Hey, Ask Lemmy, we all know that people love to talk about themselves, and I'd love to hear about some of your pleasant experiences. So, please, no matter how big; no matter how small, tell me something that you are proud to have made :)

I make video games on occasion. My portfolio is mostly jams and unfinished prototypes, and while I am working on something special, at this rate it will be a million years before it's ready for release.

I catch my wife playing this one sometimes and it makes my heart happy

Sometimes I paint minis. These were a couple of characters I played where I made a custom figure

Kurt is technically a kitbash. I took a figure that was originally a bard holding a harp, cut out the harp and gave him some books. He was a gifted kid turned wizard-college-dropout, really pulling from life experience there.

For Robin I made a couple of additions with clay. I'm really bad at that, but it makes me happy

So far

I made a DaaS product https://kaleh.net/trace. A lot goes into it:

• endpoint location
• transformation of records into canonical model
• storage/indexing
• WWW html & copy
• Billing integration
• the whole thing

It took awhile to plan out and develop, but I am proud that it exists and that I have subscribers. Now that I have a dataset, I am working on other product offerings atop that dataset.

Back in the 90s, we bought an 87 year old house that had been neglected for decades, but the neglect was what we liked. That meant that nobody had "upgraded" or modernized it.

We spent the next 7 years renovating it, fixing every wall, repairing plumbing, installing a cast-iron woodburning stove, etc.

When we were done, we had turned the ugliest house on the street into a museum piece, and sold it for far more than any house on the street had ever sold for.

I made a t-shirt from pieces of other t-shirts. It's messy as fuck but I wear it with pride. I want to make more and improve.

I built a maze game in Godot. It uses depth first search to make a maze then you have a little wizard dude that runs through it. Each time you complete theaze the next one get bigger.

I make music. It’s not amazing music but it’s mine and doing it brings me great joy. I have a recording studio in my house, and use much of my down time for writing and recording music. I’ve slowly been teaching myself audio engineering and production, try to drop a song or two each year, and am working on a full-length album.

Unfortunately I can’t really share that here without doxxing myself. I do still maintain a Reddit account solely for the purposes of promotion and networking with other amateur recording artists, only because the music making communities on Lemmy are not very active.

My kids

I sculpted this tiki mask using blender and then milled it out of aluminium using a 3 axis mill.

You can make your own, if you have a 3D printer or a milling machine:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4636877

My son is my biggest one.

Second, I completely redesigned the UI for one of the most popular image editing apps (it had been on Windows for years and my design was v1.0 for Mac). My design was nominated for an Apple design award that year, and Don Norman called my UI ‘innovative’ (I still have that email).

Keyboards (home and work)

Macro-pad (for me and the Mrs)

Hitbox controllers (for playing Street Fighter 6)

My last two PCs

Turned a broken laptop into an emulation console

A bunch of "Ikea hack" furniture pieces around the house that I don't have pictures of currently.

I don't have anything specific to show. But I am an aspiring author who took an old English Creative Writing assignment and turned it into a 16 book epic decades later. I should be ready for publication by the end of this year.

There are two big ones at the moment. The first is that I made my own cyberdeck, and I even have an assembly animation for it:

https://dalek.zone/w/oSAxetbgfQBrYHTgz4AXLB

It took me several months and two iterations. But I'm very happy with the end result. It could use some more tweaks, but it's been working well so far.

The second is that I've more or less completed a multi-player video game called Sunken Barrels:

https://codeberg.org/Sir_Thominick_IV/Sunken_Barrels

Just like my cyberdeck it could use some polish, but again I'm very proud with the result. It is fully playable, it's fun, and it fills the nostalgia from the original Garry's Mod game its based on.

Something out of myself. Raised poor, lived in a renovated chicken coop for a while. Almost homeless a few times. My wife and I now have two nice paid off cars, a nice home, good jobs, our kids are all doing well and we spoil the shit out of our granddaughter.

We just had this delivered to her! Something I always wanted as a kid and wanted to be able to afford for our kids but couldn't.

made a concrete sidewalk on the side of my house… 67 concrete bags mixed with a drill and attachment

https://newdawnowl.itch.io/microtonal-grid

I made a pure code, microtonal step sequencer that makes it really easy to try out what microtonal music is like.

I'm also very proud of how quickly and easily I implemented the conway's game of life into it, only took me about an hour or so.

I'm not proud of how long it took me to get rid of the "clicky" bug.

I spent most of this year building https://github.com/zedd00/PantryButler a pantry and recipe organizing app.

I'm about 95% on a firmware update and Linux gui interface for my cloudnine keyboard so I can move the fucking led back light change button away from the ctrl key.

Years ago I was asked to make a website to educate the public and promote a campaign to bring back a formerly-declared-extinct species.

There were scientists, zoologists, researchers and volunteers in the field who did the REAL work. I had the easy part.

But when the website was launched, I received 'thank you' emails from all over the world. Reading all of those letters was one of the most rewarding feelings.

And the best part . . . Though it's still a threatened species (I'm told recovery potential is strong), today there are more than 500 of these animals living in the wild.

Well, if we're tootling anyway. Am rather fond of my latest.

Its owner will be taking delivery later this week. Hopefully they're fond of it, too.

A mod for a game, despite its updates taking a while, and a few programs (even when company leadership called it bad despite customer loving it and loving working with me).

If my contribution counts, then my daughter. That was mostly my wife’s making, though. But I’m pretty damn proud of that.

