jmw

I have started the project

So here’s what I did in this devlog:

• Created a Bun backend that serves some files
• Made a database with a table with a history of all edits to the canvas
• Added an API endpoint to the Bun backend that will (rather inefficiently for now) fetch the table and build the current state of the canvas from scratch and send it back (remember how i said it’s inefficient? yeah it iterates through every. single. change in the entire history of the thing and then builds the state. better code coming soon )
• Started the frontend
• Realized the naming of “canvas” in the name of the project and “canvas” the HTML element will be very confusing
• Did nothing about this and made confusing names anyway
• Made the frontend fetch the current canvas state and display it on a <canvas> on the screen
• Made that canvas draggable/scrollable (not too hard)
• Added zooming via trackpad gestures or alt/ctrl/cmd scrolling, and it worked kind of badly and felt weird when using it
• spent like 90% of this 4 hours fixing the zooming and like this took forever ARGHHGH IT WAS SO ANNOYING and i’m tired of doing it now but all my hard work finally paid off and I can zoom in and it feels nice!! (video attached)

soooooo anyway now i’ve got some stuff done
next, probably placing pixels on the canvas. either that or signing in with hack club. probably the first one or maybe even both! so we shall see how this goes

forgot to devlog for a while lol, the main functionality of joining and leaving works now however it only updates when i run the program. next is making a slack bot to adapt the settings, and then having it update the count automatically!

Grabs Slack user tokens from a file generated by my custom SMTP server’s slack alt code and checks that they all work now!

Finished the slack alt thing, it now stores the tokens in a text file after logging in (not sending an image of that file for hopefully obvious reasons).

I have started a temporary email service (which will be the demo link when it’s done so it’s verifiable that the smtp server works) that gives you an email address to send an email to and it shows emails sent to it. CSS coming soon along with making emails pop up without the page requiring a reload!

Script to use the SMTP server for hack club account login has been updated to also do signups so now I’ve uhhh created uhhhh… let’s just say “a few” new users while testing

Anyway soon I’ll automate creating a bunch of these and store their tokens in a file so i can do fun stuff with them

I can send an email now and it receives and logs it! Finally! Turns out I needed to include “\r\n” instead of “\n” to end my lines for some reason, so that works better now. Will try with real emails soon.

Credit for the testing program I’m using: https://jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/

Wow SMTP servers are weird

OK so I made a TCP server with Deno on port 25 (SMTP) that listens for connections then sends a message back basically saying hello to the client, and it logs packets received to the console. This took way too long. Seems like the online checkers do not work correctly or maybe I’m missing a gigantic thing but I found a program to test it so yeah hope that works.

Note about screenshot: This is an external testing program I found on the internet that I’m hoping didn’t give me a virus, you can see at the top that it connects and receives “220” and more from my server. This is the part that was so harddddddd