@JosephEdwards – Hack Club Scrapbook

Mon, Aug 19

More features for my sudoku solver! I added another strategy for solving, and tried a whole load of experiments for extracting sudokus from images (more details for each one can be found in the README). Attached is one failed attempt that looked interesting, followed by two screenshots of the final version in action. github.com/Contrabass26/sudoku

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Sun, Aug 4

I wrote a program to solve sudokus. I originally went for a mostly iterative approach (try all possible combinations with a few optimisations) but when I had to check 2 quintillion permutations I decided against it! Now I’m using several common human strategies instead, and it’s been able to solve everything I’ve thrown at it. github.com/Contrabass26/sudoku

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Sat, Aug 3

I wrote a program to play the game SKYJO (see README). It calculates the average value of your cards after making a certain decision, and advises the best option. github.com/Contrabass26/skyjo

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Mon, Jul 29

I have created a program to play the card game Cab (rules are explained in readme). github.com/Contrabass26/cab

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Wed, Jul 10

Adding configuration capabilities. Users can configure the server.properties file, the whitelist, the operator list and the ban list without leaving the application. github.com/Contrabass26/kotlin-server

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Sun, Jul 7

Added server data saving. Created servers are now saved when the application closes, and loaded when the application starts up. github.com/Contrabass26/kotlin-server

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Sat, Jul 6

You can now create new Minecraft servers and run them! github.com/Contrabass26/kotlin-server

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Mon, Jun 24

Kotlin Minecraft server wrapper is now a usable product! (*if you create and configure the server yourself and manually add it to the application 😆) It can host the server subprocess, send commands to it and display the output.

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Sun, Jun 23

Rewriting in Kotlin! I expect this to have many benefits over Java, but one of the main ones is coroutines, which should make the GUI a lot more responsive without too much extra work for me. This is also a learning process for me as I've never used Kotlin before (though it's obviously similar to Java).

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Sat, Jun 22

Added a world preview feature which shows the top block at each X-Z coordinate.

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Fri, Jun 21

Finished a big refactor relating to how configuration files are managed. No visible front-end changes but it should be a lot easier to build on! github.com/Contrabass26/minecraft-wrapper/pull/81

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Thu, Jun 20

Currently working on a GUI app for managing Minecraft servers. github.com/Contrabass26/minecraft-wrapper

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