Nothing too big, this time, just wanted to pop over here for a check-in. My eagerness to move forward with my work on Scaffold has been momentarily eclipsed by my need to complete the remainder of my programming assignments for the ML course I'm taking before my MATLAB license runs out.
In the meantime, however, I've been setting up to move forward with integrating a MySQL database into Scaffold. The app is up and running locally on my Ubuntu VM after a rousing round of package installs. My immediate next move is researching recommended security protocol for AWS RDS db instances.
The largest obstacle right now is trying to develop in a Ubuntu VM that is running on laptop with a limited amount of RAM. In terms of actual project impact, it just means more work time eaten up by freezing, crashing, and having to check and clean-up what applications are running. I'm sure more diagnostic work could return some modifications to VirtualBox or Windows 10 that will free up RAM. I'm less sure that it will be enough RAM to properly address my issue, but it's worth an hour of Googling.
I want to make a joke about using this development obstacle as a petty excuse to buy a new laptop but the fact that this is a borrowed machine* and my own ancient laptop is broken and legitimately in need of replacement really blows the set up.
Anyway, as I mentioned before, progress may be a little mellow right now due to my coursework and a couple of other projects that have come up, but hopefully I should be able to refocus more attention on Scaffold soon. Until then, thanks for bearing with me and may your RAM be ever-bountiful.
*A borrowed machine for which I am very grateful
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