I'm currently studying at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where I am majoring in Computer Science. Web and software development has been a passion of mine ever since elementary school, and I've followed that passion for the past nine years.
After three (four?) unsuccessful iterations of this project, I've landed on one that I think is sustainable. Unimportant boilerplate and technical code is abstracted away from the developer, so they only have to worry about making a good game.
Reacting to a message with a star emoji puts the message in a designated "starboard" channel. I'm currently running this bot on a Raspberry Pi for a personal Discord server.
After watching this interesting video, I was inspired to create my own version. I plan to make it available online, for others to play against it. Currently, I'm working on writing the engine and once I'm done, I'll get to work on the website.
Ever since I first learned HTML around nine years ago (to add a <marquee> tag to my Weebly website) I haven't bothered to touch web development, but React is such a fun and intuitive library, that I couldn't escape it.
This has been one of my favorite projects to work on, because React is such a fun library to use. I used this and Typeracer to learn the Dvorak keyboard layout.
I'm working on this project to gain more experience with database technology (in this case MongoDB). A very early development build is currently hosted on Heroku at jackocoolio-blop.herokuapp.com.