Today is a good day for sharing. Take a moment to overcome trivial obstacles which may be preventing you from sharing useful endeavors, insights, or wisdom with those around you. Alternatively, offer something useful to a friend, or give something away.
I’ll admit that after I first read that comment, I was about to make this mistake:
“When faced with a choice between doing a task and attempting to prove that it’s unnecessary, most people immediately begin on the latter.”
(I’m probably misremembering that quote. I tried googling but didn’t find the original quote, and I don’t remember where it’s from.)
So a more appropriate course of action would be for me to at least check how much effort would be required to set up a github account. And so I did. I discovered that it was more complex than I expected, but I started to set up a github account and the project repository anyway. After about an hour of setting stuff up, I got to the step where I need to choose the project name. Another hour later, I still hadn’t thought of an obviously correct choice for the project name. “Rationalist Horoscopes” wouldn’t be an appropriate name for the project, because there’s nothing especially rationalist about it without the database of good horoscopes, except the scoring system. There is already another project on github titled “horoscope”. Other names I considered were “Scored Horoscopes”, “Rated Horoscopes”, or “Weighted Horoscopes”, but none of these seemed clearly better than the others. I have lots of trouble making decisions like this, and github doesn’t let you change the project name after it has been created. And so I decided to post a comment here asking if anyone can think of a better name, or if any of the names I thought of so far sounds better than the others.
Th inconvenience of posting this to github ended up being a lot less trivial than I expected.
The code for this project can be downloaded here
The code is written in PHP, and uses a MySQL database. A cron job is set up to post each day’s horoscope to the Tumblr account.
This is completely free software, so you’re welcome to do whatever you like with it.
Contributions and feedback are appreciated.
Update:
A git repository for this project is online now at https://github.com/PeerInfinity/Weighted-Horoscopes
Why not put it on github (or similar service)?
I still haven’t bothered to set up a github account. But if someone else wants to put it oh github, they’re welcome to.
Today is a good day for sharing. Take a moment to overcome trivial obstacles which may be preventing you from sharing useful endeavors, insights, or wisdom with those around you. Alternatively, offer something useful to a friend, or give something away.
I’ll admit that after I first read that comment, I was about to make this mistake:
“When faced with a choice between doing a task and attempting to prove that it’s unnecessary, most people immediately begin on the latter.”
(I’m probably misremembering that quote. I tried googling but didn’t find the original quote, and I don’t remember where it’s from.)
So a more appropriate course of action would be for me to at least check how much effort would be required to set up a github account. And so I did. I discovered that it was more complex than I expected, but I started to set up a github account and the project repository anyway. After about an hour of setting stuff up, I got to the step where I need to choose the project name. Another hour later, I still hadn’t thought of an obviously correct choice for the project name. “Rationalist Horoscopes” wouldn’t be an appropriate name for the project, because there’s nothing especially rationalist about it without the database of good horoscopes, except the scoring system. There is already another project on github titled “horoscope”. Other names I considered were “Scored Horoscopes”, “Rated Horoscopes”, or “Weighted Horoscopes”, but none of these seemed clearly better than the others. I have lots of trouble making decisions like this, and github doesn’t let you change the project name after it has been created. And so I decided to post a comment here asking if anyone can think of a better name, or if any of the names I thought of so far sounds better than the others.
Th inconvenience of posting this to github ended up being a lot less trivial than I expected.
Thank you for putting in the effort! I like “Weighted Horoscopes”.
The git repository is online now at https://github.com/PeerInfinity/Weighted-Horoscopes