@radekmieBy Radosław Miernik · Published on
I spent some time this month and finally added tags to all the posts on my blog. I hope it’ll make it easier to discover whatever you may be interested in, while skipping all of my off-topic ramblings! Surprisingly, it took me way too long, and it made me wonder why it was so hard.
I guess hope I’m not the only one who finds it hard to work with imperfect data. However, I really struggle with it up to a point, where I’m missing out on things just because of it. But let’s start with some positives.
My urge to maintain the data as good as possible forces me to improve task descriptions, all sorts of documentation, Grafana dashboards… Sure, it takes time, but overall, everyone’s happy with what I’m doing. It also allowed me to keep a record of daily (!) weight-ins for the past 9 years.
On the other hand, it took me about six hours across three days to tag barely 54 blog posts. It’s not like I was paralyzed and just stared at the screen, no! I came up with a dozen different tagging schemes and didn’t like every single one of them. Yes, including the one that got published just now.
I’ve been working out for nearly two years now. I didn’t take any pictures of myself back then, nor did I tape-measure my body. Now I’d like to start doing so, but it throws me off that I won’t have a complete dataset…
But I’ll try! And I’d like you to try it, too. Remember! “Better late than never!” Or, or… “Done is better than perfect!” And all sorts of relevant catchphrases. And no, I won’t add a third one (standard in enumeration, right?) just to make this dataset of idioms imperfect as well.
Whatever works for you.