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title: State of the Union
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date: 2017-10-26
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#### Where are the projects at?
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I have a lot of projects on my plate right now. While
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also a full-time student, I am also working on expanding my portfolio
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and knowledge for the real world, which means a lot of projects.
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My current project I'm focusing on is the podcast hosting app written in
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Go, named [**Pogo**](https://pogoapp.net). It's a straightforward CMS for managing podcast
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episodes, and automatically generates an RSS feed. It is more than
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stable in the current release, and I'd personally feel confident using
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it in production (your mileage may vary). Pogo currently features
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multiple user support, a flat directory structure for storing episodes
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alongside their respective shownotes, *mostly* correct RSS (few bugs to
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iron out, but all readers I have tested manage it fine), and a rich
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admin interface built out in Vue.js, which includes custom CSS and
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episode management.
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I am currently working on the user management aspect of Pogo,
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implementing a much more sane method of storing and modifying user
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accounts, and looking into permissions for restricting certain
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functions. Previously, users were stored in a JSON file, became
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notoriously difficult to manage in Golang (not impossible however).
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Thus, I have moved to the much more portable SQLite3 -- I do have plans
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to explore the possibility of picking SQLite3 or MySQL (or MariaDB
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etc.), however I plan to focus most of my efforts on ensuring SQLite3
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compatibility. With this will come an admin interface for adding and
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managing users, which in the current release requires you to manually
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add them into the JSON file (and manually generate a bcrypt hash...).
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Once the users branch has been merged into the master branch, work will
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be done to rework the frontend to use Vue.js instead of plain
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JavaScript. I've also been really happy with the current traffic and
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outside contributions thanks to my efforts to promote it "organically"
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and Hacktoberfest, from which some contributors have found the project.
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Another project I've been looking at again is
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[**Platypus**](https://getplatypus.io). The simple real time server usage monitor I wrote
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back at GGServers has been lying dormant for a long time, and I can't
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remember where I left off. It was ready to be deployed, but was not the
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focus of the company at the time and I ended up moving it back to my
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personal Github. I'm still very proud of the achievement of writing such
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a platform in Python, but I want to start rewriting it in Go. The
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reasons are twofold; one, I have become very familiar with Go in the
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past few months, and believe it could offer much better performance when
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it comes to scaling the application. It's never really been tested at
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the large scale it should have been, and I'm still a bit leery of the
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aspect. I do want to reach out to some larger companies to see if they'd
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be interesting in giving me a hand with this. Regardless, a rewrite in
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Go + Vue.js is definitely on my mind, and improving the AOR interface so
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anyone can write their own version in whatever they already have on
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their server.
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And I continue to work on articles for [**Git Galaxy**](https://gitgalaxy.com),
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writing about whatever comes to mind when it comes to open source
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software. I'm currently working on a Hacktoberfest experience roundup,
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and researching another opinion piece along the lines of the [Opening
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Schools to the
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Students](https://gitgalaxy.com/opening-schools-to-the-students/). Analytic numbers are looking solid, and I am more
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than happy with how it's turning out.
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That is the state of my projects.
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