Dune: Excellent
In the early afternoon I finished Dune by Frank Herbert. An excellent book, highly recommended.
Golang Diaries: Generics
My coding time this year has been invested in Quamina, an event-filtering library implemented in Go. Just in the last couple of weeks I spotted an opportunity to bring Go’s shiny new generics to bear, and not just anywhere, but for a central data structure. I got good results, but the process was sort of painful; I kept trying things that looked like they ought to work but didn’t. I’m sharing this tour through that experience because I’m a reasonably competent programmer with mainstream tastes and if I hit these bumps in the road others probably will too.
Source: Golang Diaries: Generics, an article by Tim Bray.
sqlite-utils: a nice way to import data into SQLite for analysis
Recently I wanted to do some basic data analysis using data from my Shopify store. So I figured I’d query the Shopify API and import my data into SQLite, and then I could make queries to get the graphs I want.
But this seemed like a lot of boring work, like I’d have to write a schema and write a Python program. So I hunted around for a solution, and I found
sqlite-utils, a tool designed to make it easy to import arbitrary data into SQLite to do data analysis on the data.
Source: sqlite-utils: a nice way to import data into SQLite for analysis, an article by Julia Evans.
Dune Messiah
Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known--and feared--as the man christened Muad'Dib. As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremen, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne--and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence.
And even as House Atreides begins to crumble around him from the machinations of his enemies, the true threat to Paul comes to his lover, Chani, and the unborn heir to his family's dynasty...
In the evening I started in the second book of the Dune Chronicles by Frank Herbert: Dune Messiah.