Aside from that, in my last year of high school I had a composition project for music class. After handing it in, the teacher said it was the single best submission he’s ever received and asked me if he could pull some strings for me to get into a composition program at a fairly prestigious music university. I had other plans so I declined the very generous offer, but last I heard he still uses my composition as an example to his students for what the project is capable of.

I’m a musician. I’ve been in a lot of bands, but I’m especially proud of all the music I’ve released as a solo artist for the past 5 years.

The folder of abandoned novels I have on my desktop

I really wanna finish them sometime but in the meantime I think trying to write something has helped me understand myself and the people they were influenced by a bit more. Also one of them was a SciFi novel and I learned a few fun facts about Saturn while writing it

I made a punk rock album a while ago, it's mostly good. I've taken a few of the songs to my new band, they're definitely better with more people!

https://jimmyhalliday.bandcamp.com/ if anyone wants to give it a listen. It's free!

Last year I built this cupboard and hutch, along with a matching buffet.

I fixed a Y2K bug.

I grew a small weed grow into a large weed factory, during the times where you could still go to jail for doing so! Always follow your dreams kids and shoot for the stars.

Damn, that looks fine!

Thank you.

I took a massive dump this morning and I’m not flushing it until my wife has a chance to look at it.

Kids' memories. Well, they were kids then but adults by now. I had to plan a monthly adventure/field-trip for an after school program aged k-3rd grade. We toured the inside of a telephone exchange where the employee guide explained to the kids that every phone in town had two wires connected to the the massive room they were viewing. They went through a bunch of details about batteries, electricity, and phones -- and most of it may have gone over the kids heads, but the size and scale of all those wires had mouths agape.

We had some other good adventures like finding our own fossils and growing seeds, and each seemed to spark interests in different kids. I don't have pictures and I don't know how the kids turned out, but judging by their reactions, I feel certain tiny brains formed new connections on those outings even if that spark event has been forgotten.

French fries and mac N cheese. Cause both times it's a recipe I came up with on my own.

With Mac N cheese, the problem was lack of availability of good cheeses where I live. So I made a change to the recipie. Put 2 parts milk, one part cheese slice, and some flavouring oil. I create the flavour oil by heating garlic and onion on very slow heat for like half an hour. The oil gets the confiet garlic flavour, even though garlic crisps up because gas stove is still too hot for the task, and then add the milk and cheese. And damn it turned out great. Just put a little sugar so it emulates cream a little more.

Then fries, I'm trying to make crispy fries that don't require pulling in and out of freezer, or even double frying. My last batch was sloppy, but I was 85℅ successful. I must experiment a little more to see if it's even possible to make them 100℅ as perfectly crispy as you get in restaurants, but I'll try, and if successful, will share the recipe.

I'm a cs graduate, I wish someday there are real projects that I've worked on that I would be proud of, but for now it's just these small achievements😅.

Edit: NOT one part flavouring oil. I use a lot less. I don't measure it out, but when I'm using 2 part's cheese, I usually go for a table spoon or two.

Solid job on the minis!

I build, customize, and paint Gunpla. I finished this one a couple days ago.

I don't know what microtonal music is. I don't understand beats, notes, or any of those numbers or scales or who Conway was, but I just spent about an hour playing on this thing🤩. Bravo sciencey music person!

Wait, I am confused, is it a punk rock album or is it mostly good? 😛

Really dug that 50s surf/rock-a-billie guitar tone in the song about punching klan turds.

Keep jamming, this is good

Sweet!

I was tasked with making a backup solution for this company and during it I learned about piping over ssh and I was just giddy over the solution. Main server was backed up to disks on a remote server that also acted as the hardware backup. Like a 5 min disaster recovery. It was mac to which was kinda at what would be the height of mac stuff to me. While they still had a rack server offering.

How do you customize them?

"finding our own fossils" sounds like a time-traveling adventure lol

My kid, but I admit I didn't do most of the work.

Still, they're pretty great.

Ok, bad wording. It entailed me (without kids) going to a quarry known to have lots of fossils (which were of no interest to the quarry), and hauling boxes of likely-candidate rocks back to the program. Kids got to don safety glasses and wield rock hammers until they found a fossil, which they could then take home. So: not fossils of us, but ones we could keep.

Both! There's a few songs that I dislike now, especially towards the end of the album, but it is what it is at this point.

Thanks for checking it out! My new skacore band will be releasing stuff before the end of the year, and I'll be posting them, so keep an eye on the punk/ska/new music comms!

I'm impressed

I expect to see you showing this off in !cooking@lemmy.world soon! Lol

You sound awesome honestly

Is ska coming back? This is the 3rd time in 2 weeks someone mentioned ska and 2 were IRL. Either way, get it man! Have fun, make music!

Hell yeah! Overcoming circumstances you didn't choose is the hardest fucking thing.

Ooohh I've just gotten into cooking and my house is small, this could be amazing.

A free mobile game "Wandering Alchemist" I've released on both Android and iOS. Free as in offline, no ads, no in-app purchases (Besides a fully optional "support the developer"). It's a GPS walking game where you gather ingredients, brew potions, sell them to merchants and decorate your neighborhood.

On some days it's awesome, on other days I ask myself why I do this to myself. But overall it's fun :)

I'm currently working on a big update that reworks all the visuals, a lot of them are still from early on and look really shoddy. For example before and after:

Google Play Store

Apple App Store