Updates

So I’ve been very poor at keeping up with this blog so far, and there hasn’t been much movement on the projects I noted down in my first post here. It’s been a busy few months, I’m now moving to a new job, but there is some project progress to update nonetheless, just not quite on the projects I was expecting.

So as follows is what’s currently rattling around in my head in terms of projects.

Rust and Krooza
So I’ve heard on the grapevine that rust is the latest and greatest systems programming language. Sounds like it’ll be worth me investing a little bit of time into over the next couple of years or so. I’ve been using rustlings to get started and I’m very impressed with it, and I’d be inclined to make some contributions to the project at some point in the future (it also makes me want to write a similar learning environment for C or C++!). Following the theme of learning by doing, I’m also involved in a collaborative project to write a 2D game called Krooza using the Rust based game engine Amethyst. There should hopefully be more updates on this in my next post.

Graphics Programming
Not at the forefront at the moment, but I’d made good progress with this and I’ll be sticking with it. I think I’m going to amalgamate my DOOM and scratchpad projects by writing a WAD loader for my scratchpad program so that I can essentially walk around DOOM levels. Might then play around with shaders some more but I’m more likely to do that with the game in Amethyst. With the new job it looks like I might have the opportunity to work with OpenGL for visualisation in some capacity so that might be what leads me back here in the future.

Writing/Side Gig
So I still have this idea knocking around of doing some kind of writing as a side gig to make a little extra money. I’m going to look into a side gig in general, I mentioned porting in my last post and I’ve also been thinking I could offer freelance development and debugging services on a few different websites. I think with the writing I’ll see how this blog goes along. I might do a couple of postmortems of past projects to test the water. Could be fun, we shall see.

So that’s the updates of what’s in my brain at the moment. I think I’ll try and do these monthly. With the new job starting tomorrow I’ll have my momentum back. Looking forward to it.