#coding log

[werewolfcodes]

so, the big project i have been working on is a chat application that will be used for myself and a few select friends of mine. the name of this app is argon

i started working on the code for the prototype on january 9th of this year and i've made significant progress. the prototype is in customtkinter, but i've decided now that since this will be a large scale project, i should work with pyqt6. i have some experience with pyqt5, but not much with 6, so this will be a great learning experience for me ^_^

the prototype currently has

login / sign up features (connected to a sqlite3 database. NOTE: i made this choice just for the purpose of getting the project started. when it comes time for the app to be deployed, i will be using a postgresql database)

chat dashboard that shows the user all of their chats

a chat feature

not much because i've mainly been brainstorming and drafting what i want this to look like and how i want this to work. the prototype currently has 236 lines of code (with spacing and comments of course, so i imagine its around 205-215 in actuality). i am very excited to continue working on this project and share what i have eventually ^_^

[mins0o]

Drawing Practice #6 -> AI enhanced

[shadesofmauve]

So D&D black dragons are supposed to live in swamps, right? Pretty amphibious, live in swamps, lair in...

caves. With a main entrance and a back entrance.

In swamps.

I really have trouble with the idea that there's these dragon-sized caves in an area with such a high water table, y'know? We have to go through miles of swamp to reach this lair, it's not one little boggy place in a mountain valley otherwise filled with nice caves. And the cave has to have two entrances, too? I can believe in dragons, but not this geology.

So... maybe it's not geology. Because a lair in a marshy place with exacting design specifications sounds a lot like a totally natural thing --

A beaver lodge.

So now I have this new image of black dragons industriously gnawing down giant trees to construct their mighty swamp lairs, and I am so much happier.

[littlemissshifter]

What actually makes us shift?

Nothing. Yup you heard that right. Literally nothing makes us shift. You don't even have to try to shift, to shift. People have shifted even when they didn't know about shifting. They have shifted even when they didn't believe in shifting. People have shifted regardless of what they see, think or feel. The question is how? You think, "When I'm trying so hard how can they all shift so easily?"

Because it's our nature. It's incorporated in our being. It's our existence. You can't try to be something you already are. I don't think you understand properly. Shifting for our brain is the same as breathing is for our body. It is the way things are. It's that easy. The only reason you think it's not is because you're conditioned to believe that way. The good thing is shifting doesn't require belief. It requires your existence. And you're existing aren't you? That's all you need.

Nothing else matters. Nothing else can ever stop you. Because even if you think you're not shifting to your DR, you're shifting to a reality where you haven't shifted to your DR (yet). Awareness is always shifting. Your awareness is always switching between realities. The question is, is your conscious mind able to realise that? That you're constantly shifting? Without your conditioned beliefs coming in the way? Can you?

The only thing you need to do is know. I say that quite a lot. And I don't mean that know that you'll shift. It doesn't even have to mean that know that you're in your DR (even tho you are). It's just the realisation that no matter what you think or feel, shifting is something you're always doing. You're always existing. No matter where.

That's all you need. Forget about being in your DR for a second. Forget about trying any method. Sit with yourself right now. Look around you. Feel your breathing. That's shifting. This is what shifting is. Not the symptoms, not a sudden change in the physical plane. Just breathing. Going from one breath to another. Changing awareness with your breaths. This is how easy it is.

Return to your core because that's all there is. From a moment to a moment. That's you. That's how you shift. Don't look at the physical plane as rigid or think why isn't it changing. Breath and know that change is not something you do but something you be.

So trust yourself. Trust that you can shift because really, that's what you've been doing all your life. Shifting is not something you discovered. Shifting is a realisation of already being. There is no shift greater than you and no method stronger than you. A creation cannot escape it's creator. Shifting is your birthright and it was always will be.

Now, stop holding on to something that is literally you. You're grasping shifting desparately, wanting and full of need. It's not going anywhere. It's you. It goes where you go. Does what you do. It's yours to hold, to cradle gently and experience. You're the root it grows from. As long as you're here, it'll grow and grow and grow. With you. For you. As far as you want. Shifting and you are the same being. One cannot exist without the other.

Realise, be and shift.

[maxidebt]

Meowracha ♡🐾 SKZ Travel Log #4

[magicaltimelady44]

so like. if anyone else, like me, still has the occasional fanfic they follow on fanfiction.net, and hasn't been getting the update emails for the longest time and was wondering if ti meant the site is on its last legs

no

no they've done something stupid as fuck

you have to opt back in to getting the emails/notifications of new chapters every six months, because they automatically assume you don't want to know when the fics you followed for the updates have updated

[sclappin]

This was part of my undergrad illustration thesis, which was illustrations to accompany the text of Shakespeare's The Tempest, repurposing aesthetics and imagery from the rural New Hampshire village where I grew up.

Reposting this piece from May 2020, because it is now available as a print, and Tumblr is being weird about letting me edit the original post to add alt text and a link.

