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+title: Long overdue updates
+author: nek0
+tags:
+- english
+- programming
+- projects
+description: "What I've been up to since my last blog post in august"
+---
+
+Hi folks,
+
+Merry Holidays! I sincerely hope you have some relaxed days at the end of this year and get to spend
+also some time with people close to you.
+
+I've been quite busy in the past months getting up to speed with my job, my personal projects and
+everyday life.
+
+As you might have seen, I have been constantly updating [my comic][comic] since may and have
+already begun working on the second chapter, from which I sometimes post glimpses on
+[my Mastodon account][masto]. I am making good progress, but the update speed will remain the same
+for the foreseeable future, as the time I can work on the comic is limited and I don't want to run
+through my backbuffer of pages too fast. Making this comic is definitely one of the most
+challenging projects I have ever begun, but I'm having loads of fun doing it and I'm constantly
+learning new stuff and improve my technique. It's also very interesting and satisfying to see the
+evolution and refinement of my art style in the course of this project.
+
+Drawing in general has become a very dear hobby of mine in the past three years where I
+particularly like, how it engages a more creative and emotional side of me. I kind of wish I hadn't
+been ashamed of being creative in the first place.
+
+Because of my comic and partially also my work my pursuits in gamedev have slowed down
+significantly. My games have not had any significant updates for quite some time now, as I am in the
+process of learning to use the [vulkan graphics API][vulkan] with the goal of rewriting the
+graphics pipelines of my games to use this new standard instead of OpenGL, which is on its way to
+deprecation. So far my progress has been good while working through the
+[vkguide vulkan tutorial][vkguide] to build a simple renderer. Like most gamedev tutorials handling
+raw graphics code it is written in C++, so I'm making the effort of translating it into Haskell.
+You can see my progress as I complete the chapters [in my code repository][repo]. Here's also a
+small visual representation of my current state:
+
+<video controls="true">
+  <source src="/vids/2022-12-11.webm" type="video/webm" />
+</video>
+
+So this is what I have been up to in the past months. Lots of different stuff.
+
+Keep calm and wash hands.
+
+[comic]: https://comics.nek0.eu/remnants
+[masto]: https://chaos.social/@nek0
+[vulkan]: https://www.vulkan.org/
+[vkguide]: https://www.vkguide.dev/
+[repo]: https://gitea.nek0.eu/nek0/vulkan-tutorial