I was originally interested in trippy when I was looking for a way to do “ping” from rust. I was building a network monitoring tool to provide alerts when devices became unreachable. Trippy wasn’t yet a good fit for this use case but the maintainer was open to working with me on what I needed and thus I got involved with the project. Trippy is now at a point where it is ready to support my use case. However while waiting I developed a temporary solution based on the ping program that ships with debian. Once time permits I will rebuild on top of trippy and incorporate what I learned from the temporary solution. Even though I’ve not used trippy yet for my original use case, I am actively involved with the project.

I needed to use reqwest in a WASM context (inside of the browser) for a project I was working on. However, reqwest currently does not support cookies when compiled for WASM. After experimenting with a workaround that resulted in success, I decided to try to implement the functionality directly into reqwest. I was fortunate that others had already tried before me and cleared the road blocks. Hence I met no resistance and was able to create the PR to add cookie support for WASM builds.

• Highlighted features:
  • Schedule events
  • Manage players voting on ideas
  • Manage recording of scores during the event
  • Uses both text based commands and slash commands
  • See the readme of the project for all functionality

This project servers as an example for many things that I’ve learned to do in egui.

• It demonstrates how to “preserve empty space”. By default egui will shrink controls to the size of the content that they contain but I wanted the height of the bottom panel to stay the same size even when it had less content. That was accomplished using a function that allocates the rest of the space so that the control does not shrink. If using this example, take note of the if that comes before calling the function. Without the if the size of the control will grow instead of staying the same. (See exert of code below)

  if ui.available_height() > 0.0 {
      ui.allocate_space(ui.available_size());
  }
  

• It also demonstrates the use of hotkeys in egui applications, both how to only enable the hotkey when the corresponding button is active and global hotkeys that are always active.