Goose Honk Technologist Posts – Hack Club Scrapbook

I spent a lot of time redoing one of my old Java CLI projects... but this time as a GUI, as I couldn't figure out how to properly convert my CLI bank account into a GUI app, or think of new features to add to my cookie clicker clone. This tested my patience the most out of any project I have built so far as I kept squashing and making bugs for what seemed to be hours, and having to go through trial and error many times as I teach myself how the Swing library works. There is still a lot of work to be done, and I have had to essentially rewrite everything from my old simple CLI program except a few switch statements for questions which had to be modified and moved what was not what I expected going into this. I am also in the process of methodizing the code from the single static block as it is a lot more versatile in CLI and necessary for GUI apps.

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today: athena stuff!! had a meeting on the same, lots of discussion nearly done w my say cheese submission worked on a lil something w aframe ( @eesha knows the lore) was my hack-iversary (1yr at hc), i yapped ab it with a long essay on my channel lol

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further probing into my code has revealed three massive bugs in my code. Too lazy to summarize them again so here are the issues github.com/minglangdu/Simulation/milestone/2

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extracted transcription from hack club's ama with nicky case

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I finished my saycheese submission today and I went on a hike in the snow. My saycheese submission was so simple but it only just fit into the QR code, its surprisingly hard to make a plain text website in 2kb!

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1. finally figured out what was not making sense in rust form this amazing vid. my notes are all over the place for this so i will not be showing yall that

2. did some athena nbo emails + msgs 3. i had an idea, going in w/ impulsivity to make it happen (like i talked ab in my prev post)! 4. more robotics and we're back to DDE scrappy doesnt like when i have links only

so here's a pic of some code i wrote from what i learnt in rust tday

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made some code to automate fake data generation for github.com/licnex/projectio

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Day 7 of writing a neural network (AI) from scratch (no dependencies) Today I was away from home, but I got a bit of work done from my phone: I started the very long process of porting my code to teavm code I also finished the new trainer (hopefully)

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I worked a bit more on Codeboard and Hack RTL today, and I managed to transfer my domain to Cloudflare DNS, although my website was broken for a while 😬.

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Took 37 hours but my advent of code style problems and website is finally complete! I've been releasing them over the past days of Advent, and just finished coding up the final few puzzles.

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not too much work today in terms of features, it's mostly fixes and cleaning up code a bit. example here with using svelte's snippet feature to reduce the code needed for the same thing!

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Yesterday I helped run the computer science table at our school district's middle school academy fair! talking hundreds of middle schoolers was very taxing, but it actually went great, we had a crowd around our table the entire time! I obviously advertised Hack Club a ton even though I was low on posters & flyers-- people loved the Sprig, the LED matrix (upcoming ysws 👀), the stickers, and most of all, the game! I projected my #C07MUFXNG82| pinball game onto the ceiling to draw people over & gave candy to people who could score 1000! I wanted to buy a gong with school budget that we could hit every time someone beat the high score, but even though it (shockingly) got approved it didn't arrive in time. Definitely gonna recreate this setup in the future!

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I forgot to do like the first 10 days ofadvent of code, so guess whos doing that:

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Gotta start posting here! So update: Delved into webhooks, created a GitHub webhook to listen for workflow_run event's status, push status to the db and show it to the frontend table today. It worked without any hiccups in just one go, so pretty happy!

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Working on planning Zephyr 2.0. I realize that this is probably just a desperate wish, but I would like to have another Zephyr. I have already begun planning it. This one would be called Zephyr 2.0. If you would like it to happen please reply with a thumbs up emoji. The github repo is at github.com/Maxwell-L-hack/Zephyr-2.0. Here are photo of the notes that I have so far.

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not too much again today added fade animations when selecting and deselecting, heatmap now updates in realtime, cleaned up some of the code, and updated all the npm packages without breaking the entire thing!

Today I worked a lot on #C084UELDWRJ| (TheHackMic) logistics, I also worked a little on the hack club shop! Later today I got a podcast recording with @/jps which I am super excited for!

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I worked on my sprig!! And finally fixed the bug in my code!!

