Big ship: you can now order yourself a new card right on Bank, including virtual cards! Virtual cards can be generated instantly & used for online transactions, no waiting for shipping. If you haven’t ordered yourself a new card, it’s right on your Cards page now. (Personally, super happy with the design of this!)
received a package from @lachlanjc today! wow - I was so surprised! thank you so much to lachlan for sending this, @cwalker for the inspiring note, and to all of hq for this amazing gift! it was really awesome to work with all of you this summer and I’m so grateful for all the support you’ve given. also enjoy this friendly orpheus a la chris
🐸We are almost done with our SOM project, the smart album cover display. Here's a demonstration of the spotify feature, which displays the playing song on the screen almost instantly, complete with transitions 😏, and autobrightness 🤯. Here's a video!
New song for my wip game project! Going for a bit of a s a d/dramatic vibe here because this one plays at one of the s a d/dramatic parts-wait spoilers-
Also yay experimenting with key changes
Continued working on face shields today. I was able to cram 4 into the build plate, but both the thin walls and large build plate make bed leveling difficult. I was able to find the sweet spot on my 4th try. I didn’t grab a photo, but here’s a screen capture of the livestream:
hadware grant came in! tysm for all the people on the SoM hardware grant team for their hard work. I cant wait to share what im planning on making :yay:
Switched my default shell to zsh today! I installed oh my zsh, powerlevel10k and a syntax highlighting plugin, what else would you recommend I do? Also thanks @matthewgleich for the help with moving my PATH over from bash
This monitor was made by me from, a dead laptop, scrap wood, two hooks for mounting to a car headrest, a $20 driver board off eBay, and tape. It’s about 15 inches has hdmi, rca, vga, a USB port, and it fits in a backpack.
I've been working on preparing for a webinar for the HOPE Project! (Harmonies of Pianists Everywhere; linktr.ee/hopepiano) It's free and is open to ALL musicians: we have some expert panelists speaking to us about Effective Practicing! It's not too late to sign up; I'll be hosting 😄
Image + Particles JS + Z-Index = 😡
Image + Particles JS + Z-Index + Position = 😁
Yeah, fun browser quirks! Also Particles JS likes to be on top of elements by default 😕
It's been, like, forever since I last posted lol. Anyways I've been working on a new project that'll allow you to send reactions to others in real-time, so you can use it alongside Zoom :zoom: and other things. Had to learn react:react: and socket.io, but it was pretty fun and rewarding :D I've still got a lot of work to do, like adding custom reactions yay! it was kind of the whole point to be able to send cult of the party parrot gifs :partyparrot_conga:
Today as a student council we made 66 cards for all the teachers at the school! we had a padlet (which @23neil.g made) and got students responses then we printed them out and turned them into these amazing cards!
(i wasnt much help.... i got banned from doing anythings with my hands within minutes because i am too clumsy..... so i was finding all the printouts and matching them up)
yay! clippers wonnnnnn :party-dinosaur: going to go to the beach in 20 minutes, did more coding + work for upcoming event 👀 got some help from @msw, getting sad and anxious that school is tmr ahhh! can’t wait to watch utah jazz vs nuggets in like 3 more hours @ 6pm pdt!
:yay: Best personal record so far for my guitar 🎸 skill... Ophelia by The Lumineers 🎵... (ps don't listen to it, it'll destroy your ears 👀) probably should go get something to eat, it's 6pm and I haven't eaten anything today ☠️
Guess what! Replier isn't limited to Hack Club anymore; you can now install your favorite autoreply bot on your own Slack workspace! 🎉 :yay::fastparrot:Install it here!
Yay -learned how to put websites online and published 3! 1st took me 12min to open a repo, open the folder in VS Code editor, then commit and push on GitHub desktop; 2nd time took me 7 mins and 3rd time took me 2mins 47 seconds !!🔥
Two months ago today, I was invited to join this strange-looking Slack workspace where everyone knew how to code. These past two months have been some of the coolest in my life! :parrot:
Update: I forgot to post this noon so I probably missed the streak.
Upon checking my schematics, I realized that, to my horror, my Arduino Uno doesn't have enough pins to program the SST39SF010A parallel flash memory. HOWEVER, I remembered that my CPU design also doesn't have enough pins to support reading from flash either! But by using a time-multiplexed address + data bus along with my northbridge, I can easily program the flash IC! So, I yoinked the northbridge and hooked the Arduino to it. Yeah!!! We're back in business babbyyy!
