Wanderinglunch
This is my website for tracking food trucks around NYC. It was at their height of popularity and I was having trouble knowing if I should leave the office and walk to Broadway to grab lunch. You kind of have to choose which direction to go in.
Originally getting into it I found Python to be interesting and so I went with CherryPy. It worked but found it to be a little difficult to get on a server.
Then I moved to Node.js because that was crazy popular. It was interesting for a bit and probably taught me more about javascript and async than anything else.
However, by version 2.0 I had moved on to Go. Which it's where it's been since 2015. Mainly because Go is so simple and I can always go back to my program and understand it. Also building a binary means I don't have to setup a server to build it. Moving from Windows to Linux is simple. It's now on version 5.0.2 so I've gone through a couple iterations. Learning new ways to organize the data in Postgres and the code. Also I open sourced it!
I wish I could work on it more as I think there are improvements to be made. The trello board has some ideas but overall the site didn't take off. Expanding it to other places is difficult without living there and foodtrucks in NYC have taken a serious downturn.
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