RC Day 25 - Quests Abandoned

Another week down. This was a tough one. Minor illness and other non-RC things kept me from being productive at a time when I really wanted to produce a lot. Next week it is!

• Finished the relevant parts of the Elm Guide (for the way I envisage using it). I spent some time looking into game dev in Elm (was thinking of making a flappy bird clone). I’m… kinda disappointed? Elm doesn’t make it easy to use canvas (because the API is imperative, and Elm is not), and canvas seems like the dominant way to render games on the web right now. It might be ok for a pure html game, where everything is a DOM node, which I guess flappy bird could be. I definitely haven’t given it a fair shake, but my understanding was that games and interactives are Elm’s strong suit (I now think maybe that is wrong, and its strong suit is more like “maintainability”). I think the real situation here is that I had unrealistic expectations of a few hours of learning an unfamiliar language 😬 I think I will log this idea in the quest journal and move on.
• Made myself get on with finishing up the binary classification metrics app I demo’d in last week’s presentations. Not 100% there, but pretty close.

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