September 2, 2019

I have been healing after a major stomach surgery about a month ago, but have been doing very well in terms of progress. As a test for myself, I put myself up to the challenge of being able to try to tap into GitHub’s REST API. Just in case you are wondering, “<strong>REST</strong>” stands for “<strong>RE</strong> presentational<strong>S</strong>tate <strong>T</strong>ransfer”, while “<strong>API</strong>” stands for “<strong>A</strong>pplication <strong>P</strong>rogramming <strong>I</strong>nterface”. It is basically a way you can access a company’s website’s data, which in my example is act of me obtaining the company, GitHub’s data relating to my GitHub user commits.

In case you’d like to learn about <strong>REST API’s</strong>, please check out this really good video on the topic, which is available at this

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YcW25PHnAA

You can see the related results on the Jumbotron element at the top of my web page, since all my projects are now updated with their latest commit dates and links. This single change is a vast improvement since it makes anyone including future job recruiters more aware of the exact changes I’ve made to my personal projects, as well as specific code examples if needed. One of a technical job recruiter’s first questions is always, “What’s your GitHub?”. Well, now I can just point them to my web page instead :)

I’ve also moved away from NYC, and have had a great time so far. I honestly don’t miss it since I definitely have spent my time in New York, and would rather return as a tourist for fun whenever I’d like to. I’m looking forward to doing more art projects in terms of lithography, and will actually expand this site to showcase my previous digital art as well since this is my own site after all, and would rather showcase them here than on other platforms. I am also debating how best to make synth projects while in an apartment, and am also debating building a mini-Arduino based CNC in the future.