Learning More Haskell, Gonna Make a Game Here

2025 07 26, 19:50 PDT

When I first learned the basics of Haskell, I really liked it. I may have mentioned that it felt like a fun puzzle to make functions in Haskell when my mind had been so attuned to solving things in the imperative paradigm. Even though I liked it a lot, I stopped 'learning' when I got to defining data types. The basics satisfied me enough, even though I clearly was missing out on other aspects of the language. I rediscovered Learn You a Haskell, and I'm actually getting back into learning more about it. Maybe it isn't as applicable as other languages when it comes to a possible future career in computer science, but it sure does a good job at keeping me occupied while teaching me new stuff at the same time.

I just remembered that I wanted to put a game onto this website. I actually really want to do that. My problem is that I keep coming up with ideas I kind of want to do, and it distracts me from focusing on any one thing. My 'creative priorities' are straight as of now. Learn me a Haskell, and make a game for the website. Easy!

I also added a little story to the Articles section. I've been itching to write any kind of commentary on 'AI' generated media. I kind of achieved that, but not really. I just made a weird story.

Progress on the Randomeer Studios Website!!!

2025 07 23, 19:30 PDT

As mentioned several times before, my friends and I have another website at randomeerstudios.neocities.org. Three of us (including Edyth and Julie) met in person (and Sean over the phone) to work on the banner, cursor, etc. That's all for now.

Boring Little Monday, the Important Things, and an Online Linguistic Competition

2025 07 21, 21:04 PDT

My level of motivation and inspiration is a sinusoidal graph, and it's currently at the minimum value. I didn't really have much to do today, so I thought to retreat to my world of jotting random things and ideas down. At the moment, my current "idea-retreat" is working on LambdaBlocks, my block code language idea. But now I'm getting into the really technical stuff and it's getting too boring for me to continue without much motivation. Most of my other creative projects are a collaborative effort, but all the other Randomeers (randomeerstudios.neocities.org) are busy. I'm not exactly justified for complaining, though. I'm at that point in my life where I need to focus on getting my driver's license (I'm getting it a little later than "my peers"), and I especially need to focus on work. Most of the businesses around where I live are just restaurants. I'm thinking of having my own tutoring gig soon, since my passion for sharing mathematical knowledge seems to be my only applicable skill. Also, tutors around here are overpriced, so I'd basically be doing my community a favor.

Looking through YouTube this morning, I was greeted with a video commencing the "Cursed Conlang Circus 4." If you haven't seen the conlang side of the internet (specifically YouTube), the CCC is basically a competition to make the "most cursed" constructed language. I was actually aware of the conlang community after the first CCC, but before the second one, so I contemplated whether or not I should submit my own conlang. This year, I just might. I had this idea a while ago to make a conlang based on "snapping." I possess the ability to snap with my ring, middle, and index fingers, allowing me to snap rapidly at three different pitches. I thought that maybe it'd be cool to engineer a language that requires this snapping. One of the CCC4's "optional themes" (bonus categories you can incorporate into your lang) is non-human phonemes, so this could also earn me an extra point or something. Maybe I'll do it, maybe I won't. I'll see if I have time to relearn the basics of linguistics after all the "important things."

I think it'd be fantastic if I made money tutoring kids on their math, science, or comp sci homework. But a couple of months ago, me being the absolutely wonderful genius-head I am, decided to enroll in four AP classes this upcoming senior year of high school. Where the hell am I going to find the time for anything? Idk, wish me luck.

Website is coming together, Sunday plans, and a rant on the "Gen Z Stare"

2025 07 20, 12:46 PDT

The website is basically done in regards to actually putting everything together. Now I just need to populate it with articles, programs, etc. I was planning on remaking a game I've made on Scratch, called Mazer 4, because it seemed to be the most popular among my friends and younger brother. Aside from that, I just remembered that I have plans to play DnD with my friends. I'm not actually playing in the current campaign, but I'm the scribe, who draws everything rather than writes what happens. Maybe I'm not the most practical scribe, but I sure do have fun. Maybe I'll add drawings to the website.

A few days ago, I opened up Firefox and saw some cliche headlines. One of them was from "Parenting," which mentioned something about the "Gen Z stare" and why "you should watch out for it" or "what it means" or something, these aren't direct quotes. I figured it was some click-baity title using the common theme of how the new generation poses an existential risk to the future or whatever to generate clicks. I ignored it, but this morning, I encountered a similar topic from my feed on YouTube. I looked into it and learned the "stare" is a thing the older generations are complaining about, primarily regarding younger customer service and retail workers showing an absence of emotion. I understand the surprise expressed by those of the older generation, who are used to the uncanny and over-the-top excitement and kindness as expressed by typical workers of this industry, but I don't exactly appreciate the extremely negative criticism.

I read a comment on the topic, from a European point of view, explaining the whole situation of people complaining about the stare as uniquely American. There's a lot of things I take for granted living in the US (yes, we have flaws, but that doesn't make the US a terrible country), but the only disposable part of American culture, I feel, is the odd social interactions between workers and customers. They're too nice and, to a point, ingenuine. The comment explains how in Europe, retail workers are only there to do their job, not form false friendships to draw more customers in. In a way, I feel that this odd work culture is a reason for the epidemic of entitlement many customers around the country are finding themselves infected with. "No, you're not special, you're ordering a caffinated beverage for way more than you should be. But our workers will treat you the way you want to be treated anyway! Come back again!" I'm almost glad the Gen Z stare is a thing. It combats this irrational aspect of our culture. And maybe I'll have the self-confidence to apply to a grocery store :D

First Post

2025 07 19, 15:00 PDT

Here's the first post of the website. Maybe I should share a little backstory about the place. Several days ago, my friends and I decided to put together a website for our own little unofficial creative studio, Randomeer Studios. I was working on most of the website, but I felt progress was coming by very slowly (maybe I'm just impatient). After looking through other sites on Neocities, I figured it'd be cool to have my own personal website. So I started designing it, and came up with "H Square," after the very square design of the site, and my first initial. Now I have this site! That's cool.