Spent all day today fixing a ton of Scrappy bugs! Here's everything I did today:
• The streak resetter is called by a Zap that runs every hour, but it kept turning off every time it ran because I wasn't sending a response back. Now it's fixed and running every hour! 🕐
• We added text formatting (emojis, channels, and users) a while back, but posts made before that still appeared unformatted. So I wrote a script that formatted every scrapbook update since the beginning ⭐
• Scrappy now publicly links to the scrapbook profile of anyone who shares a CSS style so that anyone can see what the style looks like 🖌️
• If you had a custom scrapbook domain set and you ran /scrappy setdomain again to set a new one, it wouldn't remove your previous domain from Vercel. Now, it does! :vercel:
• For a while, when you edited a message or shared an unfurled link in a thread, Scrappy would react with a beachball. Now, it doesn't do that anymore :beachball:
• If you to set your status to a streak number that doesn't match your streak, Scrappy sets your status to a clown emoji. A few days ago I accidentally broke this feature, but I fixed it today! 🤡
• Yesterday, @saharsh submitted a pull request that automatically updates your scrapbook profile when you edit relevant profile information in your Slack profile. Today, I got that PR working, made a few changes, and merged it. Now when your profile picture, website, GitHub profile, and timezone change, it'll instantly be reflected on your scrapbook profile 🙌
• Today, I was made aware that Scrappy occasionally doesn't update people's status, either when they post an update or when their streak is reset. I believe I fixed the issue—I couldn't test it because I couldn't easily reproduce it, but if you notice your streak status not being properly updated, let me know so that I can investigate further! :som-7+:
• In case you didn't know, all full slack members can run /som-promote to promote a multi-channel guest to a full user in Slack. Now, when you do that, it notifies #welcome-committee that they've been promoted so that they can help them get acquainted with the rest of the community! :heart:
• And finally: previously when you uploaded large video files (>300MB), Scrappy would falsely tell you your video was successfully uploaded, only to silently fail and display an unsatisfying black screen on your profile. It was failing because 1) Slack wasn't serving the video near-instantly like it normally does with most files, so Scrappy was fetching an error page, and 2) even if Scrappy managed to fetch the large video, it crashed the Heroku dyno because it didn't have enough RAM to download the whole file. My largest project for today was getting large video files to work. Now, if you upload a file that's too big for Scrappy to download, it will wait for Slack to serve the file, upload it directly to Mux (the platform we use to serve video on the website), and notify you when it's processed. So go ahead and upload multi-minute videos now! :yay: 📹
If you find any other bugs in Scrappy, please let me know or open an issue in the GitHub repo (github.com/hackclub/scrappy) and I'll fix it. And of course, if you notice any of the bugs I supposedly fixed today persisting, please let me know so that I can look further into them and fix them for good.
Here's a picture of me giving a very good dog a belly rub
So, as I don't want to kill my days streak, I decided to look for old personal sites ( Example : * . free . fr ) to maybe make an article on my website.
I worked on Bank navigation & attended the awesome AMA with ladyada today, but an unexpected highlight was this remarkable, 6” Luna moth visiting tonight.
Got my lab kit today for my class :yay: it's an 8-bit AVR RISC designed by my school :osu: where we're gonna reverse engineer it and learn how to build one :parrot: both Kevins would be interested :fb-laugh:
I spent an hour thinking about coding after Lachlan explained to me how he used JavaScript's truthy/falsy to build different features at Hack Club Bank. Something clicked, and I finally understood what a programmer does and how cool and limitless the world becomes when you know how to build w code.
Look the leaves are turning red!!!!! Yay!!!!!!!! I love fall!!!!!! Also my new allbirds AND ALSO I’m wearing these red shorts for the first time in a YEAR (long story) AAAAAAAAAAAA CIDUSVWICYCHWGEDOFOIDJS
Well, finally got my dad to let me buy a 4K TV :yay: just gonna need to make some space for it :thonk: let's hope it survive my GTA driving skills 🤣 which brings me to this meme :fb-laugh:
Listen to some cool podcast to refresh my self, and started my favorite part of physics again, while I am doing preparing a speech for school, my mind is just off with this speech, I hope it will be awesome
Today I completed a Web Dev Primer on educative.io:ultrafastparrot:, I learnt a lot of stuff about web dev and software stacks. I think I'll be able to make better decisions now :yay:
The class schedule is still nonexistent, didn't make it into advanced maths because I'm dumb, had some friends over and a wonderful time (still kinda sober yay), and implemented microcode syntax highlighting. Things could be better but things could be worse I suppose :shiba-stare:
:yay: Digikey :hardware: hardware arrived today! Thanks @sampoder and @roshan and :summer-of-making: Hack Club for this awesome opportunity!😁 The wrapper stuff it came with was quite interesting though...
I'm gonna try to get @scrappy to react with as many emojis as possible, for no particular reason.
