@Aram – Hack Club Scrapbook

Fri, Mar 21

#C0M8PUPU6| !🚢 Last year I made a database of every name of U.S. citizens. Over the last couple of weeks, I made a web tool to view this data! If you’re a data nerd like me, you can see where names are most popular, and where the name is more popular. It features a table, graph, maps, and much more. FYI, It will omit any names with under 5 people born that year for privacy reasons. This has been a really fun dataset to work with. The site is made with Next.js

, mySQL (with Drizzle as the ORM), shadcn/ui, D3.js, and

. You can visit it at nomen.aram.sh and the source code is available on GitHub (maybe give it a ⭐ ?

) Have fun playing around with the data!

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Sun, Mar 9

Day 10 of #C045S4393CY| today was a bit less productive, but I fixed a bunch of minor details with elr.sh to get it ready for shipping! I changed the expiration times and made the UI a bit nicer :)

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Fri, Mar 7

Day 9 of #C045S4393CY| Today, I wrote a very lengthy project description & if I am planning to charge $$$ and finally got an API key! If anyone is wondering the project description i wrote, i'll add it to this thread!

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Thu, Mar 6

Day 8 of #C045S4393CY| I'm going to work on my second project, it's supposed to be a site anyone can deploy as a nice photo portfolio for themselves powered by Flickr. My current photo portfolio (aram.sh/photos) uses Flickr as the database host and it's a great all-in-one option so you don't have to change it each time. My plan is to make a customizable version of that for anyone to use and instantly deploy, either as a service or template (def going to be opensourced though!)

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Wed, Mar 5

Day 7 of #C045S4393CY| Today I worked on making the GitHub auth nicer with more branding!

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Sun, Mar 2

Day 6 of #C045S4393CY|! I haven't posted for a bit, but while I was gone I fixed a bunch of bugs, added dark mode, random url for signed in users, a log out button and some nicer styling for the sign in buttons!

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Wed, Feb 26

Day 4 of #C045S4393CY| Today I worked on a basic UI for the URL shortner's frontend! This will allow users to get a random string of letters and numbers for the backend of their UI. I am planning to add GH login later to add custom backends. I plan to add more later but it's good for now.

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Tue, Feb 25

Day 3 of #C045S4393CY|! Today I added a redirect to the URL shortener so if the key was not found it redirects to the index page!

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Sun, Feb 23

Day 2 of #C045S4393CY| Today I worked on the redirect function to take the redis link and redirect the user. I went in depth on how the URL shortner works in a video aswell which i've attached (length 3m49s)

Sat, Feb 22

Day 1/15 of #C045S4393CY|

Today I worked on getting a redis

db and an api to get/post links/tags. So now I have an api (/api/link ) that when you GET with an tag (for example aram ) it returns the URL fetched from redis (ex. https.aram.sh ). Now I need to work on making it so when I go to a URL (ex. <http://elr.sh/aram|elr.sh/aram`>) it hits that endpoint and redirects to it!

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Thu, Jan 23

🚢 BOIDS! 🚢 Have you ever looked at birds in the sky and wondered... I wonder what the mathematical calculations for there movement were? You probably haven't but if you have, that's a real thing! It's called Boids. It's based on 3 rules (separation, cohesion, alignment) and can make some movements that look like schools of fish 🐟 or bird 🐦 movement, it can even make really satisfying timelapses! So over the last week-ish I decided to make a pygame script to simulate these Boids and create a program to see these mesmerizing patterns thats a mix between art and music! You can check out the code (and compile it yourself to run) here (give it a star maybe :p) , if you want to read more about boids, the wikipedia page is pretty good and there are a bunch of articles about it. I'll try to host a 24/7 <https://youtube.com/live/xwIw1qobiUw?feature=share|stream> for as long as possible if anyone wants to see it in action!

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Fri, Sep 20, 2024

Today was a light day (was busy w/school) but I got images working fetching from my Flickr! Tomorrow, I'm going to style it better and adding microanimations to the site! Currently working on a redesign of my website!

