aarvin

got halfway through implementing database schemas and auth when i realized convex just doesn't work with waku :( so uhhh yea gonna have to restart and just build with something that's actually supported

mimicked the waku starter, added dprint and inter, slapped on a favicon/title and now it's on vercel :) i have no idea how i'm gonna build this btw

updated the design to be more consistent (e.g. background colors and stuff) across all components, removed some redundant components that were all kinda doing the same thing, switched to using different gemini models for different stuff (2.5 pro for analysis, 2.5 flash for chat, 2.0 flash for suggestions), and a smattering of other lil bug fixes and stuff. don't really have big visual changes to show so here's the (totally very well thought out and organized) file structure

more improvements to chat, including proper persistence of suggestions and the like both in localhost and in convex. also fixed some bugs around 429 errors (gemini rate limits) and made sure the 404 error displays properly

big changes!!! the analysis is now wayyyy more in-depth (i tried to make it more quantitive and actionable instead of generic descriptions), and there's a chatbot!!! we'll see how long i have till the gemini rate limits kick in lol

fixed some bugs around generation not saving correctly, and added a progress bar for analyzing! plus you can now cancel during analyzing if you want :)

yet another massive dump of features (this is the last time i promise only frequent commits and devlogs from now on), mostly focused on way better structured analysis plus a bunch of other little features and improvements (like you can now click the header to go back home!) idk how to rlly explain it all so just go try it yourself already :) it's free!!!

lost track of the time and made a ton of changes, including click to upload and zip uploading and better streaming and structured output and color palettes and yea you get the idea, i also prolly added a bunch of bugs that need to be fixed :heavysob: but anyway go try it out now

analysi (i know it's a misspelling lol but whatev) now save to convex! so you can just copy the url and share it :)

added streaming!!! so everything feels way slicker now, especially since i added this really nice fade-in animation as it flows in (sadly gemini streams in chunks rather than character-by-character so it's still a little jank)

effectively rewrote the whole thing (summer of making? ha! more like summer of rewriting :D) idk what i even did but roughly there are a) pending states! yay b) way to see the output other than a giant browser alert! yay and c) there is no c i literally spent an hour doing all of that :heavysob: please vote so i don't become depressed guys

analysis now works!!! kind of... i'll fix pending states, error handling, that sort of thing next and then add an actual view for the analysis

fixed some disabled/focus/hover states, and added a big analyze button that currently does absolutely nothing

the drag-and-drop now actually collects the files instead of just showing a dumb message (lol) next step is uploading those for analyzation (yes that was intentional) oh and btw i added a neat little filtering thing so you can drop as many files as you want but only the pdfs go through

the message now updates to show whether you're dropping/have dropped files or not

after finishing all the boring setup (react, vite, tailwind, vercel, whatever) i made a simple little splash screen that will hopefully eventually do something

missing time for the rewrite due to som bugs, yes it really took this long 😭

breadcrumbs!!! so navigation is way easier now :) loading states and other random stuff are also improved a bunch

added a proper cache and loading states! so things feel wayyyyyy snappier now :)

full rewrite COMPLETE!!!! 😅 it's far from perfect and a lot of things feel sluggier than they should, but IT WORKS!! and there are now LISTS!!! next step is adding back comments, and some other goodies :)

improved the design and visibility, made things responsive, and fixed various other random bugs :)

removed the other example for now because @/Olive is still trying to fix it, as soon as she does i'll add it back :)

fixed some readability issues so the links are easier to see now

just some small cosmetic changes to colors, fonts, and cosmetics :)

fixed some fonts, added links to the rewards, and a really minimal rsvp form that someone is def going to break lol :)

third is going to be down for a little bit as i do a big rewrite :( - sorry for the inconvenience, it will be much more reliable once back up

created the splash and added some basic analytics :)

another big refactor that helped somewhat with bugs but still left behind a whole bunch of messiness, so a big rewrite is probably next 😭

the last update broke a bunch of things and showing/hiding comments didn't really work at all, so i refactored some stuff like the list component and now everything works again :)

you can now show or hide comments! just to make things a little less cluttered

did a massive refactor, codebase is much easier to work with now and some bugs have also hopefully been fixed :) look at the pretty file structure:

added comments!!!! ...and also had to basically rewrite the entire database schema :( so uh yea all the production data is gone now (this will be the only and last time i promise) but now everything is much easier to work with

there was a bug with virtualization where stuff stuck to the gumwall would sometimes disappear early, so i changed the virtualization logic to try and account for the size of the thing stuck to the wall. i don't think it worked 😭 but i put too much effort not push so uh here we go

added a preview for sticking!! so you don't accidently cover someone else's (lmao)

music!!!! because ambience is aesthetic (lol)

it might sound familiar...

