Akaalroop

Biggest thing is adding support for hyphenated numbers before multipliers. A lot of other small fixes and the docs were updated. It took some time but everything’s all good and we’re ready for 1.0.0!! This devlog isn’t the best because its 23:25 and I really need to meet the deadline and sleep and go to school tomorrow .

Changelog

• Fix super small issues
• Update README & word-to-number to forget about allowing commas as that is too complex for now
• fix up the README
• Updated README & OpenAPI with new functionality! Also changed version 1.0.0 as all features are pretty much done!
• Added support for commas (just remove them during processing) and support for hyphenated numbers before multipliers e.g. twenty-five million
• Simplify & better code

I added support for huge numbers! Up to a billion! It’s still in PR but I have added it! It was hard, overhauling everything. I had to completely change the way I process the words but I did it, mostly proud of using my own brain . The hardest part was the multiple multipliers like “one hundred million” since I used to do 1 * 100 and then it would add 1,000,000 which is obviously wrong. Now it works like a charm! Obviously there a few things to iron out before shipping v1.0.0 but most things are good!

Changelog

• Added drop statements and removed WordToNumberError::InternalServer match arm in main.rs
• Make a different vector for the Option‘s so the u64’s go to the other vector removing the unnecessary later unwraps
• I COOKED. I changed the parser to split based on small numbers now which handles all cases!
• Semi-working approach. We support big numbers now! But not multiplied big numbers like hundred thousand

I switched to use serde_json’s json! macro for my responses. I also made the log messages coloured! Although I love what I built, its just not as robust as serde_json, so I’ll be making a PR to switch to use that for request parsing . The time has come to give in to the serde gods.

I overhauled the errors! It now works where the 400 request gives a MUCH more specific error. Like it will tell you about typos, in which word, a non-UTF-8 byte, content length header 0, content length header malformed, body malformed. Yup! Also I changed logging so my logs don’t fill up every time someone sends loads of numbers. Just one clean log per request.

I did a LOT. I overhauled the parsing again, this time adding a 411 error code response, since now I actually use the Content-Length header. I had claude generate an openapi spec file. I put my API on scalar. I also made the error JSON specific to each error code. I can’t show 411 & 500 cuz i aint bothered to cause them just for the screenshots. I’ve deployed it, and its 01:05 am. I really gotta sleep man. This took so long and I’m not done yet! But I’m happy with what I’ve got so far, and I really liked making this! Next ship I might make a website for it!

I wrote a README. I completely overhauled the logic. I added the README link in the error messages. Basically for the overhaul. I used to read the request line by line, then I switched to byte by byte, as the line by line method kept failing for cURL as cURL didn’t send the final \n. Now I have a LOT of error handling too, like timeouts and if you don’t send a body you get an instant 400 instead of a timeout. Yeah byte-by-byte is better. Its 23:38 (11:38 pm) and I need to sleep. Tomorrow’s school. Good night!

Some improvements! It now supports multiple numbers! Also responds with headers like Cache-Control now. I made some nice code improvements and a super small change is it’s now case-insensitive for the requests. Also fixed a bug for hundreds + single numbers where it just returned the hundred. Like it returned 900 for “nine hundred and four”

I started the actual API stuff!! It’s in progress and can take a lot more refining but OMG, in one day, using only the rust book and my own brain, I’ve built, a functioning API (for 127.0.0.1 at least). THIS IS INCREDIBLE. May not look big for you, but this is a huge thing for me, so happy right now!!! NO AI FOR ONCE AS WELL!!!! Super proud of myself yk! Even added some basic error handling too! I’ll write a README and include it in the 400 responses so people know how to format it, but I’m super proud!!

I fixed an issue in some versions where you could keep “taming” the cat and it kept sending messages. How it should be & is now is shown below:

I did more codebase changes like the buildscript and idk some other stuff. I also added the task to publish all the versions and boom! Done!

THAT. TOOK. TOO. LONG. I went down the automation rabbit hole and I tried debugging a plugin which as in alpha state, so I read its code and it didnt even have the feature i was trying to use. Basically, there was a issue where recipes wouldn’t work in either >=1.21.2 or <1.21.2. This is because the recipes structure changed significantly, unfortunately. Initially, I had to fix the crash my ship got rejected for, but I couldn’t devlog without fixing that crucial issue too. It took so long to achieve this, but the screenshot is worth 4 hours of work. Its 01:20 am now, I need to sleep. Good night

There was a really stupid bug where if you right clicked a cat with anything or nothing in your hand it would do the effects and send the messages and everything. Yeah really, really stupid. it took far too long to fix 😭 Also I can’t upload the video here because its 90MB even with compression and everything. I’ve put it on #cdn and here’s the link: https://cdn.hackclub.com/019d9835-067d-75db-8711-b69439773269/output.mp4

My items actually show up now!! Thanks fabric docs!!

