Guyren Howe 2024-08-01 03:20:00 Currently trying to use WebRTC from Flutter. I just want a way to find my external IP address and port, and to share data through it. Seems like a simple requirement.
I am utterly astounded at the complexity of WebRTC. I’ve just never see anything quite like it. The Flutter plugin just flat doesn’t work for me, and there is no debugging information available to let me know why. The plugin uses an opaque C library, and I’m no C hacker.
I’m down to using a headless browser, which I’m pretty sure I will get working. But holy moley. This: webrtcforthecurious.com is about the friendliest introduction I can find.
Tragic, because ad hoc peer-to-peer connections should be a large part of the Future of Computing.
File under: hopefully not the future of computing.
Jack Rusher 2024-08-01 08:41:36 Blame the network infrastructure for how much this kind of thing sucks. We pushed for universal IPv6 in the 90s, but we’re still doing NAT in 2024…
Ivan Reese 2024-08-01 13:53:41 Yeah, I recall this being a huge pain in the butt for folks at Ink & Switch (before I joined) trying to do experiments with serverless p2p local-first collab. Eg: doing hairpin NAT so that devices could discover each other (or something). Really disappointing.
Maikel van de Lisdonk 2024-08-01 09:29:12 I want to start planning our next meetup, but before we plan an exact date I want to find some people who want to give a demo of their project or want to present something about a topic of interest. If you're interested, please respond to this message.
And as a side note: if you didn't already fill in the poll about our meetup schedule, please do so (it's on this channel).
Oliver Medhurst 2024-08-01 13:23:17 happy to talk about my project some time if you think it'd be interesting :)
📝 Porffor
Porffor is a unique JS engine/compiler/runtime, compiling JS code to WebAssembly or native ahead-of-time.
Tom Larkworthy 2024-08-01 15:19:34 I would like to talk about, not the application itself, but the FoC concepts I am trying to apply when building the application. The application being a "compiler" for 2D lazer cut parts generated from a 3D description of the desired object.
Maikel van de Lisdonk 2024-08-02 09:31:19 @Jarno Montonen that sounds pretty awesome as well, and as long as your presentation is within our community guidelines then all is well I think. But I assume that was already clear 😊
Maikel van de Lisdonk 2024-08-02 09:36:30 For now we have enough demo's / presentation.. 3 is a nice maximum for our meetups and gives some space for smalltalk/discussion around our community as well. I'll do some proposals for time/date this weekend. @Oliver Medhurst Tom Larkworthy @Jarno Montonen thanks for wanting to demo/present ! That's really great!!
Maikel van de Lisdonk 2024-08-03 16:55:47 To plan our next meetup and propose a new date, I first look at the availability of our presenters.. their common choice from the poll is G (15:00 UTC) and for day of week we have some choices.. for now I start with the same day of week as our previous meetups: Wednesday. So, would 28-08 or 04-09 at 15:00 UTC work? (17:00 CET/9:00 MST).. if a different time is better then please let me know.
