This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.
Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.
If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service.
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I'm doing some research on my paternity leave. Pardon me for not getting into details, but I need to vent somewhere.
Manager wanted me to look into a particular data source. Turns out this data source actually has two formats. We want the more compressed format. Turns out nearly all solutions for parsing and displaying this data are cloud/server based and we, for reasons, need to stay on the desktop. Local data only. Closed network most likely.
Maybe my google-fu is weak. Maybe LLMs have ruined everything. Even manually searching package managers for anything promising just turned up the same 5 year old, unmaintained project, and multitudes of abandoned forks, for working with this preferred format on desktop.
So anyways, I set to work. Converting the project to a modern dotnet format, importing the correct nuget packages versus manually linking random DLLs, updating packages often at least 5 major versions. Many packages I had to find replacements for entirely, they'd long since been abandoned and hadn't kept up with changes in the data format.
I think the thing that gets me most, is how many times this project converts data from A to B to Z to X and then finally back to B for the final user display?! Fucking WHY?
You know another thing that gets my goat? All the double precision drawing primitives in dotnet are in the windows only WPF presentation library. Makes no damned sense. Another thing I want to replace at some point with platform agnostic bits.
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