I'm Ashton, the face behind spysat.
I am currently studying at Seneca Polytechnic, and in my spare time I work on open-source projects to teach myself extracurricular skills. Below are just a few of the projects I am unfortunately responsible for.
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Kimochi
My current work-in-progress. A spiritual successor project to Pomf using TypeScript frameworks to deliver a modern, fast and self-documenting open source file hosting solution. Initial progress has been slow due to school taking up the majority of my time, but I estimate the project will be complete by Q3 2024.
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Simple Hammers
While looking for Minecraft mods, I noticed nobody had written a hammers mod for the game and modloader version that I was using, so I wrote my own. Through this, I was able to learn Java from scratch. This was initially developed as a fork of an existing, older hammers mod, but turned into a full rewrite. Through developing this mod, I was able to contribute code upstream to port the base mod to a newer version, and I reduced the code complexity of my own mod significantly by using the original mod libraries over the custom solution my project was based upon.
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PleaseHireMeBot
I am already familiar with Python, I was not familiar with the Discord API. I managed to re-implement some basic GNU command-line tools and add typical Discord bot functionality. I was also able to get to grips with web scraping technologies to add a simple character.ai hook to the bot, allowing users to chat with character.ai models without leaving the Discord app.
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Various School Assignments
My time at Seneca Polytechnic has also borne fruit. All my past schoolwork is available on my GitHub so that future students may learn from my own example code. I have two full C/C++ terminal applications and a demonstration full-stack web app with a Bun/Express backend available to view online
