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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?

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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?

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  1. m15o
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    I had been working on http://midnight.pub/, a social media place centered around the idea of a virtual pub. I initially built it with react + python (flask), firebase, and then rebuilt with nextjs...

    I had been working on http://midnight.pub/, a social media place centered around the idea of a virtual pub. I initially built it with react + python (flask), firebase, and then rebuilt with nextjs and faunadb. Recently I've added a search function with algolia. All in all, it's my getaway to experiment and keep coding - my day to day work doesn't involve programming anymore. I've also played around with PICO-8 recently. I'm fascinated by those retro things!

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  2. Gerile3
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    Making my first game with pygame "HangThePyMan" which can be found here. Nothing sort of advanced but its mine. Also kinda learned how to deploy programs to pypi and what sort of things going on...

    Making my first game with pygame "HangThePyMan" which can be found here. Nothing sort of advanced but its mine. Also kinda learned how to deploy programs to pypi and what sort of things going on when deploying. This was really like a magic to me, i had no idea how does packaging stuff works.
    ( insert nothing big but its mine meme here )

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  3. skybrian
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    As an exercise, I copied a melodica mouthpiece using our new 3D printer. The copy is not as good, but it works. It gave me an appreciation of the design that goes into ordinary plastic parts. The...

    As an exercise, I copied a melodica mouthpiece using our new 3D printer. The copy is not as good, but it works.

    It gave me an appreciation of the design that goes into ordinary plastic parts. The curves were quite difficult to even approximately model in OnShape.

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  4. jcdl
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    I dove head first into some Antlr / LLVM compiler making and cracked my skull on the imposter syndrome and self doubt. Compilers are /really/ unapproachable, even for experienced programmers. I've...

    I dove head first into some Antlr / LLVM compiler making and cracked my skull on the imposter syndrome and self doubt. Compilers are /really/ unapproachable, even for experienced programmers. I've successfully written a few grammars with Antlr, yacc, and various packrat parser generators, but it all falls apart when I try to walk my AST and start generating code. I should probably start a little smaller and work my way up from the there, but the toy examples (calculators, JSON, etc.) really don't scale into what it takes to implement an LLVM front end from scratch for a serious programming language. My university undergrad thesis was supposed to be on the porting of Turing to LLVM, but it ended up being a report on all the roadblocks I ran into. Not being satisfied with that, I decided to give it another crack and barely got farther than I did a few years ago.

    Ah well, maybe I'll just stick to web dev for now.

    Edit: I've been making a lovely custom theme for my Hugo static generated blog: https://jcdl.net

    I setup a nifty little GitLab pipeline to build and deploy the pages to my server, which makes things nice and low friction.

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