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I’ve actually been cleaning up around the apartment … about eight months after I moved here. Sure, I’m mostly just shoving stuff in closets and cabinets, but at least the floor looks less cluttered.<\/p>\n
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My latest project on software development practices is done, but my book listening continues. Last week I completed Building Microservices<\/em>. This is in a family of books<\/a> on evolutionary distributed software architecture. Release It!<\/em>, which I finished the week before, was also in that family, though that one was less about evolution.<\/p>\n The idea of Building Microservices<\/em> is that splitting your application into many small services can make it flexible enough to evolve easily. Since I haven’t done that much with networks or web development, I only understood bits and pieces of it, but I could sort of see why people think highly of it. The author packs in a lot of advice.<\/p>\n Now I’m on Refactoring Databases<\/em>, which was written years earlier but also belongs in the family.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n Last week I did some planning. This week I might get to some coding. This project has a lot of little pieces to take care of, but I think most of it will be pretty easy.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n Part of project management is risk management, and my generator project has already been confronted by a risk of derailment. The cause is an interdimensional shapeshifting cat monster on the Internet. The cat in question is Nick Nocturne, host of the YouTube channel Night Mind<\/a>, which does analysis of horror media.<\/p>\n Last week Nick posted a video<\/a> to introduce his next series of uploads, which will be analyzing the novel House of Leaves<\/em>, and he challenged all his viewers to read the whole 700-page thing in the nine days before the first video goes up. I accepted. I don’t normally do challenges like that, but this book was on my to-read list, and joining the crowd of readers sounded fun.<\/p>\n .@NM_NickNocturne<\/a> I bought this a couple of years ago when I was starting to look into experimental literature. I never got around to reading it because I stalled in the middle of another one, S. by Abrams and Dorst. Thanks for the motivation! #HouseOfLeavesChallenge<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/vxGmQTL2NR<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Andy Culbertson (@thinkulum) February 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nCoding project generator<\/h2>\n
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