Yes, I am also eyeing the updated Pickaxe book, as well as Agile web development with Rails.
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Took advantage of the Black Friday deals to buy freelancing related courses to up my game in 2023.
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Don’t Use Oracle based school ERP systems! Ack! Stringly-typed Oracle Database Horror! Enumerations? What’s that? Nah let’s use random characters to indicate certain things with no limitations on what they can be even though only certain ones work so people end up typing in accidentally the wrong things ohsoverymanytimes! Unique indexes? What’s that? THREE distinct methods of keeping historical data sure! Normalization? N5? Nah we don’t care about that apparently, heck we don’t even care about hitting N1 of normalization! Duplicate so much data in so many places in so many conflicting ways in mismatched ways, yes that’s the glory! Oh and yes, let’s make all “processing” on the data be an utter hoard of C files that compile to the oracle system taking like 6000 lines of code in a single file to do what could have been done in like 200 lines, and there’s like 1200 of these ‘processes’ that get called by SQL in oracle to do stuff, again most of which could have been done just straight in SQL anyway. And I’m still barely scratching this… >.>
/me twitches…
So yeah, that’s been my life for the past month, lol…
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I just set up an AKKA cluster with Cluster Sharding, and I think it’s super cool 
Took me a while because all examples were not exactly what i wanted, as always 
Now I’ve got a cluster with event sourced actors which are willing to serve my requests 
Next thing to do is a performance test, I aim for ~10000 requests/second doing some calculation and storing data…
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Been enjoying Go since 2023. So far solving random problems and getting used to the syntax but might start something more substantial soon. Go is going to be my language of the year.
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Just moved to Florida temporarily for a contract work. 6 months, hopefully it will be extended for a year
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Learning Rails. Exciting to see what projects I will be able to build this year.
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Making Build & Release pipelines in Microsoft Azure DevOps.
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Brushing up on design skills, to lessen my dependency on UI frameworks and themes.
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Alright, time to finish up my portfolio website redesign and start putting out some content.
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I tried learn kotlin and android. And make apps. Now I have a goal learn elixir and framework Phoenix.
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I have been working with Wordpress for about three years. But I’m tired of seeing how many clients and programmers spoil this good CMS with a bunch of plugins - it’s terrible. Instead of writing a few lines of PHP code, they install a plugin for every task. Because of this, many clients do not want to pay a lot for the development of a site on WordPress, and it has become more difficult to earn money in this area. Now I want to study a framework the Phoenix on Elixir framework.
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Learning Rust. Again. So many times in the past I attempted and gave up I lost count. Let this be one more of those (hopefully not)
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I am creating a microservices based api service to connect with TimeScale DB for an IOT Project.
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oh, that sounds like my Rust experiment
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Learning Rspec!
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Spending a lot of time to write codes to automate development workflow.
It is not particularly challenging but I am a bit annoyed because no one thinks of doing so.
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Learning containers technologies
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Just working on some audio stuff in JavaScript and in the browser, plus learning about Web workers.
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