Tyler Hodgman

Luminary

Winning the Cornell AppDev Hack challenge of 40+ students, Luminary is the best study buddy app. Built with Swift, Flask, and SQLAlchemy, users can set a duration to study, a message, and the goal they’re working towards: a constellation. Then they earn a star to be put into the constellation by studying for the whole session without leaving the luminary app to be distracted by other things. To hold everyone accountable, the feed shows everyone’s progress through completed stars and constellations. A link to the demo video can be found here. A link to the frontend github (what I worked on) is here, and the backend github is here.

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Cloud-Based Game Server Management Solution

To complete this project, I provisioned and configured two Oracle Compute Instances, including mounting block storage and establishing a virtual cloud network to manage what ports were open to the public, allowing only gameserver ports to be open. Using my knowledge of the Ubuntu CLI, I deployed the Pterodactyl game server management panel by installing and configuring a Docker backend on one server and a web client front-end with Let's Encrypt on the other server. I also needed to be familar with DNS in order to set up the domain for accessing the front-end, using A records to connect the front and backend, as well as SRV records to allow clients to connect to gameservers without needing to know the port that is open.

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This website, www.hodgman.net

This was my first experience in making a website! To do this, I used GitHub pages, as well as A and CNAME records to link it with my domain. I found a template with HTML, CSS, and JS code, and then modified it to suit my preferences. Furthermore, I found a free online solution for the "contact me" section, which redacts my email from view on the public website, as well as in the source code. I then heavily modified the example HTML code to make it fit the theme of my website. Finally, I made sure to utilize Cloudflare's tunnels in order to protect my website from DDoS attacks. The source code for this website can be found here.

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Self-Hosted Photo Management Server

For this project I researched, sourced, and assembled 10+ compatible components for a custom home server, optimizing for price-to-performance. This was done partially with hardware that was already around the house, and then by purchasing what was needed for reliable and speedy storage. I then engineered a software RAID 5 array over 6 TB of raw storage to ensure data redundancy and security for photo backups across 4 physical drives, capable of managing over 50,000 photos and videos. I chose software raid instead of hardware raid because it saved money, and also because my research told me that there were no performance benefits to hardware raid once you had drives as fast as NVME SSDs, which is what I was using in this project. Furthermore, not being stuck with one point of failure of a raid card was a plus. Finally, I deployed Immich, an open-source photo management solution, as a self-hosted alternative to commercial cloud services using exclusively the command-line interface.

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Locked Safe

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Submarine

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