I’m working on writing a soundtrack to a video game! It’s not finished yet but I’m extremely proud of the music so far. I also wrote this song recently just for fun. :) Made for the Gameboy using Carillon Editor.

https://youtu.be/vPVU6f2KhEA

I’ve made an app for Lemmy and I’m quite proud of how it turned out :)

In a more artistic way, few photos that are worthy to be on my wall, but I still can’t find time to print them. Always envy fancy photographers who make photobooks with their stuff

Volunteered at an international school in the IT dept. and at the time I noticed that the students had to type out a long address in order to connect to their personal drives. This was only necessary when using MacOS.

The head person who brought me on never had time to simplify the process. He said it was like that when he got there. So, I decided to look into it and try to simplify things. Prior to this I never had any experience with macs at all. It took me a while to learn the basics of how to write a script for Mac and how to navigate the OS.

After a bunch of research and videos, I was finally able to write something where all you had to do was click on an icon and you were automatically connected to your drives. This was roughly 10 years ago and about 5 years ago I learned that they were still using what I wrote!

I wrote an automatic teambalancer for Titanfall 2 Northstar, that solved a lot of proplems that match balancing was having before I made it.

Now it’s the go-to for making sure teams are even on a server. It takes into account a lot of things that might screw up balance, and is even able to actively compensate if players suddenly leave/join.

I’m really proud of this little piece of code.

For work I frequently need to look up information for patents. The specific data I need is spread around in multiple US Patent & Trademark Office databases. I created tool with Django/Python so I just have to copy/paste the patent numbers into a box and hit submit. It then returns exactly what I need in the exact format I need. It leaves me with more free time to play Cookie Clicker.

I composed a choral piece away from a piano at a coffee shop years ago. What I’m most proud of is that the voice leading works really well, and yet the chords are quite interesting. It also helps that I’m a professional musician, but I get a little thrill when I get to conduct or perform that piece.

I’ve made a few mods for games over the years that always make me feel a little happy when I remember they exist. Usually its the ones that I made for my own personal tastes that turned out to be things other people really liked, too.

For me, maybe this even if I made one of the characters a little too big. And an Artfight attack I thought came out alright for more recent stuff.

I do the photography for a small computer museum. I published this collection of black & white shots - mostly macro, leaning towards the abstract.

https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Machines-Dave-Fischer/dp/B09X557N52

I come from an extremely religious background. I made a rather cathartic and weird “music video.” It’s not exactly pleasant to watch, but that was kind of the point. As a bedroom musician/producer, I don’t get a ton of feedback, much less strong feedback, but this one has gotten some unexpectedly strong responses when sharing with close friends (like one guy getting pissed and leaving the room–never had that).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_KpkQWtfSU&feature=youtu.be

Years ago, I used to write the monthly newsletter for a nonprofit I was part of. Most of this was just news aggregate kind of stuff, but I did get to have my little editorial section and write about whatever relevant content I wanted.

Thanks to a couple of people willing to boost my signal, I get to say my writing has been read on every continent (big thanks to a college friend of mine doing a summer geology thing in Antarctica).

Years ago as a stupid fresh college grad, I worked for the US Forest Service as a summer intern. I co-authored a study that showed that bighorn sheep were NOT limited by availability of lambing habitat.

This was a political hot button issue that pitted hunters against cattlemen. Cattlemen claimed that the sheep were not getting brucellosis from their cows and that the sheep populations were indeed limited by lambing habitat.

I was very surprised when, 15 years later, I visited the same ranger station to say hello and that same study was still being used as evidence in hearings to undercut the claims of the cattlemen that they didn’t need to vaccinate their cows to protect the sheep. That felt really good.

I do 3d modelling as a hobby so I’ve got a nice big of art stacked up over the years but weirdly enough the thing I’m really proud of is this real life replica of the Splatana stamper from splatoon. It’s a really complex thing that I spent ages on trying to get every little detail as perfectly accurate as I could using only 720p screenshots of low res models and I even made a version that can actually function as an actual stamper. It’s an actual thing that I can hold in my hands, and so can you! Not to mention some of the CAD things I had to do were surprisingly complicated. Like you would not believe how hard it is to emboss a curved surface in fusion 360.

I honestly don’t know what my best work is artistically, but I’m fond of all the little Interior design stuff I do, even if it gets a fraction of the notes anything fandom related gets. The pride rooms are nice but there’s also an entire house I did if you scroll down the tag a little

I’ve made video games for the last decade but the one I’m most proud of is called the away team. A 120k word interactive novel that explores what humanity is and if there is anything worth saving in it. If so, what. All told through the eyes of an AI tasked with saving the last of humanity by finding a new planet in the galaxy for them to colonize.

It has a demo and native Linux builds. https://www.awayteam.space