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What do you create? (sh.itjust.works)

I just decided to start asking this instead of 'what do you do?' when meeting people. Figured I'd try it out on you folks.

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[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 hours ago

I had a shop that made flaming nipple tassels, though I just closed down until the future is more certain. I also create sideshow and fire performances. My most recent one involves a drill and my skull.

And finally, a lot of D&D content, such as an entire world setting inspired by the tarot deck

[-] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

an entire world setting inspired by the tarot deck

This just makes me so happy!

[-] mwproductions@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

I have a podcast that I create with a couple of friends. We take an ordinary object—such as a ceiling fan, or a paper clip, or a toilet brush—and we create a movie plot based on that object. The show is called Almost Plausible, and can be found wherever you listen to podcasts.

[-] adhocfungus@midwest.social 1 points 7 hours ago

Resin dice, novels, 3D prints, paintings, video games, wooden furniture, RPG scenarios. I have way too many hobbies and maybe two hours per week to work on them, so in reality I create very little. But making something physical is incredibly helpful for keeping the worst of my depression at bay.

[-] Doxatek@mander.xyz 2 points 8 hours ago

Small mutant corn plants in little containers.

[-] LordGimp@lemm.ee 2 points 10 hours ago

As a welder, I create a ton of shit. Today, I created a new handle for a lathe, cut off the old one, and bolted on my part so the lathe functions (mostly).

[-] benignintervention@lemmy.world 30 points 18 hours ago
[-] Pudutr0n@feddit.cl 21 points 17 hours ago

Disappointment

[-] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 6 points 14 hours ago

I create web applications! 🎉 (AKA I’m a typical Lemmy user.)

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

programs, music and baby

[-] kosanovskiy@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago
[-] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 15 hours ago

Philosophical ramblings to justify my existence, which according to capitalism has no value because I don’t have the ability to work.

[-] insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Me: "If I make a new mascot platformer (gratis) with vertex colors, maybe someone would get me out of here? What are the chances and outcomes? Would I even have enough time to make something decent with current conditions?"

The entire scene is low-poly with colors defined using the mesh itself,  also the image is optimized for color to reduce data, resulting in dithering patterns. In a gray room with black and white triangle tiles, there are 6 badgers of various sizes standing and facing the viewer. Similarly, there are 5 eyes floating in the air one of which is not fully opaque. There is 1 banana on the floor.

Blender, Godot 4, player controller in Nim-lang via gdext-nim, and on top of the 3 hats I need to learn I don't have many viable ideas.

Also somewhat related to the social isolation thread in showerthoughts, I live on the edge of nowhere and don't even want to drive.

[-] Monster96@lemmy.world 16 points 17 hours ago

I'm working on an audiobook of a novel I wrote. I have another recording session today with voice actors who play my characters!

[-] adhocfungus@midwest.social 3 points 10 hours ago

Is this an already published book? Or are you releasing it concurrently with the audiobook?

[-] Monster96@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

I'm releasing it concurrently with the book. I've still got a lot to do before I can release anything however so I'm just doing the chapters that I know are 100% done

[-] Menschlicher_Fehler@feddit.org 8 points 17 hours ago

Oh, that must be exciting and nerve wrecking at the same time, seeing your characters come to life. How do you convey what you imagine the characters to sound and act like?

[-] Monster96@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago

Oh yeah, its amazing to hear the voices for these people but, as you say, it's scary. Since I'm the director and creator it all falls to me to decide everything. I mean EVERYTHING from inflictions in their voices, how a line is delivered, scheduling, payment etc. Of course, I give my actors freedom to interpret how they see the characters. You have to have a fine balance between making decisions but also letting them be creative with what they do during directing sessions.

[-] dddontshoot@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Duct tape and cardboard solutions to questions like "How do I get these two pieces of photography equipment to work together?"

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 10 points 17 hours ago

My body is a machine that turns caffeine into uptime.

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Free RPG content, which I'd be happy to share with you:

spittingimage.itch.io

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 13 hours ago

maybe systems. my work tends to be getting one or more systems to do something a business wants.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 13 points 19 hours ago

I created an email service called https://port87.com

It’s got fancy features that help you stay organized and spam free.

I also create loads of open source software, which I use for it:

https://sveltematerialui.com - A UI library for the Svelte framework.

https://nymph.io - An object relational mapper for Node.js and the browser.

https://github.com/sciactive/nephele - A WebDAV server with encryption, deduplication, and S3 support.

