I had a similar obsession with cocktails starting in 2019 after moving out of NYC and missing it. So I started making my way through the Death & Company book and it inspired https://www.cocktaillove.com to keep track of everything and know what I could actually make given the ingredients on hand. It’s been a fun side project ever since, and I’ve made a little over 200 (and photographed them all) so far.
We are considering using MD5 for user id + salt hashing for randomizing users for A/B testing. Should blake3 or xxhash work as a replacement for that use case?
I’ve just started going back to the office and for 1:1s especially, being in person is wayyyyy better. Most are usually taken as a walk around the block and you come back energized and connected to the person. The random run-ins and lunches and coffee chats make work fun and not just feel like a job. It’s hard to say that about a Zoom call.
I just started working at “scale-up” (~400 people) company with a dev team of 50 or so, mostly men, in their late 20s to 30s, mostly without kids yet. They have great camaraderie at work, even over remote channels, and often get beers after work, play ping pong, video games, etc. It’s not super cliquey, and if you try at all, you’ll be integrated into at least some of the fun. Anyway, I guess what I’m saying is, maybe consider joining a fun company with a good culture that’s not remote. Often a great way to meet friends, or at least good people to spend time with after work.
I’m a fan of just learning as you go. It sounds like you’ve built relatively simple apps so maybe try to build something more complex, even if a “stupid” idea.
Try React or Vue with some database component and go from there.
And before you start, look up a resource for how to write good tests with the tech you choose, and work on that as you go as well.
https://www.CocktailLove.com I built last year on my paternity leave and haven’t had significant time to work on it since. I tried to monetize by selling Nick & Nora glasses on the site but didn’t know how to market it (or just no one wanted them).
It still gets a sign-up or so a week and 1.5k visitors a month from Google but it’s far from where I wanted it to be.
I think the biggest learning is that trying to work full time at a new job (moved from FAANG to a scale up), raise a young kid, maintain a relationship with your partner, workout occasionally, and work on a side project all at the same time is near impossible. At least for me :)
I haven't tried standing yours up yet but will tomorrow! Do you have all the Drink and Tell/Told recipes as fixtures? Or just a few?
Your repo is nice and clean, definitely learning from that, and your model design.
Any reason you haven't deployed as a web app?
Oh and for related.. an issue is that sometimes related recipes are really quite different (e.g. an old fashioned riff with Gin and St Germain, or tequila/mezcal) so would be tough to automate..
Thanks! I want to do a redesign actually but too many other things on the plate..
Right now related are just manual actually. I planned on creating some type of graph and computing some type of distance but not yet. Let me know if you have ideas :)
It's written in Python (Django) with Postgres and just vanilla JS on the frontend. Looks like yours too?
Cocktails! I read the Death & Co book and it inspired me to create a site to house all the recipes (and hopefully more eventually) and track which ones I've made.
I also use Google Docs. I think it's the easiest and fastest to keep up to date and synced across devices. I put main milestones ("version" releases) at top with core features I want to implement and then a bulleted (and sub-bulleted) list of ToDos by prioritized feature below that. At the bottom I have a dump of both future ideas and resources. Has worked well so far.
Agreed. The public transportation is pretty weak and the highway infrastructure can't handle the current population as it is. San Diego is a pretty linear city with almost everything going N/S and it doesn't lend well to optimization.
In the article they state that it's potentially less economically productive to clear-cut due to all the other benefits the forest provides. Maybe they're talking about an idealistic economy where true costs are incorporated but is there any viability in paying people to NOT do their job?