Whatcha all working on? : programming

[–] vogi@piefed.social 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Open Phone (currently on hold, the webpage deteriorated over time) a Nokia phone as if it was made today. (usb-c, arm processor, 5g, 1tb sd, rss reader, podcasts, 2fa, web radio, fediverse client, offline lexicon, offline translator, weather, music, maps only showing a compass with directions, signal messenger)

An Arcade Machine built on top of a sensible Linux base running on a raspberry. The goal is to bring indie games in cafés and bars as I am super bummed out about arcades not being a thing :(

[–] comrade@infosec.pub 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

those are both really cool projects, I'm always happy to see people make hardware that's actually a positive to humanity

[–] vogi@piefed.social 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yea, im kinda sick of what the tech industry has become. I do believe that tech and even the internet can have a net positive for humanity and I don't mean it in the early silicon valley "making the world a better place thanks to my compression algorithm" sort of way. It does have the power to bring humans together and not stand in between as well as be an extension of your brain and not a replacement.

[–] comrade@infosec.pub 2 points 5 months ago

cough cough American hyper-capitalism

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Professionally or hobbywise?

Hobbywise I'm pretty dead lately cause I left all my embedded gear at my parents when I moved.

Professionally I am trying to optimize software on a microcontroller to minimize power consumption for my master thesis. Currently I'm sitting at an average power draw of 70 uA at 3V. If all goes well I might get it even lower

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Same. Hobbywise, my stuff is still packed up after a move.

Professionally, I'm cleaning up AI slop. It pays!

[–] comrade@infosec.pub 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"Professionally, I’m cleaning up AI slop. It pays!"

Heyo, Let me get in on that action. I have been refusing AI since day one for this exact reason

[–] comrade@infosec.pub 4 points 5 months ago

I don't understand the frame of reference for 70uA at 3v but I'm glad its going well goodluck!

[–] solomonschuler@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

what kind of microcontroller are you using for your thesis?

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

I doubt you've heard of it honestly. It's an ADuCM355 from Analog Devices. Internally it uses an Cortex-M3.

[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

A dating app that takes users seriously. Respect their filters, don't price gauge, eschew dark patterns, that jazz. It's nearing something production ready, but I'm still fretting over where (geographically) to launch and how to get to sufficient user density without spending a cartload of cash on marketing. I also find it difficult to strike a balance between even mentioning this project, and not being seen as spamming product placement in unwanted communities.

[–] comrade@infosec.pub 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"takes users seriously. Respect their filters, don’t price gauge, eschew dark patterns, that jazz"

Is all this true because "you have a goal" or "we have strict rules"? because that's how most dating platforms start but when they grow the new people in the project don't care about the founders goal and it slowly enshittifies. That being said if its actually designed to give the users real control so they can prevent the enshittifcation then I'm very interested

"I’m still fretting over where (geographically) to launch"

If its an app why does there need to be a geo restricted launch? if there's a valid reason id say launch in the closest capital to you

"how to get to sufficient user density without spending a cartload of cash on marketing"

Unfortunately money does buy fame. it'll take ages to organically grow but using/creating a network will help (easier said then done)

"not being seen as spamming product placement in unwanted communities"

I feel that, its very dependent innit. you just gotta mention it without sounding like a shill tbh

[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Thank you for the interest. Sorry to leave you hanging there, Cyn. (Funny, I knew a Cyn once.)

Not sure I follow your distinction between goal and rules there. It is certainly based on values and ideology more than a vision to become rich off of it. Some examples of how values look in concrete terms:

filters are bidirectional, so if for instance your filter says "no smokers" then you obviously won't see any smokers - but also, your profile won't be shown to other users who are smokers;
if you've set a geographical range (say, 50km), we won't sneak in users who are thousands of km away from you (and certainly no ads in your feed);
you'd pay a fixed price to get access to everything for 30 days. Furthermore, you are free to pause/resume your account if, for instance, you only want to be active on the weekends or every other week, and those 30 days will only "tick" on active days;
I want to support people of every ilk, I'm doing research on how to make minorities feel seen, safe, and supported;
in fact I'm doing several kinds of research and meta-research to find out what actually works for users wrt. getting quality matches (as opposed to what works for user retention and addictiveness);
I want to specifically recreate a lot of the liked features that other apps have lost over the last few years, such as quizzes and photo phomts;
the entire thing will be developed and hosted from within the EU. It's easier to leave the app than to sign up for it. There's a one-click "hand over my data" GDPR button. I would rather close the whole thing down than ever sell out to Match Group.

