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Please forgive any typos, my brian is still very much recovering. I’m not promoting anything cause nothing I’ve made yet is really worth much to anyone but my self,and everything is far from polished. I’m just sharing what I’m doing. In November '24, I had a mid level stroke. I’ve had issues with motor skills, headaches, and short term memory, but for the most part I’m doing quite well. For the last 6-8 months, I build a home server, (AMD 3700x, 64GB of RAM, 6TBNvME, and 2x 12TB HDD, old NVIDIA 2060. I setup up Jellyfin, ripped our 400ish Blu Rays, DVDs, and TV Shows. Setup Navidrone, and ripped our CDs, Home Assistant, AudoBookshelf, ConvertX, MeTube, and several other apps mostly discovered here. I also wrote my own app to track our large physical Media Collection that has a few api calls for pulling info about the items., a dashboard app in the style of the old iGoogle, and I’ve started working on 2 other apps, one to track medical information like blood pressure, glucose, doc appts, care team, medications, etc. The other app is for TTRPG GMs to run games that will basically be a digital GM Screen with a dozen or so tools.
I was a web developer for 20 years before the stroke so I had some previous entry level experience with this type of stuff, but not on this level. Mine was more for like corporate websites. My doctor believes this process has indeed sped up my recovery significantly. So this is just a post to say thanks for this community that has given me tons of ideas for things to try.
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That's amazing and inspiring, good for you! 😊
Sounds like a really good way to keep your mind fresh after a traumatic event like a stroke. It’s important to keep your mind busy. Glad to hear you’re doing well, and thanks for sharing :)
Whoa, haven’t thought about iGoogle in a minute. I spent the majority of my high school Desktop Publishing class playing Super Mario 2 on an emulator in iGoogle. The only drawback (besides not paying enough attention and being bad with computers now) was that it would refresh randomly, so I had to speed run to get as far as I could before it happened.
Ain’t no stroke gonna slow you down, keep up the amazing work!
Nice, good luck!
My brother…I empathize with your situation. About 25 years ago, I fell from 2 floors up, landed on my skull on a concrete pad and lay there for an undetermined amount of time before someone found me. I suffered a TBI that has gifted me a seizure condition as well as other mental/neuro issues. The right, frontal lobe of my brain looks like a piece of wadded up, cotton candy. I’ve come a long way and I have far to go. I am fortunate and thankful to be alive regardless the situation.
I spent a week in the hospital after I had a seizure and it wiped my memory. I didn’t know who I was, how to do even simple tasks, or who anyone else was either.
I use selfhosting and computers in general, to do the same thing as you. It keeps me thinking and trying to solve problems. I have problems expressing my thoughts, but the folks here have been patient with all of my silly questions and the occasional inability to grasp the information being presented here at lemmy/selfhosted. I don’t watch TV, but I’ve found structure in reading, and I read a ton of info. I’m more into IT (obviously), history, etc but no fiction.
I truly wish you the very best bro. If I can ever be of assistance, I’m usually around somewhere. We can pair your brain with my .25 brain, and fix something. LOL
Glad to hear you are on a positive path for recovery and still finding ways to keep engaged. Your project sounds like a fun one. I’m a “GM” for a niche online gaming community, so your TTRPG app is interesting to me. Would love to see more if you are comfortable sharing it in the future.
Inspiring tale, glad you found something you both enjoy and learn from! I think that’s a great use of time, to problem solve and develop tools that benefit you day-to-day.
I’ve had some family that have experienced strokes, ranging from a slight scare to full on life-changing. You’re certainly doing well if you’re writing your own apps, I can barely script BASH.
Well shit… just on the ripping the optical media… that is a chore and a half!
Keep on with it, will be delightful to follow your progress and for you, I imagine, it will be glorious.
Dude you’ve made more in 6–8 months than I had the ambition to accomplish for over a decade now, and I haven’t even started. (Two kids, there’s just no time or energy.)
You’re doing great!
Glad it helps to recover. Taking a break from IT and focusIng on sleep, excersise, health is good too.
Fellow stroke victim here. Sounds like you’re doing great for recovery, rock on
This sounds like a great idea. I would suggest doing also other things that simulate the brain in other ways, like listening to music (or even playing an instrument), visual stimuli (art, nature), physical motion and coordination activities (dance, sports). You may well already do these things, I just felt I should mention it since our culture is so prone to associating brain with mental logic specifically and forgeting how much these other things involve the brain.
Learning a language is another thing with really strong evidence for brain development /preservation.
I have found great solace in music. I’ve been playing stringed instruments since I was 5. I’ve been a fan of music all of my life. I create music and post on SoundCloud. The benefits of just listening to music I think gets overlooked.
This brought a smile to my face
Your dedication to your recovery is so cool. Wish you the best :)
good luck mate, you’re on the right path
You’re a real legend, wish you the best
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keep up the good fight and keep on keeping on!
Excuse me for not having too much to say besides everyone else in this thread. I just wanted to check-in and say something that I felt upvoting everyone isn’t enough. Wish you all the recovery you can get, and thank you for inspiring too. You’re doing great, at least your grammar is quite good for the situation. Cheers!
I can totally see how this has a positive impact in cognition and general well-being. Personally, I wouldn’t want a day in my life where I consume short form content and giving free reign to all the other behavioural mind-killers.
Props for going down the right path.
Wish you a better health, soon