What programming/technical projects have you been working on?

This is my first fully working software. I'm learning programming so it probably has a lot of problems, but here it goes:

https://github.com/crdpa/gore

It is a bulk renamer written in Go. Just run it in the directory you are in and rename the files in your $EDITOR.

I already use the built-in bulk renamer in nnn, but i did this as a learning experience and it is working. Just be careful because i barely know what i'm doing.

Tips and contributions are welcome.

Next step is learning how to package a binary and publish on github.

I've been working a bit on a Öppna Skolplatformen to enable it for parents with kids in my municipality. Unfortunately I've run up against a bit of a roadblock. All communication with the server works when I drive the calls via node. However, when I shift over to use react-native to do the fetching the login breaks down. I think I've tracked down the issue to react-native's fetch call not handling multiple Set-Cookie headers correctly (in the case of Android). Just for debugging purposes (and also for a bit of fun and learning) I implemented my own fetch function in android and exposed it as a native module. It now manages to get past one part of the login, but there is some additional issue that prevents the whole login flow to complete. This hack isn't the way to solve the issue (I have a hunch I can inject a custom cookie manager into the existing fetch function in a cleaner way), but I haven't worked much with react-native so figured it'd be good way to learn some details.

I'm facing one of the two most difficult problems in programming: naming things[1].

In my personal project LinkLonk, when you upvote stuff you put it into a "collection", but I'm now thinking that calling them "channels" would be better.

Here is what I posted on this topic in https://linklonk.com/item/7735497677823082496:

I posted an explanation of how collections work on LinkLonk: https://linklonk.com/item/2369676162410512384

But is collection the right name for it? I came across the word channel and it sounds more fitting.

Some reasons:

• Collection is passive, while channel is more active. You don't collect links on LinkLonk for the sake of collecting (though you could do that). But the main goal is to discover more useful information and to help others do the same.
• Signal-to-noise is a core idea of the LinkLonk's algorithm and it is more related to channels than to collections.
• When you upvote an item you could say you are "tuning into" the other people's channels that transmitted that item. Or you amplify the volume of channels that resonated with you.
• A channel has a concept of order, which fits how LinkLonk works - you connect to channels based on what they "transmitted" in the past to get what they will transmit in the future. A collection does not necessarily have an order. For example, in programming language Java, a collection can be ordered (a list) or unordered (a set): "A collection represents a group of objects, known as its elements. Some collections allow duplicate elements and others do not. Some are ordered and others unordered." (source)
• On LinkLonk you can connect to RSS feeds and to other users' collections. Both are treated in exactly the same way by the algorithm - a sequence of items. Channel is a name that could be applied to both RSS feeds and user collections. But I wouldn't call an RSS feed a "collection". It's a good sign that "channel" covers both sources of information.
• A collection may give an impression that you can rearrange items (like bookmarks in a folder), while a channel implies ordering by time => less likely to create unmet expectations.
• Each user starts with one collection that is called default - I don't like this name, but I can't think of anything better. If we use channels then I think the default channel could be called main. I don't know why, but I think main works for channels but not collections.

I think it is very important to get the names of the main concepts right because better names help users create more accurate models of how the system works.

What do you think?

[1] - The other problem is cache invalidation - I solve it by running the server as a single Go binary, so it is easy to keep track of cached state since all changes to the database are done through this binary.

In my weird version of procrastination from Thanksgiving prep, I made this. My own take on the classic 10PRINT program. It’s not really useful, but it sure is mesmerizing to look at!