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Mon, Aug 19, 2024

Over the past couple of days, I have been working on making some cool graphs with an API key Sound Transit . This uses shadcn/ui charts (which I've been wanting to try for a while) and it ended up really good!

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Sun, Jun 23, 2024

🚢 Mini Ship for #15-days-in-public! 🚢 Over the past 15 days I built royale a (janky) text based adventure game! This was super fun and is written in python! It was made over nights and weekends of my free time and in CS class when I was bored! It includes a map generated using Prim's algorithm to make a unique map and focuses a lot on customizability (the whole game is written in a single friendly dictionary for you to edit to make your own game!) You can play it here: github.com/aramshiva/royale

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Sat, Jun 22, 2024

Day 14 of #15-days-in-public Today I rewrote the documentation for royale and cleaned up some code on my end! Shipping tommorow!

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Thu, Jun 20, 2024

Day 12 of #15-days-in-public today I reworked eating and its mechanics; before eating was really janky and did not work half of the time. with this new system it dosen't crash and properly renders

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Wed, Jun 19, 2024

Day 11 of #15-days-in-public ! Today I finished development of v2 of the shop action in royale! It fixes a lot of errors in the previous version that crashed your game. It also features a nicer UX! (Sorry for low res image)

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Sat, Jun 15, 2024

Day 7 of #15-days-in-public Today I worked on rewriting shop and tried on smaller screens/older versions

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Fri, Jun 14, 2024

Day 6 of #15-days-in-public Today I worked more on some general bugs/aspect and found a bunch of bugs to fix!

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Thu, Jun 13, 2024

Day 5 of #15-days-in-public Today I added a reward system in some rooms

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Wed, Jun 12, 2024

Day 4 of #15-days-in-public! Today I moved more items into functions for easier readability

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Tue, Jun 11, 2024

Day 3 of #15-days-in-public! Today, I worked on more features for my RPG game royale. I cleaned up the code and text to fit the theme!

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Mon, Jun 10, 2024

Day 2 of #15-days-in-public! today I worked on my RPG game: royale where I cleaned up text, make it so it doesn't crash on wrong command and a bunch of more stuff! check it out here: github.com/aramshiva/royale

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Sun, Jun 9, 2024

Day 1 of #15-days-in-public Today, I worked on my RPG game. I created the basic mob fighting system and map

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Thu, May 16, 2024

🚢 SLACK BOT SHIP 🚢 Presenting @Picker, Picker does one simple job. Pick a random person! All you need to do is run /pick and give your reason. Then, Picker will work its magic and pick a random person! This was a project for #weekly-album-club because of a picker bot that sucked and I plan to add more features in the future The code is open source on my

here! Enjoy!

Wed, Mar 6, 2024

🚢 ANOTHER WEBSITE SHIP 🚢 I shipped 3 new pages for my website! The first one is a photos page, it pulls automatically from my Flickr for the photos and uses static images as fallback. The second one is a blog, it uses markdown files and tailwind typography for rendering them nicely! The third one is super simple but its a stack page, It includes the tools I use. Hardware and software! The website is written in

Next.js and

Tailwind CSS. It's all open source! ⭐ it on GitHub and live on aram.sh

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Sat, Feb 24, 2024

Day 10 of #10-days-in-public!!!!

Today I worked on using a new photos system and got inspirations from some cool sites like this one. I am planning to add the details of my photos soon, like the camera information. (this is my photo in the image!)

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Sat, Feb 24, 2024

Day 9 of #10-days-in-public Today I worked on adding a /uses page, showing what I use

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Fri, Feb 23, 2024

Day 8 of #10-days-in-public!

Today I fixed some pesky hydration errors with my blog, I am going to write up some posts and ship this (hopefully) on day 10!

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Thu, Feb 22, 2024

Day 7 of #10-days-in-public Today I optimized the photos page to get the posts from my Flickr faster.