I know, this is just words on a screen but still, those are my values.

About the geo restriction, good question. The plan isn't to actively restrict users, but to launch with a focus in one area (say, Amsterdam). The thing is, it can make a lot of sense to host a little tool on github and have six people find it useful - but for a matchmaking app, what you really need is user density and in that regard it helps to focus on a smaller area to begin with. Six users on each and every continent aren't going to find great matches.

I like my account. I like the communities I'm in. I'd hate to be seen as a sleazy ad-monger or product peddler. I'd rather go slow and learn where such "hey by the way" conversation is not just acceptable but even encouraged.

[–] comrade@infosec.pub 1 points 5 months ago

no worries, I understand you have strong values as do most founders. What I was referring was its unlikely any of these values will hold in the future if you don't design your system in a way combat discrimination and censorship. anything that can be used to exploit or influence people will eventually be used to do so I think and a dating app is very personal/private.

about the geo restriction, If you launched worldwide and get six people scattered around the globe then launching locally wont change the density at all. it'll just give you a smaller scope of those 6 scattered people. (maybe 2 or 3 instead)

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What kind of filters will you have? Is it swipe based?

[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Basically, I've designed it such that a user's profile is built up from facets, and each facet is used to build both the user profile page and the filter page. That is to say: you can filter on everything that can be shown on a profile. But also, a user might mark any facet as visible to "everyone", "matches", or "disregard" (the latter in case you just don't want to answer that one). There's more to it, of course, but that's a very short verison.

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Ah ok. I’ve had a similar idea to this facets before. It could be used for more general meeting up than dating. Which… might work out better if you can’t get the right gender ratios to start out with. (I believe if you have enough general members, they will want to use it for dating naturally). Obviously the app design would be quite different (less photo focused) in that case.

[–] middlemanSI@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

[–] hobata@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

beep bop boop?

[–] comrade@infosec.pub 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wonder whats on the microcontroller also... micropython 👀

[–] middlemanSI@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Micropython<3

[–] comrade@infosec.pub 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

but... c++

[–] Womble@piefed.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Its not a real language unless you have 11 different valid ways of instantiating an object, each with their own subtle pitfalls.

[–] confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

For the past couple weeks I've been working on getting a small self hosted server up and running. It's running off a Rasberry Pi 5 + a portable USB 3 hard drive so it's quite small and simple. It runs Alpine Linux and I'm using rootless podman to manage my containers.

I've been writing my own backup system which are all POSIX portable scripts focused around rsync. One script handles chains of rsync commands based on files. One script handles the number of backups and the current script I'm writing handles stopping and starting containers for before and after a backup.

All the scripts are minimal, focus on one specific task and easy to use in scripts. There's lots of focus on making them safe to use with lots of error handling.

After that I need to make a keep alive script because I lose all connectivity to the server sometimes, including ssh. The device isn't frozen, just stops talking for reasons unknown. After that I want to secure my ssh connection with wiregaurd and my server will be secure and low maintenance enough for my liking.

I have my completed scripts up on codeberg.

[–] comrade@infosec.pub 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I like the look of the backup scripts and I might use the dynamic motd script. Id love to hear more about what your selfhosting? (also btw you using codeberg is hella respect)

[–] confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, I've learned a lot about Linux focusing on learning POSIX portable scripts. It's been an experience.

I just have two containers. Caddy which handles let's encrypt certificates and Kiwix to host Wikipedia plus about 10 other wikis, ranging from Linux coding to first aid, gardening, and other stuff meant for local self sufficiency.

I also use Caddy as a basic file server. I have a number of self sufficiency books on there, POSIX coding references and all my scripts and notes on Alpine Linux. I also have a static blog site there simply using Caddy as well.

I have a strong focus on minimalism so I don't intend in going crazy with self hosted services. Also I have huge trust issues with so many self hosted projects so making my own projects when possible means less exposure to security vulnerabilities, AI or enablers of Authoritarian powers.

I spent a lot of time making it secure with some added obscurity so only myself and those who I share my site with can feel safe connecting to my server. It's been quite the learning adventure.

Let me know if you have any issues with the motd script. I gather most of the information from /sys/ and /proc/ files so hopefully it's consistent and accurate across other distributions. I've only tested it on Alpine Linux.

