Comment by PaulHoule

(1) Photography: I did two events last month, an indoor track meet

https://www.yogile.com/strides-of-march-2025

and Dragon Day at Cornell, where I am spooling out pictures to

https://bsky.app/profile/up-8.bsky.social and https://mastodon.social/@UP8

I'm excited that I'm getting paid to do an event next week because that's been one of my goals. I feel like I'm really progressing at understanding event venues to pair up interesting foregrounds with meaningful backgrounds as well as painting events in a strongly positive light when other photographers might do otherwise.

(2) Coding: I have several applications that use arangodb, a document/graph database that unfortunately, like most innovative databases of the 2010s, has a terrible license. I don't feel I can either commercialize or open source these things so I am switching them over to use JSONB support in Postgres. I am building an adaption layer that works like "python-arango"

https://docs.python-arango.com/en/main/

this is not a complete replacement because I'm not using many features like Pregel or Foxx and in some ways it is more functional because it supports primary keys being integers or uuids. Out of about 50 AQL queries I think there is just 1 that might be challenging to write in SQLAlchemy. It's interesting in that I am triangulating between the implementation being simple, being able to modify my applications if necessary, and also developing the API that I really want in the long term.