Fred and Loathing on The Internet

They Meant Well When They Told Me At Least I'm Not Buried Underwater

2023-May-29

That big data overhaul I allude to here and there- mostly in reports of my inaction - has got to happen. It will happen. I’m starting right now. I’m tired of trying to hunt down all the sloppy fixes I made that pop up whenever I try to improve something somewhat unrelated. My logic and data flows aren’t synced up, leaving me with frustration whenever I try something new. My hope is that all of the stuff I want to add will be as easy as attaching rail cars to a train once I refactor the codebase. The metaphor I would use now to describe my update process as doing construction work while seated on a seesaw.

Refactoring my own codebase reminds me of the thrill I would get when I ditch the first save game on a strategy heavy game, like X-Com or Total War. The first run through is about learning how the system works, leading to some situations in the mid or end of the game’s campaign that ups the difficulty enough to make me curse my earlier decisions, when I had no idea what was actually useful. I’m eager to get down to the low level functions I have been using so I can address the complaints I have accumulated.

Succession finished its four season series last night. It was the first show in ten years I had followed along with the zeitgeist. Well, at least the last season. Brian Cox carried that show yet I enjoyed the fourth season that barely had him onscreen. It was an epilogue season to demonstrate just what the succession game was and who was the ‘winner’. The last episode was a double length one twisting between bonhomie and backstabbing among the three contenders ending in a cinematic climax at the company boardroom. I would have liked some more epilogue to this epilogue, but all you get to see is a short span of time after the big deal is finalized.

P.S. Apparently Wabsgam’s name is a spoiler to the show’s final resolution if you were to read up on baseball history.