Rust, Clang, Python, Oh My!

It's been a bit, i promise that i was intending to post more often than this but i've had a lot going on, as im sure most do during the holidays.


So i have been playing around with C, Rust, and Python to see what i like about the languages. As with most programmers i feel, i learn best working with project based learning but my problem is that i cant think of projects i really want to make. I personally work best with business use cases and feel i learn best when im hacking on something at work for a reason that benefits my workplace or improves some facet of operations.


I really like a lot of things about Rust and the Rust Community, namely how well documented it is, how many resources are out there for it, how much is being done for it's development, the emphasis on security, and interfaces with C code to begin migration to a more secure memory safe codebase. There's a lot to like about it but really i just don't really have a project idea in mind to tackle with it, but it does seem interesting, and to be a part of something that is just developing is always appealing to me.


I hope that i eventually get the time to invest and actually find a project i want to work on with Rust because it seems like a cool language to develop with. All that said what have i actually been up to these days? well i've definitely been procrastinating on my websites development, i technically dont even have a homepage created yet, its just the blog stuff that's up and running so thats kind of sad, i really need to finish the home page...


What i have been working on is a lot of work related use cases and programming,



*with R i actually got a connection set up to the data warehouse so i can effectively query directly from RStudio and just shove the query output into a data frame and create some data visualizations with the data using various packages like ggplot2 which have yielded some cool results.


I really enjoy the R language and all the things it has been stretched to do but also its beautiful charts and visualizations as well as documentation it can create. I have said it before but i like with programming to have a product as fast as possible as it is much easier to stay motivated with programming to have a project or visceral product produced that you can refine and hack on. R can send email, create interactive dashboards, produce a variety of documentation and presentations with markdown syntax and R code. It is a quirky language but theres a lot i like about it and i hope to continue to use it more along with T-SQL and the front end web stack.


I have several videos planned for my youtube channel on various linux and programming things some of which are related to the topics covered here but ill produce a write-up for them on here (this is me being optimistic about my ability to commit to blogging).


Today i actually saw in a newsletter im subscribed to for R related material, a package called patchwork that makes it easier to consolidate R visuals into a single image and group items together and i tested it out and it is great! the syntax to create these grouped visuals is very human friendly, here's some sample code and output you can run in R studio to see the result: 



      ```{r}

    library(patchwork)
    library(ggplot2)
    # A few more plots to play with
    p1 <- ggplot(mpg) + 
      geom_point(aes(hwy, displ))
    p2 <- ggplot(mpg) + 
      geom_bar(aes(manufacturer, fill = stat(count))) + 
      coord_flip()
    p3 <- ggplot(mpg) + 
      geom_smooth(aes(hwy, cty)) + 
      facet_wrap(~year)
    p4 <- ggplot(mpg) + 
      geom_tile(aes(factor(cyl), drv, fill = stat(count)), stat = 'bin2d')

    (p1 | p2) /
      p3

    layout <- '
                ABB
                CCD
            '
    p1 + p2 + p3 + p4 + plot_layout(design = layout)

    ```


As for my current projects, im still trying to finish this darn website to a point that is not embaressing, at work im trying to wrap my head around Shiny dashboards developed as R packages with testthat unit tests and all.


i guess that is all for now, always a lot going on but im just trying to increase my programming skills while maintaining my health and fitness, which means at home i try to prioritize health and fitness and at work i hope for business use cases to sharpen my programming skills so that i can devote more of my personal time to exercise and health to support the worklife. Lately its been the keto diet, a calisthenics program by FitnessFAQ on youtube, which i am LOVING with nightly 3mi walks and sometimes longer hikes on the weekends with the lady.


well thats enough rambling for now, if you'd like to ever change just shoot me an email at bryanjenks@protonmail.com.


cheers!


Tue, 2019 Dec 3rd, 06:27 GMT-8

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