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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Thanks! Through these 4 months I haven’t found out anything, I got a temporary job as well so I haven’t had much of free time either.

    One thing I saw is splitting the task even smaller than the usual. Things like"I’ll just open the document/ write one line and see how I feel" which might work sometimes.

    I was concerned about doing the thing that’s already been done by other people but it dawned on me that when I cook (I love cooking), I’m doing the same thing. Using a recipe shared by hundreds of people, yet it’s still fun and has a personal touch. That one was really helpful.

    It’s my las month at the job so I’ll be able to get back to coding soon and test the findings.















  • I’m using a similar API, I think IMDb wasn’t publicly available or something like this? I don’t remember exactly. I need Polish actors if that makes any difference.

    Good idea with focusing on the main features. I wanted to try this at first but with web appinstead of the usual console app was a little awkward but I’ll look into this again.

    Currently the number 1 issue is extracting actor names. They don’t come in json like an array or something, they’re only available via parsing a page so a string with html markup and stuff. There was some confusion because when I asked about that, I might’ve described it wrong because people on the server thought I’m doing web scraping? I’m not sure if it counts as scraping if it’s from an api though. I’ll have to clear it up probably but that last misunderstanding was really stressful.



  • That makes sense. I arrived to a similar conclusion so I’m switching the tasks up from time to time but I think I’ll reinforce that because right now it’s not planned out the best way. It can be improved.

    Maybe, ironically, doing other tasks will actually help me accomplish more of the main one. I feel like it could work that way.