Today is a special day! 365 days ago, on February 4, 2018, I wrote my first entry on this blog. Since then, I’ve been posting once a day, and a lot has happened! Today, I’m going to be looking back on my favourite posts from this past year. It’s been an exciting journey!
Without further ado, let’s take a look at the highlights from the first year of this blog!
Highlights, Descending Chronologically
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My very first post! In it, I introduced my ideas for the blog.
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Built my first Python program from scratch. It calculated the number of edge pieces of a puzzle.
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Completed the classic “donut” tutorial in Blender
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Put together a tutorial for setting up the Raspberry Pi and making it respond to pressing a “button”
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Released “Potato Soccer,” a lo-fi homage to Rocket League
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Discovered how much fun it is to make custom synths in ReaSynth
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Released the first version of the Randomizer
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Completed Basic Math & Pre-Algebra for Dummies
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A hand-written blog post written from a hospital bed
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Redesigned my site to the custom “Windows 95” look that you see today
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Bought http://www.everstormseve.com, commissioned art for the upcoming album release
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200th post! Finished recording “Cephalopod: Eater öv the Void”
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Released “Cephalopod: Eater öv the Void” on Spotify and iTunes
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An essay looking at the connections between prose, poetry, and song
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Bought and reviewed the Line 6 Spider 15 guitar amp
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Added a new activity to the Randomizer: handwriting Walt Whitman’s poems
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A reflective post that I wrote on the last day of my summer
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First heard Natalie Prass’ song “Hot for the Mountain” and immediately fell in love with it
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Started Precalculus 11
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Figured out how to run the Randomizer on my Android
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Moth-memed my debut album’s artwork
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Did a cover of the Twin Peaks theme song, using only ReaSynth and ReaSynDr
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Released TXT2MIDI.PY, a program that converts words to music
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Precalculus Unit 2 Review
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Precalculus Unit 3 Review
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Created the “Math Symbols” page on my website
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Precalculus Unit 4 Review
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I start fiddling around with the 555 timer on a breadboard in the hopes of building a synthesizer. Instead, I make a blinking red light. Oh well.
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Released “Stopping by Woods,” a TXT2MIDI conversion of Robert Frost’s classic poem
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Christmas Day!
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Released my song “Fly So High”
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A reflective post looking back on 2018
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Released my song “The Colours of Space”
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Precalculus Unit 5 Review
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Released my song “I’m Floating”
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Created the trigonometry flowchart
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Tidied up with Marie Kondo
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Precalculus Unit 6 Review
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Released a cover of Natalie Prass’ “Hot for the Mountain”
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Released “John Galt,” a song inspired by one of my favourite books, Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged
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It’s been an amazing year. I’m really glad that I started this project; I’m looking forward to another year of creating and learning!
Steven Mills 