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Weeklog #2034

November 24, 2024 — Cédric Dekimpe

This week has been uneventful, with the noticeable exception of my birthday that happened this Friday.

I realized that I love being a beginner at something - The excitement of discovering a new topic and the depth of what I don't know about something is intoxicating. I love challenging myself and finding solution to a problem, but I quickly loose interest when it's done. I had that kind of experience with 3D printing (my Prusa is waiting to be repaired for month now), with sewing (I sewed a few hoodies for me and the boys, now the sewing machine gathers dust), with woodworking, and so many other topics.

Tech

I wrote a fun little script to extract data from my BDGest Collection and build HTML pages out of it

I scratched my own itch here : me and my 2 sons have our own collection of (Belgian) comic books - and it happens every so often that I'm asked what album or what series either one of my son is missing.

Since BDGest doesn't provide a way to publicly share one's collection, but does provide with a CSV export, I wrote two script to :

  1. Automatically export my collections in CSV files (essentially a web scraper coded in Ruby)
  2. A bash script that parses the CSV files and build an HTML page out of it

Now I have a handy link to share with family and friends when they ask what gift would make my boys happy.

Music and Movies

Good things Go, Linkin Park

I've watched Flubber with the kids - they loved it. It's funny how Weebo's video reaction made me think of animated gifs before they were a thing

Sport

I had an extra kung-fu class on Sunday. We studied the first Po Chi, in it's lu and tao form (Po Chi Ti I Lu and Po Chi Ti I Tao)

Interesting readings online

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