Templot5 Companion

[Richardb]

Place holder for my work on open sourcing Templot5 Companion, more details to follow.

For now, I have scaffolded the app and deployed it on github pages. Nothing earth shattering at the moment just working towards a pilot and proof of concept.

https://valleysenduro.github.io/templot5companion/

Repo is here

https://github.com/ValleysEnduro/templot5companion

Rich

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[Martin Wynne]

@Richardb

Hi Richard,

You are not wasting any time! Many thanks.

The topic is fine here for now, it is easily moved when the time comes to go public.

p.s. I noticed your user name ValleysEnduro. Do you know Oliver Hayward? He's the son of a good friend of mine, I've known him all his life. He has a habit of doing well in off-road bike races: https://www.reillycycleworks.com/blogs/news/2nd-place-for-ollie-hayward

cheers,

Martin.

 

[Richardb]

@Richardb

Hi Richard,

You are not wasting any time! Many thanks.

The topic is fine here for now, it is easily moved when the time comes to go public.

p.s. I noticed your user name ValleysEnduro. Do you know Oliver Hayward? He's the son of a good friend of mine, I've known him all his life. He has a habit of doing well in off-road bike races: https://www.reillycycleworks.com/blogs/news/2nd-place-for-ollie-hayward

cheers,

Martin.

Hi there,

Thank you! I've been thinking about using Sphinx on GitHub Pages for a while now, and it was surprisingly painless to scaffold and deploy. I’ve created a roadmap today, which will hopefully introduce more transparency, continuity if something happens to me and build a bit more confidence https://github.com/users/ValleysEnduro/projects/3/views/4

I’m afraid I don’t know Ollie, but what a fantastic achievement to have tackled such a tough event! I organise a series of mountain bike races in South Wales. The cost of living crisis hasn’t been kind to attendance numbers, and unfortunately, we had to cancel a series. We’re hoping to be back by Autumn 2025.

Interestingly, it was this challenge that got me into learning front-end development and web apps. Event ticketing systems usually take a percentage, so I thought, why not learn one of the frameworks and build something myself to keep entry fees down? I’ve dabbled with Nuxt, but I’m waiting for the next version to be stable.

It turns out I really enjoy web development—there’s something satisfying about it, much like how you feel about Templot, I suppose.

I really believe in Templot particularly if you can ship the 3d printing features you've been developing. Plus, I'm a big fan of open source to get more people into something. So, its my pleasure.