[–] comrade@infosec.pub 2 points 5 months ago

I have a strong focus on minimalism so I don’t intend in going crazy with self hosted services. Also I have huge trust issues with so many self hosted projects so making my own projects when possible means less exposure to security vulnerabilities, AI or enablers of Authoritarian powers.

I feel this heavy bro. I used to make minimal projects to satisfy what I needed like a kabanboard or pgp management or wtr. I wish more software took the time to protect against their real-world threat model but alas alot of the times there is negative profit incentive to do so...

also, If I remember to let you know I will, I hardly make stuff anymore so I don't use my vps' often

[–] SteveTech@aussie.zone 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Currently I'm working on whatports.work in between my studies, basically its an outgoing port tester so that users can test their network's firewall rules. It's similar to portquiz.net, except it has a JS port check, UDP and IPv6 support, and hopefully HTTPS soon.

I've also thought about getting an ASN and doing some anycast stuff. Especially since it's hosted in Sydney currently, which adds a bunch of latency for anyone not in Australia. Also there's a lot of port scan bots, and the server is doing its best to respond to all of them, with some rate limiting of course, but it'll be good to distribute the load anyway.

[–] comrade@infosec.pub 3 points 5 months ago

I can actually see this being useful to me, when I'm setting up a new environment and need to make sure everything available from the wider web. thanks

[–] kernel_panic@feddit.uk 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Assumung you're referring to personal projects.

A couple of projects that are all mostly done, ready to be open sourced:

ComfyUI Mobile UI (Self Hosted Web App and Android App) - Originally built for a client in cinema VFX who needed to be able to queue and run existing workflows from anywhere. It's built with Typescript, Tailwind and React. All the existing solutions seemed incomplete or buggy. It includes a custom node that helps expose additional API functions. It doesn't require any additional user steps like exporting and importing workflows etc. It just connects to a server running the custom node, lists all the workflows, and then displays them in an ordered list with all their functionality.
ComfyUI Prometheus Exporter (ComfyUI custom node) - For the aforementioned client, a much more expansive Prometheus metric exporter that calculates and exposes over 100 useful metrics, with some Grafana dashboards. Python obviously.
IPTV Player (self hosted single user web app) - I tried lots of the existing open source solutions such as Viniplay and Nodecast. I found them all to be buggy and have various intricacies that annoyed me. It's built in Typescript, Tailwind and React again. It's quite basic, with no auth or settings. Just a simple playlist import, playlist editor, favourites, and a web player. The UI needs some polish if i am going to open source it. Undecided yet.

I'm a freelance dev who has been slogging away as the sole developer on a very boring but large website for a big non-tech-industry client for the last year. Have had to deal with lots of ridiculous changes and tweaks, so working on some totally different side projects has been a life saver for my motivation and mental health.

[–] QueenMidna@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

3 node kubernetes cluster on Mini-PCs for my website and *arr stack. Plus a nice new day 12 disk NAS.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A small gui to automate generating some pdfs from some CSV files.

There's a small non-profit in my area helping people operate localized energy distribution (as producers and consumers). Each month, they receive a zip file containing the raw kiloWatt-hours produced and consumed by each participant over the past month as CSV files. So far the non-profit has been manually importing these CSVs into LibreOffice to generate graphs and tables and export the whole thing as an individualized PDF file for each participant. Now that they're starting to help more than 2-3 operations, it's become useful to try to automate that process.

I've been writing it in rust for a few reasons. First of all I wanted cross-compilation to be sure to work and at this point I'm more familiar with rust than go, secondly I read a blog post recently that evaluated rust gui solutions in terms of accessibility and IME-compatibility on windows. I started off looking for a "direct" pdf-writing library but eventually switched to using typst to generate the pdfs from templates I write. typst being written in rust has enabled me to bundle its engine into the program in a pretty-straightforward way.

I'm currently working on allowing the import of multiple sets of data so that the generated PDFs can show line plots of the electricity production and consumption over several months.

[–] comrade@infosec.pub 3 points 5 months ago

I rate the rust pick, I'm trying to write more and more in rust. also that's the type of work experience employers love so good work

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Local LLMs and learning CUDA on a machine with 6 1070Ti GPUs... Some of it works out of the box... For other stuff I'm having to explore what will work on the sm61 cuda architecture.

Also getting better at running a pair of old 3d printers.

I'm not one to buy new hardware if you can't tell :P

[–] comrade@infosec.pub 2 points 5 months ago

With the current prices I don't blame you, maybe a few years ago id feel different xd

[–] jellyfishhunter@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

As a hobby I'm dabbling into local LLM shenanigans and self-hosting.

