Making good progress on this project, it seems that I'm able to move a lot faster now after having done so many side projects using essentially the same stack. I was able to get <a href="https://github.com/vvo/iron-session">iron-session</a> set up within a day (I had used it previously) and made good progress on the admin dashboard.

Art Carnival (Pt 2)

The Art Carnival was a longtime project of <a href="https://x.com/elissinia?lang=en">Elissinia</a>'s that I never really had the time to fully implement, but I was itching to do a more rigorous side project for a couple of weeks and decided to take a crack at it. A lot has changed since the last major project I've worked on, so it was really fun to get back into it.

Art Carnival (Pt 1)

After taking a break from the project for several months, I managed to get the main functionality down in a three-day sprint. Most notably, I finally finished the user registration and login system, the character submission system (including uploading image files!) and the various sortable-items pages.

Edanverse (Pt 6)

Continuing on V3 of this project, I once again tackle auth. One of the bigger challenges this time around was (since I'm implementing my own auth) figuring out how I wanted to handle email services and verification. I looked at a few different options, before eventually settling on what will (hopefully) be the easiest.

Edanverse (Pt 5)

A lot has changed since the last time I attempted this project! After attempting a Django solution in my last iteration, I ended up returning to Next.js. Using what I've learned from re-iterating on STOR8, it's just been easier to use TypeScript to handle what I want to do.

Edanverse (Pt 4)

Stor8 is almost finished! After finishing up on both password protection and tags today, the site is almost at the same level as the first version (with greater ease of access and a cleaner UI). The estimated release date is in two days, so I thought I'd catalogue some of the recent changes.

Stor8 (Pt 2)

Stor8 was one of the oldest projects I've done as 8byte. However, the original version was very poor in quality and was missing a lot of important features. This new version uses a lot of the things I've learned in the past year to be a much higher quality product.

Stor8 (Pt 1)

With a tentative release yesterday (and a bigger release planned for Tuesday), ArtScuffle is now live to all users! The past week has been a hectic blur of getting everything ready and set up for public use; a lot of my time was dedicated to cleaning up the website, integrating Stripe and Discord API, and making some final changes to the bot.

ArtScuffle (Pt 3)

I originally wrote this post a week ago (exactly!) when I thought this project would be a lot smaller than it ended up being. I ended up coming back and editing this post to more clearly reflect the direction the project went in and elaborate more on the many challenges and bug fixes I've implemented.

ArtScuffle (Pt 2)

With it being <a href="https://artfight.net/">Artfight</a> this month, the Beantown crew decided to do a mini version of the game in the server. The main event can be a bit... scary... so it was nice to be able to host a smaller version within just friends. Since it was a Discord server event, I decided to make a Discord bot to help us log our attacks. I'll also be building a small website so people can view all the cool stuff that gets made this month... but that'll be covered in a later post.

ArtScuffle (Pt 1)

My progress on creating new codes has slowed considerably (most likely a result of burnout), but I finally scrounged up some time to redo my portfolio page. I wanted to make it easier on myself to upload new codes and I wanted to clean up how my portfolio was displayed... so I started using <a href="https://notion.so">Notion.so</a> as a database.

Portfolio Reboot

Finally tackling having icon selection menus aka my long battle with <a href="https://fontawesome.com">Font Awesome</a>'s... interesting API service.

Safehou-se (Pt 7)

Had to take a break from working on the Edanverse site because of various customs and preparing for my next semester of college, but I've finally gotten the time to continue working on the site! It's almost ready for the alpha launch... with registration, character creation, and the UI design all done.

Edanverse (Pt 3)

I have spent the past 8 or so hours battling deployments to figure out what my <code>requirements.txt</code> should look like... and after 8 hours, a database change, way too long spent trudging through the Railway discord forum, and a brief interlude into looking at DigitalOcean as an alternative... I have finally... almost got it working?

Edanverse (Pt 2)

Bringing in the new year by reworking one of my oldest and longest-standing projects: the Edanverse ARPG. While I've only had one (ok... maybe 1.5 if you count the subsection for this on my personal site) previous iteration, I've been slowly combining a bunch of abandoned projects into this one.

