What are you working on?

A mixture of a combined sub-7k audio sequencer and softsynth, an OpenGL 3.3 PBR renderer and a small BRep CSG modelling DSL.

Currently working on The Next Big Thing™️ in the Linux community.

Free tech tip: turn off auto updates on your servers so that you always run proven and stable software :3c

jia_tan

Oh god, round two already?
- round two
  
  Uuhhhh… 👀 yeah… two
- What?
I have to appreciate linux and the people who actually make changes in open source code.

custom nifi processor

Had to look this one up, very cool stuff. Terrible naming but I've come to expect that from Apache!
How is Nifi? I've seen it pass by at work, as a generic ingestion application, but for most ingestions we're using custom-written Python for better flexibility.

I've never worked with it, but it looked pretty daunting (as an initial view).
- I'm not working with it directly. The team that uses it asked for the implementation of custom processor. They are saying that it is a game changer and we use it heavily. I guess the transparency and debuggabilty come in handy.

A set of scripts that download Chaturbate videos, also keep track of what's currently downloading, give a history of what's been downloaded, and automate recompressing to HEVC.

I'm workshopping ideas for a new GUI for it, but don't know where it's safe to ask NSFW programming questions.

Just a reminder that reencoding already compressed videos is a recipe for destroying the quality, unless you’re using a very high bitrate, which quite often gets you the same size as the input video.

I think the consensus is that if your video isn’t 4k or higher, there isn’t much gain in using HEVC if it is already H.264.

So if you want to store them long term, reencoding them now means that if you decide to do it again later (for whatever reason) you’ll have too many artifacts accumulated.
You can leave out the NSFW parts. What you're downloading doesn't have to be mentioned.
- I'm not good at describing things, but I'll give it a try. Thanks
- Yeah, a video is a video.

Multiple ones.

Wave Function Collapse for an existing tileset (Warcraft 2) - it's really hard to figure out how to build the data on whether a tile fits on a certain side of another tile. From the top of my head: Some 180 tiles total * 4 sides to compare * 180 options per side = 129_600 total checks I would need to do, which is just wayyy too much. Need to figure out how to reduce these checks (or automate them using OpenCV or something - not sure yet)
Comparing dual datasets of people who worked on certain games (the games being all Warcraft games), so I can see who worked on Game A, who on Game B, and who on both. Am currently (manually) cleaning up the data, because Blizzard has been very inconsistent in how they structure their credits. At least WoW had everything available in HTML - having to manually copy over 600+ people would be no fun (per expansion).
A cryptocoin predictor for my friends and I. One part ingestion from an API into a Postgres DB, one part Streamlit + some stats / data science stuff that I'm very much a beginner in. The platform we're on doesn't provide much predictive power. Using the typical Simple Moving Averages and the like simply doesn't predict clearly enough, IMO.

Oh, and I'm also setting up a private ProxMox server, over at a friends house, and need to connect that to the NAS over at my house, so we can copy over our data for redundancy/backup purposes.

I'm bouncing between these projects.

As always, I do image processing. I'm a G'MIC filter developer. Recently, did some code changes to my combinatorics tools to be insensitive to multi-threaded strategy.

I have no idea what that means but I think it sounds pretty cool! Anything about image processing is always fascinating to me. Especially these days when AI has become more popular and it can even draw images. It's cool how technology evolves!
- It means that I made changes to code, so that it can work with any multi-threading strategy. G'MIC is a interpretative language with JIT support, and you don't have any control over automated multi-threading strategy. It can be thread 0 to thread N linearly, or even interleaved. So, the workaround is to make a image of size equal to cpus count, and do the multithreading there.
  
  Yeah, I love image processing, I worked on it for 8+ years now.
pretty cool!
I use the G'MIC plugin for GIMP, it's really good
- Ah.. GIMP. I love GIMP I use it myself to draw sprites and UI for my games and I've used it for my social media recently!

I'm learning the ropes of concepts like JWT, postgres, axum and webdev in general by building a federated forum. I'll probably never finish it but i've learned a lot of good stuff from it, but i'm still working on the user implementation, authentication and creations galore. (in rust, too.)

Sadly i work very slowly, and i've been working (passively) for two months and i'm not even done with the user stuff lol. At this rate i'll be finished in 6 years xd

I also just need an excuse to read the AP spec and learn HTML/CSS somewhat :p

Web development is cool!

Trying to write a solver for Fortune's Foundation tarot solitaire in Python

Something tells me I'm going to abandon it not even halfway in, like most "projects" I do

Oh, this takes me back to when I was writing my Thaumcraft 4 solver that I wrote in ActionScript 3 way back when. 🥲 What fun that was! I hope do you finish.
I get the feeling when you abandon all of your projects. It's cool to come across another Python dev nowadays since everybody(including me) has moved on to game engines such as unity. But when I still made my games in python it was pretty fun, but the glamour of 3D developing pulled me to the mighty Unity. Python is amazing and fun language!
- he is creating a solver not a game

I’m attempting to teach myself full stack web dev using my preferred tooling (Purescript front end using Deku and Hyrule for modernized FRP, Haskell Servant back end talking to a PostgreSQL server with Nix flakes gluing at all together) by building a web app for managing cannabis dispensary inventory.

Lately, I’m finally at the point where I realize/experiment with making the app domain-agnostic. To do that, I’m attempting to extend lambdabuffers to programmatically generate my Types (and instances eventually) so I can make my whole app (front end Types, back end Types, and SQL schema) more generic in order to generate exactly the domain specific app that I currently have.

Here’s the lambdabuffer I wrote to describe my Types (for example): https://github.com/harryprayiv/cheeblr/blob/delete/backend/codegen/Inventory.lbf

And here’s my most active branch at the moment: https://github.com/harryprayiv/cheeblr/tree/delete

I also stopped working on a previous, ambitious project aimed at building a decentralized fantasy betting baseball DApp until some of the tech I’m waiting on (crypto oracles) matures enough: https://github.com/cardanonix/pelotero-engine

I welcome any and all critiques and assistance in either of these 100% FOSS projects.

That sounds really cool! I've thought about learning to code web apps in JS so I could make my own website but for now itch io and steam are just good for me! Good luck on your project!
- Thanks! It’s funny because I’ve chosen the absolute most obscure languages and frameworks (other than postgresql). I’m seeing zero jobs available out there for them…but I just can’t bring myself to learn JS, Rust, or any other popular tech stack over Haskell and Purescript..and I’d hate to work in any other stack, TBH.
  
  I’m basically unemployable but happy! ;)

Changing a lot of code from a single delete to multiple deletes for drugs in a database now.

Then working on creating a full usermanual for the website from scratch....fml

E-commerce SPA websites

I crawled multiple defunct story sites years back and now I'm finally building an index and UI for them.

I'm currently working on a minimal spam protection system that uses a proof-of-work mechanism.

I recently read about something similar called Anubis. Is it related?
- Ogrim is influenced by ALTCHA. Taking a quick glance, Anubis is a similar solution with some differences of solving the same problem:
  
  Anubis sits between the target service and the reverse proxy, while Ogrim sits behind the target service.
  
  One Anubis instance is needed per service, while a single Ogrim instance can be used for multiple services.
  
  The target service does not need integration with Anubis. On the other hand, Ogrim and its services must be integrated to work.
  
  Anubis will block search engine indexers, affecting the SEO of the target service. This is not the case with Ogrim.