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Another jamathon thingy, but this time with authZ

instancer-kirik — Mon, 05 May 2025 04:06:55 +0000

This is a submission for the Permit.io Authorization Challenge: Permissions Redefined

What I Built

Portfolithonica: A Permission-Aware Jam Platform

You know what I've done a lot?
lose game jams and hackathons.
So this one is about making game jams, to create one, enter a submission, judge it, and win.

🧱 The Stack

Frontend: lovable, tsx, React
Backend: Node.js + Express proxy
Permit PDP: Docker container (works great locally, not separately hosted… details below)
Permit Cloud: For managing roles, resources, and policies

🎯 The Goal

It's gotta be obvious that it works.
without me hardcoding access logic all over
Organizers can edit the jam and judging, issue late submission links.
participants

🛠️ How I Built It

So I made a proxy server, because API keys.
Is that the correct decision? ask me later. currently it probably isn't hosted, but what definitely isn't:
PDP (Policy Decision Point) runs locally in Docker — lovable didn't work with this the first time I tried, but at least it works on my machine
Defined resources like jam and submission, and actions like create, judge, update.
Set up global roles (e.g. organizer) and contextual roles (jam#participant, etc).
Used derivation rules — if you’re a jam#participant, you automatically get access to submission# for that jam.

⚠️ The Sticktion

**CORS a couple times.. Had to explicitly allow Pragma headers.
Platform constraints - host the PDP / proxy? elsewhere (Fly.io, Render, etc).
Derivations don’t imply permissions. Just because submission#participant is derived from jam#participant doesn’t mean it can create or update. You still need to explicitly grant those actions.
Random 500s until I increased the PDP SDK timeout to 5000ms.

✅ What’s Working

Organizers can create/manage jams not anymore, actually
Participants can submit entries (if allowed) player can mutate any rn, ownership based or role based
Role-checking is fully dynamic
UI adapts based on permissions (canUpdateJam, canJudgeSubmissions, etc) probably should not have done this for development velocity and huh-ness?

🛠️ Still To-Do

Submitting content/actual
Late submissions as a role-based toggle
Eventually: live jam status, feedback, maybe voting
persistent storage and entries

How is it?

Permit.io makes it super easy to think in terms of roles and resources, but you need infra that supports the PDP.
Having done auth before, and gotten another project stuck in a bad shared build state, this was a nice approach; and would probably scale well with an umbrella project

Demo

Project Repo

https://github.com/instancer-kirik/portfolia.git

My Journey

I wanted to win a game jam, so I made a game jam simulator that I can almost win. But then I decided to add db persistence in the last 4 hours, but now, it's time for a post and a demo.
It no longer works for a believable demo, 2 grey loading loop buttons, and no grant organizer button and sleepy. I have only so many prompts and edits and fixes and fx to give.

And also tsx has weird lightmode flashes and theme issues, or maybe that's my fault (probably not)

Using Permit.io for Authorization

it worked actually, used the PDP and dispatched from a proxy server.

Ranking my projects in various categories.

instancer-kirik — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 02:11:54 +0000

SPEED:

⚡ Fast (Near-instant operations, lightweight commands, minimal processing)
Cround – Bracelet Maker
Clipdirstructer – CLI structures from visual hierarchies
Clipdirstructor – Visual tree layouts converted into directories
SAPDAS - Sketchfab Auto Preferred-format & Attribution Saver
Sledge – Web browser (Anti-FFFFFFlashbang, better tabs)
Resolvinator – Data backend and forms
Bonify – Rigging a train or arrangement along curves
Fonce – D agent and Elixir multisecurity (Defense)
epy explorer
Grabot inventory arranger - pyqt

⚖️ Medium Speed (or mainly untested) (Moderate operations, some processing but still responsive)
compyutinator-keyboard – there's some lag and issues still
Deepscape – Pannable chartspace with editor nodes, ws issues
Mediata – Manages multimedia and posting with creative organizational workflows
BigLinks - symbolic link manager
Video Editor- zig to wasm zig issues and ws issues
Combocounter – Tracks vars and combos
Varchiver – Lots of multithreaded waiting, less looking up commands and manual config edits
Seek – Searching and indexing links and resources
Pause || Effect – Dynamic multiplayer quests, maps, stats
Launcher
Veix
Grouper
Findry
Dowel
Tandemx
Lyric Extrapolatinator (ipynb)
enzige / DivvyQueue

🐢 Slow (Heavy processing, silly init, etc.)
Nomine
Explorinator (VSCode Plugin) – Sort by last modified (I couldn't figure out how to hitch their cache and got bored)
Compyutinator Code - CompSci platform IDE/K with a custom diff/merge tool and a bunch of managers and dashboards and stuff - startup is so slow cuz ai init, that I added a loading animation, and it doesn't even load right rn

Main language(s) alphabetically:

