rickweber / django_website

Rick's Django website

Current state

Right now this work space is just being set up for later.

Current philosophy

I've started a few django projects while working through tutorials, but after the next one, it's time to get out of tutorial hell.

One thing I'm realizing about Django is that it's probably overkill for any one of my projects (like Wordle Search, which I'm happy using from the command line), but I'm not going to solidify this hard-won knowledge if I don't actually build something. And since Django is so powerful, I'm already in for a penny, I might as well be in for a pound. What does this mean? It means that instead of 3 little Django projects, I might as well build a generic project that can hold a portfolio of projects.

What's next?

This project is, at least for now, going to turn into a dumping ground for my projects, at least my 2022 projects. I'll revamp Wordle Search as an exercise in making a Django API, and while I'm at it, I might even mess around with the front end a bit.

Then there's a pair of network-y projects that might merge, or might turn into one generic project for navigating networks plus two specific applications: finding cool things/people on imdb, and finding connections between subject areas on Wikipedia.

The generic project will find paths, handle navigating bipartite graphs (to make imdb possible), and implement the generic methods to be applied in specific cases. One thing that would be cool is a path exploring tool with some tunable novelty factor. Like a convoluted path between two subjects, or a node a random distance from some given node. Especially when it returns some dataframe you can arrange on some interesting basis. Like "what's the most visited wikipedia page out of those along a near-maximally convoluted path between 'Sean Connery' and 'Graph Theory'?"

Then there's all the ML stuff I should really practice since I haven't done it in a long time. I still want to finish Deep Learning and the Game of Go. As long as I'm working in Django, I might as well just jam it in here.

But we'll see how I feel when I get that far.