Weeknotes 83

I took myself to see Empire of Light on Thursday. I thought it was absolutely wonderful and really enjoyed it. I’m surprised it didn’t get a higher rating on IMDB. Olivia Coleman was great as always but everyone put in a great performance.

I’ve been enjoying The Last Of Us TV adaption.

Tapbots have released their much anticipated Mastodon client Ivory. This might actually finally get me using Mastodon. Twitter has been all kinds of broken for me the last few weeks.

The new WhatsApp for macOS is available in beta. I gave up on their horrendous Electron app some time ago so I hope this is better.

Spent a while trying to justify the purchase of a rice cooker. It pays for itself in under a year!

Last week I set myself a challenge to complete the MVP of a side project in one week. Because of the condensed time frame I needed to be quite strict on what was achievable. Mostly to not overwhelm myself, which is a problem.

I use the RingGo parking mobile app regularly and often need to download the receipts afterwards. Their app only lets you download a single receipt at a time. This is tedious and time-consuming. So I wanted to build something that could download more than one receipt at a time.

Enter receiptgo, a command line app written in Rust.

In it’s current state you can authenticate with RingGo and download the latest 5 receipts in one go. The basics are in place.

I remembered more Rust than I anticipated I would, but I’m sure an experienced Rust programmer would shudder at some of the code.

It’s not quite at the usable stage for me at the moment. That’s mostly because I’m not really sure how I want to use it. Do I want it to be fully automatic or more manual and interactive?

Regardless, I plan on improving it, and I’m pretty happy that I mostly achieved my aim.

Brighton Ruby conference are already selling tickets! I go every year so I went ahead and bought one. June 30th 2023 – save the date. Something to look forward to.

Two more days of work next week…