# a few notes.

By Adham Yasser

## the quote that went nowhere

Source: https://adhamy.com/writing/notes/relycare

before RelyCare, i ran Oryind. found clients, figured out what they needed, built the software, dealt with everything else. it made money. that money eventually went into RelyCare.

a speech therapy clinic came to me about tracking sessions and patient progress. i treated it like any other job. wrote a proposal. quoted $3,000+ for a private version of what would become RelyCare.

the deal fell through.

i kept thinking about it. started talking to therapists. ended up talking to 50-something of them over the next few months. what happened between sessions. what they couldn’t keep track of. what they didn’t trust software to do. what they needed to see in a patient’s history.

the first version was mostly documentation. but getting notes written wasn’t the whole problem. they needed to understand what was happening to a patient over time, with evidence to back it up.

so i changed what i was building.

## messy. worked.

Source: https://adhamy.com/writing/notes/keyboard

![An Arduino Pro Micro on a breadboard, wired to a MIDI socket, beside a yellow multimeter and a laptop.](https://adhamy.com/photos/first-hardware-1440.jpg)

my first hardware project. messy, but it worked.

none of the MIDI cables worked with my specific Yamaha model. so i reverse-engineered the MIDI communication and made one myself with an arduino.

### i do actually play it too

been playing piano since i was about 8. i can listen to something and play it back. i’m not that good though. i’ll play for a while, then forget about it for a while. just something i do from time to time.

## gta, apparently

Source: https://adhamy.com/writing/notes/roblox

![A photo of Roblox Studio showing a road, a crossing and a car showroom in an unfinished game.](https://adhamy.com/photos/roblox-2021-1440.jpg)

2021. was going to make an open world game in roblox.

something like gta. i was 14 or 15.

gave up almost immediately.

## ranked, through discord

Source: https://adhamy.com/writing/notes/blast-royale

around 2022–23, i made a discord bot for Blast Royale. the game had no ranked mode and hosting scrims was a pain. so i built ranked, scrims, and win tracking through discord.

it was used by a gaming community with 60k+ people at the time.

the game shut down.