After configuring many servers to deploy Node.js applications, I felt the need  to streamline the process.  As such I've developed and published a collection of 

 tailored for hosting multiple Node.js servers behind Cloudflare's firewall/CDN. These configurations are designed to provide Full (strict) end-to-end encryption, ensuring secure and efficient communication between clients and servers.

 is a popular reverse proxy that routes incoming requests to their respective destination.  It also handles caching, load balancing and can even act as a mail server, making it a powerful tool for hosting a variety of apps on a single physical server.

, the following snippets can be symlinked into the configuration folder to provide the following base functionality.

 file establishes base server settings, including logging setup, TLS configurations, and the inclusion of supplementary config files.

 snippet introduces general security headers to all requests, implementing restrictive CORS policies, iFrame blocking, and tracking prevention measures.

, all HTTP connections are redirected to HTTPS, utilizing certificates for secure communication.

 file configures various request and response timeouts to 30 seconds, balancing performance and resource utilization.

 snippet ensures that essential information is correctly passed to the server within each proxy location block.

 to a local Node.js server running on port 

, the following server block can be used:

This configuration ensures that incoming requests are securely handled and efficiently proxied to the appropriate Node.js server.

By leveraging these NGINX snippets, I've aimed to create a modular and secure approach to server configuration, facilitating easier management and scalability for multiple Node.js applications. These configurations make it the default to create robust solutions that enhance both security and performance in web server management.

For a detailed overview and access to the configuration files, please visit the 

NGINX Snippets

 is an annual contest open to teams from universities around the world.  Organised by Engineers Australia and sponsored by Weir Materials, the competition sees Mechanical and Mechatronics students design and build a robotics solution over 6 months.  During my exchange to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2023, along with 3 other colleagues, I competed in the 2023 Warman Design and Build Competition and ultimately placed 1st runner-up at the campus competition.

In the fictional world of Gondwana, inhabitants utilise hybrid propulsion engines powered by liquid fuel and oxidiser stored in spherical vessels. A recent near-miss incident highlighted the risks associated with mishandling these vessels, leading to the redesign of storage zones to ensure strict separation between fuel and oxidizer containers. The task for student teams was to design and build a scale demonstration system capable of autonomously collecting three fuel vessels (simulated by tennis balls) and three oxidizer vessels (simulated by squash balls) from their respective drop zones and depositing them into the correct storage silos without any contact between different types of vessels.

All teams were required to adhere to the following specifications:

 The system must fit within a 400 mm³ cube and weigh no more than 6 kg.

 The system must operate autonomously, requiring no human intervention or control during the task.

 The system must prevent any contact between fuel and oxidizer vessels at all times.

 The task must be completed within 120 seconds.

 The system must not damage or contaminate the competition track or vessels.

 are available on the Warman Design and Build Competition Website.

Our submission to the competition was an autonomous robot with a triple-jointed robotic arm.  The arm was the most complex part; requiring a powerful servo with enough torque to lift the whole weight of the arm when fully extended and loaded.  While it certainly would've been easier to use a double or single-jointed arm, to fit within the space constraints of the competition, we needed the robot to be able to fold itself into a very compact shape for transport.

Throughout the competition, my primary focus was our robots microcontroller, the brain of the robot.  We used the common Arduino Uno board with a high power shield and relays to interface with the various sensors and motors.  I worked on our sensing and actuation system; taking readings from the onboard compass and ultrasonic sensors, then translating that into actions; voltages sent to our servos and linear motors.  This included writing two libraries to interface with both the wheels and movement system more declaratively.  Instead of requiring control over each individual motor or servo just to turn or adjust the arm position, these common functions were presented as simple declarative APIs such as 

.  This enabled rapid testing and prototyping, with our time and mental effort no longer spent on writing precise voltages to specific pins.

As is the spirit of the competition, the source code for this project is available on 

Warman Design and Build Competition 2023

Demo Demon is an overlay mod for Rocket League that provides information on your demolition stats in-game, designed to interface with 

.  The overlay provides your KD ratio for both the game and your session and a lifetime demolition count.

Configurable settings: enable or disable game kd, session kd or total demos

The Demo Demon Bakkesmod plugin is available for installation on 

Demo Demon

 is a cross platform email templating client, commissioned by 

, a multinational cosmetic surgery clinic.  This desktop application, built for Windows, macOS and Linux using Electron allows Fue Perfect employees to quickly send consistent and polished appointment emails to customers.

After connecting to a company email address, the Fue Perfect Email App provides a template form, accompanied by a live email preview containing dynamically generated graphics depending on the surgery methods selected.  Once completed, the HTML formatted email can be sent, with a log kept for record-keeping purposes.

 on GitHub, with automated builds released on the 

Fue Perfect Email App

 is an online community and trading platform dedicated to the popular vehicular soccer video game, 

. It serves as a hub for players to connect, trade items, and discuss the game. 

In addition to their website, Rocket League Garage offers a 

 that enhances the trading experience. The bot provides various features such as item price checking, quick item search, and automated shop notifications. Users can easily inquire about the current value of items, search for specific items they wish to acquire, and find information on the in-game competitive ranks of them and their friends. The 

 streamlines the trading process and helps players find the items they desire more efficiently.

 services well over 1 million users across 10,000 servers making it one of the largest and mostly widely used bots in the community.  As such, the bot was built with performance and reliability in mind, making use of Discord's REST API over their more commonly used Gateway.  It also features the ability to check a trading partner against the Rocket League scam list for user safety and trade security.  The full list of commands currently available can be seen below:

Rocket League Garage Discord Bot

In late 2022, I along with 5 other fellow engineering students entered into Monash University's 2022 Robot Building Competition.  The competition spanned 2 full days and featured a largely hardware hackathon style environment.  Teams were to build a robot, capable of following a complex coloured course on the floor as fast as possible.

2 wheels, each individually driven by a motor

The setup also included many jumper wires, a breadboard, a base, lots of tape and a batter to power the robot.

With every team given identical components, construction, design and most importantly good software separated teams apart.  At the end of 2 days, 40 teams had completed a robot, although to various levels of success, with some robots struggling to follow a straight black line and with other confidently manouevring tight turns and taking coloured shortcuts.

for its wiggly movement) surpised us and the competition.  Lobster completed all 3 courses, 2 of which in the fastest time recorded in the entire competition but unfortunately struggled with 1 other course, ballooning our average time.  In all, we came 8th and had the opportunity to meet many like minded and passionate engineering students interested in robotics and Mechatronics engineering.

The software we eventually wrote and ran along with the hardware configuration we used are available, open-source on 

Robot Building Competition 2022

 is a Rocket League focussed GPT earn site, where users can earn free Rocket League items by participating in surveys, watching videos and playing games.  With over 100,000 registered users, and millions of monthly requests, 

 has been an ongoing project since 2019 where I am the lead developer, working in a team small team of 5.  The project has been a unique and useful experience in working with larger-scale production environments due to the challenges that come with a global active user base.

Cloudflare proxy, caching & DNS management

RL.Supply

 was an inventory management system allowing users to borrow, reserve and remotely view inventory of the school Makerspace.  The Makerspace was a technology and creativity lab where students could use 3D printers, electrical tools to create Arduino projects, robots and even rockets.  The space featured a large number of tools and components students could borrow, meaning keeping track of every item became difficult.  As such, the 

 project was created; a central system to keep track of who is borrowing and using any given item from the Makerspace.

Designed with mobile at the forefront, the app is available as a Progress Web App, installable on phones, tablets, desktops and also accessible via any web browser.  This provides offline support, rapid loading and navigation through the Single Page Application design.

Admins are able to manage inventory, upload images from their phones, view and edit loans, reservations and users in order to provide an accurate digital representation of the various tools present in the Makerspace.  At the same time, students can mark items as borrowed or reserve items they take from the Makerspace to show staff and other students where items may be.  Furthermore, students also receive reminders in the form of push notifications when a loan is overdue or a reserved item becomes available.

 of this project are open-sourced on GitHub.

Makerhive

 was a rapidly built hackathon style utility website, designed to generate colored chat messages for the popular FPS game, 

.  In June 2021, a feature was discovered in the game that allowed users to send colored chat messages through the use of XML-like tags.  In response, I built a quick and performant Next.js React site that would generate rainbow or colored text from user input.

 was released, the feature was removed from Valorant.  The website, while dormant, is still live as a demonstration of what used to be possible.

Valorant Colored Chat

 is a Visual Studio Code formatter extension that aligns instructions, arguments and comments in MIPS assembly code.  The formatter creates neat columns, and when combined with a syntax highlighting extension and snippets creates a familiar and powerful editor, similar to that of more popular, higher level languages.

I initially created this formatter because I found myself writing a lot assembly code for a class at university.  As I liked the neatness that came with viewing the compiled instructions in hex editors and didn't want to tediously format the code myself, as any good programmer would, I took 2 hours to write a  barebones extension to automate the task.  After sending it to some classmates, I eventually published the extension on the Visual Studio Code Extension Marketplace, leading to thousands of users installing it.

This project gave me familiarity with Visual Studio Code's formatter API and allowed me to better the programming experience for myself and friends around me.

This project is completely open source and 

.  Feel free to contribute, report bugs or just check out the source code.

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