Spectralis devlog #23
—Hello again proggers—
Introducing the visualizer editor. Been sitting on this one for a while without announcing it, for a very specific reason: every single time it felt ready, the format changed again and “ready” moved further away. Think it’s actually real this time.
announced it in my head about six times before this devlog
Cat or dog? visualizer.format
Okay let’s get into it~
—Yap—
Grinding all night on this one, branch and v1 dropping tomorrow. No promises beyond that, just the plan and the fact that this has been quietly cooking for way longer than any single devlog has let on.
—The Great Suffering—
1 — Why This Wasn’t Announced Sooner
Kept hitting the point where the editor felt done, then rethinking the underlying format and starting that part over. Easier to just not announce something that keeps changing shape than to keep walking back a “it’s ready” claim in public.
2 — v1 And The Branch, Tomorrow
Committing to it now — v1 and the branch land tomorrow. Whole night’s going toward getting there, which given the last 22 devlogs of this project is either a great sign or a very familiar warning sign.
history suggests: could go either way
3 — What The Visualizer Editor Actually Is
A real editor for building visualizers instead of the visualizer side of the app staying built-in-only. Ties back to everything from the capsule/worlds work in devlogs #7 and #8 and the custom visualizer built for the demo capsule in devlog #18 — this is the tool version of doing that by hand.
4 — Hackatime Also Just Died (Or My PC Did)
On top of everything else, Hackatime seems to be down, or my PC’s cooked, unclear which yet. Either way tracked hours for tonight are now undefined. Yipee.
unlogged hours are the best kind of hours, said nobody’s time tracker ever
—FAQ (no one asked these but they are here)—
Q: What is a “progger”?
A: A human programmer. You. The one about to pull yet another all-nighter for a feature reveal.
Q: Why did the format keep changing?
A: Each pass revealed a new limitation once actually used for real, and fixing that meant reworking the format again rather than shipping something known to be wrong.
Q: Is this related to the demo capsule visualizer from devlog #18?
A: Same territory. That one was hand-built. This is the editor meant to make building one not require doing it by hand.
Q: What’s “v1” mean here specifically?
A: First real usable version, branch-only for now, not a full public release yet.
Q: Any risk this slips again?
A: Always possible given the track record, but committing to tomorrow specifically this time.
—This is the end*—
*end for now, format stability permitting
PEPLE!!!