/ Recent content in Chris Greaves on Portfolio | Chris Greaves Hugo -- gohugo.io en-uk Sat, 09 Mar 2019 12:06:23 +0100 /projects/trivia-discord-bot/ Sat, 09 Mar 2019 12:06:23 +0100 /projects/trivia-discord-bot/ What Is This Project This was just a quick project to look into the Discord API and the Unofficial Wrapper for .Net. Coupling that with the use of an Open API for Trivia Questions, to create an easy but fun bot. What Made Me Want To Do This Project Discord has a large amount bots for a whole set of purposes, and I wanted to see how easy it would be to create one. /blog/finally-starting-to-get-go/ Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:01:29 +0100 /blog/finally-starting-to-get-go/ I am definitely not fully proficient at Go yet, but I’m getting there. This post will be about my experiences of Golang and what important things I have learnt so far. Why Go? I wanted to find a modern language that was up-and-coming, that also wasn’t too far from what I already know. The 3 that jumped at me after a quick google search were Golang, Swift and F#. After comparing them, I quickly eliminated swift as it was aimed at Linux and Mac when I use a Windows PC for my development. /projects/boxup/ Sun, 22 Jul 2018 16:06:23 +0100 /projects/boxup/ What Is This Project BoxUp was my first attempt at any directory hosting or watching software. It takes a directory you give it, and will copy that directory to any operating system and folder you want. It does this by taring and gzipping the directory and all its contents into a stream to be transferred over HTTP. What Made Me Want To Do This Project I wanted to explore using streams over HTTP as well as looking into gzipping and taring. /blog/first-post-on-new-website/ Sun, 22 Jul 2018 16:06:23 +0100 /blog/first-post-on-new-website/ Welcome to the new Website This is going to be my website for a while. I have been procrastinating for a while now about what to do with this website, and I’ve just decided to throw something together and get it up here. Confession I must admit. I am cheating. I’m using hugo to render my Markdown docs into usable html and to apply a theme. This is funny because at the start of this project, when I first bought this domain, I started creating my own solution to do exactly the same thing. /projects/stencil/ Sun, 22 Jul 2018 16:06:23 +0100 /projects/stencil/ Note: This was written about commit 60603dba1e7c9076f8c74724b7d8a6e082084320 of the Stencil repo. Parts mentioned may have changed since this was written. What Is This Project Stencil was a challenge to build an application like Cookiecutter, and improve on it. I wanted to continue to use Cobra like in the BoxUp project, as I feel a CLI tool made the most sense (also I really like it!). What Made Me Want To Do This Project I felt that Cookiecutter was good, but didn’t support complex json objects or an alternative method for entering overrides other than the CLI.