Made a discord soundboard bot. Some simple text channel commands get the bot to join whatever voice channel you’re in and get the bot to display available sounds as buttons in the text channel. It actually works really well and sounds great.
My friends and I just wanted a bigger soundboard without having to pay for it.
I pretty much agree with everyone else said. I just want to say that I don’t recommend xamarin. I had to work with it at a job and it’s a massive headache imo.
I’ve mostly done hobby projects with rust.
axum + mongodb + oauth2 (just basic rest api)
rust-bert ( for some nlp stuff. Zero-shot, NER, etc.)
Bevy ( I was following a tutorial for a super basic space invaders game)
I chose rust because I always like to have some kind of systems level programming language on my belt. It used to be c++. Rust had seemed very interesting so I began trying it out more and more. It’s awesome.
I had a feature request come down the pipeline that said, “We need this computer to send a notification out to other nodes on the network in the event it loses power.”
I thought it was just a poorly worded health polling feature. I was wrong. They literally wanted a dead computer to send out a message.
It took me asking them to send me a text message after turning off their phones before they realized the issue.
This. I was reading through some of the comments, but this is the most accurate one I’ve read thus far. All the APIs I’ve dealt with are just vanilla HTTP and use a reverse proxy for https. A reverse proxy like nginx is also convenient for path pattern matching to different API services but only having to setup https in one spot, nginx