I’m a self-taught, newbie hack of a programmer, but I have fun doing it. I work mostly in Javascript and Python, building basic web apps and bots. I’ve always somewhat resented being in design and management positions, pushing for features to be built, without having the skills to do it myself. I’ve always wanted to have that power to create and do stuff on my own, so I’ve spent a fair amount of time recently investing in learning these skills. Projects below are going to be amateurish and mostly educational, but hopefully they can be inspiring or interesting to you!
CptnCanuck (this link opens in a new window) by CptnCanuck (this link opens in a new window)
Config files for my GitHub profile.
HonorBot
HonorBot was a Python based discord bot I developed as a bit of a joke between my friends and I. As we played Dota we would jest about certain strategies or hero combinations being “scummy and dishonorable” or “bold and honorable”. The joke persisted into us awarding each other positive and negative “honor” and tracking it in a discord channel, and thus I decided we needed a bot to manage it for us. The bot receives simple commands to award users an integer of points, or to remove those points, and stores the running totals in an SQLite database. Could be easily adapted to be a leaderboard, or a “tipping” mechanism for a community if someone wanted to run with it. Code can be found at my GitHub.
ISSC Tracker
The “Wasylyshyn In-Season Stanley Cup” Tracker was an idea I had after my Dad informed me of a fantasy hockey format he had heard about on a podcast. In it, the participants take turns drafting teams from the NHL, and then an imaginary “Stanley Cup” is passed from the previous years cup champions, to whichever team beats them, and then to whoever beats them and so on, throughout the course of the NHL regular season. My Dad convinced my family to participate, but he was tracking the entire format through an excel sheet, and was manually checking the result of every game rather than having any form of automated platform to assist. It got me inspired to spend a few weeks developing a tracker that uses the NHL API to follow which team currently held the cup, and score points each time the cup is transferred to a new participant. It was a short and sweet project that helped me grow my knowledge of javascript, databases, and API calls, and is the first project I can confidently say I launched solo that’s actually had real world utility for me. The single page app can be viewed at: https://issctracker.web.app/