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More coursework and errors. 3 hours of code and all that runs is a black screen 😭

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Working on a website to wish someone on their birthday. Everyday, a new code and a small new surprise

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-djl-ui Working on Code Quality prolly tomorow release

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This piece of code was clowning me 💀

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Heya! Today I plan to work more on Cascade and the Hack Club Shop!

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Mostly debugging my code and fixing issues at the moment. Also working on LED control just because Link: github.com/dj1ch/HomeNet

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almost done with the compiler, rewrote the code compiler (still not finished)

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today i had to rewrite my code, because i had issues wirh displaying scores and datas

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Messed around with variable names, added a couple of better/more readable variable names, etc. Honestly it makes the code look so much more clean. I also made sure we used an external nvs handle so we don't keep reopening it. Along with that I modified the sdkconfig so that the partitioning allows for more space. Link: github.com/dj1ch/HomeNet

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Hey yaal! Did lots of work today 🙂 Lots of choir work for the concert, bioing for the bio final + a bit of math For hc work I did boba drops bts (airtable stuff) and announced that cascade is ending early 😞 + I worked with @/jps for updating the toolbox, check it out (lots of new stuff) toolbox.hackclub.com. Lastly worked with @Mohamad on launching his ysws. Tmrw I plan to work on the hack club shop + toolbox and more ysws stuff

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Made some edits to the toolbox and worked on the hack club shop!

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I made basic code parsing (will probably recode this tomorrow)

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Day 5 of Advent of Code! Both parts in Python, working on it in Excel now..

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Cleaned up some code, this time I'm removing some redundancy. For the most part everything should be good to go until I get that ESP32C6 shipped. Link: github.com/dj1ch/HomeNet

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Today I had a small mistake in advent of code and got stuck. My code is always for some reason spaghetti. Continued working on my test app and added some teams separation. Thinking of a rewrite in react/deno but also I'm quite commited at this point to django github.com/DaalbuCZ/Hermes

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Been doing avent of code. Today it taught me a bit of regex. Also continued working on my test app github.com/DaalbuCZ/Hermes

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Today i fixed bugs and discovered someone tried to hack the cloudflare worker i'm using

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I've spent way too much time stuck on advent of code and then did some more work on my test app github.com/DaalbuCZ/Hermes

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Almost done the JS file, need to finish the game logic then I'll go code the form in my HTML page

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Advent of code day 2!

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Not much to say code-wise, though it was definitely cleaned up quite a bit and it also no longer has unsafe blocks. Rather than doing a static mut variable, I finally fixed it and used Rocket's [State](rocket.rs/guide/v0.5/state/#state) instead. The big thing is that I've hugely improve the docs. (note: the compiler could not guarantee it was unsafe, but i could; it was safe already, i'm just doing things properly now)

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soooo... hiya, i'm new here, but i made a game for Hack Club High Seas today!! :) it has bots, so even if no players are offline, the server will quickly make a synthetic player just for you. emoji-telepathy.ascpixi.dev

Today I've done advent of code (not gonna spoil the solution 😉 ) and I've improved my test result webapp github.com/DaalbuCZ/Hermes

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Today I made an array list implementation in C and continued working on my hack assembler (which needed an array list implementation so I made one)

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Finally returning home from Turkey. Will be able to code again :)

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Advent of code day 1 in rust

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• completed advent of code day 1 in rust! • fixed website contact grid • wrote a blog post! skyfall.dev/posts/satori-with-tailwind-config got almost 300 visits!!

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Day 1 of Advent of Code!

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Continued working on the hack assembler written in C (which I wish finished it today tbh), now can handle predefined symbols and labels. Every part except the empty lines have been compiled as expected. I just need to finish adding support for labels and variables and that should be everything... I told myself something similar 2 days ago when I didn't knew that I would need to implement variables... Essentially I hope I'm done by tomorrow, really hope I can participate into the advent of code this year...

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Hi again Hack-Club community👋 I wanted to share my love for the sprig in a special way so I created this: www.printables.com/model/1073445-sprig-case/files makerworld.com/en/models/790418#profileId-728718 A sprig case! which everyone can download and use and customize to their own preferences with all sorts of cool stuff! So if you want to check it out, either you want to protect your components or add a bit of spice to your sprig, please leave a like or download the file!

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