A day later, and I can at least.. read the actual XML data from KDBX vaults.

Then there's still actually parsing the XML, and writing it all back, and hooking it all up to some kind of UI... but I'm honestly also kind of surprised that I at least got this far without running out of steam?

I suppose good docs help, and https://keepass.info/help/kb/kdbx.html was surprisingly helpful to deal with. (Despite running into a bunch of oddities and windowsisms.. I honestly expected far worse, given its age.)

#SpiteDrivenDevelopment #keepassxc #fuckai #hänglås

I need to do some #spitedrivendevelopment to deal with the automerge problem.

I can’t actually believe this but I was criticized for not merging my approved PR in fast enough because automerge on my PR kept getting cancelled while it was running CI because someone ELSE merged in before me. 🤔

I'm really channeling some #spitedrivendevelopment energy into this #sideproject where I got ahold of every single conference proceeding/panel/abstract going back nearly 20 years to investigate how often accepted authors work with one another 🤔 🧐 (I'm an outsider, neither a PhD nor an established practitioner and I don't have the *right* connections)

#DataVisualization #structuralengineering #dataviz

Is there a guide for getting better at asking for money (outside of FTE salary reviews)?

I did a 5 minute presentation on an applicatjon I built thanks to #spitedrivendevelopment in two days. One of the questions I got from the audience was what was holding me back from doing more with it, and I said time and getting people interested.

I *also* should have said funding.

I love to work on side projects but I can’t justify building polished things without figuring out the funding side. 🤔 🤨

So far #spitedrivendevelopment is yielding some fun results to take my mind off work. From scraping, parsing, and ngraming ~3500 abstracts for a #structuralengineering conference spanning nearly 20 years, I can safely say that my rejected proposal was barking up the wrong tree.

#computationaldesign as a phrase didn’t appear even once.

#sustainability has appeared a whopping 63 times.

And that’s likely less than 63 presentations since the ngrams were applied on a single text bucket 🤔 😆

Haven’t done much coding for fun in the last two months between becoming a tech lead on a different project, vacation, and some horrendous jet lag. A lot of the stuff I’d like to work on takes up too much bandwidth right now.

But my friend gave me a really horrible web scraping and data viz idea I can probably execute in a weekend so…

Sometimes #spitedrivendevelopment is a good way to get out of a programming rut.