Fred and Loathing on The Internet

The EOLs Do Not Justify The Means

2023-Mar-21

I have yet to make some HTML that points to the /stats section of my page. Nevertheless, it has been updated. I think I have hit my over-the-hump point with using Bootstrap to layout the HTML/CSS in my site. The grid system it uses to manage rows and columns sounds remarkable like the dashboard snap-in system of Tableau. Using this grid system, I smushed in all the information I wanted in each list element on the /stats page.

Now that computer talk is out of the way, let’s get down to book talk. But guess what, today’s book is about computers! (ᗒ ᗨᗕ)

This is not a review but rather a very superficial endorsement. I have not come close to finishing it. Not at all. I’ll likely not finish it before I have to return it to the library. Maybe I ought to fork out the cash so that Martin Kleppman can be rewarded for writing Designing Data-Intensive Applications. The title shows up all the time in lists of books for people in my profession or people interested in using distributed computing proficiently. It has filled in a lot of blanks in my tech vocabulary. It’d be a bold face lie if I’m picking up everything that is written.

Also I’ve been reading the book at cosmicpython.com in lulls during the work hours. It has been just as exciting but I have not read more than the first chapter. What I like about both is that they are not cookbooks or handbooks. Those are fine, but I am grateful that I can read books that deal with the nuts and bolts of my job, but written abstractly.