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Week 7 - February

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February 18, 2025

Had enriching conversations with four people today, discussing various topics including job opportunities, mathematics education, and gaming concepts
Collaborated with a colleague on implementing Perlin noise algorithms and explored interesting concepts around genetic program blending
Created slides using Reveal.js for tomorrow's session, experimenting with different visualization techniques
Took dedicated time for project reflection and planning future directions
Met with the JavaScript study group to plan tomorrow's creative coding session where we'll experiment with ML5.js

reveal.js

February 17, 2025

Enjoyed meditation group
Enjoyed all the intros - I am so excited for all the pairing and fun in the second half of my batch
Opened up Maya and did a tutorial, then started messing with the script editor to see what I could do with python. It feels very familiar to p5.js +WEBGL to me
Had a lovely chat with and I am contemplating what "edge of my abilities" is . Is it what seems intimidating? because I feel like anything is possible with the time - but we don't have unlimited time. I am working this out still.
I tried to see if I could use a fragment shader for this, but it looks like only Arnold shaders are standard (maybe?) Here is my first day with Maya:

pink balls bouncing in a ring on a pink square plane.

maya python

Week 6 - February

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February 12-14, 2025

Worked on visualization of words in my haiku data set in d3.js and python (here).
Mid batch reflection, celebrations, and presentations
Paired on p5js.
Added h-card, and webmentions to my website (I think) and set up profile with indie web.

p5js d3.js python

February 11, 2025

Worked on architecting a version of hex-a-huddle in elm. kinopio thoughts
Enjoyed going to Demos and coffee chat.
Wrote up a post on my experimental journal on fractal kitty.

mermaid Elm

February 10, 2025

Made a poem that I couldn't get under 2kb
Enjoyed a Svelte study group

js Svelte

Week 5 - February

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February 7, 2025

enjoyed the svelte group and seeing a scrapbook project.
made a font to replace emoji bar on my blog - the icons are just letters now.
Made a piano doodle and then coded a visual:

p5js TypeScript Svelte

February 6, 2025

Played css and js on my blog
Went to presentations
Pair programmmed in p5js and TypeScript - we made a mad libs and a crab. I really love Typescript so far.

p5js TypeScript

February 5, 2025

Went to a svelt study group timer.
Played with three.js ans svelte
Had some family stuff - so shorter day.

svelte python

February 4, 2025

Went to presentations.
Had a few coffee chats. (local storage, sumfib, and other topics)
Had some family stuff - so shorter day.

February 3, 2025

Played with svelte to make a timer.
Went to Svelte learning group
Met with a recurser on a blog post to help review.

svelte python

Week 4 - January

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January 31, 2025

I hosted a virtual game hour - had lots of fun.
Decided to play with app idea in python/django with a key/passcode web-app - it's working a little - but ugly. It is a skeleton for now in great need of CSS.
Shader jam! We implemented intersecting circles in a fragment shader (posted on blog)

python shaders

January 30, 2025

I enjoyed going to a shaders group, math puzzles, presentations, and other coffee chats today.
Started building an IOS app called nopeRun
Met with a creative coding group and learned about a swift library for creative coding.
Worked a little in react in the morning

react swift p5js

January 29, 2025

Creative coding - over an hour and a half I made a sketch and also submitted it to the game jam.
- Debugged and played with journaling toos
- Played with prolog for an hour via Exercism.
- Went to category theory group
- Started playing a little with react. Just reading and thinking of a project.
Prolog p5js

January 28, 2025

Half-baked demos today - I showed some of the journal I have been changing.
- Made python scripts to pull from numbers file.
- Made infinite scroll sketch.
- Took time to brainstorm next projects.
See the Pen Infinite Scroll. by Sophia (fractal kitty) (she/her) (@fractalkitty) on CodePen.

Python p5js

January 27, 2025

Meetings, reflection, some math puzzles, and planning the next project.
- Maybe an interation on my local journal
- Maybe another Svelte site - possibly a migration for my sketched meditations and coded poems.
- Maybe a site for investigation into black phoebe populations for my area.
Svelte

Week 3 - January

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January 24, 2025

Worked on learning Svelt for generative knitting site. Launched it today at wyrmbean.com

Svelte

January 23, 2025

Went to Math Puzzles, Shader, and Presentations today.
Started playing with Svelte to make the generative knitting design interactive to print a zine.

