What's Neon working on?

Hi there! You have stumbled upon my on-line todo list. I intend to keep this up as a sort of reminder for myself, to visit my ongoing projects after letting them gather dust for months.

Active projects

• Part-time work.

  Status: Working on backend microservices in JavaScript for a non-profit org.
• University.

  Status: Starting off the MSc. The courses have been pretty interesting so far! Made Abyssal Fortress for one of them, and a prototype ActivityPub server for another.
• An unnamed 3D renderer. git.neon.moe/neon/neonvk

  Status: I initially started an OpenXR project, but quickly figured out that I need a Vulkan-based renderer. So that's what I'm currently writing. Once I have a usable renderer, I'll continue figuring out the OpenXR side. The endgame is to release a VR game running in my own engine, but we'll see how that goes.
• Minreq maintenance. github.com/neonmoe/minreq

  Status: I'd like to keep this library alive. It's successful in the goal I set for it, so I'm proud of it and will keep maintaining it as actively as other duties and motivation allow. 3.0 is on the horizon, waiting until the issues settle.

Projects on hiatus

Hopefully I'll get around to promoting some of these into the above category at some point.

• Pipeswitch GUI.

  Status: Haven't quite found the time or motivation to do this, but I'd definitely like to make a GUI for managing the pipeswitch configuration.
• Wrath of the Lich King Classic.

  Status: Played actively in phase 1, finished Naxxramas, we'll see when I get back to it.
• NeonWiki, a wiki about my projects.

  Status: All my projects are documented in a pretty scattered manner, so I finally decided to make a centralized repository of all that. It's like a very thorough CV, probably most useful in crafting a regular old CV. MediaWiki's really slow though, so I ought to look for a better alternative. Maybe write one myself. Or just use mdbook.
• An unnamed Pleroma frontend.

  Status: It can display posts (including media), threads, timelines and profiles. Favorites, boosts and deleting posts is also implemented. More involved logged-in functionality like DMs and notifications, and emojos are not yet implemented. And it's implemented on top of Hyper, because NIH.
• Nemini, a Gemini client written in C. git.sr.ht/~neon/nemini

  Status: This lost a little steam after the initial week, but I would like to make it properly usable some day. The scope is small, probably the biggest hurdle is implementing a history UI and fixing all the bugs and issues with URLs (which were a hot topic on the ML, last time I checked).
• Slowlight, a 3D software renderer. git.sr.ht/~neon/slowlight

  Status: this is a project I've been wanting to make for a long time: a basic renderer for tile-based, constrained (think TIC-80 or PICO-8) first person games. I started working on it as a software renderer because I wanted to see how fast I could make it, and it turned out to be a lot of fun. Before shipping any games with it, I'll need to port the logic over to the GPU though, because this kind of rendering code is simply faster on the GPU.
• Moet, a music player / album browser. git.sr.ht/~neon/moet

  Status: There's a grid of squares, and a primitive sound player. I simply ran out of time to work on this, but I'd like to make this usable one day. The main inspiration is to have something light and fast for browsing and listening to music in an album-oriented way. Not CLI, TUI, GTK or Qt.

Past projects

• Ludum Dare 48.

  Status: Finished the compo! Go check out Metal Miner. This one didn't pan out too well, but it was fun making a voxel generation / rendering thing in Unity.

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