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I just decided to start asking this instead of 'what do you do?' when meeting people. Figured I'd try it out on you folks.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

It's been a while but I was learning to songwrite and record a few years ago. Been focusing on education lately so not as much time for it these days.

Listen to Carried Away by bootydharma on https://on.soundcloud.com/eceja

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For the last year and a half I've been writing and drawing a fluffy, sapphic comic based on a very unserious British science-fiction show about a time travelling alien in a blue box (4 chapters so far). It's on AO3.

Has anyone asked OP what they create? What do you create, OP?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Solid comic!

I grow crystals all day. I have a cool idea for a video game so I've been learning Godot recently too.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’m living on an old farm with lots of junk.

So naturally I am building an 8 foot tall wind-driven kinetic sculpture of a Wendigo.

I bought a welder and a cutoff saw. All the materials are retrieved from the trash gully that every respectable high desert property must have.

It’s a form of cope and even ritual magic for me. Embody the spirit of hoarding and greed so it is vulnerable and can be imprisoned, that sort of vibe.

It will take all winter to finish it. The rebar armature is flexible and bobs in the wind. I will add sun bleached oak branches to give it flesh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Woww🤩🤩

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I draw angels mostly, but I do draw fanart from time to time as well! I've uploaded progress pictures, timelapses, and files associated with my work, too!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Huh. I've never considered the IA as a place to upload my pictures.

Really cool work - you don't happen to be on BSky or tumblr, maybe?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thank you so much!! And I am! I'm on Tumblr and also Bluesky!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

A bunch of FOSS hardware and software. https://twystlock.com/ was my latest creation. My next is a suite of modular open source home automation sensors including everything from air quality to mmWave presence.

In a more "professional" FOSS sense I just presented a new federated identity management system at IIW based on ActivityPub and OpenID Connect: https://fedid.me/.

I also make a lot of behind the scenes algorithms.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago

Disappointment

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Resentment in others.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Philosophical ramblings to justify my existence, which according to capitalism has no value because I don’t have the ability to work.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I'm working on an audiobook of a novel I wrote. I have another recording session today with voice actors who play my characters!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, that must be exciting and nerve wrecking at the same time, seeing your characters come to life. How do you convey what you imagine the characters to sound and act like?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Oh yeah, its amazing to hear the voices for these people but, as you say, it's scary. Since I'm the director and creator it all falls to me to decide everything. I mean EVERYTHING from inflictions in their voices, how a line is delivered, scheduling, payment etc. Of course, I give my actors freedom to interpret how they see the characters. You have to have a fine balance between making decisions but also letting them be creative with what they do during directing sessions.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That sounds interesting. What's the process for making it? What colour does it come out?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Worldbuilding and video games! :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Have you read Vermis?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

I created an email service called https://port87.com

It’s got fancy features that help you stay organized and spam free.

I also create loads of open source software, which I use for it:

https://sveltematerialui.com - A UI library for the Svelte framework.

https://nymph.io - An object relational mapper for Node.js and the browser.

https://github.com/sciactive/nephele - A WebDAV server with encryption, deduplication, and S3 support.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

I have a big sprawling scifi universe I draw pictures of. There is a lot of lore in my head for it that I really am going to write down and present now that there are so many visuals.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

My body is a machine that turns caffeine into uptime.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I create stupid jokes and sarcastic comments on Lemmy.

But mostly just a lot of CO²

And a lot of um... excretions, liquids and soilds, ya know...

I wanted to do worldbuilding and write a story but my depression kinda derailed that 😓

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I create web applications! 🎉 (AKA I’m a typical Lemmy user.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Holy shit, we are dozens!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You made Discord?

🤔

When is the Chaos app gonna be released and how is it different from the Discord app?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

more scams that just auto download to your computer

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I had a shop that made flaming nipple tassels, though I just closed down until the future is more certain. I also create sideshow and fire performances. My most recent one involves a drill and my skull.

And finally, a lot of D&D content, such as an entire world setting inspired by the tarot deck

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

an entire world setting inspired by the tarot deck

This just makes me so happy!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Small mutant corn plants in little containers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I have a podcast that I create with a couple of friends. We take an ordinary object—such as a ceiling fan, or a paper clip, or a toilet brush—and we create a movie plot based on that object. The show is called Almost Plausible, and can be found wherever you listen to podcasts.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I am a senior data architect and infrastructure programmer. I build the tools and design the data persistence that folks at my company use to build solutions for clients.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Duct tape and cardboard solutions to questions like "How do I get these two pieces of photography equipment to work together?"

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I had a professor whose ice breaker question was some version of, "what book do you want to write/planning to write?" Everyone seems to have one.

Might not be as relevant today after blogs perhaps cleared that out of peoples' systems.

As for me, I cycle through mostly craft-based hobbies. Embroidery, leather work, candle making, 3D printing. I can make candles much faster than I can burn them, so that's self-limiting. 3D printing is great to have the materials and skills for, and I'm slowly learning to design in Blender. But at the moment I only use it when I suddenly need to have a thing-a-ma-widget and remember: "hey! I've got a 3D printer. Of course I can make a valve stem cover!"

I'll probably be back to leather crafts as we head into the fall and winter.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tools that are used to create human misery on a mass scale.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

MS office software engineer?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Nope. I'm going to stay vague so I won't DOX myself, but the only stable job I could find in years is for an organization that doesn't have the best intentions for humanity (or profit strangely enough) and actively hurts people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I was in the same boat. When I couldn't take it anymore I quit. I have been unemployed for just under two years now. Whatever you end up doing, stay strong.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I like to create software tools for people smarter than me to create bigger and better things.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Free RPG content, which I'd be happy to share with you:

spittingimage.itch.io

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

A hopeful path towards peace for people who struggle with stress at their job.

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