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Hello 2024

5th January, 2024 3 min read

Hello 2024
- 2023
  - Spring
  - Summer
  - Fall
- 2024

2024 % 4 == 0

2023

Another revolution around the sun! This was a pretty fun and interesting year. I got to work on some interesting projects, and learned a lot.

I am going to try and use my GitHub activity to recap.

Spring

I helped a friend modernize their Larvael codebase. Dockerized it for easier development, and added a CD pipeline. (Probably going to be released by end of this year)
I joined Hindsight Journal, a creative non-fiction club at CU as their "webmaster", and we moved away from Squarespace to our own custom static site generator.
I did some YunoHost stuff with listmonk, and audiobookshelf
I found out that the instructor for my astrophysics class was behind @ThreeBodyBot. For my final project, I ported the codebase to run in the browser itself. Ended up getting an A 😎
Won HackCU, my first hackathon in a few years. We built a timeboxing app similar to Motion / Reclaim.AI. Cleaned up the codebase and published it to the App Store as TimeSlicerX, making it my first published app.
Got into Mountain Biking!

Summer

Summer was more relaxing. I mainly worked on some maintenance patches for my projects, and did some more freelancing stuff.

Learned Tkinter for a client's project. Working with PyInstaller to create signed executables for both macOS and Windows was not fun. Also, the stock Tk look on Windows is terrible.
Continued working on a research project using Computer Vision in analysing a lateral flow assay. Tried porting it to use OpenCV.js, but it wasn't reliable enough. I might look into directly working with OpenCV/Vision Framework for an iOS app.

Fall

Won a couple more hackathons. I might summarize my hackathon experience in a different blog post.
I gave up being the "webmaster" for Hindsight, and decided to become the club's business manager. We moved to Wix.
Had fun re-learning all the reverse engineering stuff for my Systems class.
Tried Advent of Code. Will be back :~)
Created an alternative to Simplify.Jobs and worked on autofilling resumes without needing a browser extension (Current solution does require that you disable a few security flags for this to work). One solution might be to wrap our website as an Electron application.
Started working on swift-gopher - a swift library for both client/server implementations for the Gopher protocol.
Ended up using swift-gopher to build iGopherBrowser - a modern gopher client for iOS / macOS. This is my first publically availablle macOS app.

After the end of the fall semester I ended up getting my wisdom tooth removed. Took me out for 10 days.

I also did a ton of other stuff, but I am not sure how much I want to be sharing on my blog here. Maybe as I write more I will get more comfortable with sharing more information.

2024

So, what are my plans for 2024? Learn. Build. Ship.

Other goals: