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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
I started collecting data from my tasks at work to analyze, which sounds lame, and kind of is. It was fun to learn how to use python to parse and graph data from a csv file, although I've hit a wall lately.
Long story about a dumb career move but I'm currently a janitor/custodian, previously digital content & digital storage manager who dealt with photography who discovered an interest in Linux and programming. Currently trying to get back into something similar to what I was doing before but proving difficult, I want to blame AI but it's probably me being unhireable. Hoping a project like this can set me apart in some way even though the subject matter isn't that interesting, just unsure what other kinds of things to do with the data.
I'm hitting a wall though, I have no idea the best way to go about this kind of thing, and I seem to suffer from shiny object syndrome. As I learn all this new stuff, the next thing that comes into view takes my attention and I abandon the previous project for the next one.
Otherwise just usual homelab maintenance, I'd like to set up home assistant now that I have a house but again need to figure out which direction to take with it. One of these days I'll start buying parts for a NAS build, but even then there's so many options and I get overwhelmed. I don't know how people decide so confidently on this stuff.
I unearth a high school project from more than two decades ago and tried running it today and posted about it on my blog.
It was written in QBasic (my school's choice at that time) so I did it while listening to this classic.
I've been trying to beat the drum about a way to use phones as more than a consumption device.
4 example programs of 30 lines each that you can mix and match on your phone.