I had a weird conundrum come up. It comes at a weird time at work, where projects are shifting around and features are growing, but as I was battle-testing my code, I had a realization my code was simply not good enough. For that, I wanted to add a classical Monad from Haskell called Maybe.
Hello again. Apologies for the slow updates here. There's a reason for it, and it's because I commute for work pretty far. I'm not happy about it, but it is what it is. Besides that, I figured I would write about my most recent computer adventure in a bit.
And so begins the second week of the new website, and one feature has been missing for a while that I wanted to implement: tags. What is a tag? How are they made? Can we finally "word cloud" like many Blogspot blogs before us? Let's find out.
A few weeks ago, I had to make the decision to upgrade from my Pixel 3a XL to a new device; I chose the Pixel 7. In this I will discuss my rationale and how I feel about it so far after a few weeks of use.
The time has finally arrived, where I install Lineage OS on my Pixel 3a XL. In about four weeks, the Pixel 3a XL will be receiving it's official end of life date. There will be no more software updates, and Android 12 is most likely going to be the last version of Android this device receives.
Today I would like to talk about my recent experience creating my own Nextcloud server at home. I have been using it for about a week now to some success that I am happy with, and mostly wanted to share my thoughts on the experience.
I have started doing more tinkering with Zig, and thought of a case where I might want to try experimenting with Zig; rewriting a Mandelbrot Set program. I have a lot of different projects all related to Mandelbrot computation, so it's something I know nearly off the top of my head without having to look up the basic equation (it's f(z, c) = z*z + c). I understand a lot of it, and I love making fractals from it.
I have been playing around with the idea of creating a work interface of some sorts for various purposes. My job consists of doing a lot of database look-ups, checking different websites, juggling tabs, and overall mostly just web navigation and data managing.
A while back I decided to write about a story of me at work, developing tools for wrangling spreadsheet data, namely CSV sheets. I was using the Racket programming language, which is a language I've really come to enjoy working within. It's simple, easy, and the functionality and flexibility is pretty incredible. It's multiple paradigms at once, can do many things, can compile it's code to contain miniature VMs for multiple platforms, and overall proves to be useful to me over and over.
CSS, while not my strongest suit, is something I'm trying to actively get better with. I am by no means a "designer" or "visual artist", but I have developed some senses over the years that lend to my ability to know good from bad.