I fixed some last bugs, I don’t have time to write more right now

what has changed

• I AM SO HAPPY I JUST FIXED A BUG THAT ALMOST MADE ME GO INSANE
• soo, the bug was that writes were sometimes “colliding” with each other, resulting in incomplete data. I fixed it by using read_exact instead of read for my connections
• yeah, I fixed some bugs but mostly worked on this weird issue.
  (read the messages in the image)

I hate postgreSQL

what has changed

• i switched back to sqlite because postgresql was behaving like a weird piece of garbage
• rewrote the messagestorage
• i fixed some bugs
• I spent most of the time trying to get postgresql working, until eventually giving up

YOU THERE, LIKE THIS DEVLOG OR I WILL DO NOTHING pwease~

And again

what has changed

• i migrated the ui to material 3 because it looks good :3
• I found many bugs and fixed them (I tried to implement iced subscriptions for a long time until i noticed that I left out the port when configuring my instance ;-;)
• there’s still some bugs that I wanted to fix but the stupid 10hr rule stopped me from doing that in one devlog (i lost 2hrs again ;-;)

NOT THIS TIME

what has changed

• I didn’t forget to devlog yay!
• i’m now using aes + rsa, since stackexchange said that it’s more efficient (mainly network and memory-wise)
  and it works like this: message gets encrypted with aes256 -> aes-key gets encrypted with rsa for every user -> both the encrypted aes-key and the encrypted message get sent to the instance and then redirected to the respective clients
• I removed maaaaaany things from lcp and renamed it to lcp-sdk-rs (because it isn’t really a protocol, it’s just an implementation of a protocol in rust)
• I switched from SQLite to PostgreSQL because PostgreSQL is better for backends, according to the internet

like this devlog or you’ll step into water while wearing socks

what has changed

• I FORGOT TO DEVLOG I’M SO ANNOYED (I lost 3hrs 45mins)
• I noticed that the lcp crate is not really a protocol sooo, yeah. I’m gonna transfer the database and stuff to the instance and messagestorage
• I noticed that using SQLite on the server-side isn’t the smartest thing to do so I’m currently switching to postgresql
• I added a fancy loading screen to the client
• I finished implementing registration
• I stopped using Identifier on the server-side (because it’s just a wrapper struct for a String and I don’t wanna split strings on the server-side) and replaced it with a tuple (Url, RsaPublicKey)
• I implemented receive_and_deliver() for EncryptedMessageSet instead of EncryptedMessage
• I replaced id: Option<String> with id: String because I can simply check if id.is_empty()
• I started using iced::Tasks instead of Tokio threads because iced tasks are way easier and you can properly use the loading screen with them

soo yeah, pretty long devlog, right? Pwease give me a like

What has changed

• I forgot to devlog (again) and I lost 1hr 21m
• I started working on registration (yey)
• I removed the login screen because it was a stupid concept because the identifiers are long as helllllll and they can be loaded from a file
• I added a registration screen that currently only shows that you can go to the list of public instances or host your own instance (with a link to the docs which don’t exist yet)

What has changed:

• I (once again) forgot to devlog in time so I lost about 33m
• I deleted the client because I hate css and html (making an iced ui in rust now)
• added more stuff to lcp (functions, yey)
• refined the login (I have no idea if I did it right, but I´ll see.)

what has changed

• I forgor to devlog so i lost 1h and 9m.
• I deleted major parts of lcp, instance and msgstorage, which I am rebuilding right now.
• I just installed another distro (guix system) so building doesn’t work right now

What has changed:

• not much, I had to get better at tauri and yew and had weird ownership errors
• i made a component that fetches the conversations (yay)
• i destroyed my table because I slammed on it too hard (not yay)

What has changed:

• I have stopped developing the tui and I´m focusing on a gui now. I
  also tried making a web-app but that didn´t really work :<

What has changed

• I changed the logo (someone on reddit drew it for me, big shoutout to them <3)
• I added a instance field to the Message struct so you can figure out what instance the Message was sent from (that´s useful for texting between instances (you send a Message to your instance, it sends it to your friend´s instance))
• I fixed some bugs, but in its current state, the application won´t compile

What has changed

• I finally fixed a stupid bug by using DER instead of PEM
• I cleaned up a bit and added custom errors using thiserror
• I started implementing Communities and Groups

What has changed

• basically nothing, had multiple problems that I couldn´t fix, so I just used certbot to get the certs
• did some config system fixes for the instance
• wrote some comments/docs

What has changed:

• I made the TUI better and also made one for the instance
• I had multiple mental breakdowns trying to understand TLS
• I started implementing Let´s encrypt certs instead of self-signed ones for usability.

