Spring Of Making Posts – Hack Club Scrapbook

updated the theme of my portfolio/website, also the music section. Kind of a lazy day in terms of coding, but it's okay :3

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today I learnt to use the floyd-warshall algorithm to find the nodes on the shortest paths between nodes. Still working out specifics, as you can see😉

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Chaotic day - went to go do a LEGO tournament... it was carnage. From the teacher's minibus getting a flat tyre to lego flying all over the place - I'd never seen anything like it. We didn't win but we came quite close i guess 😭

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Just booted an Ubuntu Server on my raspberry pi zero 2w ! gonna use it to code in vim and make terminal programs!!

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2nd scrapbook post :3 updated a schematic for one of my old projects. Pretty awesome sauce.

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Got a basic tokenizer working for my new programming language mango!

string r -&gt; "testing 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎"
float pi -&gt; 3.14
string x -&gt; "🍎🍎🍎 testing"
int q -&gt; 431
name -&gt; r + "e"
print q

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Practiced usaco today! It was mostly reading, but I was able to apply my knowledge to solve this problem

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Started learning basic Javascript!!!

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might as well be the final thing i upload to this dev account

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~~messaging randos on PF because physics is literally my life~~

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Today's usaco practice. This was definitely harder than I thought it would be, so it consumed most of my time. Learned quite a lot from the ~5 failed submissions and draft algorithms though.

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My first scrapbook post!! I'm trying to refresh my memory for electronics (and using the pi pico -- its been ages since I've used it). Starting simple and building up to finishing off some of my old projects.

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Made my new pfp!!!!

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Finishing off my slightly eh game that I made as English homework

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Working on the main game ui for my school final project. JavaFX is definitely a different type of library than I've ever used, but the fxml system is fantastic.

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I created a website to show off my projects. here is the link boan235.github.io/Personal-Website

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I created a game in sprig. it is called Cat Clicker here is the link sprig.hackclub.com/share/6y68wtWyNZ27NiOo51mk

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I created a hack pad. It is called the legitimate salvage. here is the link github.com/BoaN235/Legitmate-Salvage

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I created a game in sprig. it is called Bomber plane here is the link sprig.hackclub.com/share/urQR5gYKDHLXucYjSET9

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Footage from our robot’s new algae mech for FRC robotics!

working on links animation for my svelte js protifolio

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again, working on sdl_engine, my Vulkan Game Engine! This time, I was busy finding a way organizing Nodes while lifting some of the heavy work off of the Engine. To make everything more seamless! Introducing: SceneTrees! This class will help the Engine in easily locating relevant Cameras/Lights. Next update will be focused on making this rewrite actually work with the existing foundation. Sketch in comments!

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I could only do one problem for USACO silver. I'll practice more for next time, as the problems were very difficult.

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working on ui for my svelte js portifoilo

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A while ago, I designed the merch + logo for “Jua”, the Athena event in Nairobi by Hack Club! ☀️ I am so lucky to have been part of something this bold and creative (P.S check out #C05T8E9GY64| for girls/gender diverse teens!!) instagram.com/p/DHkvRwwiuRv

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I didn't share this here yet but I came back from a month long break from my Vulkan Game Engine and started heavy work on the Nodes, planning to work on Materials and PBR lighting very soon! sdlengine is a project I made initially to learn more about graphics and perhaps even make a game very later down the road. It's written in C++ and <https://github.com/BurntRanch/sdlengine/tree/rewrite|this> is the repo, rewrite is the branch I'm working on If it's not obvious, this is highly based off of Godot, Their system is very nice, I have very high hopes for this!

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finally got grafana up and running for my homelab server! might set it up on some pubnixes next? do they need them? probably not. but hey, cool data visualization

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First scrapbook post! Today i made a Flask extension to make it easier integrate Umami analytics into websites that use Flask as a backend (because it was too anying to do it manually so ofc i had to spend way too much time automating it) Repo: github.com/ImShyMike/Flask-Umami

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tried making a study helper application at least I got my ai model to run! thats a win for the first day!

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Created this monte carlo simulation that uses historical data and inputted factors to tell you your chances of bankruptcy! github.com/minglangdu/montecarlo/releases/tag/v0.1.0-alpha

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Free boba! Also I got auto-reload to start working.

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I was going to make a site for free boba, but I realised you couldn't use JS, so I guess I'm done.

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links are fidex in my svelte js protifolio

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Working on the weather ui and the main screen ui of my clock now (graphic design is not, in fact, my passion)

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I've also gone ahead and tried to implement the wisp server protocol in Haskell, to no avail.

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Today I participated in codeforces

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Messing around with some rudimentary networking things. Rust makes my life worth living.

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yo

my algebra teacher gave me a ti-84+se calculator so ive been working on making a toolkit for it with what little knowledge i have. it uses shell scripting and like two python scripts. half the shit is probably described incorrectly and the documentation comes from a twenty year-old wiki site of questionable quality but it still works

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Today I worked on my wakatime plugin for KDevelop. It has the basic event listeners and sending heartbeats now works. Now I just need to add a caching system for offline heartbeat, and set up fetch requests for displaying the hours/minutes in the editor. github.com/snej55/kdevelop-wakatime-plugin (i've already set the api url to hackatime v2, but the screenshot was from before that).

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lets see how my svelte js portifolio turns out!!

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First Scrapbook post! Today I worked on this auction website for my school. Of course that .prevent right there will take me 1 hour of debug time

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Today I learned about Monte Carlo simulations. Here are my notes for my project relating to them:

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I made my first js and ts project! magical-paperclip/tic-tac-toe-ai

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#C0M8PUPU6| !🚢 Last year I made a database of every name of U.S. citizens. Over the last couple of weeks, I made a web tool to view this data! If you’re a data nerd like me, you can see where names are most popular, and where the name is more popular. It features a table, graph, maps, and much more. FYI, It will omit any names with under 5 people born that year for privacy reasons. This has been a really fun dataset to work with. The site is made with Next.js

, mySQL (with Drizzle as the ORM), shadcn/ui, D3.js, and

. You can visit it at nomen.aram.sh and the source code is available on GitHub (maybe give it a ⭐ ?

) Have fun playing around with the data!

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i had a strange dream last night

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Today I learned about binary lifting and Lowest Common Ancestors.

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github.com/hackclub/terminalcraft/pull/99 snake!

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