Resurrecting West Karana

I was fascinated by UltrViolet’s DevOps-ification of his blog, “Endgame Viable“. The sort of stuff he’s doing is the sort of stuff I do every day at work. I’m getting paid to get better at doing all of this stuff, but my own blog can’t take advantage?

That ends today. Today, I bring my old blog, West Karana, back to life, via the magic of DevOps.

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The Most Interesting MMO in the USA, Part Deux.

I’ve just spent the entire night with my hands deep in the guts of the Google Trends API and the Python package that calls it. I’ve even sprinkled in Google Suggested Searches to sweeten the search. I’ve implemented a quick sort algorithm. My boyfriend was helping debug the program. But no matter what I do, the answer always comes out the same.

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The Most Interesting Game of All Time!

I was playing around with Google Trends last week, trying to see how a few MMOs compared to each on the ‘Trends. It was fun and all, but I missed a lot of games and I just thought it would be so much better if I could just compare EVERY MMO, past and present, automatically!

Google Trends just catalogs the searches people would do for a game, but I figured that had to have at least a loose correlation to popularity, right?

Well, it was an… interesting journey, to be sure.

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