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago
[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 12 points 19 hours ago

I have a big sprawling scifi universe I draw pictures of. There is a lot of lore in my head for it that I really am going to write down and present now that there are so many visuals.

[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I create useless applications for daily use. Now im working on an organizer that reads my work ins and outs to control my work hours and eventually cash in free days due to excess working hours.

I create stupid jokes and sarcastic comments on Lemmy.

But mostly just a lot of CO²

And a lot of um... excretions, liquids and soilds, ya know...

I wanted to do worldbuilding and write a story but my depression kinda derailed that 😓

[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago

Time to get off lemmy. Go for a run/jog/walk in the cold to the nearest stationery store and buy some pen and paper. Then get home and get to writing.

You can do it!

[-] ArtieShaw@fedia.io 6 points 17 hours ago

I had a professor whose ice breaker question was some version of, "what book do you want to write/planning to write?" Everyone seems to have one.

Might not be as relevant today after blogs perhaps cleared that out of peoples' systems.

As for me, I cycle through mostly craft-based hobbies. Embroidery, leather work, candle making, 3D printing. I can make candles much faster than I can burn them, so that's self-limiting. 3D printing is great to have the materials and skills for, and I'm slowly learning to design in Blender. But at the moment I only use it when I suddenly need to have a thing-a-ma-widget and remember: "hey! I've got a 3D printer. Of course I can make a valve stem cover!"

I'll probably be back to leather crafts as we head into the fall and winter.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 18 hours ago

You made Discord?

🤔

When is the Chaos app gonna be released and how is it different from the Discord app?

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

more scams that just auto download to your computer

[-] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

This month I'm building Bluetooth headphones for a teen I work with, he needs them to function but his parents won't spend money on them and he keeps breaking the cheap sets he has.

I'm working with a school metal shop to make steel frames for them and I've made the cups 3d printable and easy to replace. Of he does manage to break these, it will take no skill to repair them.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I am a senior data architect and infrastructure programmer. I build the tools and design the data persistence that folks at my company use to build solutions for clients.

[-] iii@mander.xyz 5 points 17 hours ago

Data lake, activate.

[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 6 points 18 hours ago

I like to create software tools for people smarter than me to create bigger and better things.

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 5 points 17 hours ago

Carbon dioxide. A metric [emphasis]-ton of dust. Other waste.

Sometimes I write small Perl programs or Bash scripts, but that's rare, and it's mostly for my own benefit or amusement; even more rarely do I share them.

Sometimes despair. Sometimes happiness. Hopefully a sense of being informed and/or entertained if not also a (weak?) sense of camaraderie by means of weird little text interactions with people online.

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Shout out from a fellow (<=>) enthusiast

[-] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago

Tools that are used to create human misery on a mass scale.

[-] iii@mander.xyz 14 points 19 hours ago

MS office software engineer?

[-] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

Nope. I'm going to stay vague so I won't DOX myself, but the only stable job I could find in years is for an organization that doesn't have the best intentions for humanity (or profit strangely enough) and actively hurts people.

[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 14 hours ago

I was in the same boat. When I couldn't take it anymore I quit. I have been unemployed for just under two years now. Whatever you end up doing, stay strong.

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[-] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 6 points 19 hours ago

A hopeful path towards peace for people who struggle with stress at their job.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 points 17 hours ago

Lots of poo.

A good bit actually though. I'm disabled, so no job. This means that while I'm on my ass recovering from the necessities of living like cooking and cleaning, I have a shit ton of spare time.

Part of that is spent fucking around on lemmy.

The rest is usually spent on some variety or another of writing fiction. Short stories, a few ongoing novels, that sort of thing. Here and there a poem or song will pop in my head.

Then there's a bit of panting, occasional drawing, that kind of visual art.

I've also been known to run ttrpg sessions here and there, which is its own art form in a way.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 points 16 hours ago

Various 3d printed items, Last week I sewed some dust covers for my HOTAS peripherals, scripts to help manage my media library, nonsense comments on Lemmy.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

Waste that I expell in the bathroom.

I create hastily designed lumber creations that are used to organize and store things.

Every couple of years I create a world for friends to play tabletop games in for a shared experience.

Some days I get paid to create written documentation and shared understanding of complex systems used to collect and report data that someone else will hopefully analyze and use for improving the educational opportunities of children.

I love the reframing of the question.

[-] azdle@news.idlestate.org 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I organize electrons in ways that make fancy sand organize more electrons.

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