Today is a special day! 365 days ago, on February 4, 2018, I wrote my first entry on this blog. Since then, I've been posting once a day, and a lot has happened! Today, I'm going to be looking back on my favourite posts from this past year. It's been an exciting journey!
Without further ado, let's take a look at the highlights from the first year of this blog!
Highlights, Descending Chronologically
My very first post! In it, I introduced my ideas for the blog.
Built my first Python program from scratch. It calculated the number of edge pieces of a puzzle.
Completed the classic "donut" tutorial in Blender
Put together a tutorial for setting up the Raspberry Pi and making it respond to pressing a "button"
Released "Potato Soccer," a lo-fi homage to Rocket League
Discovered how much fun it is to make custom synths in ReaSynth
Released the first version of the Randomizer
Completed Basic Math & Pre-Algebra for Dummies
A hand-written blog post written from a hospital bed
Redesigned my site to the custom "Windows 95" look that you see today
Bought www.everstormseve.com, commissioned art for the upcoming album release
200th post! Finished recording "Cephalopod: Eater öv the Void"
Released "Cephalopod: Eater öv the Void" on Spotify and iTunes
An essay looking at the connections between prose, poetry, and song
Bought and reviewed the Line 6 Spider 15 guitar amp
Added a new activity to the Randomizer: handwriting Walt Whitman's poems
A reflective post that I wrote on the last day of my summer
First heard Natalie Prass' song "Hot for the Mountain" and immediately fell in love with it
Started Precalculus 11
Figured out how to run the Randomizer on my Android
Moth-memed my debut album's artwork
Did a cover of the Twin Peaks theme song, using only ReaSynth and ReaSynDr
Released TXT2MIDI.PY, a program that converts words to music
Precalculus Unit 2 Review
Precalculus Unit 3 Review
Created the "Math Symbols" page on my website
Precalculus Unit 4 Review
I start fiddling around with the 555 timer on a breadboard in the hopes of building a synthesizer. Instead, I make a blinking red light. Oh well.
Released "Stopping by Woods," a TXT2MIDI conversion of Robert Frost's classic poem
Christmas Day!
Released my song "Fly So High"
A reflective post looking back on 2018
Released my song "The Colours of Space"
Precalculus Unit 5 Review
Released my song "I'm Floating"
Created the trigonometry flowchart
Tidied up with Marie Kondo
Precalculus Unit 6 Review
Released a cover of Natalie Prass' "Hot for the Mountain"
Released "John Galt," a song inspired by one of my favourite books, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
It's been an amazing year. I'm really glad that I started this project; I'm looking forward to another year of creating and learning!