Where to Go from Here

Finally finished work on my webspider, arachnea¹, just as I came to the end of needing to use it daily: I reached my newest goal for mastodon accounts followed, >400.

Now I need to figure out where to go from here. On the one hand I could start trying to learn a python package like pandas or pyspark. Those two come up in job ads from time to time; knowing one would expand my marketability in the jobsearch somewhat. It’s hard to come up with a statistics project ex nihilo though.

On the other I could try to learn JavaScript. That’s a tall order, honestly. Upon a time I promised myself I’d never learn it. But I’m seeing ads calling for Node.js quite often; JavaScript is big in backend development and getting bigger. I’d be better off knowing it. Time to buy the O’Reilly book I guess.

¹ Naming programs is not one of my strong suits.

22 March 2023