 What's up everybody? This is Brian. This is kind of a I don't even know what to call this a video note video blog video diary I'm not really sure what this is. This is what have I been doing and what will I be doing come? 2021 so it is September 1st 2020 Man, I have been incredibly busy. You wouldn't really know it looking at my YouTube channel I used to try to post almost weekly and you you'll notice I kind of just post in these blobs So you'll get like 14 15 videos all at once and then a long period in between and there's a reason for that. Well, first off COVID-19 pandemic shelter-in-place is kind of a real thing and I live in this little area here called Michigan Which you wouldn't know it in the United States, but in this area here It is kind of the hotspot or the epicenter for COVID-19 So we've been doing this 15-day shelter-in-place for well months most of the year since late February It's been challenging end up working a lot more hours than normal. I'm fortunate enough that I can work from home But you tend to you know, you don't really have that separation between working and not working anymore because you're always at work because you're always at home Yeah, so it's just been challenging and Then my neighbors are home making noise blasting stereos running lawnmowers So recording has been kind of a challenge as well So you may hear like bass pick using lawnmowers in the background. I can actually hear them. I don't know if the microphone's picking them up What else have I been doing I've been working on Udemy So if you go out to udemy.com, you'll see my courses these numbers look super super exciting But they're really not I actually give away way more than I actually sell If I sold that many I would probably be retired. I don't know but usually I'm dumping those out in the void realms Facebook group But I have been making classes like crazy Just published one. Where is it cute five design patterns? 21 hours that 21 hours that was I mean basically since February I've been typing away creating lessons testing I'm over and over again practicing what I was going to say and then actually doing the live recordings and Europe and Everyone's home shelter in place all that stuff. It's been a challenge. So great reviews so far I actually don't dive into the reviews that much because it's so hard to get anything of value out of that You'll get a five-star instructor really knows what he's talking about one star instructors an idiot But they don't really tell you what you did good or bad. So it's usually not constructive criticism Love the five stars the one stars. I wish they would just say what they want to improve Also, I've been helping my wife. She's been shelter in place working from home as well She is a professional licensed counselor. She's got a psychology degree and she's starting her own YouTube channel There's one subscriber. That's me and I've been actually doing these videos for where she does all the content and I do the video and This is way out of my comfort zone. I'm not good at video editing at all. So These are very rough basically But I'm hoping to get better and improve Also, of course been watching cute like a hawk cute six is right around the corner Everyone who watches my channel knows I love cute. I'm a huge fan So cute six everybody wants to know when is this coming out? Well, the plan is they're doing a code freeze August 31st aka yesterday And then the first alpha should be mid-September. So sometime this month and then they want to have an initial release Maybe sometime in December. I say maybe because again, we have this whole COVID-19 thing So I'm sure it's slowing things down. Oh man They're hoping to have it out around Christmas or even as early as 21 Let's just hope fingers crossed. So I'm really curious about backwards compatibility. I'm gonna be deep diving into this and I'm sure a lot of the older void rum videos are gonna just not work with cute six So I may actually have to start pulling some of those videos out or putting like a disclaimer on there And I've got so many videos. It will just be a challenge to go back and do all that And then you to me I want to go back in every cute course I'm going to make a brand new cute six version course and Rerecord everything with the newest version of cute that way. It's now future proof So somebody doesn't click on this and say oh one star You're using the older version of cute because that's what people do So anyways, that's gonna keep me very very very busy Special note if you're following the dart or flutter tracks, I do want to update those as time permit But right now my focus is really on cute cute technologies Dart and flutter are evolving so fast. It's hard. I mean really hard to keep up with those in a video format I'm just kind of waiting for them to stabilize a bit So that's kind of what have I been doing emerging into what will I be doing? So now I've got this weird in-between limbo spot where it's September 1st and cute 6 probably isn't coming out for a few months So what am I doing? Well, I'm probably going to be helping my wife with her videos and I'm looking at doing maybe some simple videos either on YouTube or you to me or both Using one or all of these. I don't know which like boost If you don't know what boost is it's C++ libraries. It's free open source. These things are amazing or Python I've never truly mastered Python. I know it but I'm not like a master. So Might be a little bit of knowledge gap I have to bridge there for myself before I could really sit down and make a whole course on Python but I'm also looking at rust and Golang both of these are really really interested me and I don't know why But they both just seem really cool And for my birthday my wife just got me this 4k Webcam and I'm gonna admit it. I'm really camera shy So I don't know if I'll do videos like this and I look nothing like this young girl. So don't expect anything like that, but Maybe I'll do something like that or I'll have it So like how some people do it where you're typing But you have like a little video clip of your face down in the corner and you can just see just how frustrated I get And when I'm not doing either of those I'm usually in video game land lately I've been testing out subnautica below zero. It's an alpha and this is Even an alpha. This is an amazing game. It's already got me hooked I just haven't had a whole lot of time to dive into it get it dive into it because it's an underwater game Anyways enough bad humor. I'm open to suggestions. I haven't heard from you guys in a while. I've been super busy So just drop a note below. Let me know what you think