This project is for me to experiment with open-source collaboration. So please feel free to chime in and participate. I've been learning programming since 2015 but I've been mostly working on my own. So my github/collaboration skills are weak. I'd like to learn more about collaboration so I can accomplish more as a programmer through teamwork. One reason I've hesitated so long to try this is I'm worried about accidentally exposing API keys, secrets, credentials, and access to my users' data (not that I have much). So this project will be a first, low-risk, foray into the field of open-source collaboration. If things go well here, maybe I can start to open up some of my other repositiories. I could sure use some help. And I love that thought that some of my programs could be useful to others. My first goal here is to understand how different developers can work on a codebase together without sharing credentials; to create a program that different people can use with their own credentials. I've attempted this by requiring collaborators (including myself) to use environment variables.
I'm a huge fan of your work and wanted to share an interesting project I worked on that you might find intriguing. I wrote a blog post about creating coding playlists using clustering techniques and scraping Spotify for relevant playlists. The project explores the use of TF-IDF scaling and NMF clustering to generate genre-based playlists, and I think it could be a unique approach to discover new music for coding sessions.
You can check out the blog post here and the code here.
