This post is meant to expand on the previous one.

Over the course of the last few months I have done very little work pertaining to code and things that surround it in general. I was mostly focused on running my PC repair business, and a result of seasonal changes in shopping habits of consumers I had some time to just relax and do nothing for a few weeks. Recently though, I felt like coming back to coding for a bit since I missed it. I picked up some of my leftover projects, including this site and returned to implementing changes.

Regarding my main software project, it has been interesting to come back to it after a long time. I got some of the most major bugs figured out and that was nice, however the reasons I left it stagnant in the first place resurfaced quickly. The codebase, while a lot better than the previous versions made circa 2019 is currently quite outdated, and suffers from feature creep, broken dependencies and my own mistakes that I made while I was learning new frameworks that went into its development. If I want to continue working on it, I have to migrate, and migrating includes a near from-scratch rewrite, which I am not opposed to but its definitely not a thing you can just sit down and do over the weekend.

Regarding my websites, I have been slowly migrating all of them to a single VPS and updating their codebase. All of them use Flask as I have made an incursion into Python a while back as a part of my effort to keep learning new things and as such are a bit broken and inefficient which is fine. However, I hope to allocate all them to their own dedicated VPS so I dont have 10 different ones wasting compute resources.

I have also updated some of my gameservers and setup a new one for Team Fortress 2, which is funny because only 3 days later a new update came out breaking the dedicated server. When you attempt to join the server segfaults and crashes. I'll have to wait for a fix from the plugin developers, because until then running a barebones stock server is not in anyones best interest with how this game's community is like.

I have also (as mentioned before) been freed from a couple major projects and as such have more free time to dedicate to my own stuff. There are a lot of things I want to do, but my main goal for the time being is to find a niche and focus on it, maybe try making something that could generate additional revenue which is always nice. I have been looking back to my highschool days when I tried really hard to make a CMS with PHP. I have long been interested in full-stack web development and still want to make something useful in that regard. I also would like to make a couple more videogames. I have made a few before, but none of them were ever finished.

All of this feels cool but also at the same time its like cleaning your room after a long time of having neglected to do it, so a lot of smelly unwashed socks and dust and burger wrappers come up along the way, metaphorically of course. Just gotta pick a direction and stick with it, which I have always been bad at, lol.

Thats pretty much all for this post, deuces.