Well, kind of. I guess I’m leaving GitHub like I left Facebook: I don’t plan on using it anymore, but since that’s where the people of our residence tell us about their kids’ lemonade stands, I’m keeping my account to interact with the outside world when needed.
I’m finally getting my head out of the water after a pretty eventful summer, which started with spending eleven days caring for my partner, stuck at the hospital. It really sucked, I wouldn’t wish it on anybody and this is something that will keep my wonderful therapist busy for the forseeable future. Fortunately, as soon as things started improving, I took some time off for some much needed rest as well as entertaining my little sister who visited for the month.
One of the things I really like about Postgres is the various types of columns you can use (without saying that this is limited to Postgres). In this context, the array column type makes it easy to store a list of “stuff”. You can then use the various functions that PostgreSQL provides to query and transform those data. Recently I needed to get all the unique elements from all the values of an array column and once it worked, I pushed a little further to achieve the same result with Exposed.
I’ve spent so much time working from this nice coffee shop close to me that I think they’re gonna start charging me for rent. The coffee is nice, I’m on a first name basis with most of the baristas and there is a park on the way where I can check on my crow friends and give them peanuts. Anyway, I’ve decided that time is not real. I’m somehow supposed to believe that it’s already been a month since I published my last post, but Trump has only been in power for less than 5 months?
This week I released my latest project to the world: a tiny webpage that allows you to generate your own version of the “I ain’t reading all that” meme. I don’t remember how that idea came to me, except that I was using this meme a lot and making my own versions of it. After the perfect combination of “it would be fun if…” and “I wonder how…”, on an evening when I was left to my own devices, I opened my laptop and started working on it. This tiny project was super fun because I learned a lot and it’s always fun to code something stupid.