StealthyCoder

I got tasked with writing some new tests in our test framework. It utilizes Locust, a framework written in Python, that helps to make it easier to program HTTP test suites. I had a whirlwind of an experience of getting the simple feature in which was quite fun.

I went to the carnival fair, not sure what the English word is, but the one with the Ferris wheel, throwing balls at cans and such. I love going there, ever since I was a child, and I realised something today.

I suddenly was thinking about a simple sensor on something like a Raspberry Pi Zero or similar that would react to the environmental sounds within a dance club or restaurant and output something on either a display or maybe a musical playlist and that would hopefully in turn provide new input as people are reacting to that and so help create a new unique experience for the people going to that particular event/venue. Also for people going back multiple times, each time it would be somehow unique.

It lead me to think of more applications of making technology work to unify us rather than divide/segregate/disconnect us.

It has a oxymoronic feel to it, the title, yet it seemingly is so that relative and absolute complexity downstream makes for a simpler upstream. Examples for this are Kubernetes and Docker, C and Python, and infrastructure surrounding HTTP servers and application servers.

As I was working on my AssemblyScript port I also rewrote my login page to utilize JavaScript modules rather than just regular old files.

So to take my mind off of things and just trying a little something on the side to get me to become productive again I decided to look into a thing called AssemblyScript.

It has been another long hiatus of writing and in the meantime I started a new job somewhere much better than my previous environment and still I felt like I was stagnating and not moving ahead much.

So I was working with Spring Webflux to fix some issues regarding processing items and not continually processing the same items. I ran into a nice deep issue that I fixed with a simple trick.

I am writing this as we transition from the warm last days of summer, into still warm days of autumn into possibly colder days of winter. The question that always arises, same in spring, is how many layers do I need to wear? I did not know the same question applies to Docker.

I found out in a bad way that Docker Compose V2 exists. It is both a good thing and a bad thing.