Python

Chasing Dings! goes to West Karana

I was playing around and wrote a script last week that took an old backup of my previous blog, West Karana, and brought it to life as a GitHub repository. A friend on Twitter challenged me to do even better. Yesterday, I found a more recent backup – posts up to 2016, that I wrote for Google+, and used that as a source to finally get everything merged to this blog. It’s an exciting DevOps adventure. ...

Resurrecting West Karana

I was fascinated by UltrViolet’s DevOps-ification of his blog, “Endgame Viable”. The sort of stuff he’s doing is the sort of stuff I do every day at work. I’m getting paid to get better at doing all of this stuff, but my own blog can’t take advantage? That ends today. Today, I bring my old blog, West Karana, back to life, via the magic of DevOps. One of my old banners :-) ...

Okay -- the FULL LIST of Interesting Games!

I’m not going to blast this post anywhere, but if someone was interested in what a full run of the Google Trendifier looks like with about 160 games on the list. I’m still counting it toward my Blaugust quota, though. Some of the games on previous lists aren’t on this one, as I decided to eliminate those that Google Trends Suggestions didn’t label as an Online game or Video game, just to try and get the most fair comparisons possible. ...

The Most Interesting MMO in the USA, Part Deux.

I’ve just spent the entire night with my hands deep in the guts of the Google Trends API and the Python package that calls it. I’ve even sprinkled in Google Suggested Searches to sweeten the search. I’ve implemented a quick sort algorithm. My boyfriend was helping debug the program. But no matter what I do, the answer always comes out the same. I know this ordering doesn’t make any sense. I imagine it’s based on what people search for, and they’re more likely to search for FFXIV than FINAL FANTASY XIV ONLINE. ...

The Most Interesting Game of All Time!

I was playing around with Google Trends last week, trying to see how a few MMOs compared to each on the ‘Trends. It was fun and all, but I missed a lot of games and I just thought it would be so much better if I could just compare EVERY MMO, past and present, automatically! Google Trends just catalogs the searches people would do for a game, but I figured that had to have at least a loose correlation to popularity, right? ...