Professionally I'm working on a VR training sandbox involving trains and signal boxes.

[–] strlcpy@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A basic Death Stranding 2D demake targeting SNES, GBA, PS1, Windows, DOS and whatever I can make it work on in one binary. So the single file is a valid Windows program, a GBA ROM, a PS1 disc image, a bootable PC disk image, etc.

I'm really chipping away at it one bit at a time. I already have the most crucial bit, which is the very start of the file which needs to be a DOS EXE header, x86 machine code and ARM machine code at the same time. But at every step new practical difficulties arise.

The specific bit I'm working on now is writing a custom linker, because no regular linker script magic is going to make a normal linker do what I need, and it turns out slicing intermediate binaries isn't going to cut it either.

[–] comrade@infosec.pub 1 points 5 months ago

This sounds like it could make a very popular video in the programming/video essay space

[–] sylphrin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's not that exciting, but I'm working on a Pomodoro timer.

There are a lot of Pomodoro timer apps out there, but I still haven't found one that has all the features I want, they're always missing something or other. I'm sick of compromising, so I'm making my own. I've coded a Pomodoro timer before so I've got the general logic down, but my prior implementation is attached to something else and I want it as a standalone application. Thought this would be a good little project to learn godot with, especially since it will let me export it for mobile as well (in theory).

I hate doing UI stuff and most of this project is UI so.... wish me luck.

[–] comrade@infosec.pub 1 points 5 months ago

"There are a lot of X apps out there, but I still haven’t found one that has all the features I want"

I feel this heavy, every app's just so eh... nowadays at least but either way, goodluck with the ui work (I hate frontend too but svelte makes it bearable)

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 1 points 5 months ago

ID3 tags reader/writer library in Elisp for Emacs and a unit conversion app. that's responsive to be able to be used on mobile Linux.

[–] AstroLightz@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've been working on my first Python package to upload to PyPI to be used in more of my projects.

It's a lot of work compared to some of my hobbyist projects as I'm trying to be (somewhat) professional about it.

It's also my first time writing actual documentation designed for others to read. It's a lot harder than I though to write good documentation. Thankfully, sphinx helps with pulling docstrings from my code. I just wrote a Quick-Start Guide to get people started using the package.

It's fun though as I'm learning a new stack for Python package development (hatch/hatchling, ReadTheDocs, sphinx, PyPI). I'm almost done with the initial release too!

[–] comrade@infosec.pub 1 points 5 months ago

I've only worked on basic TensorFlow stuff in python but this sounds pretty similar to my first experience making a rust crate xd

[+] idriss@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

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[–] onion@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

I'm working on a mobile app (in Dart/Flutter) meant to help sedentary workers live healthier lives by getting them (us) to move more often.

I wrote about it here: https://prodzen.dev/articles/building-limberly-part-1-we-re-not-moving-enough/

If anyone wants to nerd out about the topic, I'd love to be a part of it!

Oh, and, I don't want to be too self-promo-y, but I am looking for initial testers for the app. The link to join is within the article I mentioned above.

[–] solomonschuler@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm now getting more into embedded system design. I'm doing a project where i'm building a robot in embedded C for my processor design class. It is really fun because it combines what I'm learning in circuits with digital logic.

[–] comrade@infosec.pub 1 points 4 months ago

I love systems design, I hope it goes well for you

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 0 points 5 months ago

I have recently made a short script that converts Gregorian dates to Symmetry454 ones. Additional functionality might be added at some point, but currently do not have the time.

I am also working on two games (using Godot, if you're wondering). One is a platformer where a duck (the player) is tasked by Prometheus to steal the "fire" from each of the twelve Olympian gods, starting with Dionysus, the god of wine, so the duck needs to steal the knowledge of wine-making for the humans while going through various obstacles and puzzles. I've already made some basic levels and I think it's turning out pretty good! The second game is a HOI4-esque grand strategy game set during the cold war, but with controller support (so wars will most likely be turn-based and focus more on intervention/supporting your side of the conflict). This one is in pretty early days, but I have already implemented basic functionality (selecting nations and occupied territories, factions, basic focus and research system), and I will soon need to add actual fun bits in (like a functioning battling mechanic, actual focus webs and research trees)

I have exams coming up soon so I don't have much time to work on silly programming projects right now, I need time to revise and such!

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