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Monday, Backup Reads and Improvements

I didn't get to doing art assets yesterday, so I'll be doing those today. As well as the usual output of offerings for the temple of notes.

I'll be running the prototype efforts past the fam first and update when that's both hunky and dory. There's two ideas to do it - one: lighter backing behind the bird, and two, a 'halo' around their outline. And do the problem ducks first, then do something with the numbers as well.

With very good luck I might launch the Beta without the Tutorial. If I have EXTREME benevolent fortune, there will be a tutorial.

That's later. Story now.

Sunday, Supplies Needed

So. After the Archive finishes going through the stories, I am offski on a mission. Part 1 - getting my meds restocked. Part 2 - looking for a thing that Costco is aiming towards not stocking any more. If Costco still has it, I'm getting extra. If not... then screw them. I'm looking for alternate supplies on the interwebs.

Costco's giving me fewer and fewer reasons to keep coming back there.

Remember, businesses, enshittification is your enemy.

Further plans for Pseuducku include

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Saturday, Parkrun and Other Sundries

Adorable introduced me to a cute little game called Dragoncraft which definitely gives off Kickstarter game vibes. It's complicated and has a lot of pieces and needs a lot of setup. That's what Kickstarter games look like.

It was fun all the same. I was figuring out how to game the game long about halfway through the play session we had. Chaos joined in just after we started and stayed still for the entire sesh, so win for board games... but not

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Friday, Whoops I'm in Beta

Yesterday's diary doodle covers an amazing leap forward for me. I thoroughly anticipated spending another fortnight arguing about Stage 3.

But no.

I got the sounds working in two goes. I refined the details of Stage 3 in a couple of hours.

I'm as shocked as you are.

But I'm not launching Beta until I get feedback from my target audience.

Today, I'm working on the menu system, and getting the popups to stay within the bounds of the game board if

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Thursday, Progress in Progress

Today, after I'm done with the daily offerings, I will be investigating building an improved version of Pseuducku while the Alpha version remains untouched on the website.

Fingers crossed, I can do that. Work locally and only push a version when I'm satisfied with how it's working.

I won't hit Beta until I get to Stage 3 working.

My agenda:

  1. Sounds. Buttons will click, ducks will quack victory for minor an total wins. There's also an "Uh oh" error sound for when
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Wednesday, Rant Due and Debugging

Finally got Pseuducku up and onto a host. Now I'm testing to make sure it functions properly. If all continues to be well, there will be a link appearing in this site.

Unriddling little glitches continues to be an issue, I guess.

Today's PLNs include another rant, possibly about the unavoidability of AI.

Update:

I just got it working. You can see it here.

My next step is figuring out how to edit locally until I'm satisfied with the next version.

I

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Tuesday, Patreon, Experts, and Shopping

I may have been contacted by another scammer on Bluesky, but I'm recognising the pattern now.

Step 1: Alleged fellow author contacts me
Step 2: We talk shop for a bit
Step 3: They mention their amazing friend who's a marketing expert and will for sure help people notice my books
Step 4: They provide a contact detail for their amazing friend
Step 5: If pushed, they provide some proof of their prowess that might pass cursory inspection by someone who doesn't

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Monday, Backup Reads and Video

The writer's group is meeting again and I'm waiting my turn to read mine. Then when that's done, I get on with commencing the video prep and the rest of my offerings.

Of course I already have a story for the Archive. I'm just Like That(tm).

Nothing too much going on beyond that. I think I shall attempt to do the cutscene art today. I have thought of ways to do some cheaty things and I shall see how that works

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Sunday, Fun and Games

I'm now following through on the instructions Beloved gave me to make Pseuducku live.

It's taking a bit of a while.

So while that's going on, I'm writing. Of course. Working on the entry for this upcoming week in the writer's group contest. Then moving on to the daily tale, and so on.

Today's little victory - I have bread in the freezer! This means I may have bread to last the week. Huzzah. I'll still prepare like I expect Chaos to

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Saturday, Parkrun and Pseuducku

I now know what to do to get Pseuducku online. I also know what happens when I hit the maximum of the free sample queries.

It's not a thing to worry about. Thank grop.

With luck on my side and maybe digging up a spoon to spare, I should get something online tonight or tomorrow.

I'm betting on tomorrow because I'm already pretty much shredded today.

Let's get on with the offerings.

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Friday, Accomplishments and Anticipation

As mentioned earlier, I have a barely-functional edition of Pseuducku. I'm hoping the fam will have a plan for me to share that thing with you. If they tell me to ask Cursor, I'll mention that I'm running out of queries.

I've seen to the Catio already, I'm about to read a story for the vids, and I got half a chapter accomplished because I woke up at fuckoff AM again.

So it's the videos and the offerings today. And messing around

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Thursday, Bread and Physio

I have good news and bad news.

Good news - I have an Alpha version of Pseuducku.

Bad news - I have no idea how to release it.

So I'm taking a break from assisted coding until I can release the Alpha of Pseuducku. I can work on the "cutscenes" and dedication art, as well as the credits "page". I might even remember to record the process for my storytime B-roll collection.

I have the first loaf in the incubator and Mayhem

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Wednesday, Mor BREAD!

My cunning PLN has worked! Miss Chaos is slowing down on her ravenous sourdough consumption. She appreciates how much firkin work goes into each loaf. And there's food-with-instructions lying around so she's not starving.

She's just incredibly lazy.

Pan-fried toast is easier than a lot of meals she could be making. Faster, as well. The bread to make the pan-fried toast is a little bit more of a trial.

So I'm happy to do the second batch on my only while I

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Tuesday, Shrink Day and Mor Bread

On the plus side, the kids like my bread. On the minus side, I have to make way more bread. Starting today.

I'm going to get Miss Chaos to do the majority of the nonsense. Because she eats a majority of the bread. And get more flour next shopping trip.

Maybe three batches of bread will last an entire firkin week. Or maybe the spawn will view it as a challenge. Only one way to find out.

So far, Miss Chaos views

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Monday, Writer's Group and Stuff

The writing contest has an extra week, so the group has gathered together to bullshit at each other for a while.

I have a story to read, a story to write, a video to edit, the memes and doodl to contribute to the temple of notes.

Now that I have a starting point to return to, I can hope that the puzzle part of Pseuducku becomes a thing today.

I might even be able to publish an alpha version that's nominally function

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