Recently, I have been trying to refresh some of my projects that have gathered dust of late. So since I wrote last I have been spending my free time writing and coding.. and rowing.
I took to rowing as running has this bad habit of me getting injured… and it’s cold outside!
I’ve recently updated my rowing machine to have a SmartRow power monitor wheel. I hate some frustration with the statistics it provides via their website. I discovered it’s mainly javaascript with a JSON API. So I have started a small open source project wrapping the API (https://metacpan.org/pod/WebService::SmartRow). This has allowed me to more easily see things like the average power (watts) per row and chart that to see if I am improving. 🙂
This work has been interesting and gave me an opportunity to write up a small tale about the Dist::Zilla tool I am using to do most of the important parts of publishing a module to CPAN. It’s over on my Perl.Kiwi site at https://perl.kiwi/tales/2022/03/05/using-dist-zilla-to-create-a-new-cpan-module/
On Tuesday evening this week I spent some time with James on fantasy-judo.com mainly looking at some of the many todo items while James added some new team name options. Later in the week I received from a user some German translations so I updated those. I have a feature I hope to work on this weekend and next week.
I did a small amount of work on the Judo Kata Competition software project; mainly testing the UI and calculations.
I was also able to write up a couple of blog posts on my Judo sites. On judocoach.com I wrote a short piece on the kata I have been doing to help with the shoulder pain I sometimes get (http://judocoach.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry220223-154007). Then on JudoMetrics I was able to promote an interesting site I have been reading (https://judometrics.com/2022/03/marcus-augustines-judo-de-base-website/).
In my $dayjob, I have been busy deleting dead code and retrofitting tests. Specifically adding some coverage around a new system I have not worked on and some customer support issues have been escalated to the development team.
I’ve been pretty busy; but not too much. The balance is pretty good so I am happy with the “rolling” of the proverbial ball.
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