trying out a different aesthetic... we'll see how it goes

switched from overflow: hidden to overflow: clip, no idea why i did 😭

so uhhhh... i kinda forget markdown lets you do images and they kind of broke anything so this is a quick hotfix for that lmfao

you can now press escape to exit the sticking mode! just a little thing :)

MARKDOWN SUPPORT!!!! i'll leave it to you to figure out how to break this 😈😭

touch support and better positioning for the control panel (the center thingy where you can stick) for mobile :)

BIG CHANGES!!!! ok well first i did a massive refactor because before well uh all the code was squeezed in one file 😅 which was not the best so now it's a little more organized, but *MORE IMPORTANTLY: it's now virtualized!!! that means only the elements that need to be visible are rendered, which improves performance a ton! it still gets laggy in dense areas (like, you know, right when you load up the website 💀) so i have to work on that but this should make it actually possible to have an infinite number of stuff stuck to the wall (besides database limits and loading the data and a bunch of other stuff i have to fix but WHATEVER it's progress ok) anyways have to do more coding now bye lol

accidently broke everything with the last update by not accounting for pan while saving positions to the database 💀 but at least it works now without any crazy damage. also look at this massive screenshot

canvas is now INFINITE! so there's a lot more space :) was harder than i thought but it feels very satisfying lol

added a nice squelch when you stick something on the wall (lmfao)

added the ability to stick text!!! also fixed some layout, selection, and light mode bugs i somehow introduced with the last devlog (whoops).

i'm probably going to do a ship right now (early, i know) as an mvp before adding support for other media and other iNteResTIng features later (lol)

made the base ui and deployed it at gumwall.vercel.app

now uses FREE openrouter by default, so you don't have to worry about an api key :) if you want even better analysis you can put a gemini key in the environment variables

added vercel web analytics so i can watch as it gets voted on :)

for the reviewer - yes, it's intentional that you can only delete by popping (might change that later, still thinking about it)

optimistic updates!!! so everything feels wayy faster now, especially popping. i'm going to do a first ship now as a basic bookmarks manager, then a second one later with more hacker-news style functionality

added the list! also made pop actually delete the latest entry instead of just opening it, which i somehow forgot :)

added 'pop', which just opens the last thing you saved

added a little greeting and the ability to make a favorite, next step is letting you do something with them

auth setup!! god i love convex 😍 it makes backend/auth soooo much easier

added the title! there's a really strange overflow bug when the window is too small that i can't figure out, but decided to ship anyway until i figure it out

missing time (better devlogs coming soon lol)

missing time

buttons redesign! little more intuitive now

small layout fixes and readme updates

number of magazines (should have thought of this earlier lol)

the number of pages now shows! more stats coming soon

new fonts!!! out with inter, in with monaspace 💅

export options!! they even have tooltips (you'll have to open it yourself to see them tho)

added a close button so you don't have to refresh

added a title so you can see what files you analyzed :)

more stripping back, also a new example

started work on a big cleanup, the code is much cleaner now but i also lost half of the features 💀 next step is finishing the restructure and adding back features

added number of pages to analysis! things are getting pretty messy though so i'm going to restructure analysis to be much more flexible so i can add more detail

tweaked the heading a little and added a favicon 💅

turns out convex was still broken, finally fixed it FOUR commits later 😭💀

made some ui updates so you get a little more than a hello world. also accidently removed convex (idk how 😭) but it's back now so uh just gonna pretend that didn't happen 😅

was getting ready to tear convex apart when i realized the number sync bug was just a missing early return, it's all fixed now though 😅

optimistic updates! there's a little bug where the wrong number flashes for a second, which i have to fix next

pending state!

kind of half rewrote everything??? the codebase is slightly less hellish to work in but there's still a lot of work to do...

spent a ludicrous amount of time trying to clean up the mess that is the logic right now and got... nowhere 😭 going to try again tomorrow with a fresh mind

some cosmetic changes

wanted to make a ton of performance/efficiency improvements but kept on hitting strange errors, so just did optimistic updates for now (rest coming later)

optimistic updates for changing your pick! things are nice and snappy now

better logic/styling for showing your pick

added the ability to see + change your pick

temporarily restricted to one pick, will later let you change picks

...and finally fixed a few export bugs and focus/accessibility issues

you can now print as a pdf!

