Wetfish Community Show & Tell

[rachel]

Starting on Monday, January 6th we're starting a brand new type of community event—Show & Tell!



During the Wetfish Town Hall meeting last month we discussed ways to get more people involved in the community instead of just giving monthly progress updates on Wetfish business operations. We decided that it would be more fun to get the community together to talk about the projects we've been working on. This doesn't just mean wetfish projects, but anything you've been working on in your free time.

For example, I've been working on building a greenhouse in my back yard, libfud designed and built his own bed from scratch, Luke has been doing stand-up comedy, and meleeman has been writing open source vtuber software.

Since the goal is to show and not just tell, we're going to be moving to Jitsi instead of Mumble. Jitsi has video and screen sharing capabilities so we can show off the projects we've been working on IRL and on our computers. https://meet.jit.si/WetfishShowAndTell

Cybabuni and goos are currently working on migrating Wetfish to new server infrastructure, so hopefully by next month we'll be able to use our own self-hosted Jitsi instance. But for now we'll just be using the Jitsi website.

Join us for show & tell!
Monday, January 6th @ 6:30 PM mountain time, 8:30 PM eastern time
(1 hour before anime night)

[glow=yellow,2,300]Have an idea for something you'd like to share with the community? Post about it in this thread! [/glow]

[Diabolizer]

I'm in.  I'm going to talk about my stand up.  A disorganized list of my jokes can be found here.  Feel free to comment on them.

[Fishmé]

I'm excited to be there, you know I'll be talking about mutual aid organizing. Heheh

[Fishmé]

Starting on Monday, January 6th we're starting a brand new type of community event—Show & Tell!



During the Wetfish Town Hall meeting last month we discussed ways to get more people involved in the community instead of just giving monthly progress updates on Wetfish business operations. We decided that it would be more fun to get the community together to talk about the projects we've been working on. This doesn't just mean wetfish projects, but anything you've been working on in your free time.

For example, I've been working on building a greenhouse in my back yard, libfud designed and built his own bed from scratch, Luke has been doing stand-up comedy, and meleeman has been writing open source vtuber software.

Since the goal is to show and not just tell, we're going to be moving to Jitsi instead of Mumble. Jitsi has video and screen sharing capabilities so we can show off the projects we've been working on IRL and on our computers. https://meet.jit.si/WetfishShowAndTell

Cybabuni and goos are currently working on migrating Wetfish to new server infrastructure, so hopefully by next month we'll be able to use our own self-hosted Jitsi instance. But for now we'll just be using the Jitsi website.

Join us for show & tell!
Monday, January 6th @ 6:30 PM mountain time, 8:30 PM eastern time
(1 hour before anime night)

[glow=yellow,2,300]Have an idea for something you'd like to share with the community? Post about it in this thread! [/glow]

Awe shucks, I missed it. Whoops. See yall at the next one, next month!

[rachel]

The first ever Wetfish Show and Tell was a great success! A bunch of people showed up to discuss the projects they've been working on, and we actually ran out of time and had to cut things short to get ready for anime night.


- Epsilon has been using a software defined radio for tracking airplanes in his local area






- Rachel used CAD to design and build a greenhouse along with temperature and humidity sensing equipment






- Cyba has been researching using Signaling System 7 for tracking cellphone locations using publicly available information



https://berlin.ccc.de/~tobias/31c3-ss7-locate-track-manipulate.pdf



- Mozai made a cost of living calculator to estimate income requirements for living in various cities across Canada


https://mozai.com/rent/





- Luke has been researching hemiglobin using a protein viewer tool with ESM


https://github.com/facebookresearch/esm





- Anomaly has been working on some new intermissions for anime night!




- Meleeman showed off his open source vtuber streaming setup, complete with programming socks




Thank you to everyone who showed up. Looking forward to seeing more cool projects next month 😊

[Diabolizer]

This is the project that I was working from.  I think the Facebook one is an earlier iteration.  I was also using a plug in for VS Code.  I think it uses some of the same libraries.

