Welcome to Level1 Devember!

[hanahlol]

I know very little about coding so while my project will involve some most of the creativity will be in the UI department. I’ll use tutorials to make a weather app that scrolls through the info panels in the way ‘stories’ do on Insta and other apps. The aesthetic will be inspired by 90’s weather channel/local on the 8’s with smooth jazz laid over the top.

It will probably be for android since that is what phone I have but being able to make it for ios and android simultaneously would be a nice bonus. Open for suggestions about tutorials, languages, or any other tools.

[lperkins2]

Hi all.
I’m a professional consultant for all things IT, math, or science (or occasionally other things).
I plan to write a thin client for Wayland, as that’s going to be needed in the next few years.

While I don’t need a permission bump to create the new topic, I can’t include a link to it here. Here’s the end of the URL though.

Wayland Thin Client

I’ve been kicking around this idea since Jan 2020. As the Linux world moves closer to using Wayland for desktops by default, there’s been little if anything done to address the need for Wayland-based thin clients (thin clients are still used in some university computer labs and the like). The Wayland protocol is quite I/O agnostic, it’s just a buffer and message passing protocol. The plan is to create a split client/server which acts as a Wayland server on a remote machine (and can run another nested Wayland server in client mode), and acts as either a Wayland client on a local machine, or uses the kernel frame buffer. Everything will be built around a single remote-client assumption (simplifies the server half), and minimizing CPU resources on the client (it’s THIN). Bandwidth is not a major consideration as these generally run with dedicated 1gbps or better lines, but encoding the output is a possibility (lossless h.264 should work reasonably well a large portions of the frames are unlikely to change). The remote machine will provide the buffer for the remote Wayland client to draw. Anyway, I think step 1 is writing out a vocabulary for the pieces in play, as it is a bit confusing. I’ll aim to upload a .dia file once I have that worked out. Second will be naming the project something better than Wayland Thin Client. Third is figuring out if wlroots or libwayland will work, or if starting from scratch will be easier.

[w.meri]

@lperkins2

While I don’t need a permission bump to create the new topic, I can’t include a link to it here.

Please pardon that, it’s a way to inhibit spammers.

I pushed some buttons, you should be able to post links now.

[lperkins2]

Indeed, and thank you. Hopefully those button pushes will also let me post a link to the github repo once I have one up and running.

[w.meri]

You should be able to link to GitHub, the permission applies to all links, internal or external.

(We’re trying to keep an eye on all Devember stuff so people can hit the ground running without issue)

[Diogo_F_Marques]

This year I’ll be building a mobile game in Unity, it’ll be a simple tower builder to play whilst in the throne. I’m a self taught software engineer from Lisbon currently working as a Frontend dev for a startup.

Hirise, a tower building game

This year I’m building a mobile tower building game to learn C# and Unity. The game will be completely free and with no ads! Where’s the repo? Well, it’s currently private, but I can make it public if desired. I don’t know if it will be of much use because you’ll need Unity to run and compile the project. It’s also using Git LFS and so it’s absolutely huge, not recommended to clone if you have slow or limited internet. Beta Testing I have links for Beta testing in iOS FlightTest and Android Closed Testing if that’s required as well, I can provide up to 100 invites on Apple and “i don’t really know” how many on Google. NOTE: This game does not work on degoogled phones as it relies on Google Play Services for the leader-boards.

PS: Thanks for the help @w.meri!

[w.meri]

@Diogo_F_Marques and @Tyler_Lindberg

I’ve upped your permissions so you should be able to link threads and stuff now.

I think that’s everybody that needs it so far?

[Kaiiorg]

Hello there! I’m Kolton, I’m a sysadmin in Southeast Missouri and I do lots of things : P

My #devember2020 project is a continuation of an existing project I’ve been working on: reasonably affordable hardware/software to control O gauge model railroad locomotives from a phone or computer. Read more about it in my post.

My github account is here, but I don’t have the files for the project public yet; I want to get something that actually works and is somewhat polished before releasing the source.

[nbm]

Ola, I’m a web dev, and i’m planning to make kind of a youtube subscriptions page generator/player thing by using only stuff included in almost any linux distro, so bash, sed, grep…

Generated html file will be OK for most browsers.

I already did some of the work, but I need to finish it, so this is going to be a nice incentive

Youtube subscriptions "player"

My idea is a simple yt player done in bash / html So I need 3 components: get the single yt channel rss/xml by channel ID ( wget or curl ) grep relevant information and build a single html file make it usable and somewhat pretty Don’t want BE so i will be using simple file/folder structure ( like folder per topic, file per channel, file content is channel ID ). Every time you want new content, you run the bash script and refresh the browser. Also lazy load images because I hate waiting. Also, all the limitations of the XML suplied by YT apply, so only 15 latest videos per channel and similair stuff…

[anthr76]

Currently been writing my whole infra as code Maybe I can see what it takes for typhoon to support linode

anthr76/infra

[Medic5700]

My small project is to make a CPU simulator/assembly interpreter to better display and compare low level algorithms

A CPU simulator where you program the instruction set

I’m new here so… neat? I took an interest in low level algorithms and tried to show/display how they work, but realized that doing that individually for each algorithm would be haphazard and inconsistent. So I decided a better approach would be to make a simulation of a CPU I could use to consistently show the algorithms. I’m essentially making a CPU simulator/assembly interpreter that ‘runs’ assembly like strings. The key point is you can configure the instruction set or the CPU to suit the algorithm your running. While at the same time it tracks various stats to enable meaningful comparisons between algorithms. I’m also aiming it to be extensible enough that in the future I could say, swap out a branch predictor, add floating point instructions, etc EX: r0 * 9 = r1 CPU(2 registers, 8-bit) multiply(r0, 9, r1) energy used: 64 bit-flips CPU(2 registers, 8-bit) shiftL(r0, 3, r1) add(r0, r1, r1) energy used: 16 bit-flips

Medic5700/Book-of-Algorithms/blob/master/CPUsimulator.py

[ZenAdm1n]

I an odd SFF/desktop build that I want to turn into an NDI streaming server. It’s currently configured with NGinx/RTMP but it isn’t getting much use because I had trouble configuring it more multiple stream transcodes. Also, the nginx-rtmp module hasn’t been updated, not currently maintained, and only compiles on older versions of Ubuntu LTS.

