Projects

https://digestwave.com More than a year has passed since my Digestwave announcement post. And today, I am happy to report that the initial version is ready to be used. Digestwave is a news aggregator which provides a clean web interface for reading news from many sites without ads and in a unified UI. Content available Digestwave has two so-called “editions”: international and Ukrainian. This was done intentionally to be able to filter out Ukrainian websites for people who don’t understand them or don’t interested. The international edition contains content in English that is not location-specific. You can change edition in the top right corner. ...

https://github.com/ruslanlesko/digestwave As you may remember from one of my previous articles, I was looking to start a new pet project. Now I am happy to announce that I am starting Digestwave: a news aggregator which doesn’t spy on you and allows adding new sources by committing into the source code. The goal of the project I am starting Digestwave to create a news aggregator which will include articles from websites I follow. Unfortunately, Flipboard or Apple News do not support any news sites from Ukraine. The solution should allow adding any website by publishing Pull Requests. Feel free to follow its development on the GitHub repo. Eventually, it will be available on this website: https://digestwave.com ...

https://github.com/ruslanlesko/palermopg Today I launch my second open-source project: PalermoPG. It is a server for the picture gallery. PalermoPG is also a back-end which powers AirPicHub. With PalermoPG you will be able to create a self-hosted picture gallery using your custom front-end solution (web or mobile). API is documented in the readme file on GitHub. PalermoPG is powered by Java and uses Vert.x as a web and asynchronous library. The database supported is MongoDB. ...

https://github.com/ruslanlesko/brightonum I have released BrightonUM as an open-source project on GitHub. It is a simple authentication and user management system, which was primarily developed for my other project - AirPicHub. Its main feature is that it is lightweight and simple. BrightonUM uses signed JWT access tokens for proving user authentication and does not support the OAuth2 protocol. I have created it specifically for such small projects which don’t require sophisticated features like OAuth2 support. Pet projects could also benefit from BrightonUM. ...

Today I have launched the first version of AirPicHub! It is available at airpichub.leskor.com. It took me about a year to develop it. AirPicHub allows you to upload your photos to the cloud, group it by albums, share with others, and access it from any device. No need to worry about managing your gallery. Now I can finally try using it on my own and test it in real life. I hope my relatives and friends will also find it useful. Apart from usage in daily life, I feel like this development experience made me a better software engineer. ...