[rachel]

Less than a week away from our next Show & Tell! I'm excited to talk about my projects and see what everyone else has been working on


Monday, February 3rd @ 6:30 PM mountain time, 8:30 PM eastern time
(1 hour before anime night)

[rachel]

Our 2nd show and tell was another great success with 7 members in attendance and 4 people showing off their projects.

- Sonder is building a game in Godot
He's been experimenting with different grid types, like hexagonal stacking. Currently able to render over 250,000 spheres on screen at 60 fps, working on improving efficiency by loading map data in chunks.



- Anomaly has been doing more art!
She showed off a bunch of different illustrations she's been working on lately.



- Meleeman has been working on making a Wheel of Fortune game
Designed to work similar to Jackbox online party games, you make a room and your friends can enter your room code to join your game. So far he's spent a couple weeks working on the project with some help from ChatGPT.



- Rachel finished construction of her greenhouse
Temperatures have been really cold lately, down to -10 degrees fahrenheit. Lots of experimentation using water for thermal storage, installing insulation, testing different methods of heating the greenhouse at night, setting up automated ventilation fans when temperatures get to hot during the day.

[firefly]

- Mozai made a cost of living calculator to estimate income requirements for living in various cities across Canada


https://mozai.com/rent/

Very cool! If you want to see another project along similar lines, there's this one.

https://www.theearthawaits.com/

[rachel]

Time for another round of Wetfish Show and Tell tonight at 6:30 pm mountain time, 8:30 pm eastern

[rachel]

Wetfish Show & Tell notes for March 3rd, 2025

Last month Wetfish members showed off a few cool projects they've been working on!

creature made custom eBook software which uses the Wordpress API to archive content from blogs that he's interested in and converts all of the blog posts into an e-reader format that he can read like a book.

creature also made a website which uses the YouTube API to keep track of live broadcasts for the channels that he's subscribed to. It displays an upcoming calendar of live streams along with a daily activity tracker reminiscent of GitHub's profile history graph. This lets you see patterns of when your favorite channels broadcast live streams.

Ah-non shared her methods for dealing with the potential threat of getting mugged, such as decoy phones and debit cards with limited funds.

Mozai showed a weekend project he made which displays information about every two letter domain name - https://mozai.com/deuxlettre/

The next Wetfish Show & Tell is TONIGHT, Monday April 7th at 6:30 PM mountain time.

Join us on Jitsi to share the projects you've been working on! https://meet.jit.si/WetfishShowAndTell

[creature]

I said I'd upload some screenshots of my projects – here they are!

> creature made custom eBook [generator] software which uses the Wordpress API to archive content from blogs that he's interested in and converts all of the blog posts into an e-reader format.

There's more to this than you might expect. Epub files are self-contained, so the eBook generator grabs YouTube embed thumbnails, album cover art, tweets, etc. and converts them into book content. It also reformats links to other blog posts into links to chapters.



> creature also made a website which uses the YouTube API to keep track of live broadcasts for the channels that he's subscribed to.

I was particularly happy with the Github-style activity chart.

[rachel]

Wetfish Show & Tell notes for April 7th, 2025

Mozai showed us a puzzle website he's been playing recently, https://bracket.city/. It's like a cross between madlibs and a crossword puzzle where you have to guess words to fill in the blanks based on clues

bencain showed some old Bob Marley records that he's been collecting

creature has been working on a project which automatically lays out objects on a page to maximize space. Has been experimenting with force directed layouts using spring embedding. It didn't work as well as he wanted so he's been thinking about alternative approaches

Rachel registered a nonprofit organization for nature conservation and habitat restoration called Wildland EcoTech. Also the bamboo in her greenhouse is now so tall it's touching the ceiling after only 2 months


The next Wetfish Show & Tell is TONIGHT, Monday May 5th at 6:30 PM mountain time.

Join us on Jitsi to share the projects you've been working on! https://meet.jit.si/WetfishShowAndTell

[ThePedalMan998]

Will there be another show and tell this upcoming monday, june second?

[rachel]

Will there be another show and tell this upcoming monday, june second?

That's correct!