Bash / CLI Tools
Clipdirstructer – CLI structures from visual hierarchies

C
(with Clay)
Cround – Bracelet Maker
Translinator - so this was going to be a rich context ai rag translator and OCR thing, but kinda changed directions before much code

C#?
Explorinator – (VSCode Plugin) Sort by last modified (I couldn't figure out how to hitch their cache and got bored)

D
Dowel

E
DivvyQueue - multiparty contracts and breaches and dividend dues

Elixir
Deepscape – Pannable chartspace with editor nodes
Fonce – D agent and Elixir multisecurity (Defense)
Pause || Effect – Dynamic multiplayer quests, maps, stats
Resolvinator – Data backend and forms
Seek – Searching and indexing links and resources (Secondary: PyQt)
Veix – The Elixir container and DAO LLC
Web3 Livestreamer and some infra, kinda
Softleash - software releaser in elixir (early; buffed and released varchiver instead)
Mediata

Gleam
Tandemx – (Maybe?? idk this is still mainly just a plan, Gleam is fine for now)

JavaScript / Svelte / TS
Findry – Svelte
SAPDAS - Sketchfab Auto Preferred-format & Attribution Saver
K4 solver - failed

Python
Blender Python (bpy)
Bonify – Rigging a train or arrangement along curves
Nomine – bpy
lifegem medallion generator(WIP)

PyQt (Python)
epy explorer - file explorer and enzige ui
Sledge – Web browser (Anti-FFFFFFlashbang, better tabs)
Varchiver – Archives and gitconfig with skip patterns and release manager
Compyutinator-keyboard
Compyutinator Code – Computer Science platform IDE/K with a custom diff/merge tool
BigLinks

Lyric Extrapolatinator (ipynb)
Launcher - Kivy?
Grabot inventory arranger - pyqt

Zig dvui / WASM
Combocounter – Tracks vars and combos
Grouper – Zig
enzige - e lang build tool
Clipdirstructor – Visual tree layouts converted into directories
Video Editor – Zig to WASM; also attempted godot for shaders, but no cam

⏳ Time Spent Working on It (Most to Least)

Long-Term / Major Projects

Compyutinator Code – Computer Science platform IDE/K with a custom diff/merge tool
Pause || Effect – 2nd attempt
Resolvinator – Large Data backend and forms
Bonify – Rigging a train or arrangement along curves
Cround- 3nd attempt
Time Tracker - Custom Calendar (2nd attempt)

Medium-Term Projects

Varchiver
Sledge
Fonce
Deepscape
Veix
Video Editor
Grabot inventory arranger - pyqt
enzige - e lang build tool
BigLinks

Short-Term / Experimental Projects

Explorinator
Mediata workflows
Seek
Combocounter
Findry
Clipdirstructor
Clipdirstructer
Dowel
Grouper
Tandemx
Nomine
Launcher
DivvyQueue

💀 Difficulty Ranking (Hardest to Easiest)

🚀 Extremely Difficult (High Complexity, Many Moving Parts, Optimization Challenges, Authentication ugh)
Compyutinator Code – IDE/diff-merge tool
Pause || Effect – Multiplayer system
Bonify – Blender rigging & constraints
Deepscape – Node-based chartspace
Veix – DAO/container manager
Typer - currently https://instance.select competitive post/phrase/code typing(Elixir/js) pls don't spam i'm on free plan // might wipe or rebase
enzige

⚖️ Moderately Difficult (Custom algorithms, UI/UX, APIs, themeing issues)
Resolvinator – Data backend/forms
Sledge – Web browser
Mediata – Multimedia automation
Varchiver – Git automation
Video Editor – Zig to WASM (Early experimentation)
Fonce – Security agent
Findry – Svelte UI
Combocounter – Tracks vars & combos
Seek – Search/indexing
Dowel - robot not reading the src, uncompiling
Trout/Grouper - dvui not working with my zig version idk, might downgrade
Grabot Inventory Arranger
BigLinks

🛠️ Moderately Easy (Functional, less complex, CLI/GUI tools)
Explorinator – VSCode sorting plugin
Launcher – App launcher
Clipdirstructor / Clipdirstructer – project structuring tools
Cround – Bracelet Maker
epy explorer
SAPDAS

🐣 Easy (Simple operations, lightweight tools)
Tandemx – (Mostly planning)
Nomine – bpy utility

Just generated for fun, untested
Web3 Livestreamer and some infra/P2P, kinda
Softleash - software releaser in elixir (early; buffed and released varchiver instead)

Bonus

Shapes

Maybe called a tetryen, tho I get red squiggles; my pfp, from sverchok nodes in blender

Games

Mancala 2 (Java) - with cheating and callouts
Cooking Simulator (UE5) - chopping and detecting carrots and making soup
UGCoPOP (godot or maybe ts) - both with missing art
walking the dog (UE5) - a game about walking the dog and avoiding poisoned grass and picking up litter and quests

None of these games are released, but some on github
Request focus?