Svelte Shaders

January 22, 2025

Read a chapter of The Joy of Abstraction and met with the Category Theory group.
Shared string art slides at non-coding presentations
Researched project ideas
- Elm version of the compass tool - I got some dragging to work
- Played with typescript for an hour
Paired on python today and made a compass and straightedge tool.
- Used pygame library

python shaders raspberry pi

January 21, 2025

Today was Impossible day - I used a raspberry pi for the first time.
- Made a lemniscate shader
- used ipad as display
- used ssh with panic nova
Paired and did a few leetles for the first time.

pi desktop with terminal window and blue lemniscate shader in another

pi setup with ipad as display with keyboard and mouse and budgie on the keyboard

python shaders raspberry pi

Week 2 - January

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January 17, 2025

I learned a little bit about prolog today - solving sudokus.
Knitted a little on a generative hat it's 40% done
Made a toy to solve a June JS problem by hand - next I might try to program my thinking (not sure yet)

p5js prolog

January 16, 2025

Shaders, puzzle meet, and presentations were all fun today.
Knitted a little on a generative hat it's 25% done
Tried to get a shader on a p5sketch - and got a little ways.
Played with programming a hexagonal block-party problem - not sure if I will continue, but it's been a fun exercise. I think I need to go to a functional language to better grasp it.
Had a CSS chat and talked about all the fun things we can do with just html and CSS.
Contemplated an infinite scroll sketch

html css p5js

January 15, 2025

I had fun pairing in the creative coding meet here.
Knitted a little on a generative hat.
Category theory - ready half of chapter 3.
Did intro stuff for a react course.
Reflected with remote recursers.

html css p5js

January 14, 2025

Pairing day! - We made this.
- It is the opposite of a focus timer - you have to focus on frank or frank goes away.
- It is a coded poem.
I modified the knitting code and started another hat - in p5js again.
Played with vis.js here.
I am trying to better understand the conversation between html elements and js and exporting binary stls.
- I played with what I did in python last week to p5js for little gem shapes.
- I played with getting a concept map into a diagram with vis.js - it's pretty fun. (play here)
- Play with it here.
- They print up ok.

html css p5js 3D Printing

January 13, 2025

Lot's of chats and some pairing.
I got a pattern working in Elm for the generative knitting code - I think I prefer javascript for this.
We started an exquisite corpse tinkercad to 3d print each addition of the model. I printed the second one today.

html css elm

Week 1 - January

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January 10, 2025

Day 5 of RC!
Went to a volitional muscles, 3d printing, and a couple other meets
TIL you can use python to create STL files from vertices and faces.
Went for a moonlit walk and updated my streamof.me journal.
Still knitting a generative hat.
Reviewed translation in Three.js
I looked at the wind prompt for #WcccChallenge and made a desmos - I might code it later.

html css desmos

January 9, 2025

Day 4 of RC!
I had some good pairing and good coffee chats.
I went through Lesson 1.3 in a three.js course.
Finished Chapter 2 of Category Theory for Programmers
- I find myself analyzing life around objects and functions today.
Presented for 5 min on knitting project
Went for a walk and chatted with some crows. (updated streamof.me)
I have patterns out of my knitting code and am now starting to manually render them in wool. (Materials were acquired today.)

html css p5js three

January 8, 2025

Day 3 of RC!
Game dev, creative coding, and other meetings today.
Collaboratively made Genuary sketch with 3 others - super fun!
Read half of Chapter 2 of Category Theory for Programmers
Presented slides to talk about math through art
Went for a walk, counted birds, and added to my streamof.me site.
Got a good amount started for a generative knitting hat pattern. Where the generative is in the type of stitch - not color work. The top of the hat needs to be added, along with a key and some other features. I hope to start knitting by Friday.

html css p5js three

January 7, 2025

Day 2 of RC!
Played with three.js by translating a p5.js sketch - here.
Pairing workshop - made mastermind in an hour of code in python
Read Chapter 1 of Category Theory for Programmers
Made slides to talk about math through art
Went for a run, counted birds, and added to my streamof.me site.
I added a sheet to my numbers spreadsheet for the genuary prompt - the formula changes the colors based on time, row, an column.

a grid of blues and green squares with a vague pattern, but not super obvious

html css p5js three

January 6, 2025

Started my journey at Recurse Center today!
Put this blog template together for this time.
Went for a walk and added to my streamof.me site.
Played with the Genuary prompt for landscapes with primitive shapes.

monotone blue landscape drawn with triangles and circles for stars and moon

html css p5js