[sarcosmiiic]

no cause i think one of the reasons any life series ship with grian is automatically so ironically stingingly tragic is that it's /his game/.

like putting aside the watchers for a second, grian created the life series. this is /his/ death game, his circus his monkeys. sure, when the person closest to him inevitably dies some gruesome death at his own hands, the pain in his chest still makes him want to jump off a cliff, run face first into a warden, fall a couple hundred blocks and splat, but...

it's still. /his game/.

when other players lose their teammate, it's tragic for them because their friend got ripped from them in an instant and there's nothing they can do. when grian loses someone close to him, it's all /his fault./ he made this game, he wrote the code, he said "if this then that if player gets ripped to shreds in a cactus pit, falls off a bridge in the sky, blows up in our own tower, then they die".

he just. never thinks he's gonna be the one to do it.

he knows it's just a game, he knows he can just hop back on hermitcraft and see his friends alive and well and not shredded splatted blown to pieces.

he just.

his game. his friends. his hands.

gets him every time.

[citrusinicake]

awag

log from here but edited a bit

[arl3kinka]

since sniper's parents and their farm are in the literal middle of nowhere and are based of courage the cowardly dog I like to believe some crazy shit happened (call it OVNIS, cryptids, ghosts, etc).

at first he was terrified, I mean, he was a kid (and even if he wasn't if I was alone in the middle of nowhere, at night, taking care of a farm and I saw the glowing eyes of a tall figure staring directly at me I would shit myself in the best case scenario), but from time to time, he got more used to it, specially since his parents seem surprisingly used to those weird events and how to deal with them.

that's why in the description of the cards is written "half alien observer"; sniper's a sucker for conspiracy theories/paranormal stories, mainly because he has experienced some weird shit he cannot explain even after trying to find the most logical explanation - validation maybe.

demo is more vocal about his stories (because he seems to be a magnet to these ocurrences too, even more than the aussie) while sniper speaks about if he's closer to the person he's speaking to, and when they hang out they talk about them.

[picknmixsims]

Sims2Tools Minor Updates

General

Picking an unsupported version of SimPe in the Config Dialog now displays a link to this post

Outfit Organiser V3.1

Selected folder in the tree view retains highlight when selecting packages within the folder.

Log Watcher V2.3

Added UnknownTokensColour for the display colour of unknown inventory tokens.

SceneGraph Plus V1.9

Added option to extract a Maxis GZPS recolour.

Hood Exporter V2.2

Added WhosTheDaddy transform - see here

[werewolfcodes]

day 2/30 of productivity

1/17/24

(shocker) i fell asleep early again, so this post is for yesterday. i was fairly productive, and managed to get quite a bit done.

yesterday i:

fixed a bug that had me stumped yesterday on my to-do list project

continued adding to the ui

began working on two new functions: one that strikes out the task, and one that deletes the task all together

got bored and decided to work on my chat application (argon)

began the welcome screen with animated widgets (labels and qpushbuttons)

there's probably more but that's all i can really recall. i haven't had my coffee yet

[nostalgebraist]

Due to recent experiences, I am feeling an urge to make an anti-drug-style PSA except it's warning impressionable machine-learning-curious teens to never, ever try a thing called "Huggingface transformers Trainer"

Not. Even. Once.

[curtis-brothers-hug]

Imagine how much 80-year-old Darry Curtis in 2025 would hate scanning QR codes.

[izicodes]

I've been itching to dive into something totally new and outside of my usual web dev comfort zone! After brainstorming for a while, I finally landed on a brilliant new project idea: building my very own desktop widget~! 

Now, full disclosure—I have zero idea where to even start when it comes to programming a widget, but that’s where the fun comes in, right? I’m all about learning new things (I have an addiction to studying so…)~!

In this post however, I’ll be sharing my initial ideas for the widget and brainstorming what tech stack might bring this amazing idea to life~! 

Prior knowledge on desktop widgets?

All I know is that they stick to the desktop area and some even always in front of the other windows. That’s all I know!

Widget Idea

So, the project idea I’ve chosen is something simple, just so I can get used to making widgets: a notepad. But, it’s not just any plain notepad widget—it’s going to have an aesthetic color scheme! (I know, pretty cool, right?) I really wanted to keep things basic for this first project.

The inspiration actually came from a Pinterest pin that I saved. I think the design is originally from a color palette generator website, but I want to take that concept and turn it into an actual desktop widget. Thus this project was born!

Tech Stack

Alright, I lied—I'm not entirely stepping out of my comfort zone for this one! I'll be using ReactJS, a technology I’m super comfortable with and absolutely love. But to keep things fresh and challenging, I’m diving into something new as well!

After researching (thank you, ChatGPT, Google, and YouTube), I found out there are plenty of ways to build a desktop application, or in this case, a widget. You can go with WinForms, WPF, Tauri (Rust), Qt, and others. But I wanted to stick closer to JavaScript—specifically something I could pair with ReactJS. So, ElectronJS seemed like the best fit.

For this project, my tech stack will be:

ReactJS (JavaScript)

ElectronJS (JavaScript)

SCSS (for those extra styling powers)

HTML (obviously)

Visual Studio Code (with a lovely brown theme 🧸)

Toward the end of the project, I’ll also explore how to package the widget so people can download and install it on their own computers, and how to store the notes locally!

Finally

As I post this I am going to start the project so I will soon post updates! (This is where I fail…!)

[arbellaart]

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