Worklog

Server Side Rendering

Actual Server Backend

Dynamic Resume Loader

Interview

Culture Interview 1

Tech Interview

Job Search - Applications

Resume Content as Markdown

Job Applications

LinkedIn Post

Dynamic Resume

Started Resume Optimizer

Reference/Alternate Allele Data Enrichment

3 Applications and an Interview

Fix Stats and Expand Unit Tests

DNS auto ipset setup

Interview

AI Platform Engineering

DNS Working

SSH on PC enabled

Setup PC for Remote Dev

DNS SSL Cert working

Job Search

DNSSSSSS

Stupid DNS

DNS Dynamic Bootstrap and Tests

DNS Dynamic Records

School Volunteer

Wrote Vibe Coding Guide

Wrote Rapid Prototypes

Job Search

PAC Work

API in front of internal DNS manager

5 Job Applications

Setup internal DNS manager

Finish Bulk BQ Operations

10k Walk

More repo nonsense

Recruiter Call

Actually Figure out How to use this pipeline

PAC Work

Finish Repository Refactor

Repository Design Pattern

Coffee Chat

Job Search

Job Search

PAC Work

Karate Session

Fought the Vibe

Database Connection Refactor

Recruiter Call

MCP API Design + vscode setup

Start Job Hunting

Full Karate Day

MCP Server Setup

(Start) Implementing BQ Reference Stats

Personal MCP Step 1

Rebuild Resume

GRCh37 → GRCh38 Converion

Revivify LinkedIn

Stare at the Screen Long Enough

Developing Procedural Generation

Tis The Season

Who Owns the Data?

Coding Without a Map

Avoiding Overdesign Traps

Design Starts With What You Have

Putting Code Through a Distillery

Start designing new feature

What do now?

Finish CreateMotif

Modulo Operator for Magic Math

Unreasonably Useful: Pen & Paper

Unit Tests Fixes This

Debugging Music Strategies

A Choice of Stratigies

Interface Signature Rework

PAC Meeting

Start Testing CreateMotif

Finish Oct Treasurer Report

PAC Oct Treasury Report

Long Functions Smell Bad

Marching Through Brain Fog

Mediations on Tiger and Crane

Kumite Karate Day

Almost correct tension calculations

Thinking about calculating tension

The Path Forward Is Clear

A Calculated Chance to Rest

Arrange data for CreateMotif

AT Proto Quickstart Setup

Calculating tension in music

CreateMotif design work

Rev/Expense Report Sept 2024

Design work for Create Motif

Start CreateMotif Strategy

Fixed crashes; still needs smoothing

DNBK Gasshuku 2024

Refactor TSharedPtr, resolving crashes

TSharedPtr intended usage

Look for scheduling error

PAC Reimbursements

Add repeating property to Instrument

Instruments can now play more than one set of bars

InstrumentSchedule destruction bug

Stupid Data is wrong

Flatten Composer Data

Refactor Music Composer

Composer Code technically working

Chase Composer Errs/Crashes

PAC Business

Music Composer - Almost working

Big push on Music Strategy

Minor continuation of ComposerData

PAC First 24/25 Meeting

PAC Meeting prep

Fit musical structures into ComposerData

Continue Refining ComposerData object

Continue Rubber Ducking MusicComposer Data

Continue to Develop ComposerData

Build out Composers data management

Build how composer interacts with global state

PAC Budget Proposal Review

How actually generate music good?