Edanverse (Pt 1)

I like how I titled my previous post the final update and yet here I am again with another Safehou-se feature... this time, I've added if variables to the mix. I also did a slight refractor of how I created templates, making it recursive and easier to add new features in the future.

Safehou-se (Pt 6)

The long awaited final Safehou-se update... (until I inevitably find another feature I want to implement)... nested loops are now possible on Safehou-se!

Safehou-se (Pt 5)

Just overhauled the loops system to accommodate the same loop being used in multiple places. This update is particularly useful for those that create codes with lots of duplicated collapse/tab sections that require the use of looped <code>id</code>s in different places.

Safehou-se (Pt 4)

While not much has been changed regarding the main Safehou-se application, I began working on a side add-on that allows users to input any code and quickly change any Bootstrap themed color components (such as <code>bg-primary</code> or <code>text-muted</code>) to custom colors.

Safehou-se (Pt 3)

Roadtrip was a code I wrote with a very specific aesthetic in mind. However, I didn't have the capability to code it exactly how I wanted to when I originally wrote it, which led to me using some hacky HTML workarounds to get around my inexperience in CSS. However, I finally was able to recode Roadtrip as I had originally envisioned with just CSS as my skill level had improved.

Roadtrip Reboot

Reef was the very first CSS I ever wrote, way back before I even had Toyhouse Premium. The first iteration of Reef was nothing short of a disaster... the topbar was not functional, quite a few of the elements were all over the place, and the HTML was ALSO not usable. Since then, I gave Reef a bit of an upgrade a year ago... but I finally revamped the entire code.

Reef Reboot

A lot of changes were made in the past two days. I added the ability for users to specify input types in their code templates, which was most useful for color fields as users could now directly select colors as opposed to having to find the exact hex code first. Secondly, a major overhaul was done on the model I was using for Safehou-se templates.

Safehou-se (Pt 2)

Every couple of months, I get the urge to revamp my entire profile. This time, I wanted to go for a more minimalistic theme so I used only four different colors (although I did cheat by using SASS color transformations). The result is my current Toyhou.se theme.

8byte Reboot

A few days ago, I began working on fixing up an old project of a <a href="https://ey.lc">friend of mine's</a>... the concept was a code editor for those inexperienced with HTML who preferred a GUI to perform changes to pre-existing Toyhouse templates. As a result, the first iteration of Safehou-se was born.

Safehou-se (Pt 1)

Continuing on from my last post, I've recently started implementing a user authentication system on the site using Auth0. I'm still half and half on Auth0 as a platform; there's a lot I've liked so far and a lot I've been somewhat iffy on.

Using Auth0

Started working on a Next.JS web application over the course of the past week and wanted to document my process with it.

Next.JS Successes and Struggles

The Bakery CSS was one of the very first sheets I made after getting CSS. As such… it is a bit of a mess. This reboot focused not just on design improvements but overall making the SCSS much, much cleaner and easier to read (not that I provide raws... but it's always good practice!)

Bakery Reboot

Today, I implemented the search bar function! It was surprisingly easier to figure out than all of the filtering yesterday (although, that’s more likely due to me familiarizing myself with NoSQL functions than it actually being easier…)

Worlds Masterlist (Pt 2)

I’ve been spending some time lately learning how to use Node.JS and Next.JS. This project originally started as an attempt to access a database through APIs purely in the frontend, although that proved to be a little too time-consuming and annoying. This has brought me to instead use Next.JS, which essentially handles all the annoying frontend-to-backend conversations that I had been attempting to write myself.

Worlds Masterlist (Pt 1)

Continued to clean up old codes over the past three or so days. Overall, I’ve been averaging 4-5 codes being cleaned up per day (whew!), although most are relatively short and simple codes.

More Reboots

Completely redid both the HTML and CSS of my old Glacial bundle today. The original was published July 9, 2021 when I had just gotten CSS and was still learning the basics. Glacial was definitely one of the early disappointments; the design and code were both shoddily put together. The CSS was actually created from a mockup drafted by a UI designer I was collaborating with, but the final product just didn’t have the oomph factor needed.

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