When we arrived in space, there were shouts of "yay!" and "hooray!" I wanted to sleep, but the sunset was much too captivating. As I struggled to paint a representation of the masterpiece, my art was cut short by a reminder of our predicament. Our ship's Linux core had been damaged by a rain storm. Upon further inspection, is appeared as though the Rust installation on our ship's robot had been corrupted. We debated which language to replace it with; "Golang!" Matt said. "Swift!" Linus shouted. "Deno!" "JavaScript!" We decided on rewriting the robot's code using minecraft redstone (that way we didn't have to use npm). 15 years later, once we finished, we pushed to the GitHub repository. But wait! The robot's hardware was also severely crippled. We had to 3d print some parts, after getting the models from Google.
Ran my first online Hack Club workshop yesterday w @sg69926, hosting and moderating on Zoom, while also screen-sharing the fundraising deck of my guest, Emily Ramshaw of the 19th News. Thanks to @dinaelhanan for prepping w me! This is one of Emily's slides- she has raised $9million this year, and I learned a lot listening to how she did it
Well, it's finally the end of summer term :yay:, not bad for a day, only 2 projects, 2 quizzes and one exam in one day definitely not insane at all :facepalm:... well, guess it's time to find a comfy corner under my desk and try out the new game release that I have downloaded weeks ago :sadparrot: plus some music that starts with the line "I'm still alive but I'm barely breathing" www.youtube.com/watch?v=01J2e2fLvLM probably should go to sleep, been up all night :sleepingparrot:
Done with another python project! Learned how to code a program that fetches a random article from wikipedia. It also provides the title and summary of the article and allows you to choose if you want to read it or not. big thanks to @luke who helped me figure out solutions to every problem i ran into while making it lol.
Today I didn’t do any work, but yesterday I officially finished coding the Stufents Who Code event page. Which I hope to publish the event hopefully tomorrow!
I baked strawberry 🍓 matcha 🍵 chocolate 🍫 cheesecake brownies!! After it came out it just tasted overwhelmingly like chocolate 🍫 , but it’s still so goooooood (it’s darker than it looks in the pic)
Then after all that chocolate I ate a mango 🥭
Didn’t feel too great today, reported some bugs on our Summer of Making site, also went to the shops, watched a documentary on the Cultural Revolution, read some hardware shopping lists and wanna do some chill coding tonight, also listened to some pretty nice music
Got all the first wave accepted people there acceptance letters and on to the slack and then provided loads of support. After about three read throughs each of 100,000 words worth of applications its really good to be confident with our choices and send out these emails. Big shoutout to @roshan for all their support. Now comes the sad part… rejection letters… now their a whole different level
nothing really interesting these past few days, just psetting and being the hamster in the ever-rolling wheel of psets, nothing I can really show here. I did get jobs with the MIT eecs and math departments tho! I’m on course staff for a couple classes and tutoring. I also won a raffle my school was holding! so that was kinda exciting. here’s a screenshot of part of my notes today for algorithms 2!
Wrote a rap parody of Batman by Jaden Smith, started orientation for Andover, and am going to try to learn the basics of jazz piano in 2 weeks for tryouts lol — also am going to be auditioning for midsummer’s night dream yay!
Nothing too much I can publicly share today - did fix my zoom and continue work on the slack bot though! Recently found out about firemonkey which is suppose to be a faster user script manager :yay:
Yay shopping list finished! Thanks @sampoder for this opportunity! Just new to check it over one more time to make sure everything's good. Also made some picrew pfps! Here's one of them:
yoooo I just had a big brain moment + then committed to 2 more HUGE projects. Whoops. I need to focus now and I can't afford to do any more. This pic is unrelated LOL (weeelll, technically it is but whatever)
Super nice sunset from tonight! Did the usual today: CodeLabs Project, Hardware Grants and hopefully fixed a bug on the main summer website that stopped stuff from deploying (yikes).
But today we mixed up! Alongside a few other Student Council members, we met the kids from the Rainbow Centre for the first time :partyparrot: It's a school that helps special needs students and we're going to be running all sorts of fun activities for them next week :yay: We're also hoping to build a long term partnership with them! And guess where it all started? with a cold email I sent months ago! Super excited to see it all coming together, I was a very proud president with all the great work everyone was doing and how dedicated they were to helping out!
After a long hiatus to study for my calculus exam, I'm finally back to coding in Rust! Currently learning some things I missed in the Rust book (which is awesome, btw).
We have breadboards, an lcd and a TinyFPGA BX, they weren't kidding about TINY. It's so smol! Ironically, I'm still waiting for the headers to arrive xD
Started working on depth map to point cloud projection using the normal PyDNet model while I wait on resolving issues with PyDNet TFLite.
Also wrote a proposal for grant funding to build an Arweave application that would help with problems I discovered while sourcing ML models for this project. Excited to see where that leads!
Took a session on DSCOMG - explaining a project I worked on, Akina. It is a platform for people to request resources, chat and suggest shops for the resources and to stay updated with latest news about the pandemic. Loved the experience and I've learnt a lot from this project.
Winding down, watching Wasp Network
