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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 made a quick mastodon/activitypub bot to "generate ideas" about blockchains out of random words, running at @vc@ebc.li
because i'm using gotosocial at it's back end (wanted to try it out, still doesn't seem as ready yet), the profile web interface returns a 404 so you currently cannot see it's full history, though following it from your mastodon account should work
throughout the day or so it was running, it generated stuff like, "proof of viability", "heaven on the metaverse", "proof of fiction" and "gullible goat wallet" among some other things i found less funny
while i was testing it without making it post it was generating much better stuff, but i guess RNGesus had a hand in that
i named the account "vc" because i might put less blockchainy, startupish ideas in there eventually, it's just that blockchains are very easy to make fun of and were the idea that got the bot started
oh, also i set up said gotosocial intance, though that wasn't as programmy as the other one. it's just docker-compose yamls, facepalming on my own stupidity, and not reading docs properly
I've been learning Elixir and Phoenix LiveView by working on a simple (mock) online shop.
LiveView is awesome: it enables real-time updates from the server to the client by keeping a lightweight process on the server side that manages what the client sees (via a websocket connection).
The shop is for nothing in particular, I'm just practising and implementing things piece-meal whenever I think of something that would be interesting. So far that has included, among other things:
(The application generates a signed URL to an otherwise inaccessible file on S3, and then imgproxy uses that to deliver an optimized image for the customer's screen resolution.)
I'll probably put the project on hold for December though, because I plan to do the Advent of Code puzzles.
Today i made a little ID3 tag editor that uses your $EDITOR to edit tags: https://github.com/crdpa/pyta
Some days ago i made a bulk renamer in Go that uses your $EDITOR too: https://github.com/crdpa/gore