Start of Week Update - 008

By A.A. Lopez

    That was an enjoyable... I was going to say vacation, but I was working, at home with family, and constantly trying to meet deadlines beyond that of my scope, so it was time away, I guess. Nonetheless, it is Labor Day, and tomorrow going back in-office thrice a week... hooray.

    Not much to report during my time away from development. The biggest thing is that I got myself a Raspberry Pi 400, which has been pretty fun to work on for the past couple days, and I can't wait to see what else I can do. I'm mostly messing around with Scratch at the moment, mostly to see what it can do. I might try making Thrift Tycoon in there just to see if I can. Oh, that also leads me to the other thing.

    I'm going to start streaming my dev nights on my Twitch Channel: vicarbatman. I'll be doing a 2-hour stream on Friday nights from 7pm to 9pm Pacific, and on Saturdays, I'll be doing a 4-5-hour stream from 1pm to 5pm or 6pm, with maybe a stream on Sundays. These streams will focus on a lot of the projects listed here. This Friday (9/5/25), I'll be randomly selecting which of my projects I'll work on for the stream; it could even be a randomizer script to decide what I'm going to work on.

    Though not all the time it will be so focused on work, if I'm feeling stressed, depleted, or otherwise beat, I'll most likely just play a video game for the time of the stream. I'll post when I'm going live here, on my Bluesky, and on my IG... which I realize I should make each one of those for my studio email... I am behind on that stuff. Anyways, let's jump into what this week's focus will be on:

• Monday
• Labor Day
• Writing my SoW Update
• Tuesday
• Work on the AxCS and LinX systems 
• Update the MCT to convert .scc and .srt files into .vtt files
• Update the MCT to convert non-UTF-8 files into UTF-8
• Look into the feasibility of gamifying the MCT
• Wednesday
• Repeat Tu
• Thursday
• Repeat Tu/Wed
• Create an IG and Bsky for A&A
• Friday
• Rest
• Stream
• Announce Stream on Blog/IG/Bsky
• Current Ideas for stream:
• Unveil new Logo
• Prototype Project://JUNO
• Create a simple platformer in Scratch
• Design some items in Illustrator for Thrift Tycoon
• Saturday
• Stream - Choose one of the items listed which weren't done
• Sunday
• Rest
• Write EoW Update
• Write SoW Update

    Okay, it's not a lot on paper, but it does feel heavy thinking about it. Let's hope I'll have enough time to do everything on the list. Oh! And like it mentions, I have made an updated version of my logo for Anytime & Always Studios, so I'll show it off there and update here on the blog once I show it off. I'm pretty proud of how it came out.

    It's honestly thanks to a friend pointing out how the current one just really focuses on the A and T of anytime and not really playing around with the double a's. So I took her, is it a critique? Her comment? Her appraisal? Yeah, let's go with that. I took her appraisal and updated the logo. If you want to see the reveal, make sure to check out the stream on Friday.

    Well, that's it for tonight, see you in the rest of September!