added some export options (copy/download)

added an example so you don't need an api key to see it in action :)

added a hackatime badge for good measure (lol)

...and a quick update to the readme image :)

you can now see what files you uploaded! plus some other small fixes and tweaks (analysis is now lowercase to match everything else)

fixed some layout bugs, changed the selection color, and made sure everything is disabled when form submission is pending/the analysis is being generated

added a favicon and a little footer :)

made a bunch of little changes and cleanups

a title so the tab doesn't look so ugly (too lazy to find a favicon lol)

fixed the readme so it's actually ship compliant (whoops)

this was a simple project so it fits easily into a single devlog (check commits for proof of work). the core idea is an easy-to-use template for building on the web:

some more random behavior fixed, time for a ship!

somehow forgot to show the number of picks so i fixed that (lol)

you can now pick! kind of, anyway, i'll have to fix the broken behavior

you can now see & share! picking (voting) is coming next...

more cleanup 🥱 don't worry, i promise picking is next 🙏

did some more cleanup, things are looking shiny but there's still no way to vote so that's next

did a ton of cleanup for proper typesafety/form validation/whatever so the project is nice and shiny now (lol)

switched to gemini for better analysis and higher context window

you can now create topicks, and they save to convex! next step is letting people vote

Ended up going with Vercel and Convex instead of GitHub Pages and Appwrite, so you can find topick here now: <topicker.vercel.app>

summer bug - this time is just part of the last devlog :)

more text, invisible scrollbars, and a bunch of other little touches

background animates!

hehe...

Played around with the system prompt until I got something that looks clean (besides the hallucinations, anyway). This analysis is okay, but I'm hoping to include some more specific insights and generative UI so this actually a cool project instead of a wrapper.

Made a ton of progress! The app is now functional and outputs some really basic insights from the magazines you upload. It's also now deployed at <aarvinroshin.github.io/printr>! Now all I have to do is make it actually useful :)

An actual UI! Still doesn't do anything, though.

Base shell, as always (Vite + React + Tailwind CSS).

Convex is set up, and basic authentication through Google as well.

Here's the landing splash! I found some cool fonts that I'll make use of throughout the game...

Data persists!!! It took forever because Tauri doesn't document its permission model very clearly 😫, but at least it works now.

The UI is responsive now!

Got MacOS signing set up through a spoof, so it isn't actually signed but now at least can be installed on newer Macs. Unfortunately I wasted a bunch of time trying to set up Windows signing and updated, but neither worked out.

Release pipeline set up! Before I keep developing the app, I'll try setting up signing and updates.

You can now create and delete notes! Plus I fixed a whole bunch of bugs and performance issues, so the app hopefully feels much snappier now. The next step is data persistence, but I might setup a build workflow first so others can download and run it from GitHub.

UI is here! Some of it, anyway. I forgot how good Inter looks 😍 Next up is letting you add & delete notes (I'm still thinking about how to design that), and then data persistence.

Tauri, Vite and Tailwind CSS set up! This is going to be a little notepad that stores stuff locally and is really quick to use.

Color fonts! And 3D!! Also, the selection color is different, all though you can't tell from the screenshot. I think it's beginning to approach cursed now...

Base UI implemented! Got stuck because of a random Rust security issue, but it ended up being unimportant.

Vite, Tauri, and TailwindCSS set up! It feels weird having a Vite app with more Rust than JavaScript.

Deployment successful! It only took three commits fighting with CI 🤭. You can check it out now aarvinroshin.github.io/topick!

Create UI is done! Pretty basic, but I think it looks slick. Next step is running on GitHub Pages (link coming soon!), then Redis for some actual functionality.

Base styles in! It doesn't look quite as ugly now, but there's a while to go till it's worthy of the name.

Page still looks as ugly as before, but now there's a title!

Used the template and modified the base configuration! Next step is actually giving it a look, and hopefully deploying an example somewhere...

Base shell ready... next step is getting it deployed and connecting to Upstash. I'm thinking GitHub Pages should be good enough.

So far, I've implemented server components and am halfway through base support for client components. Next on the list are proper utilities for client components (like event listeners and effects), reactive state (signals if I can figure them out), and eventually server actions (RPC) for some real power. Here's a simple demo (check the repo!):