Howdy !! and happy inauguration day i guess fhjsdkalfhj. I’d like to continue on with this blog by documenting my progress on my personal projects. It’ll be nice to be able to look back and see how much or how little progress I’ve made! I don’t have a ton of personal projects going, but I hope to change that this year and keep better track of them so more things can get finished. With that said, let’s get to it o7
This Blog!
We’ll start here since it’s what I’ve been chugging on most lately for obvious reasons. The base had almost everything in a way that was appealing to me which is nice! I’m not the biggest fan of creative decision making so having something that I resonated with was nice. I added the map component (which i spent way too long on). Just a couple more things I want to finish up before I call it ""done"".
todo items
- make progress bar component
- figure out why table of contents component isn’t working
- figure out why sitemap isn’t working
- find/create new banner image
Cel Gallery
I just need to change around some of the text (now that I’ve changed domains) and push some updates i had, as well as add some new things I’ve gotten. However, the project has a bunch of offline keys that I need to check before I’ll be able to push everything up. not as easy as the blog in terms of pulling down the repo and pushing updates to the live site. hasn’t been a huge priority but now that I’m back in my web projects this should be what i work on next.
todo items
- find privates and be able to push workflows to master
- update collection
- get changes pushed to firebase
Track Predictor
Problem: NJ Transit trains at New York Penn Station usually get track announcements only 10 minutes or so before they depart, so there’s always a mad rush to pile into the small stairwell that takes you to the platform to get onto the train. Solution? Lots of webscraping and data analysis :)
Still pretty exploratory here, but the end goal is to be able to take in current conditions (weather, time of day, day of week, etc.) and use some sort of reinforcement algo to decide what track a given train will be on for NJ Transit @ Penn station. Very loose right now but very do-able I think, and it would be a good opportunity to learn about machine learning in a very primitive but functional way.
todo items
- finish deciding on parameters to scrape for
- write up scraper
- start running scraper on home server
- plot out roadmap for ML components
Well that’s it for now! I hope to get more personal projects spun up this year, but we’ll see how that goes :) Hopefully this blog type format will keep me accountable and feeling like I have actual landmarks of progress to make which is always good for motivation. Making a list and writing stuff down like this also forces you to be more mindful of the things you spend time on, so I’m hoping that works for me to help wrangle in the attention span.
-autumn