Right now, I cannot show a screenshot of the stuff because it´s not compiling (yet)

What has changed:

• I added more customization options to the messagestorage, it was pretty hard to do that with ratatui
• I wrote some comments in the code
• I found a bug where the font is the same colour as the background, so the font is unreadable. I gotta fix that bug now.

What has changed:

• I continued making the TUI and it now has color schemes, stats and settings. I will continue making the TUI for the instance later.
• I migrated the project to an organization to get luminal.codeberg.page as the domain of the website

What has changed:

• tried implementing a resource monitoring widget on the messagestorage dashboard and failed to do so, so I deleted it again (there were bugs I was unable to fix)

What has changed:

• continued making the TUI to a point where it was usable until I put a bug somewhere in the code. I will have to fix that soon
• updated the messagestorage
• replaced some .unwrap()s

What has changed:

• I started making a TUI using ratatui, focusing on minimalism and simplicity
• fixed some bugs

What has changed:

• I implemented and tested encryption (it still has some minor bugs, but it works)
• I stopped using userids and started using RSA keys for identification since that´s way more efficient

What has changed:

• I lost my mind trying to use the wtransport crate (it will work, trust (cope))
• continued working on the messaging part
• refined the authentication stuff

What has changed:

• created a SQLite database for users and messages
• “offloaded” more code to LCP (Luminal Communication Protocol)
• started making the messaging part

What has changed:

• Made a basic session-based authentication system (harder than I thought) using JWT
• Fixed and created some bugs
• Created unnecessary debug messages before I noticed that the hex decoding fails because I put something like ¨adasdasd¨ into my config instead of a hex string

What changed:

• continued making lcp (took longer as expected because the wtransport crate is poorly documented)
• started making messagestorage use lcp
• everything has become a mess, I gotta clean up next time I work on luminal

Sidenote: I cannot commit to codeberg as I am writing this, they reported that they have an outage. I will push the code when codeberg is back up.

What has changed

Structure

• Started making libs and mods for the separate parts (luminal communication protocol, etc.)
• changed the architecture from: Client <-> Messagestorage <-> Instance to: Messagestorage <- Client <-> Instance

Bugfixes

• Fixed various bugs, but the compiler throws errors right now, so I cannot show a working version in the screenshot.

What changed

• started making a bash-like shell for managing and controlling the instance
• rewrote the config system to use the toml crate instead of config
• fixed multiple bugs
• started making cert verification

smol sidenote: I cannot work as fast as the last weeks right now because I’m on vacation and only have a dual-core ThinkPad with me.

What changed

• added automatic port fetching for better ux
• fixed multiple bugs
• made the code very messy (gonna clean everything up tomorrow)

What changed:

• Took out ml-kem for now because it was causing rust-analyzer to be slow as hell
• Switched to RSA encryption because I was stupid
• fixed many bugs (not running right now - gotta fix that now)

And a small information at the bottom: I am making this project to learn cryptography and get a Framework 12

Things that changed:

• I went back to BiStreams because I was dumb and didn’t realize that what I wanted to do was way easier with BiStreams.
• I started working on the backend, which can receive BiStreams from the selfhost-server as of now.

Things that changed:

Used multiple UniStreams instead of a single BiStream because its easier, made the functions more usable, removed unused dependencies.

Started cleaning up and structuring the project. I also made a basic account system which will need some tuning later.

After trying different protocols for literal hours, I finally settled on WebTransport. Its safer than WebSocket, I believe. I now have to make it send the json instead of “HELLO”.

This is my first devlog of this project. I’ve always wanted to make a chat app since they are one of the most used tools today. Every attempt of making one failed and I was really frustrated. Now, I have motivation to make it and get something for free.