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Projects

PawnIDE

Description: A full IDE for the Pawn scripting language, built in Python with Qt. Pawn is used for scripting SA-MP (San Andreas Multiplayer) and Counter-Strike 1.6 game servers. Rather than relying on basic text editors, PawnIDE brings modern development tooling to the language: syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, real-time error diagnostics, an integrated build system, and debugging with breakpoints and variable inspection — all in one place.

Technologies: Python, Qt (PyQt), QScintilla

GitHub: View on GitHub

PyWebshop

Description: PyWebshop is an e-commerce platform built with Django. It features a fully functional shopping cart, user authentication, product management, and order processing.

Technologies: Django, Python, PostgreSQL, HTML/CSS

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Social Network

Description: A social networking site developed as my final high school project using Django. It includes features like user profiles, posts, comments, and friend requests.

Technologies: Django, Python, SQLite, HTML/CSS

GitHub: View on GitHub

Description: TP-Link’s Easy Smart switches (TL-SG105E, TL-SG108E, etc.) have no SSH or CLI access — the only way to back up their configuration is through the web interface, manually. This tool automates that process by reverse-engineering the switch’s web authentication flow, handling session cookies, and downloading the binary config file programmatically. Supports multiple switches via a config file, validates backups to catch silent failures (e.g. receiving a login page instead of a config), generates MD5 checksums, and is designed to run unattended in a cron job.

Technologies: Bash, curl, networking

GitHub: View on GitHub

Modernstack

Description: A COBOL application connecting to IBM Db2, built for a Database Connectivity course. The challenge: use a non-Java language with a non-MySQL database. The solution: COBOL (1959) talking to IBM Db2 via GixSQL — an ESQL preprocessor — over ODBC, all containerized with Docker. Getting these technologies to cooperate required digging through obscure documentation, debugging compiler toolchains, and leveraging Docker’s layer caching to keep rebuild times sane after the initial 15-minute Db2 startup. It works.

Technologies: COBOL, IBM Db2, Docker, GixSQL, ODBC

GitHub: View on GitHub

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