Programming

My main project right now is a chess engine named Iroh and a Slack bot & accompanying framework. When I can make the time I also play around with voxel geometry in Bevy.

All in Rust 🦀

Learning Mojo language https://www.modular.com/mojo It is a new programming language by Chris Lattner that is a superset of Python and as fast as Rust. Check out Lex Fridman's podcast with Chris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdJQ8iVTwj8&t=7874s

I am writing a danmaku-style game in Rust & Vulkan. Didn't test it on Windows, only on Linux and MacOS. I also wrote my custom rendering engine, just for fun. It's very early-stage, doesn't even have a name or proper readme...

https://codeberg.org/raubarno/game/src/branch/https

Note: ignore the readme, https branch is without submodules.

Mlem, the iOS client for Lemmy 😊

I had a dream last night about some sort of fediverse overlay as a browser plug-in that you’d be logged into your home instance in the same way you’d be logged into a reddit profile using RES, but as you are browsing feeds on other activitypub networks you can one-click subscribe to have it start to appear in your home instance.

I say this from the perspective as a new Lemmy user, copy/pasting !community@instance to my home instance search sucked when trying to browse and subscribe to so many different places to populate my feed.

But alas, I’ve had a tiring year so far and I don’t see a break in the clouds until Q4 when at least the migration in front of me should be done.

Writing a little password generator for learning and personal use. First cli, then adapting to tui, gui, and web. After, will either pick up my dns log analyzer project or try to write a barebones xmpp bot then client.

Just working on learning racket. I'm very much a beginner in racket and lisp.

Working on a Work from home horror game using Ursina engine. I really enjoy the experience developing with just text & code, no level editor, or any creature comforts. I've learned a ton, 1 year into my programming journey.

I am now trying to go into the advanced stuff in Nuxt 3 but it I bummed out by its support unfortunately.

Nuxt 3 is waaaay better in terms of Dev Experience than Nuxt 2 but even though it released in Nov 2022 it still lacks official modules like Auth and PWA.

Especially Auth is kind of unacceptable to not exist for a framework build in 2023.

Working a global Digital Terrain Model to Digital Surface Model CNN in Pytorch. I have most of of my code written now I'm in the long process of creating and validating input data and ground truth for my first real training run after my geographically limited proof of concept.

I've also started trying to learn Rust, and Web development. I'm having a hard time with rust because I haven't found a good use case for it yet.

I've spent the last few days working on a chat window plugin for Lord of the Rings Online.

Their API is rough and abandoned, lol

You probably notice the other post on here, working on Melosynthos and coming up with the language design for Meta-AST. Basically making it so that it's easy to write a new compiler.

I'm working on a couple things. I'm doing hobby game development and working on a Full Stack Development Certification. The hobby stuff is mostly for fun, the cert is so I can maybe get a job.

My game project is a cutesy little farm game inspired by Slime Rancher but where the player is a novice witch in a magical forest.

Right now, I am working on a bash script which automatically installs Artix Linux (Arch Linux without systemd) on any machine. You can choose between a basic installation which just keeps you with a running system and some necessary packages and a custom installation which contains my config files and settings. Mainly, I am doing it to practice bash and Linux, but I plan to switch from Debian to Artix and I wanted to have a script to easily reinstall my system if I brick something.

I will most likely split this project into two in the future: an enhanced install script which lets people choose their packages and a separate script which copy my dotfiles onto the system.

EDIT: Grammar and spelling.

I'm working on a SpaceTrader client in Kotlin/JavaFX. Mostly to get some experience using Retrofit2.

I'm actually getting close to reaching my project's minimum viable product (MVP) milestone!

It's actually a combination of a personal project and a final project for Harvard's CS50x (Intro to Comp Sci) course. My project is a colour-mixing app, tentatively named "Smear."^1^ The user is presented with a grid, and fill one cell with a colour. They fill another one perpendicular to the first cell, and the app fills the cells in between with a gradient of the two colours.

It's made with React (using vite + swc) and I have seriously considered making it open source. My only hesitation is, I have no delusions about how amateurish my code is structured. I haven't used React since 2016 and back then it was very surface level stuff. They changed quite a bit.

I also want to use this project in my portfolio...and I'm worried making it open source will expose how unqualified I am as a React developer 😢. It could just be my imposter syndrome talking, maybe it's not that bad, but do I really want to take that risk?

The next project I want to work on is a font manager, primarily for Windows. I know there are others out there but a lot of them are made with Electron. Electron-based apps are okay, but I don't want my computer to be inundated with them. I tend to multitask and I'm finding that unfortunately, 16 GB might not be quite enough. All that said, I want to make one using Python and PySide (Qt wrapper for python). I know Python isn't the fastest, but it's the language I'm most familiar with (and like) that has a Qt wrapper. And Qt because I've heard how lightweight it is.

^1.^ Yeah, not the best name, LOL. If you guys have a better idea, please throw them my way!

Mostly just working on a personal game project in Rust. I expect it to go nowhere, and that's okay! I've rewritten it a few times in different languages and engines, but so far Bevy has felt the nicest to actually use to its full capacity.

I was only using Unity as a renderer, Godot's language felt too simplistic and didn't meet the memory requirements I had in mind, and writing my own engine is infeasible. Bevy feels more complex but I'm actually using it as designed rather than working around its quirks. It's pretty nice.