#coding log

i started working on the code for the prototype on january 9th of this year and i've made significant progress. the prototype is in customtkinter, but i've decided now that since this will be a large scale project, i should work with pyqt6. i have some experience with pyqt5, but not much with 6, so this will be a great learning experience for me ^_^

the prototype currently has

login / sign up features (connected to a sqlite3 database. NOTE: i made this choice just for the purpose of getting the project started. when it comes time for the app to be deployed, i will be using a postgresql database)

chat dashboard that shows the user all of their chats

a chat feature

C# .Equals and ReferenceEquals (==)

Today, while working on my music playlist application, I bumped into the concept of Equals and ReferenceEquals in C#.

I realized when using the ITunesLibraryParser package, when I load an iTunes library file, I can get two objects, .Tracks and .Playlists .

The Tracks contain all the songs, without duplicates, and in playlists, they are collections of tracks. A song can be in a playlist and in another one.

More simply, concatenation of playlists can include duplicates.

In information or data managing, when you have a duplicate, there are two different ways to achieve it. First is by value, and the other is by reference.

For example, let's say you meet a stranger on street and find out you both have the same carton of milk in your fridge. You are talking about the same milk product, but your milks are not actually same one milk, they are two different cartons of milk.

But if you talk about the same carton of milk in the fridge with the people you live with, you are probably actually talking about the same entity of milk.

The first case is the case of "equal by value" and the second case is "equal by reference".

Turns out, the same track in `.Tracks` and `.Playlists` has different reference, but same value!

So I cannot use their references as same, but if I use the value equal feature, I can use them as intended.

You can read more about the two equality in c# here:

equality - C# .Equals(), .ReferenceEquals() and == operator - Stack Overflow

Equal, ==, And Reference Equal In C# (c-sharpcorner.com)

1/17/24

(shocker) i fell asleep early again, so this post is for yesterday. i was fairly productive, and managed to get quite a bit done.

yesterday i:

fixed a bug that had me stumped yesterday on my to-do list project

continued adding to the ui

began working on two new functions: one that strikes out the task, and one that deletes the task all together

got bored and decided to work on my chat application (argon)

began the welcome screen with animated widgets (labels and qpushbuttons)

1/16/24

it's 2:30 in the morning, but i woke up and wanted to bang out this post. today i was relatively productive! i spent the entire morning into the early afternoon from 8:45 am to about 1:30 pm coding, which is big for me as i am a chronic migraine sufferer.

today i:

scrolled tumblr for project ideas until stumbling across a project that inspired me. i will be tagging the person who's project gave me inspiration when i post my project

began my to do list project and got a big chunk of the functionality portion done

worked on the UI of the project

was able to conquer some of the major blocks i was having on my own

Found the missing key of polymorphism in C#

returnType functionName<T>(T argument) where T:parentType{

}

Jul.19.2021.

I have been working on the SR exploration project for the last few days, and I still feel like the progress is quite slow. But at least I have paved the baseline for my testing class now. I made a class named UpscaleTester, which makes it easier to upscale and compare.

Here are some upscaling I tried with two different models. The images are crops of my laptop wallpapers, the low_res ones.

Now, I got curious about how it works on REAL pixelated images, i.e. pixel arts.

JUN.29.2021.

Today I'm revisiting the html/js practice challenge that I wanted to do with a friend in the winter. I didn't do much on the project today, but I set up GitHub environment on my MacBook.

Guess what?  IT'S HIM WEEK!  It's the week when we all should appreciate health information professionals for the work that they do!  I think I'm the only HIM professional you guys know, but if you meet any others, make sure to tell them "thank you" for all the hard work they do behind the scenes at hospitals and other health care organizations. :D

To celebrate, the last hour and a half of my work day tomorrow and Thursday will be dedicated to playing board games and eating copious amounts of ice cream, yay!