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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
I'm currently working on a little C interface for an incredibly niche and esoteric file format.
The format is tablatal, from the same people who designed Orca and a number of other interesting projects. I reached out to them and did a little digging on my end, but the format seems to be pretty dead - they've since moved to a TSV varient. But I really like the idea of file formats conforming to aesthetics, and C pointer arithmetic seems conducive to a format with fixed line lengths, and I could use the C-exercise. And, most importantly of all, it's fun :)
I run a facebook group to let photographers exchange their original prints. It's not very efficient right now, so I'd like to create a tinder-clone web app that connects people when they both like each other's print.
I'm going to do this using Azure Functions serverless architecture, as it is super affordable and scales really well.
The bad thing is that I want a SPA built with React, but I REALLY suck at UI and JS in particular, much less an unfamiliar framework like React. But, challenges are learning opportunities so hopefully, I'll be able to figure it out!
I found couple of Raspebbry Pi Picos in a stash. I already have a Pi working as home server, but these things are in different class. Any ideas on possible le projects with these?