ABOUT WHOZON

About the Program

This application has been written in PHP and is hosted on a shared server at Canadian Webhosting. They have been a fantastic and efficient webhost for my projects for years and I recommend them if. you need similar services.

Now to forestall several anticipated questions from people. Most of the code used in this project has been written by me personally and has existed in several forms and been revised multiple times. This version is the first to offer all of the features that I have wanted to have in the application. I freely admit that I have used Github-Copilot to help me engineer some aspects of the program and to look for security vulnerabilities to ensure we avoid weaknesses. Github-Copilot has been quite effective in this regard, but most of the code used here was created and written by me.This is not a vibe-coded security monstrosity whipped up in an afternoon believe me.

Oh and to be clear, no aspect of Whozon Dashboard is using AI in any capacity during its operations. It is not reading your chat or recording your chat with the exception of Text To Speech which does read every message posted to your chat so it can convert it to TTS, but only if you have enabled TTS. Whozon does not post to your chat for any reason at the moment. It is possible that it might do so in the future, but I have not thought of a single instance where that would be useful in any capacity. I want to have as minimal an impact on your chat as is possible for the operation of the software.

Why is it a webapp and not a real program, well there are a few key reasons:

• First, by being a web application it can be consistent across a variety of devices and platforms without requiring a specific compiled program for each of them. It should run equally well on Windows, Mac and Linux in a variety of browsers.
• By being a web application it can leverage the power of the Twitch API pretty effectively, without requiring every user to individually register with Twitch as a developer, set up a Twitch application entry on their servers and provide information like the callback address required for that process, or maintain a Client_id and Secret_id and configure them in the program.
• Likewise in order to use the AWS TTS services, they do not need to navigate Amazon's terrifyingly confusing account process to set up an IAM and configure Amazon Polly and get it configured properly in the software. This was a confusing task for me, I am saving you the frustration.
• Making it a hosted web app also allows me to leverage the data from the Whozon Clients to make the process more effective on the server end of things.
• You do not need to worry about downloading and installing anything, nor keeping up with updates etc. You also don't have to pay money to Apple or Google or anyone else just to access the software via some Store they control. You can use it for free.

About the Creator: ThatFontGuy

I am a hobby streamer having been streaming on Twitch since the Covid pandemic hit us. I primarily stream two very niche games - Dark Age of Camelot (on various freeshards and on the live Gaheris server) and City of Heroes (on the officially approved Homecoming servers).
I have had a variety of careers, from serving in the Canadian Special Service Force as a radio operator, to researching data for documentary films, working on a few PC game titles, being a construction worker, working in a variety of stores as a sales clerk, working as a web developer, being a Webmaster (when that was an actual position), Q&A for software development, Tech Support, you name it. Computers have always been my balliwick and Whozon Dashboard is my latest passion project.