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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?
It's not a programming project, but I'm trying to put together a free computer clinic in my small town for all the people struggling with computer problems in the pandemic.
Sort of a pop-up computer shop at the transit center downtown for one weekend in October.
The idea is that people with old/spare parts bring them in to be recycled; people with computer trouble come by for help; and people who don't have a computer can pick up a refurbished one free of charge. There's also learning opportunities for people who would like to volunteer with the work.
The idea has already been approved by the local authorities, now I just need to figure out the details. I'm thinking I should set up some online forms for people to request/offer parts so that I have some idea of supply/demand.
I remade my own portfolio page. It used to be a Wordpress thing with a theme, but I wanted to make it from scratch to learn HTML/CSS and Javascript again. Which was a pretty good and fun learning experience.
(also since I did it, I wanna plug myself so https://ohyran.se :) )
EDIT: the code not only looks like crap - it probably is a mess of nonsense. So please give technical suggestions of you feel like but explain it like I'm 4 since... well I am not the smartest dude.
Nice work! Are those your quotes at the top? I dig 'em.
Yeah they are things I've actually said at one point (and then had to eat up by coworkers) I skipped my "I rather have a majestic failure than a mediocre success!" - I can get kinda gung-ho about stuff at times. :)
Also thank you! <3
Very nice! Bold and simple!
Uninteresting observation: The navigation buttons have a slight radius when rendered in Microsoft's Edge browser, but have no radius on Firefox (Nightly). Not sure what your intentions were, but I prefer no radius.
Thank you!
Oh ok no they are supposed to have no radius... need to install Edge and see why they do that. Also how the hell do I see why they would get rounded?
Guessing it's just a built-in browser style? Dunno why browsers would make those kinds of choices, though.
Hmmm ok will have to check up why this happens - again thank you for pointing it out! If nothing else this search will be a great learning experience.
Came across this little challenge that Repl.it uses as a base interview question. Well, I figured I'd try to code up a solution in Rust, so here it is.. It's not robust in that it'll panic when I attempt a transformation past the string's range (and probably for other reasons I'm unaware of), so I guess I'll add some error-handling if I really want to continue to chisel away.
Also, I believe the fourth example in their challenge posting that is supposed to evaluate to
truehas the wrong 'skip' count. It should be 6 rather than 4 in order to evaluate totrue. Either I identified a problem in their question, or my logic is off...