I've settled on a short-eared owl (Asio Flammeus) to serve as the mascot
and icon for Owltide. This is not a settled and final decision, but
rather a branding that's good enough for now.
To create the mascot I sketched some owls that I have saved to
/assets/mascot/owl-sketch.png and then selected one I liked. Going
clockwise from the top right the sketches were based on the reference
photos [1], [2], and [3] found by searching for "owl" on Wikimedia
Commons. I then lightly refined it to work as a small icon.
To avoid confusing terms that only make sense for software the artworks
are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
License. This has a similar spirit to the AGPL and ensures that should
improvements be made upon them they can be incorporated in the project.
[1]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Athene_cunicularia_-near_Goiania,_Goias,_Brazil-8_edit.jpg
[2]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hibou_des_marais.jpg
[3]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uhu-muc.jpg
The name is inspired by the watchful owl perching from the tree tops
with complete overview of all that's going on combined with -tide in
the sense it's used for in words like summertide and eastertide.
I firmly believe in free software.
The application I'm making here have capabilities that I've not seen in
any system. It presents itself as an opportunity to collaborate on a
tool that serves the people rather than corporations. Whose incentives
are to help people rather, not make the most money. And whose terms
ensure that these freedoms and incentives cannot be taken back or
subverted.
I license this software under the AGPL.
When the object passed to defineNuxtConfig contains logic for enable
devtools option the Nuxtr plugin annoyingly shows an endlessly spinning
orb on the statusline.
Replace the convoluted useAccountSession composable with a pinia store
that in addition allows for the consolidation of all session related
functions to grouped into one module.
Putting secrets into environment variables is problematic due to them
being inherited by sub-processes, the ease as which these can be
leaked in logs, and the lack of support for loading secrets into
environment variables by systems such as systemd and docker.
Change the loading of secrets to be done by loading the content of a
file specified by an environment variable.
To make it possible to render the timetable in the user's local time we
need to know the timezone to render it in on the server. Otherwise
there will be hydration errors and paint flashing as the client renders
a different timezone.
Add a server global default timezone that can be overriden on a
per-account bases to prepare for timezone handling the timetable.
Provide a convenient wrapper for setting SHA-256 HMAC signed cookies and
retreiving them with the signature validated. The secret key is
configured in the NUXT_COOKIE_SECRET_KEY environment variable.