That. Took. Ages. It took AI, i took a day off school to do this. ARGH. Why did minecraft have to unobfuscate their gameee. i’ll let the pictures and tabs and everything, speak for itself you know. I did add 1.21.5 - 1.21.11 so everything 1.21.x is supported, but the main thing I did is add support for 26.1. I couldn’t do this without the docs of fabric and well, yes, some AI. I’m sorry but I’m not researching and manually changing every single class or method or whatever’s name. And worst part, my mod is in Kotlin, so the docs’ code can’t be directly used sobbbb. Help. Anyways, i’m off to debug more issues. Hopefully I can this fixed, add the final few versions and maybe actually add new stuff before I ship

Simple work, just adding support for more versions and REI. Screenshot is of REI in 1.21. That prob won’t take the full 10hrs so I might take on the monumental task of trying to integrate with 26.1, and further unobfuscated versions

Changelog

• Add 1.21.3 support
• Add 1.21.2 support
• Add 1.21.1 support
• Add 1.21 support in stonecutter

Set up Stonecutter for 1.21 so far! It works! Couple gradle issues, but that was cause of my typos. All set up and ready for lots more versions!

I added versions 1.20, 1.20.2, 1.20.3, 1.20.4. I tried adding 1.19.2 but farrrr too much extra work cuz the API is ever so SLIGHTLY different

Versions 1.21.5, .4, .3, .2, .1, BLASTOFF added! And version 1.21 itself. It took some rewriting, and lots of gradle.properties. And some issues and bugs and whatever, but now, I support 1.21.x!!! Every single 1.21 version! YAYAYAYAY!!! That only took… forever. Man gradle is so slow

Made my mod compatible with 1.21.10 and 1.21.11. 1.21.11 took a tiny rewrite of the wandering trader offer stuff, very small one. Picture shows it working in 1.21.11

I added support for 1.21.6 and 1.21.7 Anyways, I also added integration with REI (Roughly Enough Items) which was recommended by Claude? I asked it if there’s any mods I should integrate with and I got that. So now, I support 1.20.1, 1.21.6-9. I’ll add support for all 1.20 versions and 1.21 versions and then tackle 26.1.

It works!!! For all versions!! EVERY, SINGLE, FEATURE, WORKS. YESSSS. I also added 2 new messages like one letting the user know we are looking for the snow biome as that takes a little while and another letting the user know the Snow Bomb item isn’t perfected yet. Hopefully I can get it more reliable before I ship

Wow. That only took AGES. I spent last night and this morning trying to get stonecutter to work. Nope. Error this, error that, nope. No mappings found, can’t find this, unexpected that. GOD THAT TOOK AGES. With some luck and claude, I got it to work in 1.20.1!!! (Originally made for 1.21.8) I ain’t committing this yet cuz making it work for 1.20.1 came at the expense of having it work in the other versions. Once it works for 1.21.8, .9 and 1.20.1 I’ll commit. Then, I’ll add each version one by one, then make jars for all of them and upload to Modrinth!! Then, I’ll try porting it to 26.1(.1) on a separate git branch or go down this stupid rabbit hole again. Who knows. Anyways, yeah!

Now all numbers from 1-999 are supported! Took far too long debugging cuz there was a space at the start of the string past ‘and’ and it confused the code. Anyways fixed!

I’m starting with logic to convert words to numbers first, then API stuff later. We can convert 1-10 and 10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90! I’ve selected these numbers as thankfully english just uses those again and again so if now I’ll split numbers like sixty-seven to convert separately, then add together to make 67!

Updated prompt using Gemini and added alternative message if the recipe is not for the crafting table

Added colours to the TOTP times so now it shows the colours so you can easily & visually see how much time is left!

I added colourful error messages and also made sure you can actually SEE the errors, making them print every second alongside the tokens

Changelog

• Add colourful error messages which are printed continuously so you can actually see them
• Add a specific error message if the secret is <128 bits
• Update README with secret requirements and multiple secrets

HUGE & Final devlog. I know 2 devlogs doesn’t look very trustworthy but man that took a lot of work cuz the AI reviewers like Coderabbit & Copilot found SO MANY problems . Ugh. Anyways, after getting through all that, TOTP-Generator is ready to ship, supports multiple tokens, and loading through env variables, and I wrote a README!

https://github.com/Spacexplorer11/TOTP-Generator/releases/tag/v1.0.0 has all the info

I did a lot of code refactoring making the github fetching in house rather than a separate CF worker and a small visual fix!

