What are you working on this week?

Considering writing an introduction to BLS (bureau of labor statistics) data, including the tech to ingest the data automatically for usage.

The above is part of a wider project of mine to bring together as many sources of macro-economic data as possible into one database.

Having a personal copy of such interesting data sources to query, and find patterns within, with the agility of SQL feels powerful to me, so I have been exploring that.

If I write, then it will be covering sections A and B of the monthly employment report (household and establishment surveys, respectively) and the JOLT report (Job Openings and Labor Turnover).

A tour of flatMap and how if you keep generalizing end up with a practical understanding of monads. Idea is to write versions through concrete examples and of flapMap simultaneously in Java and TypeScript. It will likely end with if this makes sense to you use a language with better support.

I have two things in mind,

1. Headless eCommerce in go

2. A Clojure like language for PHP in Clojure (will be very simple)

After looking at "Making the Tokio scheduler 10x faster" I was thinking how hard it's gonna be to create a Clojure for rust. That will leverage rust's ecosystem. That means you get max performance of rust and get to use it with a nicer language.

Connecting with techies @ PyCon India 2019.

We wanted to make Python India 2019 the most inclusive PyCon yet (apart from it's usual awesomeness) and the conference largely succeeded in that goal.

We do still have the workshops and devsprints to go. So looking forward to that!

As days roll by, more feedback will come and that will hopefully show us more scope for improvement and set a better direction for us next time over!

Same stuff I've been working on for the past 2 months: boring investgation work on bugs that are more about reasoning how the business works than anything technical. I've written maybe 20 lines of code past these two months.

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This week I'll be polishing the basics and adding some new features.

Building a social bookmarking app, https://tefter.io This week we're getting ready to launch team collaboration through Slack. Using Elixir for this project it this makes me so happy and productive.

The second half of a quick & dirty Node-based PoC of a social network idea I have. Want to get the full look and feel before committing to serious architecture and design.

Getting ready to move. After that probably finally patching this NetBSD driver I've been having issues with