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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 finally got my space optimization algorithm to support all the features I wanted. I managed to add negative areas. Essentially, it prevents the rectangles to overlap the red areas. It's so satisfying to play with it.
For my game's pathfinding, this means I'll be able to modify the walkable path at runtime. I'll also be able to add or remove walls.
Been working my way through this Docker+(NodeJs+Express) tutorial on Youtube (~2.5hrs through). I like the way it's presented, starting with the "hard" way first before moving on to other tooling (mainly
docker compose) that somewhat makes things more efficient/simple. I think knowing when to set up volumes for certain things (for example, for this simple app... if I wanted a folder/subfolder structure for assets like CSS, JS, images, etc.. would that need to be in its own volume?) and how to ensure there's a clean divide between development/production environments is gonna take me a while to fully grasp, but this tutorial has been pretty good, so far.Question: do those of you more familiar with Docker... would you say it's worth it to start projects with a "containerized-first" mindset? Seems like it makes things a bit more easily reproducible with the caveat that setting those things up creates a bit more friction.
I agree with containerized first, but you don't necessarily need to build it as microservices from the start.
As long as there is good separation and it is built so components can later easily be pulled out.
I use Docker a lot, but I tend to take a pragmatic approach to it. e.g., If I'm developing a desktop app, I typically don't worry too much about Docker, other than perhaps compilation (build in Docker + docker cp resulting binary to destination). Otherwise, I do tend to build with Docker in mind. If I think I might eventually want to use the software as a container, I just make sure I use a good software architecture so I'm not shooting myself in the foot later. If I know the software is going to be used primarily as a container, I write the software POC first and get it working in a container almost immediately, and I use that going forward for testing / building.
I made gitserv a couple days ago. It's a thing that lets you view the contents of Git repos as static websites.
The only difference between this and pointing a web server into a folder is that this supports "bare" git repositories. They are essentially the same thing as just the inside of the ".git" folder in normal repositories, and are used by all of the Git server software I know of.
I'm working on getting COOP+COEP and
SharedArrayBufferenabled on Firefox for Android. I only have it enabled on Nightly for now, as there are some bugs that need to be ironed out before we can let it ride to release.