The last blog post has been a while and, of course, I forgot to publish the September update post (where I did mention that I forgot to publish the one from June, so going full circle there…) ANYWAY

I have been a bit too busy over the last few months, so there isn’t really much of progress to be shown on my personal projects, however, I am part of a project now as well that will soon show up on GitHub.

My exams are soon over and I will again have some time to work on my own projects. The projects I plan to work on are, in order of precedence:

EyeTAP

This is the project I am part of that has seen quite some work and will continue to see a fairly extensive amount of work over the next few weeks

Shopping List App

The name of this app is still TBD, but what it will allow you to do is create, as the placeholder name implies, shopping lists. The product data however can be fetched from the API or website of your local retailer and I will be providing a platform on which you can create and edit schemas for these websites.

This allows me to focus on the core app experience, whilst leaving it partially up to you to integrate the retailers. I will be providing some retailers myself though.

In terms of features:

• Integration with many retailers’ offerings
• Create menus to which you can associate products that you then can easily add to your shopping list
• If the retailer offers it, a section with the discounts
• Sync between devices that are logged into the same account (paid feature, likely a few bucks a year subscription)
• Apple Watch App
• Will be iOS exclusive, at least initially (I cannot guarantee there ever will be an Android app), but I may go with NativeScript straight away to target both.
• May replace StorageManager in its current form, but the current feature set of StorageManager will be retained and improved upon and integrated with the new app. This would mean that you can use the retailer’s data and images for the products you have and have low-stock warnings that (automatically or manually) add your products to the shopping list.

As you can see, there are quite a few interesting ideas around.

Conductor Calc

It seems like I say that I will work on this every blog post… but now, things are actually starting to move. I have worked out all the updates to the account system that I need to do, I have chosen the tech stack and I have a proof of concept for the browser version in the works.

So, maybe I will actually be able to achieve the end-of-march launch date for the sofware, but that may be a bit of a stretch.

LaTeX helpers

I am planning to update my LaTeX helpers to be a true LaTeX package and to also update some commands that are a bit weird.

Website

And yes, I have not forgotten about my website update, I just did not have the motivation to spend time thinking about design for it. The website update will happen eventually, but it is the lowest priority of almost all the projects (minus archmgr).

archmgr

I am still not quite sure this is the name I want to go for, but the idea of this project is to provide a NixOS like declarative config for an Arch Linux system. This means that you can declaratively install packages and your configs.

The initial goal is to support only the user’s configs, but a future goal will be to also do a full OS install using it, with all the system configs as well.

Under the hood, it will use git for version control of your configs (as that makes a lot of sense).