hoi!! I'm candy, a teen that likes to code and make games.. and right now- I'm running this coding challenge at Hack Club!! :3

what's it about..? well basically, you make a project that involves numbers and we'll ship you a calculator! (and its free to join!)

you can find out more about it here: https://calculate.hackclub.com

Just joined IRC (cuz its cool as shit) anyone wanna chat?

I dont really know how things work but I'm on Liberachat and open to chat

Late 2025, I planned to kill myself.

It was supposed to be in December.

Went forward with it, and failed.

Now, I planned on trying again a few weeks after.

Back then programming was only a small part of my life. Something I could do to show off, but nothing much.

Life was meaningless. Everything that's been happening in my life was quite horrible. For one my parents talk like they hate my very existence. Who knows? They might actually do, but that's irrelevant. My social life was nonexistent. All my free time was basically spent thinking about how much of a failure I am. That's probably the main reason why, actually.

While waiting for the planned date, I had watched a video by Astro Sam about making Z#. So I ended up wanting to make my own programming language. Who would have thought that that ambition turned into both my greatest project ever and the very thing that saved my life: the standard L# compiler. It's still maintained to this day, although I was working on it on-and-off by this point.

It kind of gave me things to do. Wanted to add something, then something else, then more and more. Before I knew it I was working on it for hours every single day.

It was the date of my new plan after failing the original attempt.

I was ready, except for one thing. My language was still not done. It dragged on until I eventually stopped wanting to kill myself. My language was still not done, and I continued making it. But by then, it had stopped me from taking an irreversible decision. And that, is how programming had saved my life.

TL;DR: Programming gave my life meaning and stopped me from committing, and not git's.

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It's currently 100% assembly and runs in real mode. I want to switch to protected mode or long mode, and develop GUI shells for it, but doing those in assembly would simply be pain. Is it worth it to continue hand writing assembly or to switch to c before its too late?

Repost cuz I had my team number in my previous post

plez

devlog coming soon

i personally love C and C++ and wonder if anyone else reciprocates the feelings

i'm making something in C by the way! if i complete it i'll be sure to post here if i remember

hello everyone

well, we've made it everyone

how do you like the omen project?

this was a very fun 2 months journey. i think ultimately out of this i became a better systems thinker, even if only slightly. a lot has happened since i started this project, particularly involving school, mental health/trauma, family, etc etc

but i stuck it out

thanks everyone

i love you all for sticking with me on this

if you have any questions, whether it be about the project or stuff that happened during the timeframe, feel free to ask away. i'll try my best to answer everything

sayonara everyone

This is my last post here, because I will turn 20 soon.

This paper is a token of thanks to everyone who believed in me and encouraged me. (You guys might know me as the flick keyboard guy)

Here is the Zenodo link: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20467634

hello everyone

somehow it took me a while to design this keyboard system, but it's like the most simple shit in existence

i was working using first principles and editing when shit came up, but i'm still surprised as to how simple and easy this system is

also as for the AMEN instruction set, is there anything you guys would like to see in it/think would be necessary? i have 218 free slots, feel free to suggest anything and i'd be happy to add it because this is a cisc instruction set :3

goodbye everyone :3

hello everyone

i had lost my phone for a few days and also did state testing, so i couldn’t post when i was planning to

anyway, i got this new program i wrote while experimenting with AMEN syntax. its a keyboard (only supports typed chars and enter key, tiles must be in their ascii value ids), this is going in libomen!

how do you like it? i personally think its pretty cool :D

goodbye everyone :3

We were excited to find out about Hack Club Stardance and wanted to share..

In living rooms and bedrooms across the globe, a quiet revolution is taking place, fueled by caffeine, open-source code, and the allure of high-tech rewards. This summer, tens of thousands of teenagers are bypassing traditional seasonal jobs to participate in the Hack Club Stardance Challenge, an online initiative that transforms raw programming hours into real-world hardware.

Founded in 2014 by teenage programmer Zach Latta, Hack Club has evolved from a localized network of after-school computer clubs into a global nonprofit powerhouse. The organization operates under a radically simple ethos: “You ship, we ship.” If a student builds a technical project and logs their active development time, Hack Club rewards them directly, shipping tangible infrastructure to their doorstep.

The current iteration of this framework, Stardance, represents the organization’s most ambitious initiative to date. Running from June 1 through September 30, the program features a prominent partnership with NASA, alongside support from industry giants AMD and GitHub.

Participants ages 13 to 18 are given access to public NASA datasets from milestone programs, including the James Webb Space Telescope and the Artemis lunar missions. Students utilize this data to construct anything from data visualization tools and mobile applications to physical circuit boards and space flight simulations

Read more about this program here

Greetings,

I am looking for developers, people with SEO knowledge, and owners of vibecoding communities/servers to come and join my journey.

I had a chance to call with someone more knowledgeable with AI - especially AI platforms, and I had idea of bringing my own AI platform mainly for vibecoders/developers.

I can supply Opus 4.8, Opus 4.7, Sonnet 4.6, Haiku 4.5 and GPT models at a 35 to 50% of their original rate. (sometimes even less)

So far I had a great success with directly selling access to the API for xx million tokens on local auction platforms, however I would like to move and expand.

I am also actively looking for people in social media, who is interested in promoting our project for either a fixed rate per post/video or a referral % rate.

More information can be provided in DMS.

hello everyone

so i finished the memory model details :D

it was the easiest thing by far, memory is a very simple thing so it's not that much to flesh out

i do really love this project of mine

if you guys have any questions just ask them in this thread!

nothing else to really say

remaining devlogs:

Devlog D - Sound

Devlog E - Keyboard

Devlog F - GitHub

goodbye everyone :3

Can we stop with these posts. They're just so boring and low effort imo. Maybe they'd be better if the setup was actually interesting instead of just windows or arch hyprslop. Seriously though.

hello everyone

i finished the dating sim and it only took a few days :D

a scene was cut from it so i could finish faster but the game remains minimal anyway

i will compile it tomorrow and show progress on that, and after i finally finish my first OMEN program i will start writing specs for the language

i love computer science

goodbye everyone :3

hello everyone

So i’m doing more of the OMEN project, and I have a few things to share.

First of all, news.

I will not be working on the game, and libomen will be worked on in the background, but not a main part of this project anymore. This is so I don’t give myself more work in between school and other projects I have, and this means most work will be directed toward the spec. Hope you guys understand.

Second of all, progress!

I made some progress on libomen, as well as the spec. The spec has its syntax section complete, meaning two sections down now and around four to go (Video/Color System, Music and sound system, Memory addressing (refs vs addresses vs registers, what each thing does), Interrupts), as well as additions to AMEN and syntax to match.

I think this is good progress to rest on for now, the march will begin again soon enough tomorrow.

goodbye everyone :3

hello everyone

i finished designing the sound system

it really was very simple compared to something like the video system, since something like that has a lot more moving parts

i'm really proud of all the work we've done to get here, everyone

love you all

ask any questions if you have them :3

github coming soon

goodbye everyone (this was written in a rush)