David

I now have a pretty decent system for adding bodies to the simulation and have started work on the actual physics, after I get some more technicalities out of the way, I can start the actual sim work.

MONUMENTAL PROGRESS! After struggling for a really long amount of time I have finaly set up a half decent infrastructure and I rendered something on the screen

Just stared learning bevy and I'm trying to get my way around it! It's working decent.

Fixed some bugs and brought it to crates.io!

Redid the commands and now the program can extract the file with the same name it was injected with.

Added some documentation for the CLI options.

Did some refactoring! This image (if the website doesnt do weird things/compression to it) contains inside it an encoded image of Jake from Adventure Time in JPEG format.

I managed to extract my first file! Now I really have to organize the code a bit.

Managed to get encoded data injected in an image, now on to extracting!

I made my own encoding for the file content and name, broken down into bytes. This is the data that will actually be injected into the image.
I've attached a demo with a simple text file.

I managed to read bytes from a .png file using the png Rust crate! This is exactly what I needed.

Got everything ready for the 3rd ship with some README and misc changes!
Also made this demo video.

Fixed a bunch of bugs, nothing changed visually. Yet, obligatory screenshot cause I really like the retro vibe.
Next up: I want to work on the image display and maybe add a lyrics feature.

Some small changes!
Now I have a display for how far into the song you are and how long it is
+ I optimized the EQ and i changed the way it looks (hopefully) for the better.

I'm working on adding a frequency visualizer! It works but is kinda not that good and laggy, will work to optimize.

I added a title screen and a file selector! I love this starting to take shape more and more, I am actually using it myself.

I added a display mode for current track info, that shows you the (pixelated) cover art! Was pretty annoying to implement, but definitely worth it! I can really feel this coming together. Also, I am now using metadata instead of file names.

After quite a long break, I'm back to it!

I implemented some really essential functionality, going back to a previous track, lol. Also, I rewrote the entire UI code to use ratatui instead of tui, making for some much better and cleaner code. I discovered that working with terminal UIs is really cool and I love these crates.

Coming up, I plan on implementing another display mode that gives info about the current track and maybe even displays the album art in the terminal!

After a few more hours of work, I've managed to put together some basic playback features and a simple command-line UI, controlled entirely from the keyboard. It's coming together quite nicely! It certainly hasn't been easy trying to learn everything to make this work, but I do not plan on giving up. I will keep adding more features!

Starting is the hardest thing!

I have basically no experience with Rust, although I have programmed quite a lot before with other languages, using OOP.
This was pretty much a straight dive in, so thankful for the docs! They are life saving.

Until now, I have managed to write some wrappers and I'm able to get basic playing and queuing functionality going.