A space to keep random notes & daily logs as a form of Build In Public/Learn In Public to hold myself accountable.
Accountability Logs
Log - Jan 2, 2024:
- Migrated to Bear Blog since I wanted the freedom to post/edit from the web without using a third-party service like Forestry and without having to set up a dev environment.
Log - Jul 31, 2023:
- Tried out Bear Blog vs Hugo for a bit and decided to stick with Hugo.
- Updated Hugo template from xmin to ezhil again, to improve readability.
- Published a blog post on my 2023 Career Break
- Wanted to get back to code. I signed up for Exercism's Ruby learning track and completed 4 exercises on the track for the first day.
Log - Dec 10, 2012:
Here’s a short list of my experiments today:
Fooling around with Octopress
Fooling around with Node.js
Signed up for Nodejitsu, Cloudant and Twilio
Built a small app using Node.js, with a DB hosted in Cloudant(CouchDB) and using the Twilio service. The purpose was to get an understanding of Node, Cloudant and Twilio. A simple app that collects the texts sent to the Twilio number and saves them in the Cloudant DB along with the sender IDs. Most of it was from an online tutorial I found for an SMS voting app, with modifications of my own to tweak it up a little to store the entire contents of the text.
End of the day: Am not sure if am thorough with these, but I’ve a better understanding than before
Log - Dec 9, 2012:
I’ll be honest and say that there was very little development related work I got done today, purely because I spent a major part of the day on arranging the documents I need for my Passport. I still couldn’t get a damned appointment with the PSK Centre, though I login before 2.00 PM(When the appointments open) and try to book an appointment at exactly 2.00 PM(All this over a thoroughly over-priced Tatkal application)
What little development related activity I got done today involved this
Today was the day of learning for me, not hacking. I went through the Twitter API, particularly the GET API resources.
Then I came upon the POMS -> Profile of Mood States.
POMS is exactly the thing I need for my final year project,(Refer my earlier post about Socializer).
The algorithm measures six mood levels – happiness, kindness, alertness, sureness, vitality and calmness – through people’s text on the internet.
Very little information is available on the net about POMS,and right now, am spending my time going through whatever is available, trying to form a proper working logic in mind or an algorithm that I can proceed with
This is where I initially found about POMS: Twitter Mood Predicts the Stock Market
Log - Jan 3, 2012:
My Week with Rails
Well, after trying my hand at a variety of stuff, I've finally planned to settle down with Ruby on Rails (atleast for this month). I've been working passively on Ruby on Rails for the past week (I wasn't much productive because of my Typhoid fever, but that's another story). My first impression of Ruby is that it's so simple compared to other scripting languages I've seen. My favorite Agile development methodology goes quite well with Ruby on Rails. Because Rails follows the MVC architecture, building Rails applications makes the task of developers easier. I'm still a complete beginner to Ruby on Rails, but then I'm starting to fall in love with the language because of its simplicity and no-frills attached attitude, compared to other languages I've tried my hand with. You can expect more posts from me in future on Ruby :)
For now, Adios amigos, am off to my game with Ruby :)