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@Federico_Tarallo on Star Catcher · 5 days ago

I made Star Catcher, a small arcade game built with HTML5 Canvas and vanilla JavaScript. In the game, you pilot a ship, catch falling stars in Classic Mode, and survive as long as possible in Survival Mode by avoiding meteorites. I focused on making it feel like a complete little space arcade experience: it includes local player accounts, per-account high scores and records, a dedicated pause button in addition to the keyboard shortcut, responsive desktop and mobile controls, and a layered audio setup with music and sound effects. The most challenging parts were keeping the game state, audio, and UI in sync across different screens, making the pause/resume flow work cleanly, and getting the mobile layout and controls to behave well without breaking the play area. I am especially proud of how polished the result feels for a single-file project: the game has a sci-fi visual style, smooth canvas rendering, separate game modes, and a lot of small details that make it feel more finished than a typical class project. To test it properly, people should open the HTML file in a browser, try both Classic and Survival Mode, check that the pause button and the P key both work, and if possible test it on mobile or with a narrow window to see the touch controls and responsive layout. It is also worth creating a local player account so the high scores and settings can be saved and verified across sessions.

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@Federico_Tarallo on Star Catcher · 6 days ago

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Good News! 😁
STAR CATCHER is now fully developed! ✅
It was very difficult to fix all the issues in the game but I finally did it. As you can see I recently added the Streak and Super Streak of the game. The Streak is something you get just by opening the game but for the Super Streak you have to complete all the missions.
HAVE FUN! 🎉🎉

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@Federico_Tarallo on Star Catcher · 23 days ago

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Added a Survival mode where you have to avoid the meteorites. That’s how it looks lilke while playing. About the v1.0, well I did add a lot of things as I expected but before releasing it proprerly on Git Hub I want to add and fix a few things before. Stay tuned for Updates!

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@Federico_Tarallo on Star Catcher · 24 days ago

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We’re always getting closer to the v1.0 but some issues are still a problem so I need more time for them. Today I fixed the account section. Remember: when you switch account all your records disappear

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@Federico_Tarallo on Star Catcher · 24 days ago

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Hi everyone! I released the v0.9 of the game fixing just a few things. I’m working and getting closer and closer to the v1.0 but I think I have few things to do before. Here it is a pic of the menu button I recently added in v0.9

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@Federico_Tarallo on Star Catcher · 26 days ago

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Hi everyone! After a lot of time working at this game I finally dropped the v0.8 of the game. It is still not the v1.0 because there are still a lot of things to fix but the game is actually playable (like a demo). On computer is perfect and for mobile is playable but it is not super accurate.
Enjoy catching stars and beat my super record of 500 stars - and stay tuned for updates!

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@Federico_Tarallo on My first slack bot! · about 1 month ago

My first Slack bot that actually stays alive 24/7!
I built a Slack bot with Node.js and the Bolt framework that runs continuously on a Linux server, managed by systemd. It has four slash commands: /miobot-ping (checks the bot’s response time), /miobot-help (lists available commands), and a joke command that fetches a random joke from an external API and a cat fact command wich does pretty the same as the joke command but about cat facts.
What was challenging: Getting the bot to survive on a real server was way harder than running it on my laptop. I dealt with a systemd config that pointed to the wrong folder, an expired Slack token causing invalid_auth errors, and a slash command that silently failed because the name registered on Slack’s dashboard didn’t match the one in my code. Lots of late-night log reading with journalctl!
What I’m proud of: The bot now restarts itself automatically if it ever crashes, and stays online even when my laptop is off. It genuinely feels like running real infrastructure, not just a script.
To test it: Type /miobot-help in Slack to see all commands, then try /miobot-ping to see it respond instantly with the bot’s latency!
The screenshot shows how it funcions on mobile while computer is turned off.

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@Federico_Tarallo on My first slack bot! · about 1 month ago

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Spent way too long debugging why /miobot-latency wasn’t responding… only to realize the Slash Command registered on Slack’s dashboard had a completely different name than the one in my code. Two typos, zero communication, one very confused bot. 🤦 Classic case of “it’s not a bug, it’s a naming mismatch.” Fixed it, restarted the service, and now the bot replies instantly with the latency. Lesson learned: always double-check that your Slack command name matches exactly — Slack doesn’t do fuzzy matching!
But in my defense regarding my mistake, I wanted to quote Shakespeare

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@Federico_Tarallo on My first slack bot! · about 1 month ago

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Today I finally got my Slack bot running 24/7 on a real Linux server — and it was NOT easy.The goal was simple: deploy my Node.js Slack bot on Hack Club’s Nest server using systemd so it stays alive forever, even when my laptop is off. What followed was a 2-hour debugging marathon.Everything that went wrong (and why):Pasted the systemd config file in nano and accidentally cut the first line [Unit] — Linux silently rejected the whole fileGot stuck in the systemd pager (those mysterious : symbols) and didn’t know to press q to exit — my next command turned into qsudo 😅VS Code focus switched back to my local Windows terminal without me noticing — suddenly sudo and nano didn’t exist because I was on PowerShellThe project folder was at /root/miobot_project but the service file pointed to /home/federico/miobot_project — which doesn’t existThe .env file had the tokens but the SLACK_APP_TOKEN was expired and giving invalid_authWhat I learned: Linux doesn’t hold your hand. Every error message means something specific. journalctl -u slackbot.service -n 30 became my best friend for reading crash logs.Final result: Active: active (running) 🟢 The bot is live, systemd restarts it automatically if it ever crashes, and it will survive server reboots. First project shipped on real infrastructure!