Edwin's old projects. This document lists some notable projects that I have once worked on and describes what they're about and what I learned. Of course, not all are complete or functional - but most are.

They include:

• word-finder
  • Like scrabble for the terminal
  • My first "large" first project
  • Graded as final project for class AP Computer Science A
  • Contains my first real-world shell script
  • skills: Git, Java, Bash
• portable-workstation
  • Dotfile bootstrapper for Windows
  • My first project outside of school
  • skills: Git, PowerShell, Bash
• appliance-manager
  • Supposed to be an IoT tracker
  • My first hackathon project
  • Learned about my perfectionist tendencies the hard way
  • skills: Git, VueJS, Python, Flask
• sigag
  • Desktop app implementing a pomodoro timer
  • Likely first real-world project with HTML, CSS
  • Likely first project using npm
  • Described in my blog post Frontend Web Development: My First Year
  • skills: Git, NodeJS, Electron, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• baeuda
  • Desktop app for studying flashcards
  • Described in my blog post Frontend Web Development: My First Year
  • skills: Git, NodeJS, Electron, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• periodic-table, periodic-table-v2
  • Fully responsive periodic table for the web
  • First full-stack project
  • First time I deployed to cloud (DigitalOcean VM) and registered a domain (aperiodictable.com, chemtable.app)
  • Created to rival ptable.com, since at the time it did not implement responsive design
  • Wrote v2 as an improvement, but stalled due to performance issues I could not fix at the time
  • Described in my blog post Frontend Web Development: My First Year
  • skills: Git, NodeJS, ExpressJS, GraphQL, Gulp, VueJS, HTML, SCSS, JavaScript, Mathematica
• dockerized-mars, dockerized-mmlogic
  • One of first projects using Docker
  • skills: Git, Docker
• infrastructure-old
  • First attempt at writing Infrastructure as Code to idempotently setup my homelab(s)
  • Learned a lot about networking and userspace Linux tools
  • Described in my blog post Fixing My Network after expanding the LAN
  • Described in my blog post Fiddling with Ubuntu Server Images
  • skills: Git, BIND9, Kea DHCP, Ansible, Terraform, Debian, Ubuntu, cloud-init, Vagrant, Packer, Docker
• hacklang-sucrase
  • Custom "Version" of JavaScript with keywords replaced with friends' names
  • Implemented first with Babel, then with Sucrase
  • skills: Git, JavaScript, Babel, compilers
• fox-night
  • Wrote so me and my friends from Hack Club could watch movies together
  • skills: Git, NodeJS, Ansible, Terraform, CSS, EJS, TypeScript, JavaScript
• fox-suite
  • Configuration manager for web development
  • Learned how wrapping well-known tools (on the command line) could be very poor for DX
  • Learned that custom configuration should be in few places as possible
  • Learned that configuration shouldn't need to be migrated to specific directories
  • Learned the imporance of writing code that solves an actual problem
  • skills: Git, NodeJS, TypeScript, monorepos, Lerna, pnpm
• glue
  • Configuration Manager
  • Learned how bloated requirements and ambitious goals leads to poor outcomes
  • Learned the hard way of choosing the wrong language
  • Learned the negative tradeoffs of highly generalized code
• dotfox
  • Dotfile manager (symlinker)
  • Worked quite well until I wrote dotmgr, which supercedes it
  • skills: Git, Nim
• tails
  • All in one solution for managing programming projects
  • Learned (yet again) about being too ambitious, over-engineering solutions
  • Learned what TDD is not
  • skills: Git, gRPC, NATS.io, Docker, Docker Compose, TypeScript, JavaScript
• typescript-runtime-transpiler
  • Transpiles TypeScript/JavaScript written for the NodeJS runtime environment to Deno
  • Learned (yet again) of using technology that I did not need to use (because it made things harder) (Babel-like monorepo pattern)
  • Solves the same use case as Denoify
  • skills: Git, Deno, parsers, ASTs
• bats-support, bats-file, and bats-assert
  • These were initially forked from bats-core so improvements, bug fixes, and merges could be made quicker
  • Initially created for bats-all
  • Archived because upstream made the same improvements
  • skills: Git, Git Subtree, Bash

Some not included in this organization include:

• eshsrobotics/website-challenge-2019
  • Custom website for local high school robotics club (made for competition)
  • Learned how to (hackily) "host" images in a GitHub repository for retrieval by a SPA (Single Page Appliation)
  • skills: Git, VueJS, SCSS, JavaScript
• replit-discord/carnival
  • Supposed to be a place for the replit community to deploy games
  • Learned how to time on tooling (ESLint, Webpack, Babel, PostCSS, etc.)
  • skills: Git, VueJS, NuxtJS, SCSS, Postgres, OAuth/OpenID Connect
• lusaxweb/vuesax
  • One of the first OSS Projects I've contributed to
  • skills: Git