height: 200px;
}
html {
- background-color: aliceblue;
+ background-color: lightblue;
}
body {
background-color: white;
I'm retired, so I have a lot of time on my hands. I figured I could do a project in an average day! But I also wanted to avoid burnout, so I decided to aim a little smaller, and try to get them done in 3 hours or so, and have plenty of time for other things Now there was a small problem, which was that I started on Nov 3, so I had a little catching up. But I would worry about that later.
-The first thing I did was think about how to write projects. I decided I would write them in Flask, a python webserver, so I people could go visit an interactive website. Now, would that actually be fun to write every day? No. So maybe I should spend the first day writing a framework to make the other days easier. But that sounded boring, and abstract, and like I might not know what to do. So instead I just make a very simple app, and decided I would figure out how to make the framework on the second day, based on day 1 (this never happened, btw). My first project was the simplest thing I could think of: an [online blog](https://tilde.za3k.com/hackaday/blog/). I would share it with friends, and they could all post on the blog if they wanted. At the last minute, I added some colors on impulse, which made it way nicer.
+The first thing I did was think about how to write projects. I decided I would write them in Flask, a python webserver, so I people could go visit an interactive website. Now, would that actually be fun to write every day? No. So maybe I should spend the first day writing a framework to make the other days easier. But that sounded boring, and abstract, and like I might not know what to do. So instead I just make a very simple app, and decided I would figure out how to make the framework on the second day, based on day 1 (this never happened, btw). My first project was the simplest thing I could think of: an online blog.za3k.com/hackaday/blog/). I would share it with friends, and they could all post on the blog if they wanted. At the last minute, I added some colors on impulse, which made it way nicer.
[](https://tilde.za3k.com/hackaday/blog/)
*Well!* I thought to myself. *If they can make a game in 1 hour, surely I can just exactly copy what they do in one whole day.* Oh boy, was I wrong. I got nowhere near done. But at the end of the day, I had Unity installed (mostly) and had gotten some ice cubes to appear on screen and fall. I wouldn't call it a game by any means, but it was kilometers ahead of anything I had gotten to work in Unity before, so I called it a huge success (even if I was secretly a little disappointed).
+[](https://tilde.za3k.com/hackaday/asteroid)
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+[<span style="color:red; font-size:200px; position:absolute; height:200px; width: 200px; line-height:100%">X</span>](https://tilde.za3k.com/hackaday/icecube)
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On day 5, I thought to myself. Should I finish the project from the day before? No, I decided. If I kept working on failures, I'd spend all my time on the projects I was worst at. Instead, I'd just fail and learn from it. But I still wanted to make a game in Unity, so I did. I wrote an *Asteroids* clone, where you fly around a spaceship and shoot asteroids.
[](https://tilde.za3k.com/hackaday/asteroid)
The most important thing is to keep up the flow and stick to the spirit.
- *and have fun!*
- **You should work on projects fun to do, fun to learn, or fun to show off.**
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Don't just pick something you can do, learn, or show off.
- **You *can* share your projects if you want.**
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Feel free to share on social media of your choice, a blog, just show your friends, or to email me!
You can ignore any of the above rules if you don't like them. I'm not the boss of you! But since I am the only person that's done this challenge, I think I have good advice.
-If you finish I will send you a little picture of a "2023 Hack-A-Day Complete" gold medal for being so cool and add your name to a list. I'll probably come up with a participation trophy too.
+If you finish I will send you a little picture of a <span style="color: gold;">2023 Hack-A-Day Complete gold medal</span> for being so cool and add your name to a list. I'll probably come up with a <span style="color: bronze;">participation trophy</span> too.
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