I made a course project on Irrlicht back in 2008. It was a shooter with a Quake map, medkits, and ammo. I don’t even remember who you were supposed to shoot at.
The point of the project was to show what a graphics engine is, and why I could get in just a few evenings what used to take man-months or even years only a few years earlier.
This article motivated me to upgrade my hosting approach.
I've been running a DigitalOcean VPS for years hosting my personal projects. These include a static website, n8n workflows, and Umami analytics. I used manual Docker container management, Nginx, and manual Let's Encrypt certificate renewals. I was too lazy even to set up certbot.
I've migrated to a Portainer + Caddy setup. Now I have a UI for container management and automatic SSL certificate handling. It took about two hours.
The point of the project was to show what a graphics engine is, and why I could get in just a few evenings what used to take man-months or even years only a few years earlier.
I got the highest grade.