ChristophProjects
A quick summary of what I'm working on, what is already working and a little bit about what I'm trying to get done.
Web-Apps
Visualize a given kodi database. Displaying movies, collections and a home screen.
Lesson learned: Now as a platform has a great DX and works pretty good so far.
A rewrite of the original cats web-app, because the sdk-version is deprecated.
Lesson learned: Using Firebase and their 3-way binding with react-redux worked again very well.
A visual presentation of my diet.
Lesson learned: With the Gitlab integration Vercel even became the CD solution for this project, no configuration needed.
Contributions
README clarifications
PR: #47
Lesson learned: Feels good to give at least something back, even if it is only README clarifications.
absolute version dependencies
PR: #39
Lesson learned: Great example for an OSS project getting feature richer by contributions.
NPM
Generates common css file for all passed html-pages and rewrites them to include that css-file (via usemin blocks).
Greatly reduces the css footprint of bootstrap-based homepages.
Lesson learned: Node.js and npm are a great combination to create, distribute and use small modules of software.
Generates information about the object database of a given git-repository.
Most likely only usefull for teaching purposes.
Lesson learned: Once you go async, nothing behaves like you naively thought it would.
Combined with global state, you are in race condition hell. Get out: use promises consistently.
A command-line tool to remote control your kodi installation.
Included in my i3-config, I'm able to quickly pause movies from my laptop.
Lesson learned: Tested Crockfords style of writing JS with this project.
Didn't improve the projects code wildly, but might have been to small of a project to see big improvements.
Get all object-ids from a git repository.
Lesson learned: Feels good to create a small reuseable module.
Rust
Automatically generated hello_world example (by cargo init), playground around binary size, link-time optimization, multi-platform, docker and image size.
Lesson learned: Fun to play around with a compiled language again. Creating docker images from scratch, etc.
Small cli tool, to add new customers to the "backend" of our Häfner Technology GbR. Neat little tool to solve a real problem in Rust.
Lesson learned: It takes a while to get on the same level again, especially when switching from a lax language (JS) to a strict one (Rust).
3D-Printing
Part of the 3D-Printing community. Go have a look HERE.
Miscellaneous
After moving all my computers to Linux I felt the need to have the same look and feel on all the systems.
I googled „dotfiles” and found a whole universe around them on github.
After choosing one and adding some features (Zero Prerequisites, Automatic update, etc.) I published my own dotfiles repo.
Lesson learned: Keeping all your config-files in sync really makes it a lot easier/faster and more comfortable to use your systems.
It also gives you a great headstart after a fresh OS installation.
Websites
Redid the website in Jeykll.
Got sick of Wordpress, constant security holes, updates break settings, nasty stuff.
Just not stable enough in the long run.
Lesson learned: Jekyll isn't a silver-bullet either.
Doing sophisticated html, no Markdown, Jekyll looses a lot of its charm.
Tiny little website to show statistics about how much energy is produced.
Second try with the Twitter-Bootstrap CSS-Framework. Still pretty happy with how easy it is to get nice and responsive designs.
Lesson learned: The generic grid is quite itchy when your content isn't fitting coincidentally.
Website for a small site project of mine.
First landing page I ever did.
Also first shot at handling a hero banner image, so focus part stays visible.
Lesson learned: Harder then expected to boil information about a project down to the bare minimum (e.g. three product features).
Small website for a local branch of the Audubon Society from a friend of mine.
Rewrite with focus on responsive design.
Lesson learned: Again a pleasant developer experiencing provided by Bootstrap. Very helpful in getting a basic, modern, responsive website.