Goals for the week
- Keep reading Relph – I need to get through more of it
- Read the research methods book chapters
- Continue on with GBStudio tutorial series
- Continue developing a time-space framework
Main thing:
Not a huge amount of content on this particular page this week – lots of other work has been happening though.
Mon
Finish off building server – finally got unraid going… hoping to start setting it up this coming weekend – but, in the mean time for the rest of the week, homework awaits!
Tue
Started reading through the Research Methods text that I think I will be using when I am studying.
Wed
Continued on working through Gumpy Function tutorial series “Let’s Build A Platformer! course“
https://gumpyfunction.itch.io/lets-build-a-platformer
Thu
Continued on with Let’s Build A Platformer! course. It is an interesting format from Lesson 3 onwards – most of the lesson is within comments inside the project file.
Also, while I am at it, I had in the back of my mind, bubbling away, a bunch of ideas.
Started watching ‘The Get Down’ on Tuesday. Very interesting series – I liked in the first two episodes (that’s all I have watched so far) how there is some kind of item that represents a crucial element of the development of hiphop, becomes important – in ep. 1, its a holy grail 12 inch record that everybody wants and is hard to get, but becomes significant to the narrative. Then, in ep. 2, the crayon become significant. The title of each episode is cleverly displayed on the train as a graffiti piece – again, there are many symbolic layers intertwined into the show.
It is an interesting device, overlaying the importance of things like this – i remember in Ozark, each episode title graphic contained icons of four key representative of that episode in some way – some times it was pretty tenuous, but an interesting idea nonetheless. I can’t remember now, but there was another thing we watched recently that had a similar idea, but with a single graphic.
The last thing, is some ideas I had way back when I was studying in the late 90’s – I stared getting into ideas about how I could structure narratives, and other elements like that – I was very into coffee, and came across an organic chemistry book. I wondered if chemical structure diagrams could be used for organising principles, especially when they were undergoing chemical reactions, such as when making a coffee – e.g. applying heat, water, sugar etc.
There would be many factors – the atoms – the chemical reactions – the molecules acting together etc.
And of course, the structure would underpin the main focus of the narrative or section – e.g. it’s about coffee, or set in a cafe, which someone is having a cup of coffee…
I think I quite like the idea of having a thing underlying something completely different, but it also makes total sense – e.g. using organic chemistry to structure narratives… I mean, why not!
Again, these ideas connect to the idea of self organisation etc. that I talk about in the post about boids (Log 6 – 25.5.26 – 31.5.26), and chaos (Log 4 – 11.5.26 – 17.5.26)
Fri
Upping my writing workflow
I wanted to avoid the tech giant companies, so investigating rolling my own. The caveat being that it needs to be accessible to not just me for reading and commenting on.
Zotero for reference and citation management – for editing and adding in to a doc, this is really only an option on a desktop computer
VSCodium for writing myself
Some kind of solution that will allow for comments etc. – so, i will do the export to doc and all will be well – things can be marked up there…
Nextcloud
This is slightly out of date – the setting for getting pandoc rendering the references is now:
the setting for pandoc preview in VSCodium changed to: Markdown-preview-enhanced: Markdown Parser – select ‘pandoc’ from drop down @32:54
And, here is all the stuff I made notes about:)
Sat
- Finish off tasks or, if done – start another task…
- spent more time working through setting up the server… oh yes…
Sun
A quick catch up session
read! the research thing and the place thing…