Had an awesome time exhibiting at @DiscoverJKUAT Tech Expo๐จโ๐ป๐จโ๐ปjkua for our Swahili programming compiler "swahilipro".Great opportunity to socialise and your boy won 1st runners up๐๐
Let's go๐ฏ๐ฅณ
Big thanks to @mureithi_me and shout-out to the teams behind Rivium and Apalis for the great work they're doing for the open source community.
Looking forward to more Collabs in the future.
Let's go๐ฏ๐ฅณ
Big thanks to @mureithi_me and shout-out to the teams behind Rivium and Apalis for the great work they're doing for the open source community.
Looking forward to more Collabs in the future.
The first ticket imeenda!
@wam_weki with PichaLite has impressed the apalis team, including the rivium maintainer. Great work and you have definitely earned that @droidconke ticket. ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
https://t.co/KXVydYP8Pt
The first ticket imeenda!
@wam_weki with PichaLite has impressed the apalis team, including the rivium maintainer. Great work and you have definitely earned that @droidconke ticket. ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
https://t.co/KXVydYP8Pt
How much it cost to build PichaLite:
๐Domain : ksh. 250
๐ปInfrastructure : Ksh 0
- no hosted backend ( Apalis + Rivium ) on android thanks to @mureithi_me , ( JavaScript + browser canvas image encoder ) on web
Weekend of my time : priceless
I did SwahiliPro - Swahili programming language compiler - as my final year project at @DiscoverJKUAT.
All my classmates thought the idea was too crazy to work.
The only person willing to risk their grade on my dream was the same person we ended up split this cheque with.๐
Had an awesome time exhibiting at @DiscoverJKUAT Tech Expo๐จโ๐ป๐จโ๐ปjkua for our Swahili programming compiler "swahilipro".Great opportunity to socialise and your boy won 1st runners up๐๐
The windows app is built with Tauri 2. from @TauriApps
HTML,CSS & JS for the User Interface.๐ป
Rust for local image processing using Apalis + Rivium. Both Open source โ๏ธ
Packaged as an .exe installer using NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System). Also Open source.
Dev tool you should know.
SMS Enabler turns a SIM connected GSM modem + Windows PC into an SMS gateway.
- Forward SMS to HTTP/Webhooks
- Store messages in databases
- Forward to email
- Export to CSV/text files
We've used it to run POS systems in areas with poor or no internet connectivity.
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The best conversations happen when different perspectives meet.
Come be part of one.
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The windows app is built with Tauri 2. from @TauriApps
HTML,CSS & JS for the User Interface.๐ป
Rust for local image processing using Apalis + Rivium. Both Open source โ๏ธ
Packaged as an .exe installer using NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System). Also Open source.
I've extended the Rust image compression engine to support desktop natively...web support already handled PC uploads but I couldn't rest easy until I did it the hard way. You can now run the Pichalite.exe executable on your PC .
Download at : https://t.co/gKpNgPFDFV