What programming/technical projects have you been working on?

I've finally gotten around to setting up my own mail and caldav server. Deployment was surprisingly easy, now my main concen is with making sure that gmail doesn't classify my messages as spam.
They have this broken system where you're guilty until proven innocent, which frankly should be illegal.

On my accordion synthesizer project I started learning EasyEDA to design the circuit boards for the next prototype. It seems like a terribly designed program with badly-written tutorials, at least by consumer software or web design standards, but in this space it seems it's more important that programs work than that they look pretty or are easy to use?

Also obsessing about the cables to connect the boards. I could make something up, but there are apparently two very similar standards for doing i2c and power over the same 4-pin connectors. Sparkfun has Qwiic and Adafruit has STEMMA QT.

Working on importing a database of the daily weather for Calgary, AB, Canada going back to 1881 (~50,000 days). Then I want to make graphs to satisfy my curiosity.

Did you know that in Calgary, AB, Canada the lowest recorded tempurature is in 1893 at -45 degrees C?

Also starting to work on a friend's game project. I have to learn HTML canvases/JavaScript as well as decide on a language to handle the server.

Some measure of insanity and stubbornness has struck me, so I'm looking into rewriting Arx Fatalis in Rust. In pretty much every aspect I have no idea what I'm doing with this. I've never programmed professionally, so diving into a new codebase isn't a skill I've ever needed to learn. I've never done any proper graphics programming. Worst of all I've never really been able to get myself to sit down long enough to actually finish a project.

At the moment I'm still basically sizing up the sheer scale of this project, and, right from the start, there are a number of roadblocks. One is that the organization of the code is bizarre to me; all the module names are picked out of mythology, so the likes of MINOS, HERMES, and Athena. There is documentation clarifying what each of these modules are, but the actual code comments are on the sparse side (also occasionally in French). Then on top of that, I don't think the original, unmodified, game can be compiled at this point. It runs off of DirectX 7, and Microsoft really doesn't want you reaching back that far.

Even if I drop this before actually doing anything, reading through all old code has been interesting. Especially when there are those spots where you have to question if some obscure bug is being worked around, or if the original authors were also learning as they went. A fun example of this I found was a block of memory that, as far as I can tell, is allocated for no reason. The only direct use it has in the entire codebase is being freed in the situation that a few specific functions run out of memory and it isn't even reallocated afterwards.

Sadly, I have not made the time to work on many personal projects in my free time. Right now, I am working on the tutorial for pixel, a 2-D gaming library written in Go. The idea is to remake some simple games, like snake, space invaders, ect. I got the idea from a blog post that suggested some cool projects to work on.

Finished and released flat to public domain. Initially I wanted to put more features in, but it started to be too much work for a relaxing side project, so I cleaned it up and released it as it was. Maybe it would help someone else make a good thing.

Meanwhile, I'm returning to work on Intergrid.

Thanks to a suggestion someone made, I'm rewriting the data structure to separate DOM from content. The initial idea was to use DOM as the source of data, given that it already represents it nicely by providing both the visual and the informational hierarchy. This, however, may be much slower than the mostly-JS handling of things.

The current version will only receive the bug fixes it requires in the meantime, as well as one feature: export function. This would provide the basis for manual data migration that's coming up. I promised to handle the data with respect; this is one step towards fulfilling this promise.

I'm planning to make one last announcement on Tildes before switching to official changelog and roadmap hosted on the app's website. There seems to be quite a few people looking forward to Intergrid's development, but using Tildes as the platform for its promotion and discussion seems like abuse of the platform. The announcement will contain links to the changelog and, potentially, the development blog.

Meanwhile, if you have questions or feature requests about the app, you can reply to this comment, PM me, or send me an email (the address is in the default notes).

So far I'm also considering involving some form of feature request and voting platform to guide the app's development once it's mature enough. FeatHub seems like a good option – given that it's the only one I've seen so far. One of the obstacles about it is that it requires a GitHub account to vote, and I imagine that most of the users of Intergrid may not necessarily have one. I'd like to make voting inclusive and secure – that is, as impervious to abuse and brigading as possible. Self-hosted solutions are an option.

I've been working on a site https://www.identitymanipulation.com to create/promote guides around a somewhat esoteric concept as well as to practice my MVC/.net core skills

I've been working off and on on a daybook shell script. Like a diary but written by me.

Working on writing a flask app, that serves as an API to manage a public linux system.