Development – Scopique's

Population Distribution

Scopique February 11, 2020

A few post back I had written about the Wombat’s brief flirtation with despotism as several of us flocked to NationStates. Since I haven’t personally heard anyone talk about it since those initial days I’m going to assume that I am not…

S.A.D.I. Discord Bot Update

Scopique December 13, 2019

I’ve reached a milestone with the S.A.D.I. Discord bot, so its development is going on hold for the remainder of the year. Database Woes I ended up spending too much time fiddling with the database construct so I kicked it all to…

Discord Bot, Databases, and Promises to Keep

Scopique December 3, 2019

Work on S.A.D.I. continues. Right now, I have the bot hooked into the Star Citizen API (community edition) and commands created so you can ask S.A.D.I. to get ship and star system information. This is good. However, to be a true corporate…

Discord Bot S.A.D.I. and API Lookups

Scopique November 27, 2019

I mentioned a Discord bot in the last post, and I wanted to cut out all the Star Citizen-ness of it (as much as I can, really) and talk about doing it. Node is a popular platform for coding Discord bots (hereafter…

Star Citizen Corporations and a Discord Bot

Scopique November 26, 2019

Sit right back and you’ll hear a tale. A tale of a…stream of consciousness. For a while now I have been contemplating leaving or at maybe downgrading my membership in my Star Citizen corporation. I have to say, they are an amazing…

Cascading Dropdowns with React

Scopique November 7, 2019

Cascading dropdowns is a popular paradigm, especially when dealing with search or filters. The gist is that making a selection in a dropdown list will load a subset of a greater dataset into another dropdown. This can carry on through several other…

Reactionary – Class vs Functional Components with Hooks

Scopique November 5, 2019

Here’s a story about two methods of approaching the same React-based goal. The first concerns class components, while the second concerns functional components. Both result in the same output: a dropdown list box that contains ID values. Both source from the same…

Reactionary – Header.js

Scopique November 1, 2019

I’m publishing this one on the heels of the previous post because tomorrow is Saturday and I might forget. Now we’re getting somewhere! Header.js is currently the workhorse of this system. Keep in mind that this file is only running the header…

React and SignalR

Scopique November 1, 2019

I told myself I wasn’t going to inundate the web with an avalanche of posts today, but I feel like I need to make just this one while I have it in mind. Although my knowledge of React is now passable, I…

Reactionary – HeaderUser.js

Scopique November 1, 2019

I’m talking about this file next because it’s smaller, and there are a lot more things to talk about with Header.js than there are here. Line 1 should be familiar if you read the previous post. It aliases the ‘react’ library as…