PC specs:
R7 2700
ASUS TUF B450M Pro
32 GB DD4 3200 RAM
Nvidia Quadro P1000 GPU
256GB NVME SSD
Current OS - Ubuntu 18.04
Current Software - Nginx 1.14, Cuda/nvenc 5.0, ffmpeg 4.2, nginx-rtmp-module git master

Goal:

Install current version of Fedora or Ubuntu with nginx-ndi and compile nvenc for ffmpeg.
Configure Nginx, nginx-ndi, ffmpeg/nvenc to allow multiple simultaneous nvenc x264 encodes to Twitch, Youtube, and archive a 1080p/60fps stream to my Proxmox-based storage server.

Strengths: 10+ years experience with ffmpeg, streaming media, and Linux based web applications
Challenges: No experience with NDI

[Lackshan]

Would setting up my home network (router, firewall, NAS & VMs) be a valid project?

[SgtAwesomesauce]

Wow, this one’s gonna be fun to follow.

[SgtAwesomesauce]

Devember is targeted more towards software development, but that’s not to say that you shouldn’t do that project.

To Quote the top post:

@wendell

In a word, Devember is a challenge . One that you impose upon yourself; to code for one hour each and every day in the month of December. You do this for the sake of the pursuit of knowledge.

So, I think if you’re not doing any software development, it’s not technically devember.

But you’re still chasing knowledge, which is just as valuable.

[SN9NV]

I’m new here, but I liked the challenge. So I decided to post here. I’m experienced in development, but I’m new to cloud tech like S3/Object storage. It looks legit. So far, I’ve done some research into Amazon S3 and Minio. It looks like the future of file storage. Not the same use-case as GlusterFS, but I’m sure it can provide a similar use case for most of the time you want file storage. I wish more projects would support attaching to a Minio instead of using a filesystem. Something like Plex, with a media library in Minio I think could be powerful.

I am not sure if I will open source it while I’m working on it. But I think I will blog my progress in the thread if there is interest.
Thread here: S3 Frontend

[jsck]

Hi I’m Jack,

I just joined recently. I’ve been watching the level1 podcast for a while, and the devember challenge sounded fun. I haven’t worked with databases/rest apis much in my school studies or my (rather short at this point) professional career. So something using those two I figured would be ideal.

My plan was to try to create a web service to store and manage my wallpapers and their color data I use for theming my WM and terminal. I’ve previously used a script and git to handle this, and I felt it would be a fun step up.

Here’s my project’s thread, we’ll see how it goes.

[Odemia]

Hello,

I studied electrical engineering but I work as these days is as a senior software dev. The product I work on is a lot of numeric methods, modeling and visualization and is primarily built in python and C. In the last couple years I have done less and less coding and more mentoring, code reviews and customer support type work.

Still refining my idea for the project but I have been wanting to get back into working with micro controllers and electrical engineering type work and am in the process of moving to a new house. So I thought a home automation project would scratch a few itches. I think the full goal would be to have 3 to 6 temperature/humidity sensor modules in the new house and link them all to a single control unit that would control the furnace, humidifier and HRV and also be controllable by an API (or small android app).

For Devember I am sticking to the more coding oriented tasks:

• pick a processor for the control unit and get some sort of authentication working [Devember]
• build an API to get the current status and set desired temp/humidity [Devember]
• build a basic android app that uses the API to control the controller [Devember]
• setup a hosted portal for limited portion of the API [Devember]

Given the up coming move I don’t know how far I will get. There are also going to be some more hardware tasks that need to get done but I will leave that for the thread: smart-home-combined-furnace-humidifier-and-hrv-control. I am also hoping that others will be working on home automation projects this year and they might provide or find solutions to some parts of this project.

[dev_dull]

If you’re struggling to think of a project, check out Advent Of Code which provides a new coding challenge to tackle every day in December.

[EricM]

A foreign paradigm in a foreign language against a foreign API…plus 10 years of codeless rust…what could go wrong?

I was worried I bit off more than I could chew. It has not been easy. But things are starting to take shape so I feel safe to share:

Discord Bot In F#

I did software dev for 12 years (SQL, c#, Microsoft MVP), but I’ve been ‘not a dev’ for almost as long now. Devember is my excuse to code something and learn a new language that really piqued my interest. [F# for C# programmers - Scott Wlaschin] That was cool, but watching this next one made my brain spin for days. I couldn’t stop thinking about all of the no-good, terrible, awful object-oriented business domain models I’ve had to work on. [Domain Modeling Made Functional - Scott Wlaschin] OO is evil. I decided to build a Discord bot to help a friend. He’s a content creator and likes to plays with subs, but finds it hard to manage hundreds of people fairly. He’s tried a number of existing queue bots, but they all had quirks. With a new language and a foreign API, I decided to wait until it started coming together to share: