benchristel / spacefrog-web

A small website that makes Spacefrog available to mobile devices

Ben Christel's GitHub Profile

I spend a lot of time trying out different approaches to writing code and thinking about why they didn't work. Over the years I've found some things that actually do seem to work. Here you'll find my successes as well as many false starts.

A few highlights:

• I write Ben's Guide to Software Development on Substack.
• I also maintain a personal wiki.
• I used to blog at benchristel.github.io.
• Taste is my JavaScript test framework, optimized for simplicity and speed.
• In 2022, I started using Linux Mint as my daily driver. Of course I had to customize it, and those efforts turned into a nostalgia-driven project to recreate the look and feel of Mac OS X 10.6. The whole (very WIP) ensemble is available as LynX.
• Culture Machine layers the UX of TV and radio atop YouTube. It works via a deterministic shuffling algorithm and a declarative convergent feedback loop to keep the player in sync with the "broadcasting" schedule.
• Gavin Morgan and I built Druthers, a group-decision-making app that uses WebRTC and CRDTs for offline-first, multiplayer vote tallying.
• Here is the code for all the programming projects I did as a kid (1998–2007). Fortunately, my parents never throw anything away.

spacefrog-web's Issues

me == puzzled

Hi, Ben ! This is more of a question than an issue :)

First, thanks for spacefrog[-web] - since NextGen rolled out, my wife and I have been using it daily !

I am using it as inspiration to setup a one-touch 'log a complaint' physical button, since drafting and sending an email is pretty straightforward.

I was a but puzzled by form.js:90, the sendMail() function. I'm not familiar with the frameworks you're using, but this bit of code looks like it is sending one email back to me, with a 'from' field set to flysfo. This lines up with the receipt emails I subsequently see from sfo each time I use spacefrog.

But, how does SFO get to hear about the complaint itself ? Are you logging them server-side and passing them on or something ?

Thanks,

• Adam