01 june 2017
You know how you always tell yourself "I'm doing to do this thing! It's so easy, I'm just going to make it happen!", and then somehow, it never actually does? I've fallen into that hole, and it's not a fun one. So far, things I want to do just keep piling up, but actually doing them falls far behind. To name a few:
- Redesign my personal website
- Redesign my ~town page
- Work on a replacement for Revlo, a Twitch.tv stream currency service. (More on that below!)
- Keep playing Guild Wars 2, which is an insanely addictive game. (Message me your IGN if you wanna add me :) )
- Start working on Raygun again (Working title) for stream-safe music, some free, some on a subscription basis. (E.g. Pay $0, get access to an open library of stream-safe music. Pay $10/month, get access to a larger library with bigger artists available, etc.)
That's just a tiny sample of things that I want to do. I've also been learning Go lately, and am definitely going to be playing around with Gin Gonic and Gorm. They are supremely cool. I can get an ORM interface just by defining some structs, and they work really well! Was also testing out how much a basic Gin app can handle with apache bench, and I found out the bottleneck wasn't the app, but rather the sqlite database I was testing it with! That's a great feeling. So was the feeling of seeing sub-millisecond response times, even when hammering it with ab. I'll have to try hooking it up to Postgres next, see how much that can handle.
Work's also going well. I think my boss actually bumped my options from 0.5% to a full 5%. Hopefully the company will continue to do well! Mostly because I like working here, and partly because it'd be amazing to own a non-negligible amount of a successful company.
Anyway, onwards and upwards!
~caff
I've been on another brass band kick, so it's fantastic to find new bands, and lately for me, that's been No BS! Brass Band. I found them performing "3AM Bounce" on /r/ListenToThis a while back and I love going back to that video on a regular basis just to hear the awesome energy that these guys put into their songs. Enjoy, folks!
No BS! Brass Band - 3AM Bounce
~caff