psyorange 2024 rewind
List of things i learnt and did last year
Quick Look - all the cool things
- Graduated B.Tech IT.
- Made my first video game in a gamejam.
- Walk statistics.
- Listened to Kendrick, tried the shoegaze genre and got into Tyler the creator's music - albums IGOR and Chromakopia
Below is a comprehensive list - i dont know why i made it tho
This year I learned about
- Work experience at web based startup
- Technical debt and realities of Java Spring Boot development and microservice architectures.
- Why Java is unfortunately a better business choice for enterprise.
- Reactjs :(
- Cooking
- Gajar halwa
- all kinds of sabji
- Modak
- How gas cylinder and valves work
- Air ventilation systems at homes and awnings
- Phone making
- Different kinds of displays - oled, eink, led, lcd, etc.
- The stages of gcc compilation and how to program for a stm32f103
- Fonts and bitmap font formats
- how to make a wired Keyboard
- how keyboards work
- Set up my CAPS key to act as ESC on tap and CTRL on hold. (best decision)
- Keyboard terminalogy like key chording, home row modifiers, sticky keys, etc.
- Keyboard layouts like dvorak, qwerty, colman etc.
- how to solder and how it works !
- how pcbs are manufactured
- How music works - made a playlist here
- How to basics of Reaper DAW ( Music making software )
- How Animation works and how the structure of gltf 3d file format.
- Had a breif encounter with IRC, Matrix and such.
- Did learn about webrtc
- Some hearsay about business from listening to mfm.
- A lot of other nonsense that I don't remember XD
This year I created/finished
- My 4 year bachelor degree in IT at MIT, Manipal
- Dactyl Manuform - 3D Printed split wired ergonomic keyboard that's too clunky to actually use XD
- The revenge of pangolins - A 3D game coded from scratch in C for BYOG game jam, in 2 days.
- A .wav file format parser in C.
- This website, with cool styling B)
- Secret santa website/ app
projects not complete - yet ;)
- Multiplayer pong on web with webrtc
- New game engine written in C
- C - like langugage ?
- Authentication for psyorange.com
- Making a phone
- Asteroid game with sdf based graphics