prehistoric-simulation VS go-neon

Wouldn't say I got a lot better by writing small and medium sized personal hobby project, but it most definitely did get me confidence and satisfaction.

A cellular automata runner where you can define the rules and watch what happens: https://aperocky.com/cellular-automata/

Browse THIS website in terminal: https://github.com/Aperocky/hnterminal

A random simulation of prehistoric civilization and market: https://prehistoric.tech/

Every few months I get a bubbly idea and start some fun project, and they are usually small enough I get to finish them in a week or so, package them either on the web or pip/npm. It feels like a boost to occasionally boring work otherwise.

This is where tests come in, it helps tremendously at the end of the day to have a little check mark, proof that work is done, even if it is purely mental.

Anecdotally it also helps me pick projects up after years.

shameless plugs:

https://prehistoric.tech/

https://aperocky.com/cellular-automata/

Self promoting plug:

It still works fairly well on the relatively small scale if you just want to write a frontend app (i.e. simulations):

https://aperocky.com/cellular-automata

https://prehistoric.tech

Now that I think of it, I've created something that has a minimum level of correlation...

http://prehistoric.tech/

Though this one is more about society simulation then evolution, it does come with a command line for control.

HTMX is incredible, I adore it. Typically, my stack for a web app is a Golang webserver using Fiber[0], HTMX, SCSS, my own (experimental) templating engine [1] and SQLite. It's a sufficiently hype-free stack, in my opinion, and one that's been fairly well battle tested (bar the templates) and is pretty simple. It's a joy to use!

[0]: https://github.com/gofiber/fiber

[1]: https://github.com/codemicro/go-neon