ddpoker

I was frustrated with photo sharing sites. Apple's iCloud shared albums take 20+ seconds to load, and everything else comes with ads, cumbersome UIs, or social media distractions. I just want to share photos with friends and family: fast, mobile-friendly, distraction-free. So I built DD Photos, an open-source, self-hosted publishing tool. Example: https://ddphotos.donohoe.info/. It worked great. The sites are fast, but it was developer-heavy (Go, Node, libvips), so I Dockerized it. It was still tech-heavy (requiring typing in the Terminal and familiarity with unix commands), so I decided to build a friendly front-end that tries to remove the biggest barriers (e.g., editing YAML, CLI, etc.). I built it in Java/Swing, leveraging the app engine I built 20+ years ago for DD Poker (https://www.ddpoker.com / https://github.com/dougdonohoe/ddp

I just added functionality to allow users to specify a DD Poker backend server in the UI (see https://github.com/dougdonohoe/ddpoker/issues/1). This makes it easier for users to connect to a private DD Poker server in their community.

This was a bit of a bear to get running on my Mac. Everything depends on ddpoker.rc, which doesn't behave as expected unless an OSNAME environment variable is defined. I don't have that on macOS 14 (Sonoma) Mac using either zsh or bash. I hopped onto a 10.13 (High Sierra) hackintosh, and it doesn't have that variable either. For the person who was having trouble getting this to work on an M1 Mac (flagged, really?), try this (after installing Java 8 and Maven using Homebrew): % git clone https://github.com/dougdonohoe/ddpoker.git ... % cd ddpoker % export OSNAME=darwin % source ddpoker.rc JAVA_HOME changed, version now openjdk version "1.8.0_422" % mvn-package-no-tests ... % poker I built this before figuring out the OSNAME thing, so I can't actually vouch for the build step working out of the box. A

The source code is right there, you can dive in. [0] I just took a very quick scan read, and think by modern standards calling it "AI" would be a stretch ;) [0] https://github.com/dougdonohoe/ddpoker/tree/main/code/poker/... - I recommend looking at V1Player.java and V2Player.java in particular

It should just work. The developer notes mention M1 (https://github.com/dougdonohoe/ddpoker/blob/main/README-DEV....), specifically around which java to install. If you are having trouble, feel free to file an issue.

I'm the original author of DD Poker, a Java-based computer game that ran on Mac, Linux and Windows and originally sold in stores in physical boxes. I shut down the backend servers in 2017 but the game is still functional and people can still play each other online even though the central lobby and find-a-game functionality no longer work. I've been asked over the years to release the source code, especially during the pandemic, and again this year. I finally got motivated to clean up the code and put it out there. The code is 20 years old and uses some ancient Spring, log4j, Wicket and other dependencies, but it still works on Java 1.8.