17 august 2021
Tired out, but it's done! Managed to get the notes utility onto the AUR successfully, which makes this our first time uploading anything to the AUR. It's documented decently, but a bit thickly and we had a hard time making sense of things. Managed it though! Tested it and it installs properly and does what it's supposed to, so we can celebrate our first PKGBUILD knowing it works. :)
A friend was also incredibly kind and helped fix issues with Windows compatibility to get it working as intended on Windows, and they went the extra mile by contributing a .exe file to the release! Enormous thank you to them. I don't think they're on the town unfortunately.
I'm just really happy everything works. We've been pouring time into it this week because classes start back up in a month and we want to have it mostly good-to-go before then while we have the time to troubleshoot. We'll be doing a programming 101 class (haha, think we have a head start on that) because it's required to take other compsci classes, so we won't have as much time for personal projects. Also doing an introductory IT class because that's the other requirement to take anything else, so we'll see how that goes. And then biology's the last class for next quarter because we really need to knock out the lab classes for our AA. Been holding off because of the pandemic, but with vaccination it feels semi-safe to go in for labs only. Otherwise still entirely remote classes. Would put off lab classes longer to be safe, but we're out of non-lab classes that are required and that we could take remotely without frying our brain.
Been doing pretty okay mentally still. Hesitantly calling this a good period? Had a surge of anxiety last night but that's pretty standard for us. Something about being alone at night lets the brain bogeymen out, haha. I think it's because we have permission to feel things since other people won't see us, meaning there's no risk of being punished for it. Holdovers from childhood I guess. Never been allowed to have negative feelings around people, so we don't.
It's still godawful hot outside and inside. Air conditioners can't keep up with 100+ F heat and it sucks. I think our room is the only place in the house that's under 80 F, and that's because it's tiny and well-sealed. It's supposed to cool off by Wednesday but I really doubt it.