Bootstrap Musical Comp strategy

Composer Design work

Started on Music Composer

Clean-up finalized(?) PAC budget

SetThird connected to PhaseManager

Flesh out SetThird phase

Start SetThirds Phase

Fixed Audio Issue: Le Facepalm

Submitted Unreal bug report

PAC Budget Meeting

Rebuild AudioCuePlayer in BP to test

Investigate MetaSound code

Try direct set AudioComponents params

Investigating FAudioParameter

Troll through Unreal Engine code

Continuing debugging setting MS audio params

Fix crashes, debug PlayQuantize

Finished following MetaSound refactor chain reaction

Rework InstrumentData to use single Metasound

Research Setting SoundWave param

Finish multi-note instruments

Refactor InstrumentSchedule Data

Record LETSGO demos

Another editing pass

Janky ass notes-to-sound mapping

Editing pass on Music Engine articles

Improve jerkytreats.dev

Finish 2 Music Engine articles

Drum Machine article work

Start implementing multi-note Instruments

Manually map each CheeseKey sound to unreal object

Finish Drum Patterns; Start rebuilding Cheese Keys synth

Add support for multiple instruments

Finish PAC Year end report

Add Remaining Cheese Keys

PAC year end report

Add InstrumentSchedule

Decide to continue improving Drum Machine

Refactor MainClock → ClockSettings

Finish Rebuilding Drums

Playing Drums from Code surprisingly sus

Connect Drums to PhaseManager

Bootstrap new clock in Drums

Started adding to Building Core Gameplay Loop

Start rebuilding Drums in code

Finish porting Clock to code; random cleanup

PAC FY 23-24 Fiscal Report

Published Storming Valhalla

Add destruction logic to PhaseManager

Start moving Clock to code

Finished and fixed SetTonic phase

Fix platform destruction logic

SetTonic Phase working

Convert SetTonic and PhaseManger into AActors

Find issue (but not yet fix) for null AudioPlatform spawning

Fix Phase Memory Access Violation crashes

Debug AudioPlatformSpawner Crashes

GameMode inits PhaseManager

PAC Treasury Report

Compile Phases logic successfully

Process Phases logic

PhaseController De/Activation Logic

SetTonic setup

PAC: Monthly Treasury Report

Actor destruction logic

Blog article: First game lessons

Eisenhower book report

Light mixing pass on Storming Valhalla

Big mixing pass on Storming Valhalla

Finish SetTonic platform spawning logic; start hooking up phase/state management

Rerecord/Mix lead guitar for Storming Valhalla

PAC Exec Meeting

Add position offset logic for SetTonic spawned platforms

Add function to get random note

PAC Gaming Application Grant

Add PlatformSpawner as a property in SetTonic

PAC Treasury: Gaming Grant Application

Add Platform Spawning function

Create AudioPlatform Spawner C++ Parent class

Move Get Camera Vector Forward Function from BP to Code

Use C++ Vector Forward Function

Started looking into Refactoring AudioPlatformSpawner

Vastly simplify SetTonic design

Attempt vocals for Seeking Andalusia

Minor mix pass on Storming Valhalla

PAC Treasury Review

June 2024 LETSGO Dev Update

Publish LETSGO demo video

Finished first draft of Refactor article

NoteContainer Fix

AudioPlatform nearly FULLY refactored

PAC Treasury Management

Move AudioPlatform Sound Cues to Code

Continue Pulling apart AudioPlatform

Start Audio Platform Audio Cues playing as Queued Quartz events

Continue pulling apart AudioPlatform

Started Seeking Andalusia

Editing passes

Continue Work on AudioPlatform Refactor

vendor init meeting

vendor work

PAC Exec Meeting

Offer Negotiation

Pull ParticleController out of AudioPlatform

Crane does editing pass; karate

Think about AudioPlatform refactor

Job searching sucks

Interview

Start writing gameplay loop code

Publishable Core Gameplay loop design

Karate Grading

Karate

Music Production

Interview

Interview

Finish Initial Design for LETSGO State Management

Write Crane Stands Tall

Fix intro, try to bass up lead

Interview

Added arp for new song

Continued pushing on Core Loop design

Interview

Video Editing: Kata

Composer/Conductor Design

Karate

Composer/Conductor/Phase Design

Start work on LETSGO

Delete SpawnPool

Start working on NoteContainer

Karate

LETSGO Refactor: GenerateAllScales

Push on Zig

Zig - Compiling fs.Dir

Interview - Final Round

Interview first round, new company

Massive 4 hour technical interview

Continue Strings doc

Pull strings research into its own document

Job interview

Publish Strings article

Finish strings article

Technical interview

Technical Interview

It was too nice to do any work today

Karate

Karate

Gym

Interview

Research: Byte Arrays, UTF-8, and other basics

Zig has no strings

Interview

Interview

Zig: Import Win32

Wrap C with Zig

Attempt to use Zig to clean the directories

Investigate alternatives for Windows Installers

Zig vs. Windows Registry

Investigate Zig

Job Search

Procrastinate with Writing

Publish AI articles

Publish Keep a Record

Tool to clean Unreal generated dirs

Play with Powershell

Github Actions + NSIS investigation

Job search

Job search

Write about tools/automation

Job Search

Job Search

Job Search

Blog writing

Publish Curiosity Pays the Cat

Futz around in LETSGO

Job Search

Writing