Laky2k8

Hello guys! Big breakthrough this time: I've managed to get color sampling working and textures are already underway! I'm really excited for textures ngl, that will be really cool :D Next devlog is probably going to be pretty long though (I already have like 5 hours in a separate directory) cuz I am also restructuring the program a bit to make it framework-independent (right now it's tied to GLFW basically), and I also want to add model loading. See you then :)

Hi again! You might have noticed that I haven't worked on this project since around July (holy moly July was 2 months ago already? 💔). This is because I lost interest in this project and went to do other stuff - but not to worry, because I'm back and with a big update! It isn't perfect but both depth sorting and simple shading are supported in the engine now :D Next step is to implement a better lighting (right now it's a really janky solution and I can't actually set the light position) and of course textures :)

Hi and terribly sorry for the pretty long devlog; As I've said in the description, I am continuing this from Jumpstart. The current version doesn't differ much from the original Jumpstart, mostly bugfixes (although there still are some bugs I need to squash). However the fun part only starts now - next step is adding a better terrain gen probably cuz I'm a bit tired of all this dirt, but after that it's falling blocks time :DDDD

Hi! Actually probably last devlog before shipping this magnificent work of art 😁
As you can see in the GIF, I added colored and transparent backgrounds - no more white background exclusivity :P I also added a theme selector where you can select light and dark theme - it saves in LocalStorage. I might attempt to add replacing the red color of the letters to some other color later down the line, but I dunno how possible that is and if it would even look good.

Hi! Probably last devlog on this project. I added a theme selector (dark and light mode as well as the system setting), which is saved to LocalStorage so it should save your preferred theme. I also added a domain, although right now it just redirects to the IP of the server (sorry about that, I'll try to fix that but hey it works :) ). I might add a background color selector but other than that we're pretty much done :D

Hello! A moderately sized update today as I added all features I planned in the last devlog: The program now has newline support, settable GIF size as well as a bit prettier and handier UI! I honestly don't really know what else I could add so I might just ship :)

Hi! This is my first devlog on this project, and as you can see it's already mostly done (it's not a terribly bit project to be fair :] ). I can generate any sentence I want, and the generator supports all letters of the english alphabet, numbers 0-9 and even a few special characters like !, ?, $ etc. However, it's still pretty barebones and I'd like to add features like generated gif width, newline support etc.

Last devlog before shipping! I finished the webpage, wrote the GitHub README and in the program itself I fixed the remaining few bugs and added support for h2-h6 as well as br because the lack of them was really bugging me (get it? bug-ing? :P).

Over all I am extremely proud of what I was able to accomplish; It' able to open basically all sites and they are surprisingly readable (makes you realize that under all that CSS and JS just how important HTML is...) and other than CSS it's mostly a fully functional (static) web browser! I am extremely burned out from this project though so don't expect a new update for quite some time (maybe I'll revisit in the new Autumn of Making?). I hope I get many shells for this project :D

Hi and once again sorry for the long devlog, I was busy with Jumpstart. This release is mostly of bufixes, graphical and QoL features, as most of the code is either complete or would need a bigger overhaul than I have the mood to do rn (I am very burned out from this project :[ ). New features are a completely new, much more modern UI with light AND dark mode, the program feels much more polished and less like a hastily thrown together thing now :D I also implemented browser history for going backwards, forwards and rewinding (I do not save it rn, I can't decide whether I should start saving it or leave it like this and call it a security feature :P), as well as fixed redirecting so that relative redirects can actually work now. I also started working on a nice little site for the project and it's looking good if I do say so myself :) I'll work a bit more on the site and fix up the remaining bugs, but then it's shipping time :D Also sorry for the picture, SoM didn't let me upload a video for some reason :/

Heya! Truly sorry for a long devlog, haven't posted in a while. I was busy trying to wrangle the HTML parser into existence which as you can see by my GitHub commits was... not easy so to say :/ In the end I decided to make a custom one semi-based on the tutorial, and I'm proud to say that (excluding some line height issues) the parser works! I'm getting really tired of this project tho so I'll probably ship after fixing these issues and implementing some QoL features (tabs, settings, history, yknow the gist). I plan to ship tomorrow (hopefully I can implement all these by then)! See ya next time :)

Hellohellohello! Didn't originally plan to submit a devlog this big but there was some weird bug with SoM where it thought I only ever had 2 minutes and did not let me make a devlog, that was weird :/ Anyway, HTML parsing is well underway now with a proper (although sometimes a bit glitchy) layout system and everything! A lot of changes aren't really visible since they're bugfixes or under the hood improvements, like the addition of variable fonts which was a PAIN IN THE ASS (average freetype2 moment). I feel really good about the progress I've made, the browser can already open and render basic sites great and I'm really close to finishing HTML! CSS will be really challenging tho...

verrrrrry quick fix - found what caused the segfault and patched it so we can actually run the program now! Still no text rendering with the new parsing system but hey, progress :)

Started following the Flaskr tutorial on Flask's official site - really like how the entire system is structured so far (and also SQLite FTW). Already have registering, logging in and out and all that shebang, writing posts next :D

Started actual HTML parsing today - here you can see one of the mid steps where I implemented different font styles and weights. Sadly I didn't have any more time today and I even got a yummy SIGSEGV :(

HUGE devlog: Added Unicode support, HTTPS, view-source, file:// loading, redirects work now (huge W for http links!), scrolling and started parsing HTML. The browser is starting to look really good :D

Shorter devlog today: Added error checks, and unsuccessfully tried to add HTTPS.

No real HTML parsing yet, only cleaning the text from tags, as I focused on other things like a much more robust URL handling (the old one randomly decided to just not update the URL for no reason), HTTP 1.1 support (User-Agents yippee!!!), and the pièce de résistance: Dear Imgui for the GUI; This means I can even support things like tabs in the future :D

The next step is to implement a better socket system as the current one does not support HTTPS which in 2025 immediately makes the browser not being able to open 90% of websites. After that (and a couple extras I want to add based on the browser.engineering exercises) we can finally jump into HTML parsing!

After a LOT of wrangling with FreeType, GLFW and sockets, I finally got the first HTTP request working and the first HTML. The fun part comes next: HTML parsing :D

I have followed the tutorial without any porting this time to make a version in JS since that is far easier to prototype in than C++. After some work and a tiny (but necessary) bit of help from Perplexity both depth sorting AND rudimentary shading are now working! The next step is to port this back into C++, though I might switch to a different rendering framework before that (maybe OlcPixelGameEngine?), I am not sure yet. It's going to be some time before I can work on this again, so stay tuned ;)

Not much progress since yesterday, still couldn't figure depth sorting out... I'm thinking of starting over and making a demo in some simpler language like Python or JS before delving into C++. OpenGL could be an option too but that kindof feels like cheating...

Rewrote the engine under a new wrapper around my GLFW window and framebuffer system so it's a bit easier to work now. Also added triangles (no sorting yet lmao, only random colors) and texture loading - next step is textured triangles! The code is pretty jank though so I'm going to have to work on that...

Used this tutorial: https://github.com/cunev/Your-first-3D-Isometric-Engine to start making a simple engine: There's a object that you can move and rotate with connected lines. The code is very messy though so I am going to rewrite it. After that probably object sorting and the thing I dread the most, textured faces...