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Author: Eamon Caddigan <eamon.caddigan@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 31 Dec 2023 15:27:20 -0800

December Adventure, day 31

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+title: "2023: Complete"
+date: 2023-12-31T15:05:58-08:00
+draft: false
+---
+
+With [this
+commit](https://git.eamoncaddigan.net/december_adventure_2023/commit/4fc1a239d168cb8f585d5b3f8f0e0f0dcb2cf755.html),
+I'm officially declaring my first December Adventure complete!
+
+One can assemble and run `december-adventure.tal` to receive a nice little
+message in both text and Morse Code.
+
+![A screenshot of pixelated white text on a black screen displaying: Happy
+New Year](happy-new-year.png)
+
+It may not be much, but looking back over the month, I managed to:
+
+* Get comfortable using Left (I'm writing this post in it right now)
+* Figure out how to print text to the screen (and work with sprites in general)
+* Think deeply about how to digitally encode Morse Code
+* Muddle through undocumented changes to uxn's audio device and use its new
+  features
+* Learn how Farnsworth timing works and how to implement it
+* Overall, get better at and more comfortable writing uxntal
+* Write a _bunch_ of blog posts
+
+I still have a long way to go to complete this project---heck, there's plenty of
+room for improvement just in what I have right now---but this has been a really
+fun experience. I plan to keep hacking on this (using the same repository), but
+I'll probably stop posting updates here and on Mastodon.
+
+"December Adventure" was a great excuse to turn an idea for a project into an
+idea plus a little bit of code.
+
+I'm grateful to [Eli](https://eli.li/) for sharing this idea, both
+[Devine](https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/devine_lu_linvega.html) and [Bad
+Diode](https://badd10de.dev/) for uxn help, and everyone else posting to the
+#DecemberAdventure hashtag on the Fediverse for providing encouragement (both
+direct and indirect) to keep going.