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Tue, Feb 20, 2024

Day 6 of #10-days-in-public Today I worked on displaying blogs better for my blog for my personal website aram.sh

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Mon, Feb 19, 2024

Day 5 of #10-days-in-public Today I started work on a blog for my website built in

. Also planning to downscale the pages a bit/rework structure of site, right now the navbar is too cluttered for mobile users resulting into overflow.

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Sun, Feb 18, 2024

Day 4 of #10-days-in-public Today I worked on two stuff, I started migrating from

KV to Upstash Redis for my guestbook because Vercel is 💰. My photos page are now scraped off my Flickr for seamless integrations, but my old static version are still available as a fallback.

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Sat, Feb 17, 2024

Day 3 of #10-days-in-public ! Today I built a photos part of my website where you can view photos I have taken. It has a nice parallax scroll effect aswell for a cleaner view. In the future this will be connected to my Flickr.

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Sat, Feb 17, 2024

🚢 WEBSITE SHIP 🚢 I have made a 📖 guestbook to my website! It allows you to read posts, login in with GitHub and post something! It uses

Vercel KV (soon migrating to upstash) and next-auth for authentication. This was inspired by @toby’s guestbook on his website! This is now live at aram.sh/guestbook! Leave a message today! This was built for #10-days-in-public!

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Sat, Feb 17, 2024

Day 2 of #10-days-in-public ! My guestbook is alive! You can visit it here: www.aram.sh/guestbook and leave a post of your own! You sign in with

and post any message you want! You can leave one (1) message and can edit your posts by adding a new post (it will edit your old one!). Anyone can see posts!

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Fri, Feb 16, 2024

Day 1 of #10-days-in-public

Today I started working on a guestbook system for my website (aram.sh) where you can sign in via

and add a message! (yes the posts are fake for now, testing it) Inspired by @toby’s website!

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Tue, Jan 30, 2024

🚢 EXPOSE PIZZA SCAMS 🚢 Ever been puzzled about whether to choose a large pizza or a small one? Don't take my word for it. You can find out for yourself with a small tool I've created! Just put in your price and size and it will effortlessly calculate the price per square inches. Check it out on aram.sh/pizza! The code is open source on aramshiva/website, (please ⭐ it)!

Happy 🍕 Partying!

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Sun, Jan 28, 2024

🚢 WEBSITE SHIP 🚢 New year, new website! I have redesigned it, built with

and

! • A modern, clean new design! • A cool Spotify widget based off @itsmingjie’s monolith website. • A white and yellow color palette It is now live at aram.sh and it's open source on my github (Please ⭐ !).

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Wed, Jan 24, 2024

Visited Cirque du Soliel!

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Wed, Jan 3, 2024

bought a pound of fudge!

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Wed, Dec 27, 2023

🚢 WEBSITE SHIP 🚢 Coming soon to my website: a live widget showing what I am listening to! This was a fun one as I was learning how more secure APIs work and will come in useful for future projects! Built with

and

! Inspired by @itsmingjie’s monolith website widget! Coming soon to an aram.sh near you!

Sat, Dec 23, 2023

On better news: My raspberry pi 5 arrived!

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Sat, Dec 23, 2023

Update: I broke it :(

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Sat, Dec 23, 2023

Anyone know how to take this out?

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Sat, Dec 23, 2023

Badger came!

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Tue, Dec 19, 2023

Thanks @zrl

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Tue, Dec 19, 2023

Started reading a new book!

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Wed, Dec 13, 2023

Thanks @ShawnMalluwa-U04BBP8H9FA !

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Tue, Dec 12, 2023

Got a Yubikey!

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Mon, Dec 11, 2023

Got some Hack Club Stickers Today!

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Sun, Dec 10, 2023

Helped wire up some lights for school musical! We’re putting up blue light to help techs see better!

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Sat, Dec 9, 2023

Ship! Made my first sprig game (after way too much procrastination) and got it approved! It's a maze game between two people to get through mazes and eventually to the end!