Changelog

• Fix carousel not looping if dragging past akaalroop.com
• Remove forgotten about console.log
• Add correct click handler to modal
• Fixes SPA-126: After I moved loading of projects to +layout.server.js it wasn’t possible to claim the secret reward as the data was too… fresh!
• Made the modal send you to the projects more efficiently
• Update src/routes/+layout.server.js
• Now the projects are fetched directly in akaalroop.com!!
• Fix bug

Initial stuff, it can actually generate your codes! I also spent a long time figuring out how to show the time left for each code, regardless of when you start the program and I remembered modulus to save the day! I’m gonna add storage of your secrets (The file will be password-locked) and I’m gonna add multiple secrets typing too, and ofc it will be able to show multiple codes concurrently!

Changelog

• Add the time left for each code no matter when you start the program
• Add the actual working generator of the codes
• Add title screen ASCII art
• Add README
• Add GNU AGPL v3 license
• Initial commit

I did optimisations like moving my pictures & favicons into $lib. The main visual change would be now the carousel actually comes in after the text.

I’ve been doing some aggressive SEO and performance optimisation. I’ve added descriptions to all the pages, put the font in $lib, added multiple formats of the background so it supports all browsers and other stuff, but I’ve achieved a decently high result for most search engines… except bing for some idk reason???

I did a lot of code refactoring! I made it a lot more robust, more like idomatic Svelte using +layout.js properly and using $props() and more complicated stuff. I also simplified the code and updated my API so you can just do https://api.akaalroop.com/projects and get them all, and if you give a param like ?repos=akaalroop.com you get just that! Anyways, on the visual side I added the modal to the gallery page on clicks and I made the data refresh everytime you came back to the website after clicking View on GitHub. Also I gave each page a title using svelte:head . Check out the main PR: https://github.com/Spacexplorer11/akaalroop.com/pull/61

I added some fallback text for when the projects couldn’t be loaded and made it so the Gallery isn’t accessible since it would be empty.

I added my teacher! The styling wasn’t perfect so it took a while to get the CSS perfect but its great now! Shoutout to Mr Walsh for letting me add him!

I worked on adding the sponsors page and finishing it! I simplified a bit more CSS and I’ve emailed my teacher since he has supported me so hopefully I can feature him soon! I have a few more things to add and then I can ship since I don’t really have much to change, just a few tweaks! (I have the silver, gold & platinum sections as comments for now unless someone donates!)

I improved the README and I am working to add a sponsors page! I’ve added it to the navbar and simplified a bit of CSS in the navbar too

I added a new command! ‘/list-recipes’ sends a txt file of all the available recipes, which are in the list in the code, which is created on the start of the program for efficiency & to prevent stale data! This was done on request of @U0824382CPP thank them for the suggestion!

I’ve been working. I used Gemini to improve the prompt cuz I’m not a prompt engineer. I also manually added a lot of recipes via screenshots. Other than that, no big things really. Screenshots of one of the recipes I added & the AI being useful:

I started the README and added some basic NPC style input output for now. Will ask more questions later but got some boilerplate like an input function

Fixed the bug! Yay!
How i did it is that I checked if there are any replies in the thread already, and if yes it ignores the event, cuz slack pings the person in the OG message on thread replies causing duplicate app mention events, gonna deploy and then ship now Ig!

Added the AI functionality!!! There is one known bug (shown in picture) of duplicate messages, which I will patch in the next commit. Then the bot should be ready to deploy on my RPI zero 2w and I can ship!

Made it so you don’t need to type the EXACT name of the file as you used to. Gonna add AI next

It actually works WWWWW. LETS GOOOO. I’m now making it more forgiving and allowing you to type other things to reference items. I will implement Gemini 2.5 Flash to cheaply and quickly check for typos but right now it does work!

I am desperately trying to get my bot to send the images. I added 672 images to my repo :sixseven: of all the crafting recipes! I got Gemini 3 Flash to generate a script which I ran on my RPI 0 2w to generate the images. Big thanks to https://minecraft-api.vercel.app for the mc item images and recipes! Now I am gonna code the rest by myself! Currently failing :pf:

I didn’t do fraud I promise! I was testing how to do stuff in Kotlin and I couldn’t figure it out cuz the guides are Java but finally I did! Now the bot responds to mentions! I will build on that to do the actual recipe giving!

IT FINALLY WORKS!!!!!! This is the first time I’ve ever tried making a bot in Kotlin so it was hard and the Slack guide is outdated and for Java. But Gemini 3 Flash came to the rescue!! Now that I’ve done the basic boilerplate, I shouldn’t need the AI again!! I’m so happy it works!!

I am gonna copy https://bymanu.me ‘s style and everything, but will change it to be more of my own. I did get Manu’s permission before doing this don’t worry! I’ve copied the CSS and intro section so far lol. I also wrote the README