Determinist // Devlog 8 // 2026.08.13

The UI is mostly complete, and I will be releasing the website tomorrow!

Changes

• Significantly improved the entire user interface
• Version and special character mode (V1) now use <select> instead of the regular <input>, so you don’t have to type them out

The difficulties

There really wasn’t anything too hard about making the UI. You might ask, “why did you spend over 6 hours on it then?”. I have an answer for you. I tried using Figma for designing the UI but it was just too boring for me, so I decided to start coding it and figure it out as I go. I’m pretty satisfied with the result, but with everything, it can always be improved.
The second problem was that while I was coding, I was also listening to music and I spent a bunch of time skipping songs because I didn’t feel like listening to them. This took my attention along with singing a bit too much, so my progress was slowed…
The last thing to slow me down was my general inexperience with React and JS, although I got over that quick because the frontend is way easier to work on.

Planned

• Adding the preset system
• Building the site & uploading to GitHub Pages