My Shitty Old Projects

Quickpush

Note that I wrote this section a long time ago as a standalone post in a series where I also reflected my old projects, but it was short enough to include here so I did.

QuickPush was the first big project I ever made. I made it over a Christmas break while I was stuck on campus using my then recently acquired laptop. QuickPush was a chrome extension which searched for music on Spotify. I made it because I enjoyed trap music and I wanted to save the good trap songs I would come across listening to YouTube¹.

I don’t really have much to say about it since I wrote a technical blog post about it², but I remember it being a lot of fun to make. It integrated cool things like a reactive search and it allowed a user to demo a track. I pushed myself into making something cool. I even paid $5 to publish it and had big plans to add features such as integrating Soundcloud and adding the discovered song into the user’s library.

It doesn’t work now because Spotify changed their API but once I was done with it, but it was great while it lasted. As for the entire premise of the extension? Turns out that the cool trap music I enjoyed is difficult to publish independently. Thanks copyright law!

2018-zim-election

Repo Link for 2018-zim-election

I abandoned this a while ago but I spent a lot of time manuallly scraping data off PDFs. I do not recommend. I also committed a 15MB HTML file which makes sense once you read my justification of it.