What programming/technical projects have you been working on?

It's my last week at my current job, so I'm spending pretty much all my time documenting and doing knowledge transfer. It's definitely made me think a lot about documentation best practices, and made me incredibly grateful for Rustdoc!

I decided to do a quick infinite canvas drawing project I called MoltenDraw. The name will most likely change. Mitten. It's based on Milton. I'm using the various game libraries I've created over the years. I managed to code a first proof of concept within 1 hour.

It looks like lines, drawing, circles.

I don't code or anything, but for Advent of Code I'm using Google Sheets. All of the cool kids have modules to pull the input down, so I decided to slap together a function to do just that

function aoc(day) {
  var cookie = "your-session-cookie"
	const url = "https://adventofcode.com/2021/day/" + day + "/input";
	const response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, {
		"method": "GET",
		"headers": {
			"cookie": "session="+cookie,
		},
		"muteHttpExceptions": true,
		"validateHttpsCertificates": true,
	});
return response.getContentText().split("\n");
}

You can use =AOC(10) or =AOC(DAY(TODAY())) and it should pull it down.

I've been working on adding support for calling the Windows DnsQueryEx API asynchronously in Go. That API uses a Win32 concept called an Asynchronous Procedure Call (APC) to deliver its completion notification events, so I've had to do a bunch of work to make APCs work with channels and goroutines.

I just finished a side-project: https://status.cafe. It's a place where we can share our current status. It's heavily inspired by imood and SpaceHey.

There aren't many features, but there are some:

• Your profile page can be completely customized with HTML and CSS, a little like this one from dream
• There's a bookmarklet that lets you update your status from anywhere
• There's a widget that lets you show your latest status on your homepage, like what I added at the top of mine.
• You can subscribe to any person you'd like with Atom

And that's it! It's still very new and I'm sure I'll be tweaking quite a lot in the coming weeks, but from a feature standpoint, I think it's complete. I want it to stay simple and last for years ahead, and nothing beats simplicity for that.

Here is the source code if anyone is interested: https://git.sr.ht/~m15o/status

I'm making a simple website to register the books i've read. Like a goodreads lite.

The only important things are book name and author. Edition, publisher and everything else does not matter. There shouldn't be two books with the same name with both authors having the same name too, right?

Maybe put release year too just to be safe?

Another question: how do i deal with different languages?

I'm using sqlite for the database.

I am reading O Chefão, because i'm from Brazil, but the original title is The Godfather. Is there a way to make the name field have multiple values? What is the better approach? An "Alternative titles" field?

There’s a project at work that’s in Unreal Blueprint that I’ve worked on some in the past. This week the sole developer and 3D expert quit, so now I’m going to be taking it over. Lord have mercy, the mess of spaghetti Blueprint I’ve just been handed…

I just put together a small script to replace MobaXTerm, which I've been using to run several ssh sessions and input the same keystrokes into them all at the same time. My script just launches a tmux session with synchronized panes and a command in each window, so e.g. shplit ssh web{01..06} would ssh into web01 through web06.

Here's how it looks with a trivial example, shplit echo one two three four:

echo one                               │echo two
^_^ dmbuce@football:~$ echo one        │^_^ dmbuce@football:~$ echo two
one                                    │two
^_^ dmbuce@football:~$                 │^_^ dmbuce@football:~$ 
                                       │
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───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────
echo three                             │echo four
^_^ dmbuce@football:~$ echo three      │^_^ dmbuce@football:~$ echo four
three                                  │four
^_^ dmbuce@football:~$                 │^_^ dmbuce@football:~$ 
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[shplit] 0:bash*                                      "football" 16:09 13-Dec-21