Welcome to Level1 Devember!

MazeFrame · December 5, 2020, 4:28pm

As you may have noticed, this did not happen. I am 90% tied up in my Uni project which has absolute priority over any hobby.

I also can’t do hard mental work 12 hours per day. Makes my brain turn into mush.

psycho_666 · December 5, 2020, 5:48pm

Shush you… December just started, keep trying…
It’s like me saying look, I was making something but I failed miserably…
Just keep on keeping on…

MazeFrame · December 5, 2020, 6:55pm

My uni project will likely take till mid January, then exam phase happens. Devember 2021 looks like a realistic target.

I am studying from home mate.

psycho_666 · December 5, 2020, 6:58pm

Germany have not been locking down like my country is I guess…

Hubro · December 6, 2020, 2:48am

My Devember project is to finish my prototype self-hosted clip sharing application so other people can easily deploy and make use of it.

Self-hosted clip sharing web app Code

I guess I’ll join the Devember hype, since Wendell and the gang keep badgering us about it on the news… Real quick about me, I’ve been working as a software engineer for around 10 years now. For most of my career, I’ve been a one-man-team full stack software engineer, creating utilities for various Norwegian internet service providers. I currently work as a test automation engineer and network orchestration engineer at nordic/european telecom provider (I play with Cisco NSO, Jenkins and Robot Framework, if that means anything to you ). In my free time I tinker with personal coding projects, polish my home automation setup, build computers and play video games. I few months ago I made a quick and simple self-hosted clip sharing application to share gaming clips with a few friends. My motivations were: Uploading to YouTube or Streamable takes a long time and destroys the quality of my clips Uploading to Dropbox and sending links is inconvenient for my friends, as they have to download the entire clip before watching it, which can take a looooong time from Dropbox I want to be able to save a clip and immediately send a link to somebody. That link should let my friend immediately stream it in full quality directly from my clip folder. I made a quick application using Next.js that does this, and it works fantastically! However, the only form of security is currently a NGINX reverse proxy with an ACL, and there are some features that are missing for this to be generally useful to other people. Here’s a quick overview of the current functionality: Runs in a Docker container with my clips folder mounted When a user opens the application in a browser all the clips are listed, sorted by file name, with file size and creation date of the file When a clip is clicked, a player view opens and plays the clip using a HTML5 video element. The clip is played as-is without any conversion or compression. I use this to share 30-40 Mbps clips…

stenstorp · December 6, 2020, 8:05am

Hope it’s not too late to join! I’m building an expandable 6502 based computer and some expansion cards to go along with it.

DIY 6502 computer With Expansion Development

This is a project I’ve been working on for a few weeks now, may as well make it a #devember2020 thing to get the last major details worked out. About me: I’m an Australian Computer Science student with my final year next year. I have a particular interest in computer hardware and low level programming (Anything higher level than C confuses me). I’ve also been meaning to improve my electronics skills so why not combine all of these things and make my own computer. How hard can it be! About the project: At the core, this is a basic 6502 based computer using all brand new parts (Yes, you can still get 6502’s brand new!) with the ability to add external devices. The computer has 32kB of RAM, 24kB of ROM and 8kB of IO space for up to 8 cards. The devices I’m currently planning are a Serial IO card, Parallel IO card and a VGA text mode display card. This is all heavily inspired by Ben Eater’s YouTube videos but I’m giving it all my own spin and I’m going to get some actual circuit boards made. I actually just today received my first prototype PCB’s and assembled the main computer module: [IMG_20201206_174839] The parallel card has already been designed and got the PCB for it with the CPU boards. The card I’m currently working on is the VGA card. It will (hopefully) be able to output either 40x25 or 80x25 Text characters at 640x480 which needs only 1kB or 2kB of RAM which is perfect as a single device can access 1kB of address space and I can make a device use as many device slots as I want! I’m going to make the schematics freely available as I thing other people might like to take a look at this. I’ll post some more details in my next post. Hope you all find this interesting!

sax · December 9, 2020, 9:29am

I’m creating a music looper as a webpage, building on my existing Web Audio API based HexaBoard instrument.

sax · December 9, 2020, 9:36am

I’d like to share the links for both projects.

Mastic_Warrior · December 9, 2020, 9:40am

One of the mods can help you do that.

TheCakeIsNaOH · December 9, 2020, 2:08pm

@sax you should be able to post links now.

sax · December 9, 2020, 3:31pm

CodeDragon57 · December 10, 2020, 12:31am

I am failing the challenge rn. I need to catch up, and I have the time; so I was wondering if anyone could help me out on my thread (so this one isn’t filled up)

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/i-accept-the-devember2020-challenge/164159/2

Dynamic_Gravity · December 10, 2020, 5:57pm

I ported my resume website over to Nuxt yesterday.

CodeDragon57 · December 10, 2020, 7:28pm

As in Nuxt JS?

CodeDragon57 · December 10, 2020, 7:29pm

I want my resume website to be static if I can… problem is that is tedious. I am thinking of using SASS for the CSS. Also my Devember project is going to be me working with Flask to make a Blog… I kinda like flask too.

CodeDragon57 · December 10, 2020, 7:36pm

Actually… this might be cool to try out for that part: https://gohugo.io/

Dynamic_Gravity · December 10, 2020, 7:56pm

Yeah, its the SSR and Static Site generator build with VueJS.

In case you’re curious. All self hosted btw

https://resume.covalent.space

Honestly, I spent so much time working on the site I need to put some more into the content of my resume.

It’s pretty neat though because with the new Content API in Nuxt I just have to define my resume object in a YAML file. The structure of which is fully JSONResume compliant.

Damn, I need to update the README

CodeDragon57 · December 10, 2020, 9:00pm

I wish I could have a self-hosted gitlab… I have plenty of hardware, it is just that my ISP’s shitty upload speeds would be a really big bottleneck. I am already gonna follow Wendell’s HA-Proxy video to set up a personal bitwarden and Nextcloud instance. I figure that the 10mbps upload won’t be so bad for my personal things.

Dynamic_Gravity · December 10, 2020, 10:06pm

I have 20 Mbps upload and its really not that bad.

I use HAProxy as well to route my traffic to my home, to which I then SSL terminate on my LAN.

I also run nextcloud, and like 15 other things.

SgtAwesomesauce · December 10, 2020, 10:08pm

I got by with 10mbps until last year. It’s honestly better than you think.