Roll Call: Who's Grinding Late on a Saturday Night? (Aussies, You Can't Fool Me)

Having fun tonight, the 2:30AM version. Finishing up the first major iteration of a custom eCommerce product I'm developing and will be beta testing with a client this week. Ridiculously fast (between about 500µs - 25ms response time for most things) even with thousands of test products. It's compatible with S3 and uses Elasticsearch (https://www.elastic.co/) for the search functionality, which is pretty damn powerful, esp when combined with their other tools I already use for Unicorn/NinjaHipster level DevOps stuff like Kibana, Logstash, etc (<- Hey SaaS folks, look at that stuff, you'll thank me). Really proud of it so far and can't wait to see it in production.
 
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm watching videos on youtube about aliens ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
 
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Playing with Reddit, trying to figure out what my audience likes
 
Losing my mind with jQuery trying to paint the screen without knowing height and width thanks to responsive design. Drives me nuts each time.
 
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Playing with Websockets and realtime/chat related stuff this eve. Not just chat, but using Websockets to push DOM and state changes rather than the old school way of relying on AJAX. Some of my findings will end up being used for my custom e-Commerce engine (codename Arahant) and my main project.
 
At my sisters for Easter with the kids, but managed to sneak a couple of hours to respond to outreach emails.

It seems easier to be more persuasive after having a few shandys.
 
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Putting the finishing touches on an infographic. I'm going from cretin to photoshop-sewer-dweller.
Saturday nights are easy, everybody else is out and their gold is unguarded.
 
Porting some old Ruby code to Elixir using about 1/10 the code and over 10x the performance increase, lol. I remember the post I wrote last year about how I've completely shifted my focus to Elixir and Phoenix. 8 projects later and many nights like this remind me that I've made the best possible decision I could've made in the 30+ years I've been creating software. To fellow coders that are possible competitors, please stick with safe things like PHP, Python and Shoehorning WordPress into a Heaping Monolith of "just works but no idea how". Nothing to see here in high-performance, fault-tolerant Elixir land, save all this kind of fun for us Hipsters and Pioneers.
 
In life, there are two types of people.

People who hate being busy and people who hate being broke.

It's Sunday 5AM here, and I refuse to be broke.

I've done a mixture of designing and just applying to places and overall doing a lot of protective things during this weird set of hours.
 
Working on a feature set for the main project (non client work) this eve/morn. Got an Ad Server pretty much done and will also be enabling user registration. This upcoming week I'll be getting into Machine Learning territory a bit (and I mean just a bit) because I have more and more data coming at me from crawlers on the back-end that I need to classify, such as local music events, venue/band information and other things related to the local music scene. From looking at my options, I think a Naive Bayes Classifier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naive_Bayes_classifier) will be what I'll try first.
 
Sunday morning here, getting in a few hours work before the whole family wakes up and chaos is resumed.
 
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I've read "Digital Strategy Crash Course" completely and took all notes needed, I implemented the first 5 days on my churn and burn website, and I already got a couple of hundreds of emails collected on my main website, using some tactics and compelling them into a long term strategy.

The website that I count it as a future expendable property already made me some beer money I'm looking to maintain it for couple of months before there is no more cash I can milk out of it.

I'm working also today on a couple of basic strategies to optimize my main website, the improvement I've done in these couple of days learning from this website, helped me a lot, I thank everyone for that.

 
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Doing something a bit different tonight. Messing with http://nerves-project.org which can be used to create IOT and standalone devices with their own web servers, firmware update system, on-board Linux, and other goodies. I've worked with analog electronics for a long time, have built quite a few guitar amp/effect circuits and even basic Raspberri Pi and Arduino projects, but this is different, way different.

I've spent most of my life selling 0's and 1's for a living and I think it's about time to start a new "hobby" and try to bring my understanding of hardware up to that of my understanding of software, at least on a high enough level to bring a couple of music related products I have in mind into existence.
 
Grinding while eating Peanut Butter Cap 'n Crunch.

Life is good.
 
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