What did you do this past week?

On Tuesday, I had an onsite interview. It went well. My group finally had the opportunity to do our Intro to Security presentation on Thursday. I also presented my Creative Coding project on Friday.

What’s in your way?

I must miss two days of class over the next eight days. Hopefully, I don’t fall behind in any of my classes.

What will you do next week?

My third Chemistry II exam is on Wednesday. Admittedly, I haven’t studied that much for it yet. I plan on jumping into the material tomorrow. I’ll be flying out to San Francisco on Thursday. The department is sending several of us ABCS officers to the AfroTech Conference. I’m super excited to be able to attend the conference this year. Before leaving for the conference I need to take care of my school work for the week. I’ll need to work with my security group to finish our paper. I also need to prepare my UX presentation.

What was your experience of Project #3?

There was a lot to do for this phase of the project. Admittedly, we waited until after the exam to really start working on our project. I’m doing backend for my project. A lot of what I did was related to the data for our website. We ran into quite a few problems scaping our data. Some of the APIs had qps limits that made us have to add sleep statements into our scrappers. Some of our models required queries to multiple APIs to get all of the relevant information. One of the APIs that we used return HTML rather than JSON data. We had to parse data from this API differently. Additionally, an API contained duplicate data. We had to add logic to account for this. Thankfully, creating our API was straightforward. I don’t have any JavaScript experience, so I was somewhat concerned with creating the Postman test. The test snippets that Postman provides were incredibly helpful.

What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?

My pick-of-the-week this week is dark-selfhosted. It’s a tool for self-hosting email, DNS, XMPP chat, and some websites using OpenBSD.