v1.6 - Major update to 2 metrics, updated p1
No more punishment for not being a jack of all trades!
Re: Penalizing folks for not being a jack of all trades
This has been a headache from the get-go: You want to offer as many genre tags as you actually work in, and want to book more work in, so my analysis needs to be based on getting you found as much as possible for the genres you work in.
But there’s a fine line between “I only work in X genres” and “I only have X Purposes of Recording because I didn’t have the energy to bother with all the tags when I put up the samples. And there’s a world of difference between “I HATE that and will never work in that genre!” and “I’m open to it.”
It’s a line I’ve failed at over and over, actually, so everyone’s scores came out a bit harsher than they expected.
So my solution is to
gently point out genres and styles you don’t currently have, trusting that if you decide you can offer them, you will make the changes to your tags, and
only score a given profile’s samples based on the tags they have used at least once, completely ignoring the tags they have never used.
I have been working in my code this morning to make these updates.
Friends, if you ever get into coding, remember to liberally leave yourself notes! That makes it SO much easier to come back through and pick right back up on what you were thinking when you wrote something.
Do you think professional programmers can skip that though? Do they read their code as easily as a middle school student reads a Goosebumps book? That’s a neat thought.
Also, here’s some of my very favorite bits of code:
git add .
git commit -m ""
git push origin mainI should put it on a tote bag or something, it’s saved my ass so many times.
And for all the time and effort spent to fix this particular headache?
In the end, I figured out a way to handle it by updating juts 4 lines of code. That’s all. 4 diabolical little tweaks made all the difference! Devil’s in the details, eh?
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. excerpt from The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
RE: Updated P1
I have also updated the header and added the new logo. I wish I were better at graphic design, but alas, my skills lay elsewhere. Anyway, we’ve gone from this, in v1.5:
To this in v1.6:
What do you think? Does it look better?
Did you know I spent several days just going nuts trying to figure out how to force Google Sheets to allow curved corners? I tried alllll sorts of things. I wrote so many scripts (did you know you can write scripts in Google Sheets?! YOU CAN, it’s so cool!!!!) but in the end, was defeated. The best way afaik is to insert an image into the cell, but you have to really have it planned out in advance very precisely, because you have to make the image elsewhere. The folks who sell beautiful aesthetic Google Sheet templates with muted colors and soft curved edges on graphs are WIZARDS I tell you.
-Nikki