Thu, Jan 9 Plan for YouTube publishing, thanks to the video from theBlurb https://www.youtube.com/@thedailyblurb 36 videos in 2025 9 videos a quarter 3 videos a month 1 video every 10 days Overall goal is to build a system to make publishing content on YouTube easier and more reliable. Content includes both videos and community posts. For each video I’ll need an IDEA! an outline…which includes overall idea of video at least one thumbnail idea at least one title description a script artwork find music if necessary pre/post community post ideas other online content (bluesky, michaelmaitlen bloc) Then I need to voice over the script, film the artwork, most likely edit artwork into thumbnail, edit parts of video together, upload to YouTube with all the parts, publish!

Mon, Dec 30 Working on video script and script for Verdac Species Intro YouTube video Thu, Jan 02 Welcome to the new year…I think. Trying to get “The System” back up and moving forward. Get more organized to get those systems, processes and workflows in place to realize goals and create awesome stuff! I really want to figure out how to be more disciplined with my time so I can carve out space to create and move forward with my projects.

As stated in my Threads account: As a form of mental health I’ve decided to embark on a #worldbuilding project. I’m not always patient with names, so I’m simply calling this one AlphaCore. I really enjoy thinking about how tech can make “magic” work, with the quote from Arthur C. Clarke in mind, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. Initial location consists of a number of floating landmasses on a Saturn like planet.

Placeholder for documentation of connecting 4.2 Waveshare Eink display to Raspberry PI. After connection is made, loading and display my personal artwork.

This post provides a place to collect info around migrating a mature Android application from pre Flutter 3.16 to 3.22 and migrating to the new Gradle DSL changes. It also contains information about Android build, dependency and 3rd party management in general, and links to monitor Gradle, Kotlin, Java and other tooling versions. General info on Gradle migration Flutter uses Gradle plugins to build Android apps. Before Flutter 3.16 “Gradle’s legacy, imperative apply script method” was used.

I’ve been researching using websockets in Dart lately as a way to remotely initiate actions on the connected clients without having them poll every X seconds (not great to be chatty with the serversession85!).

Lot’s of traveling this week, back to the keyboard!

As a way of creating more content and building the muscles and habits to do so, I’m going to try and journal daily in these journal posts.

Created a quick helper app to help get my digital art into a playing card computer game.

Using the Flame gaming engine for Flutter and a little helper app I’ve been able to get a couple of my playing card images into a Klondike solitare computer game.

Steps to install Flutter and Dart on Raspberry Pi