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by kixxauth
1260 days ago
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I've been collecting nerdy tech information on and off for 30 years. I say "on and off" because it seems to come in waves. It happens between spans of time when I'm building something important or profitable (not necessarily related). Examples: In 2004 I built my own web crawler and RSS feed reader in PHP in an attempt to build my way out of the information problem. I learned that tools do not help with this problem, but it did lead to a good software development job where I was able to put what I learned to use. In 2006 - 2007 I went down a deep rabbit hole with the possibility of server side JavaScript. That led to participating in the development of the Node.js runtime, CommonJS and Promise specifications, and a career doing some pretty cool stuff with JavaScript. In 2014 - 2016 I went down a rabbit hole on video streaming which led me through a startup (which failed) and then a job at a major consumer streaming platform (which has been wildly successful). I got to build some state of the art technology because I had remembered and acted on some of that information I was hoarding. Now I feel like I've missed out on information hoarding while I've been building cool stuff in my dream job. I don't regret my time away from the information hurricane, but I am having fun getting back into it to see what comes up next (it is NOT AI or Web3 ;-) ) For everything, there is a season. |
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I've built and actively maintained a Django- and Solr-based personal project to store all my info about the DVDs that I was hording around 2007-2010, it also involved crawling IMDB. Did the same with the anime shows I was also hording, in this instance I was crawling animenewsnetwork.com.
After a very long hiatus I feel that I should do the same with the physical books hording that has gotten over me since the pandemic started (this time using Elasticsearch instead of Solr), after all categorising books is from where facet-search libraries like Solr first got their hints.