So, I got really hyped about Aventurine coming out, you know? Like, really looking forward to it. I kept checking the dates and thought, why not make a little countdown for myself? Something to look at and get even more excited. Seemed like a simple enough thing to do.
Getting Started
First thing, I needed the exact date and time. Found that info after a bit of digging around official posts and fan discussions. Gotta be accurate, right? Then I thought about how I wanted it to look. Nothing too fancy, maybe just the numbers ticking down. But then I thought, nah, gotta have some Aventurine flair. Maybe his colors, like gold and black? Yeah, that sounded better.
I decided to just make a simple web page. Seemed the easiest way to get it done quickly without installing weird apps. I know a tiny bit of web stuff, enough to break things usually.
Putting it Together
So I opened up a plain text editor. Started with the basic HTML structure. Just needed a place to put the days, hours, minutes, and seconds. Used some basic paragraph tags, maybe a strong tag here and there to make the numbers pop.
- Made a spot for Days.
- Made a spot for Hours.
- Made a spot for Minutes.
- Made a spot for Seconds.
Then came the styling. This part is always a bit hit-or-miss for me. I messed around with CSS. Tried to get that gold-ish color for the numbers and maybe a dark background. Spent way too long trying to center everything perfectly. It always looks easy in tutorials, but then you try it…
Making it Tick
Okay, the tricky part: making the numbers actually count down. Had to use JavaScript for this. I’m no expert, so I looked up some basic countdown timer code snippets. Found one that looked understandable enough. The main job was getting the target date right and then telling the script to calculate the difference between now and then.
Had to figure out how to calculate days, hours, minutes, seconds from the total milliseconds difference. That involved some math, dividing by 1000, then 60, then 60 again, then 24. Made my head spin a bit, not gonna lie. Then I needed the script to update the numbers on the page every second. Used something called `setInterval` for that. Basically tells the browser, “Hey, run this calculation again every 1000 milliseconds”.
Testing and Finishing Up
First time I ran it, it was totally wrong. Showed some weird negative numbers. Turns out I messed up the date format or the timezone. Classic me. Fiddled with it for a while, checked my target date string again, made sure the calculation logic wasn’t completely bonkers. Finally, the numbers started ticking down correctly! Seeing it work was pretty satisfying.
It wasn’t the prettiest countdown ever, probably looked a bit homemade. But it worked! Had the right colors, the numbers were changing every second, counting down to Aventurine. Stuck it on a local file on my computer, just opened it in my browser whenever I wanted to check. Felt kinda cool having my own personal countdown timer running. Job done.
