paid off cars, a nice home, good jobs, our kids are all doing well and we spoil the shit out of our granddaughter.
We just had this delivered to her! Something I always wanted as a kid and wanted to be able to afford for our kids but couldn’t.
Hell yeah! Overcoming circumstances you didn’t choose is the hardest fucking thing.
You’ve done so well, you have my congratulations :)
There are two big ones at the moment. The first is that I made my own cyberdeck, and I even have an assembly animation for it:
https://dalek.zone/w/oSAxetbgfQBrYHTgz4AXLB
It took me several months and two iterations. But I’m very happy with the end result. It could use some more tweaks, but it’s been working well so far.
The second is that I’ve more or less completed a multi-player video game called Sunken Barrels:
https://codeberg.org/Sir_Thominick_IV/Sunken_Barrels
Just like my cyberdeck it could use some polish, but again I’m very proud with the result. It is fully playable, it’s fun, and it fills the nostalgia from the original Garry’s Mod game its based on.
I’ve thought of building my own cyberdeck on a couple of occassions, yet haven’t bit the bullet yet. I like the assembly video, soothing in a way. I never played the original Garry’s Mod game, so I’ll make sure to take a good look at your project :)
I’ve thought of building my own cyberdeck on a couple of occassions, yet haven’t bit the bullet yet. I like the assembly video, soothing in a way
It was a lot of fun to build! I definitely learned a lot and would take a different approach on a future one, which I very well might do.
I’d probably go with a pelican case for a new one, get a beefy battery bank with pass through charging, and get a bigger screen.
The interface, the IO wrapper/panel, the heavy use of heat inserts, and extensive modeling is something I would not change.
I never played the original Garry’s Mod game, so I’ll make sure to take a good look at your project :)
Fair warning, it is a multi-player only game. And you’ll need to either all be on the same network or do port forwarding (port 8080).
I’ve loosely been debating posting about it more to get it more attention, and maybe make a discord for a centralized place for people to play it. But I’ve been to distracted on other projects lol.
https://newdawnowl.itch.io/microtonal-grid
I made a pure code, microtonal step sequencer that makes it really easy to try out what microtonal music is like.
I’m also very proud of how quickly and easily I implemented the conway’s game of life into it, only took me about an hour or so.
I’m not proud of how long it took me to get rid of the “clicky” bug.
This is really cool. Simple, fun, and easy to understand. Nice work!
thank you. I purposefully made it so that there were layers of complexity that could be enjoyed by different levels of user. If you want to just make music on a grid, you can, there are preset systems if you want to try them, and you can custom create scales too, only use the UI, or import in using text instead of the UI by using the share window.
I don’t know what microtonal music is. I don’t understand beats, notes, or any of those numbers or scales or who Conway was, but I just spent about an hour playing on this thing🤩. Bravo sciencey music person!
Thank you so much for your kind words. Just a reminder that if there’s something you particularly want to show off to people, you have a “share code” you can use to send it to people and they can import it in.
Also, you are the exact audience for this tool. I wanted to let people who didn’t have the music theory knowledge of microtonal theory to be able to try out microtonal music, or just western music in various scales just to have fun with.
The Conway’s game of life thing is just an idea that I had.
EDIT : You can try any TET suggestion from the Xen Wiki :
Conway was a mathematician who suggested a mathematical variant of a life simulation. It’s an interesting … thought experiment? on emergent behaviours in systems with simple rules leading to complex and unpredictable results…
