Grzegorz Ciołek

Projects

This page might not be fully up to date, so I recommend you also check my GitHub for a more current list!

ciolek.co.uk

I started this site to showcase my projects, and to post articles about stuff I either find interesting, or resources for future reference, such as fixing the Nvidia issues I had on Hyprland.

It started off as a simple pure HTML/CSS project, though I later migrated it to use Express.js and tailwindcss to further my knowledge of JS and CSS frameworks, and to make maintenance easier.

The philosophy behind this site is to keep it simple and accessible; It doesn't need to be complex, so it shouldn't be. Effort is put into ensuring that the mobile and desktop experience scale well across each other, and that older tools, such as Links work well with it.

Link: GitHub

grzetris

The idea for grzetris began when I started playing *tris-likes in between lectures, namely tint. It inspired me to produce my own take on the genre, which resulted in grzetris.

grzetris is still in its early stages, but it's a fully playable game at this point. The main features that I am left to implement are as follows:

It's a fun project to work on, and is written in C++ with ncurses.

Link: GitHub

inscryption-irl

I started this project to automate the process of generating double-sided card sheets for my adaptation of the video game Inscryption, since I felt it would be more efficent than laying out hundreds of cards by hand in Inkscape.

It works very well for that purpose, though I want to adapt it to be more generic, so that you can use it to generate other card sheets, be it for another game, or for business cards, for example.

It's written in Python, and makes use of the Wand and fpdf libraries.

Link: GitHub

dotfiles

My dotfiles are a collection of my more personally important configurations for software I have installed on my computer.

The languages used vary quite significantly between pieces of software, but the more significant ones used are:

Link: GitHub

Gentoo Linux

While I may not be a contributor to the project, using Gentoo since 2020 has taught me a lot about the managment and maintainance of a Linux system.

Gentoo gives the end user a lot more control over the system than most other distributions, owing to Portage (its package manager); this is a double edged sword, since it means you can make your system behave exactly as you want it to, but it also means that you can break your system very easily if not careful.

Using Gentoo has given me valuable experience in system maintainance, administration, and rescue, and has taught me three key lessons:

Link: About

grzepository

As part of using Gentoo, I noticed that some software was either not packaged for Portage, or the packages that did exist were fairly of of date, so I started a repository for such packages that I needed.

It's taught me a lot about the way that software is packaged for Linux distributions.

Link: GitHub