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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 would call myself a begintermediate programmer, been playing with it for a few years but really taking it seriously this past year. Currently I am building a python back end for a rather simple budgeting program and a more complicated meal planning program which combines webscraped grocery deals, my current inventory, and my recipes to create the cheapest meal plan each week. I have picked up learning javascript in the past month, my programs need some level of front end and tkinter does not appear to advance my professional skills.
I have two projects sitting in the background. A discord bot that uses TMDB api to gather information on movies on my library and manage movie selection based on what users have seen before and genre preferences. The second is a disc golf program using RFID tags on the disc and a GPS module, one scan per shot allows me to recreate the score and distance information per disc. Both of these will get rewrites when I am relatively competent in hopes of a full time implementation and not just for funzies.
Programming has shown itself to be maybe the most fulfilling thing I have done, nothing else can keep me obsessed over a problem quite the same way.
Other technical projects I have going on are planning to switch my windows dominant dualboot into 95% Linux with a tiny windows partition for like 3 games. I am moving my phone from CalyxOS to GrapheneOS. I had a server running for game servers and disorganized tinkering. I have wiped it clean and am learning docker so I can get some usable server function like a file cloud and media server.
All of this is rather basic but it is all in the name of education and I'm having a good time with it.
Going through Rustlings to get a hang of Rust. Previous attempts to learn from the book were unsuccessful, and being recently diagnosed with ADHD, I now know why. But rustlings has been fun and enjoyable.
On another front, I now hate WSL after trying to get Intellij recognize a JDK from NixOS vm, and I kind of got soured on Java's ease of dev setup.
So, I'm just thinking of going with Rust all the way in, I like that things just workâ˘.
On another note, I finally put up my blog! Its fairly simple and standard, but I'm having fun writing stuff on it. If anybody cares, feel free to shake down the tree: https://bhankas.org