I have determined to Make Some Progress. To whit, starting by assembling some data that I'm going to want to use later. Whether I'll have to manually use that, or be able to do some web scraping is a question for later me, but at least I've worked out how I'm going to work out what needs work. And I've a spreadsheet with the very first pass. Got a bit obsessive about it last night, and worked more than an hour past the sensible stopping point. Hoping that I'll be able to just potter and do half an hour a day for the next couple of weeks, and then that will be done.
Goal is to get 50 reviews up in 50 days. Given that I've read a lot of Hugo nominated works in recent years, I'm going with those as the starting point. What it is going to look like though, zero thoughts.
Maybe? Or maybe do something with writing a back end script that takes the web link and makes an appropriately annotated flat file and then play with CSS.
I think the big problem is that I don't know what I want this to look like, and I'm letting perfection be the enemy of progress. I should throw together a framework, and then just dump some text up. Sorting and filtering can come later. But the problem with that 'should' is that I keep going 'but I don't know how to deal with it when it scales', which means I have to do some reading.
*sigh* This would be so much easier if I knew what I wanted.
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Date: 2024-08-23 08:54 am (UTC)I have determined to Make Some Progress. To whit, starting by assembling some data that I'm going to want to use later. Whether I'll have to manually use that, or be able to do some web scraping is a question for later me, but at least I've worked out how I'm going to work out what needs work. And I've a spreadsheet with the very first pass. Got a bit obsessive about it last night, and worked more than an hour past the sensible stopping point. Hoping that I'll be able to just potter and do half an hour a day for the next couple of weeks, and then that will be done.
Goal is to get 50 reviews up in 50 days. Given that I've read a lot of Hugo nominated works in recent years, I'm going with those as the starting point. What it is going to look like though, zero thoughts.
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Date: 2024-08-24 01:36 pm (UTC)Oooh, that's a good goal and doesn't sound too complex...
What it is going to look like though, zero thoughts.
Find a layout you like and steal everything not nailed down?
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Date: 2024-08-28 05:58 am (UTC)Maybe? Or maybe do something with writing a back end script that takes the web link and makes an appropriately annotated flat file and then play with CSS.
I think the big problem is that I don't know what I want this to look like, and I'm letting perfection be the enemy of progress. I should throw together a framework, and then just dump some text up. Sorting and filtering can come later. But the problem with that 'should' is that I keep going 'but I don't know how to deal with it when it scales', which means I have to do some reading.
*sigh* This would be so much easier if I knew what I wanted.