Mar, 10th, 2024
SWE accomplishments this week
I am just finished up my Graphics project, just have to do Texture Mapping and Cube Mapping now. The most fun part of the week, however, was Valentine’s Day. I thank my team for wrapping up our project on Wednesday evening without me.
In terms of Software Engineering, our team has just finished our backend and all of our custom API calls. I finished the instance pages and pagination and made them look nice using Bootstrap. I feel like we also have good infrastructure in place for our next milestone when we set up our actual backend.
What was in my way
I spent a lot of time this week on my Graphics presesntation, which was due on Tuesday. I am commiting this from my phone on a roadtrip. Also, Survivor Texas starting took up a bit of time, but honestly, all of these were very fun.
Plans for next week
Next week, we will completely finish setting up our backend for our Website and populate our model pages fully with instances. I also plan on finishing the Ray Tracing presentation for Graphics completely, which will give more more time to work on SWE.
Paper #8: The Interface Segregation Principle.
The Interface Segregation Principle is something that I was not familiar with but makes quite a bit more sense to me after reading this paper. When working on long-term projects, it makes sense to enforce the modularity of your code by making modules blind to objects that do not immediately relate to them by separating complex interfaces.
Thoughts on cache, functions, and regex
Cache were a very clean and efficient way to use decorators to generalize memoization for functions.
Functions make a lot of sense in that they define the rules for creating a list, offloading the work for when it is truely needed.
Regex was something I'd seen before, but never properly learned. Taking it step by step makes every expression much more understandable.
What made me happy
The biggest highlight of the week for me starting my roadtrip with Joyce. Survivor Texas also remained a lot of fun, I went out with some crew members Thursday night.
Tip-of-the-week
My tip of the week is to use remove.bg along with favicon.io to create favicons for your website that looks good accross every browser without needing to be a perfect rectangle. That way your browser can display a custom logo that you create for your website instead of the generic React favicon that it probably is right now.