Welcome to Level1 Devember!

Diogo_F_Marques · November 2, 2020, 10:19pm

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 Code

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 · November 2, 2020, 11:19pm

@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 · November 2, 2020, 11:33pm

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 · November 3, 2020, 11:30am

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

anthr76 · November 3, 2020, 3:53pm

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

Medic5700 · November 3, 2020, 4:41pm

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 Code

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

github.com

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

"""
By: Medic5700
An implementation of an ALU simulator to allow a better and standardized way to illistrate bitwise instructions in lowlevel algorithms.
This project is geared towards demonstrating algorithms, and therefor generalizes a lot of stuff. IE: bitLength is settable, instruction words are one memroy element big, etc

IE: I needed something for a super dumb/special use case of demonstrating how a low level operation/algorithm works (memory error correction)
    without using a weird workaround (having a seperate 8-bit memory and 1-bit parity array vs creating a cpu with 9-bit memory)
    in a reliable and extensable way (making a cpu simulator that can be used for multiple algorithms)
"""

import sys
version = sys.version_info
assert version[0] == 3 and version[1] >= 8 #asserts python version 3.8 or greater

class CPUsimulatorV2:
    """A an implimentation of a generic and abstract ALU mainly geared towards illistrating algorithms

    Issues:
    should allow for adding arbitrary amount of arbitrary sized registers
        -> registers that are not bitLength sized should be able to be added with a method instead of with the constructor.

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ZenAdm1n · November 3, 2020, 5:15pm

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 · November 3, 2020, 7:00pm

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

SgtAwesomesauce · November 3, 2020, 7:32pm

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

SgtAwesomesauce · November 3, 2020, 7:35pm

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:

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 · November 3, 2020, 9:37pm

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 · November 4, 2020, 12:37am

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 · November 4, 2020, 5:40am

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 · November 4, 2020, 6:25pm

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 · November 4, 2020, 9:17pm

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# Community Blog

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:

zanginator · November 4, 2020, 10:12pm

Hi everyone, I am going to be working on my Proxmox asymmetric cluster management thing. Many years ago (I think it was in 2015?) I wrote a crappy script demo-ing that maybe auto-migration of high load VMs between an un-balanced cluster (low power nodes and high power nodes) could be a thing.

So… I am actually making that work now… hopefully.

Project Thread

I would like to pre-face this with, I am not a Python programmer nor do I pretend to be one. So this is also me learning Python.

asbjorn · November 5, 2020, 6:21pm

Hi All!
Hopefully it’s not too late to join?

I am going to be building a system for embeddable web comments using the Matrix protocol.
It’s basically going to be an embeddable HTML/JS thing, so you can use it easily on static sites (like hugo / jekyll stuff).
It’s all going to federate using the Matrix protocol, so it will have some interesting properties re: resiliency and privacy.
I’m also writing the whole thing in Elm, which is a blast!

I just signed up for the forum (have been L1 fan for years now). If somebody will give my account permissions, I can make a proper post describing the project

chmod777 · November 5, 2020, 10:55pm

Thats awesome. I did a quick and dirty project like that for a class at uni. Hope yours goes well.

asbjorn · November 6, 2020, 2:45pm

Alrighty I put up my devember post!

It’s a rough overview of the why and the how of what I’m building (Matrix web comments thing).
I intentionally left out a bunch of interesting design details, to try and keep it brief.
So if you have any questions, come and talk to me! I’ll gladly elaborate

Cactus Comments: Web Comments, Powered by Matrix Code

Let me get this disclaimer out of the way first: I am developing this as part of my bachelor’s project. That means I have already been working on it since the beginning of October, and will continue working on it (at least) until the end of 2020. Also, I am unsure of whether I am allowed to publish any code yet - if I receive PR’s before I submit my report, is that plagiarism? To be on the safe side, I’m going to delay release until January 2021. Now, lets get into it! I am building a system for embeddable web comments, which uses the Matrix protocol. It’s a thing you can add to your static (or not) website, to get a comments section where the back-end is any Matrix server. It’s essentially a competitor to Disqus or Facebook Comments - but decentralized and open source using Matrix! If you’re not familiar with Matrix: it’s essentially an instant-messaging protocol, that federates messages between any number of participating Matrix servers. The architecture is essentially like email, but much better for instant messages, custom multimedia stuff, and group conversations. It also has a bunch of interesting features, like easily bridging to other protocols (like irc, slack, discord). Useful links include: https://matrix.org https://element.io Using Matrix for web comments has some interesting properties: Client independence You can participate in the comment conversation from a large number of existing clients Redundancy If the default server goes down, you can still access the conversation through any other server (which has previously federated the room). Privacy You don’t have to authenticate against any specific server. You only have to authenticate against the Matrix server that you trust. Freedom from third-party influence The antithesis to this would be using Facebook Comments, in which case Facebook decides what you can and cannot say. When basing it on an open spec like Matrix, you can point your comments section towards a Matrix server you t…

Venancio · November 6, 2020, 6:19pm

When you make more progress than expected you enter the challenge.
I have wanted to explore the esp32 and learn micropython, mainly to see how far this combo can go before you need more horse power. I want to explore automation, “web dev”, device interface (real microcontroller stuff), addressable LED control, and whatever else comes my way as explore this micro.