BalaM314's Website

Hello!

Skills

• Backend development / systems programming with TypeScript or Javascript and NodeJS / Rhino
• Frontend development with Typescript, Javascript, HTML, CSS, and React/JSX
• Game development with Typescript, Java
• Modernizing legacy codebases without a total rewrite
• Linux system administration
• Cybersecurity

Accomplishments

• I have built and deployed (from scratch) a full stack application with a multi-page website that handled registrations and automatically generated printouts for a large event.
• I have succesfully defended a production server network from cyberattacks (DDoS).

Tools and languages

Large Projects

• soodocode: A programming language engine for Cambridge CS pseudocode syntax. Uses a lexer, parser, and runtime, with many config options.
• Untitled Electron Game: 2D tile-based factory building game.
• mlogx: A transpiler for Mindustry Logic.
• CancerStop: A quick reference guide to information on different cancers, made with @Vedanth-Ramji and Queromatics
• fish-commands: A plugin for a Mindustry game server network with a nice command registration interface, and many other systems.
• Foo's Client: A Mindustry client with many QoL features. Most of it was made by other people but I added some features and do some maintenance.
• Pasapapor: A studying tool that lets you open CAIE past papers quicker. Co-developed with @Rithish288
• MindustryLauncher: a command-line launcher for Mindustry.
• msch-generate: A tool to build Mindustry schematic binary files automatically from JSON.
• Extensions: An (unfinished) Mindustry mod.
• msch: An NPM package (javascript library) for parsing Mindustry schematics, used by msch-generate.
• mlog-stack: A sequel to MLOGX. Aims to support stack allocation, recursive function calls, and C-style expressions, emitting assembly-like MLOG. Work in progress.
• Omnifactory Tweaked: a fork of the Nomifactory minecraft modpack with some changes.
• Einsteinium: a NuclearCraft reactor planner.

Smaller projects

• cli-app: An NPM package (javascript library) for creating command-line applications.
• cpu-sim: A CPU simulator and assembler. I made this to learn more about compilers, assemblers, and machine code.
• physics: An experimental 2D physics engine.
• logicly: A parser for logic.ly files that can execute contained logic circuits and generate a truth table.
• ComplexGrapher: a "graphing calculator" for complex numbers. Generates pretty graphics.
• mlog: A collection of MLOG programs that I use while playing Mindustry.
• starfield: a website that generates a customizable starfield image, like the one in the background of this site.
• Interstellar-vscode: my VS Code theme.
• count-lines-cli: a very small NPM script that counts lines in files.
• hzcat: a very small CLI script to decompress and print a DEFLATEd file that has had its header removed.
• is-console-open: a very small webpage that uses Javascript shenanigans to detect if you opened the browser console.
• js-steganography: research into methods for the obfuscation of malicious payloads in Javascript code.
• Interstellar: a Discord theme.
• balam314.github.io: this webpage.
• Canvas Sandbox: a webpage useful for testing things with the HTML5 Canvas API.
• TestMod1: a Minecraft joke mod. No longer developed.
• No Invasions: a Mindustry mod that disables sector invasions. Very small.
• Flarogus Mod: a Mindustry mod that adds flarogus. Somewhat small.
• Flarogus Texture: a Mindustry mod that adds flarogus, but differently. Very small.
• Legacy Textures: a Mindustry mod that restores the old (pre-v136) textures.
• Directional Router: a Mindustry mod that adds an Erekir-style directional router to Serpulo.
• html and css: two old webpages.
• Pi Algorithms: a collection of algorithms to calculate pi, written in Rust.
• Rust Sort: a collection of sorting algorithms.