Here's an open-ended thread can just basically talk about what you've been up to lately creatively speaking. It's not the same as a typical Showcase thread where the main point is to, well, showcase your works - though you can certainly do that if you've completed a piece or to show your progress, you can also just talk about what you've been working on and how it's been going. It's basically just a way to track your progress and encourage others. I also need to emphasize that it can be ANY kind of creative work, whether it's writing, drawing, painting, crafts, film-making, design, coding, or anything else which involves creating something in a creative manner!
Now, we don't want to get spammy so try to include some details of your process or WIP images if desired rather than just saying "Worked on my painting a bit today" or something like that. Of course you don't have to write a book either - though you can if you want 😜
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It's interesting. Last year, I got into drawing again after sort of neglecting it for a while. At the start of this year, my interest in other creative hobbies was revived so for a while I haven't been drawing as much! Of course I do want to get back to drawing, but I'm also glad that I remembered some of my other hobbies. As far as writing goes, I dabbled in some short stories that I'll probably never finish or show to anyone and also finished a Superman short story I started a long time ago and forgot about (warning: it's kinda depressing). I'm hoping in the future to finish a couple other Superman stories I started and continue dabbling with random ideas.
Then there's my interest in web development and design. A while ago I started a Superman fansite with an accompanying forum, but I stopped bothering with 'em for a long time. Just recently though, I suddenly felt inspired to change that and did a little more work on the forum. Of course it's using premade forum software, but I'm making tweaks, mostly stylistic. I haven't been advertising the forum yet so it's empty at the moment other than my sister and I, but I'm thinking I might be ready in the near future to start sharing it with more people and seeing if I can get some discussions going. Not that I expect much popularity, but it'd be fun to try.
I also got the idea to use userscripts and userstyles extensions to add mobile-friendliness to some forums that don't have it yet. I started doing such a project today, in fact. It will mostly be a CSS (styling) job, but I had to write a tiny bit of JavaScript to add the meta viewport tag, and I'm embarrassed that I'm so out of practice that I could barely remember simple JavaScript! I have a job in the web industry, but it doesn't involve any JavaScript at all, so I'm pretty rusty! All the more reason to try to do more coding projects in the future.
Finally, Firefox themes. Firefox majorly changed their theming system, and though they added some great new features, I was confused and frustrated when I first tried the new system, so for a long time I haven't made any themes. But today I decided to give it another try, and realized that once you learn your way around the unfortunate quirks and annoyances, the new theme system is pretty fun and easy - and of course, has some additional capabilities. So far, the new themes I've made are simple and some of them use header images I've used previously, but with different color settings that the new technology makes possible. I'm definitely looking forward to getting back into making themes as it's quick and easy, but still creative, fun, and satisfying. Probably my favorites that I made today are Zippy Color Craze and Magenta Delight. Both use previously made header images, but with a nice clean white toolbar and some touches of color.
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So what have you all been up to?