How much progress have you made since last time? What new ideas have you stumbled upon, what old ideas have you abandoned? What new projects have you started? What are you working on?

Once again, feel free to share anything you’ve been working on, old or new, simple or complex, tiny or huge, whether you want to share and discuss it, or simply brag about it - or just about anything you feel like sharing!

The monthly thread is the place for you to engage /c/programming_languages on things that you might not have wanted to put up a post for - progress, ideas, maybe even a slick new chair you built in your garage. Share your projects and thoughts on others’ ideas, and most importantly, have a great and productive month!

Also see: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/1b3fqrz/march_2024_monthly_what_are_you_working_on_thread/

  • @KissakiEnglish
    2•4 months ago

    I worked on some existing personal dotnet projects, updating targets to net8, upgrading dependencies, and integrating and improving GitHub actions.

    I made code improvements to a data-fetcher fetching speedrun.com data - although I did not get far enough to give it fully clear structure and trigger a full data update after I initially set it up two years ago (and ran it through multiple partial downloads). I want to include cache headers, because the API supports it, so the next data update includes them and future fetches will be able to make use of them.

    I added some more content to my website, and noticed one page was referenced but missing. Turns out the 100 MB request size limit was reached (because of a few video clips). After updating my CI-deployment-accepting service and the Nginx configuration my website updates on push again (hugo-generated static website).

    I’ve also thought about creating a GitHub dotnet template repository so I can more easily generate repos and projects from them. But it looks like that’s not possible for private repos. I ended up creating one with the appropriate git, editorconfig, and dir props files. I will be using them next time I create a project.

    Another thing I want to do is continue on or finish a web game written in Blazor. Some game rule restrictions are not enforced yet, and legal moves are not visually obvious yet.

    I also want to try out GoDot.

    On my Japanese/Hiragana practice tool, I almost want to give up because it’s such a hassle and more significant effort to implement.

    I’ve also been contributing to Wikipedia again.

    After a long time of very little work holiday, I finally have three weeks. Two more weeks. We will see what I will focus on and be able to do or complete. :)

    • Baldur Nil
      2•22 days ago

      Doing small contributions to Wikipedia is quite rewarding. Sometimes I add little stuff, as it doesn’t take much time and small improvements are more easily accepted in any page.

  • @jadero
    1•4 months ago

    I started down the path of creating a gear library for Full Control, a 3D printing system. I got sidetracked by a couple of problems:

    1. I’m apparently not smart enough to create something from scratch.

    2. Existing libraries are either beyond my ability to use directly or, like OpenSCAD, generating fully realized models intended for traditional slicers.

    I was hoping to be able to do a variety of gear types, but I think I’m going to have to be satisfied with just spur gears.

    In any case, I’ve set it aside until next winter. Spring is coming, so I need to finish my website work before my other hobbies take over my life.

    (Actually, Full Control might be better described as a 3D plotting system, since the Z axis is as continuously variable as the X and Y axes.)

  • Baldur Nil
    1•22 days ago

    I’ve had a surgery last Thursday, so now that I can’t do anything besides sitting and laying for the next two weeks, I’ve started reading and implementing the Crafting Interpreters book. Hopefully it’ll give me a good base for future projects.