One feature this will have: No Shuffle on albums. Playlists -- sure fine, ok. But on albums. Unless you like answer a prompt that is like "ARE YOU FUCKING SURE? type the word SHUFFLE below" -- then maybe I'll let you shuffle an album.
Oh yeah I agree. You still need to know HOW to code this stuff to get really good output and build ANYTHING of any scale. That said, skills like systematic-debugging are bonkers for finding issues. So it's getting better very fast.
I'm now listening to music in my own superior music player that I _started_ vibe code--no, just *coding* a few hours ago that is already pretty good? The future is now! Needs a better name than MusicApp lol! But like... look at this shit! Follow for updates? haha.
I think also we need to stop calling it vibe-coding. It's just coding now. This is just what programming is now. Just like we don't hand code assembly anymore, we're just not going to hand-code Javascript or C or Python. It's over.
I think my dream might be to only use software I've written.
I love vibe coding. All these shitty apps that have been tormenting me for years? I can now just fucking rewrite them! I'm looking at you Apple Music!
I had to add "edit" mode to grind.pjgarcin.com because now that I'm done drafting I don't want to lose my streak and keep collecting artifacts! But sometimes I delete words rather than writing them! So now supports "edit" mode that changes daily challenges and what your daily "target" is.
The gap between working on a book vs. working on software in terms of the pace of development is wild. Writing a book feels positively glacial in pace when working on software feels like warp speed.
THE END. 91,543 words. 54-day writing streak to write the remaining 48,888 words when I thought I was "halfway" there. This one was hard fucking work. Now to start the part that takes even longer. Editing it.
50 day writing streak! This goofy writing streak app has basically helped me (nearly) finish my latest WIP! It's available (free) on my author website: grind.pjgarcin.com
I know a lot of the folks on here don't want to hear about AI things but I think this post is VERY important to read. And it aligns with my experience *exactly* (since I work in tech) and hiding your head in the sand or ignoring it isn't going to make it less real: shumer.dev/something-bi...
This book is certainly a lot...messier to write than Kardashev Cycle. Those really just fell into place. This one is much harder to tame. Even closing in on the finish it's still fighting to figure out exactly what it is.
The good news is, I'm about to cross my original 60K target on my latest WIP. The bad news is I am pretty sure there's at least another 30K words on this badboy. I guess fantasy really is longer than sci-fi?
So, in this release: www.spacex.com/updates#xai-... : Kardashev Type II. Factories on the moon. Harnessing the full output of the sun. Check. Check. Check! Um, Elon, Mercury's Shadow was not a manual! Spoiler: Alton Neal is the bad guy! nr.rawktron.com/b/mercurysha...
I hit at 30-day streak writing. At 57K now on my fantasy novel. But seriously, I doubt I would be here without the silly streak tracker I wrote for myself. If you miss a day, you don't just break a streak, you lose a collectible artifact that is gone forever. Feel free to try it: grind.pjgarcin.com
Well, it's kind of dumb. But the writing tracker / word count tracker app I wrote for myself has me on a 22-day streak. I don't think I've ever been this consistent. So my "hack" to have collectible artifacts that are write-or-miss-out is working on my dumb brain. Whatever works! 50K+ words now!
So, I made an audio middleware lib in JS (events, RTPC, adaptive music, mix snapshots, etc.). It's like a mini-FMOD with howler.js backend. If that's interesting to folks I could look at open sourcing it. It's probably overkill? But was needed for one of my projects.
Ok, available on PyPI now as inkpython. I had to rename the GitHub repo as well because the PyPI namespace is very polluted. The old one will just redirect though. pypi.org/project/inkp...
I pushed the pyproject
metadata so you can build an sdist or wheel now if wanted. Will try to get it pushed to PyPI this week.
Ok, there was no pure python runtime for Ink (inkle's narrative scripting language) so I just did it. Available here: github.com/rawktron/pyink
All the tests pass. Tested a few inks: all good. That's about all the assurances I can give. When I get some time I'll publish to PyPI, etc.
It's.... working? Day 8 in my writing streak! This stupid little app I made has hacked my brain and kept me writing consistently!
Because my dumb brain isn't satisfied with just streak tracking and graphs, now my word count tracker supports "events" random things like monster attacks where now I have to write MORE in order to slay imaginary monsters. Sure. Why not!
If you look closely you can see it THINKS I will finish the draft in January. I guess if I keep the streak up? It projects based on the current average when it should probably assume I might collapse to the minimum daily. But even the minimum is progress!
Ok, well it's getting a little out of hand here now, but I will say... it's working? 2 day streak? haha. Brains are weird. Why does this work on my stupid brain? (This is the word count / streak tracker I made for myself for 26. It has ephemeral collectibles that you must write to collect).
Well it says I have 99 posts so I pretty much have to do one more to hit 100. Expect at least one new book from me in 2026! I swear.
So I tried to solve “write consistently” by coding instead of writing. Of course! To keep me on track in 2026, I built a word-count + streak tracker for my WIPs (XP + streaks + daily collectible “Artifacts” + reminders/nags). In case it helps anyone else: grind.pjgarcin.com WARNING: VERY BETA.
I counted up all my WIPs and I have 12. A Dozen. Send help. And the one at 50k I just realized is actually only half done. Ugh. Eventually one has to finish? Right? Right!?!
I can't even keep up with all the news about billionaires (trillionaires?) running everything. But I do know that I wrote a sci-fi series that explores what happens when you let one man run everything. SPOILER: It's bad. Book 1 is FREE (2+3 on KU): nr.rawktron.com/b/mercurysha...
Ok so this ANSI game engine project is getting out of control but is also kind of awesome? I just added dynamic lighting/shadows. Because of course you need that in an ANSI graphics game?
I spent all day down a crazy rabbit hole with my newsletter stuff all because a provider decided to block a port...and the dominoes fell. Working again now but... wow.
