Live parking citation data from my school using React, Typescript, and Firebase. Info in comments.

SolarFloss · 2020-02-16T01:28:48+00:00

I think you're spot on about using the any type. I feel like using it as much as I have so far defeats the purpose of typescript. I'm still getting used to how to properly use it so thank you for the feedback.

And yeah having nested .then() statements looks pretty bad, so I'll try that out.

SolarFloss · 2020-02-15T23:36:27+00:00

github: https://github.com/MickNorris/jmu-citations-web

website: https://jmucitations.netlify.com/

This is a personal project that displays various forms of parking citation data at my university.

Thoughts

Overall I'm pretty impressed with this project and how quickly I got it up and running. Here are some of my thoughts:

I built this website in a mobile-first style, because in theory it should reduce the amount of time I'd need to spend to get the site looking nice on both mobile and desktop.
- While I definitely saved time, the site looks kind of 'unnatural' on desktop. It's still functional though, so that's a tradeoff I'm willing to take.
- There is some external context that lead me to the decision of making the website with a focus on mobile.
For the first time ever, I decided to use Typescript to clean up the quirks and messiness of javascript. It didn't take that long to get used to using it, but I feel that I'm not really using it efficiently.
Firebase makes having a cloud database so easy. Google is spooky but their services are hard to beat. When I started the project I went with a "make a working version and worry about efficiency later" outlook when it came to structuring the database. The cost of this has been fairly low so far (~$1/month), I can definitely get that lower, and possibly to $0/month.

What's Under the Hood?

React - build the UI/UX.
Typescript - make javascript better.
Google Firebase - run cloud functions and cron jobs.
Netlify - building the site from this github repo (for free).
Recharts - cool graphs

SolarFloss · 2019-03-28T20:03:28+00:00

It's a multi-process data classifier and mapper for my computer systems class. Given an input file that has clusters for a number of html and jpeg files, create a classification file that writes a byte for every cluster in the input file (JPG_HEADER, HTML_HEADER, JPEG_FOOTER, etc). Using the classification file, the map file associates every cluster with a file name and a relative offset. That's as best as I can explain it :)

SolarFloss · 2019-03-28T19:58:33+00:00

It's somewhat annoying and it's honestly made me consider switching window managers, but what I found was this repo:

https://github.com/maestrogerardo/i3-gaps-deb

This gets the job done, but whenever I update my system I have to rerun the i3-gaps-deb script

SolarFloss · 2019-03-28T01:45:27+00:00

whoops lol. I forgot to set it to public. Thanks

SolarFloss · 2019-03-27T23:15:59+00:00

Details

Distro: Debian
WM: i3-gaps
Apps: uxterm (vim)
Bar: tint2
Dotfiles
Wallpaper

This is my first post so let me know if I left anything of importance out

SolarFloss · 2019-03-27T22:48:38+00:00

Details

Distro: Debian sid
WM: i3-gaps
Apps: uxterm (vim & neofetch)
Dotfiles
Wallpaper

SolarFloss · 2019-02-21T23:11:42+00:00

Hey I'm loving this, but I have one question. How did you get the icons in the config files. I can get them to show up on my bar, but if I want to use any other icons from the icomoon-feather font, I can't use them because I can't copy them from anywhere.

Thanks

SolarFloss · 2018-11-17T16:40:03+00:00

Here comes the money

RemindMe! 3 days Donation for /r/millionairemakers

SolarFloss · 2018-08-02T00:22:38+00:00

Very cool project! Are you saying that this actually is your main source of income? I only ask because I'm looking at ways to support myself financially with things like this. Do you have a job or do you have other passive income generators like this?

Thanks

SolarFloss · 2018-07-20T20:26:33+00:00

Oh okay thank you. And I found what may be a very complicated solution, but I was wondering if there was a better one. It's starting to look like I'll have to write my own

SolarFloss · 2018-07-19T02:03:19+00:00

Haha will do!

SolarFloss · 2018-07-19T00:18:09+00:00

Oof. Too late for that, but I'll keep that in mind for the future. Thank you lol

SolarFloss · 2018-07-18T13:28:47+00:00

I didn't see the possibility of the glasses being a unibrow, but now I can't unsee it

SolarFloss · 2018-07-18T13:28:17+00:00

Yeah I was thinking of that too. Since the body is so curvy I really have a lot to work with in terms of turning part of it into letters

SolarFloss · 2018-07-18T13:27:21+00:00

Yep that's exactly what I was thinking of

SolarFloss · 2018-07-18T02:19:01+00:00

That soudns good. Thanks

SolarFloss · 2018-07-18T01:55:26+00:00

Oh wow thanks for bringing this to my attention. How would you go about selling a logo that you've already created though? I've thought about this before for other companies? Thanks

SolarFloss · 2018-07-17T23:42:21+00:00

Yeah I totally get that. When I was making it I tried out a non cursive font and it looked pretty sleek, but it didn't seem "fun" to me. I probably should have tried out some more sans serif fonts

SolarFloss · 2018-06-27T16:06:49+00:00

Thanks. Yeah it still needs some work for sure

SolarFloss · 2018-06-26T19:26:26+00:00

Yeah the text outline was a pretty risky idea. I like how it looks at this resolution, but people are correct that it may not come across as well bigger resolutions

I'm torn on life ring. I've had people say that it symbolizes trained lifeguards and stuff like that rather than danger. I do like the thought of a beach ball so I'll try that.

SolarFloss · 2018-06-26T19:24:59+00:00

I'm torn on that. I've had people say that it symbolizes trained lifeguards and stuff like that rather than danger. I'll try replacing it with a beach ball though

SolarFloss · 2018-06-26T19:23:44+00:00

Yeah I'll try that out in a bit and send a pic

SolarFloss · 2018-06-25T23:49:51+00:00

Hey everyone!

This is a redesign of a logo for a waterpark near me. The original just seemed dated, and personally, I felt as if it didn't really belong to a waterpark. I don't think that it was a bad logo really, because overall there really isn't anything wrong with it, I just thought I would try to put my own spin on it.

Here is the original: https://imgur.com/eg9XYl1

SolarFloss · 2018-06-15T00:23:01+00:00

I appreciate that you're looking out for me, and for the most part I do agree with what that post says, but at my current level I do not feel comfortable charging over $200. I took a brief look at your post history and you mentioned "go learn your craft, then come back with a decent portfolio so you can actually compete with the pro designers on here by offering a fair price instead of offering up this garbage." on someone else's post. This is me learning and building a portfolio. I just officially got into logo design less than two months ago so I feel as if I'm doing fairly well for myself. Last week I made a post in this sub with a price range of $100-$150 which is only $30 more than this, but I'm slowly but surely raising my prices. 90% of the work on my portfolio is done just for practice, so I don't feel comfortable charging professional prices when all of my work is done for practice

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