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1 --- 2 title: "My 2023 December Adventure" 3 date: 2023-12-14T20:06:00-08:00 4 lastmod: 2023-12-31T15:28:54-08:00 5 draft: false 6 categories: 7 - Programming 8 --- 9 10 I participated in [December Adventure](https://eli.li/december-adventure) 11 this year and posted _nearly_ daily updates [on this page]({{< ref 12 "/december-adventure/" >}}). 13 14 My project was written for [uxn](https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/uxn.html), as 15 a follow-up to [my recent exploration in PostScript]({{< ref 16 "postscript-graph-paper" 17 >}}), and heavily inspired by [this amazing web tribute to 18 Forth](https://ratfactor.com/forth/the_programming_language_that_writes_itself.html). 19 My goal is to eventually build a game to help me learn Morse Code[^morse], 20 but for now I'm happy to have accomplished simple things like _printing text 21 to the screen_ and _playing Morse Code beeps_. 22 23 You can learn more about what I managed to do in [my final post]({{< ref 24 "/december-adventure/2023-31" >}}), or go [straight to the 25 repo](https://git.eamoncaddigan.net/december_adventure_2023/file/README.md.html). 26 27 [^morse]: There are already a few programs for this---I've used [Just Learn 28 Morse Code](http://www.justlearnmorsecode.com/) which runs on my Linux 29 laptop fairly well with [Wine](https://www.winehq.org/)---but this seems 30 like a fun project whether I ever finish or not because it utilizes so 31 many of the basic functions of an interactive program (drawing to the 32 screen, playing sounds, responding to input, managing precise timings).