All the Little Projects

Since my last update I haven't made all too much that I wanted to share, but I still wanted to share my month with you.

I have continued to work with ray tracing and WebGL but I have sort of lost a bit of my motivation so I will be putting that project on hold. This has kind of been the theme of the last month, starting a project losing interest and starting something else.

After pressing pause on ray tracing I started to learn about a containerisation tool called Docker. After using the basic features I started learning how to use docker compose to build complex projects which could be set up on a new computer in minutes. This allows for very simple horizonal scaling applications, my first one of these was to get a MySQL database running with Express.js web server which could send me simple reminder through a messaging platform called Discord using a API wrapper called Discord.js.

My goal for this project was to be able to set and send reminders for myself of when I should go to bed, along with other reminders I or my friends might need. I was able to get a base application and framework setup, but lost interest on this after I built out the initial features. Following this I worked on a bunch of little programs, the most notable of the bunch being a parser/lexer in Rust for my langauge, a project I have talked about previously on this blog.

All in all, this was a pretty light month for my hobby projects, but I was able to learn some key skills in using Docker.

Can't wait to show you what I do next month!