What did you do this past week?
Started the week working on a project for AI that was due on Tuesday. Most of the code was already provided, it was just a matter of reading through the documentation and understanding what was going on. Everyone kept getting random errors while trying to work through the assignment, but thankfully it went pretty smoothly for me. I also did some work on my project for iOS, just small additions here and there.
What’s in your way?
One of the goals in our design doc for iOS was to implement a chat system, but that would involve learning how to set up a real-time database and implement a front end for it in Swift which seems like a real pain, kinda procrastinating on working on that.
What will you do next week?
Both the iOS project and the IDB project for this class need some work next week, so most of my time will probably be devoted to that. There is also another AI project due the next week which I need to start on.
If you read it, what did you think of The New Methodology?
Haven’t read it yet.
What was your experience of SQL? (this question will vary, week to week)
I thought that the class lectures were very helpful and gave me a solid understanding of the basics of SQL. The HackerRank exercises were also useful but it was kinda a pain to debug because of how the tests were formatted.
What made you happy this week?
Got some new coffee in and I’ve been enjoying that this week.
What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
Almost bricked my MacOS install while trying to upgrade to Big Sur. Turns out I haven’t upgraded OpenCore in a while and something broke. I thought all my Mac data was done for since I couldn’t get into to MacOS to read from the APFS drive and update OpenCore but it turns out that you can mount an EFI partition of a Mac drive from Windows! I followed the instructions here
