README.md

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Table of Contents

• What Is This?
• Where Does the Violence Data Come From?
• The Stack

What Is This?

This is my full-stack portfolio site written entirely in Rust to prove the haters wrong -- Rust is production ready. This is both a place to blog about computer science and a form of artistic expression.

I implemented a retro, CRT TV theme. The background GIF changes on each page refresh and a static GIF loads between each GIF change, simulating flipping through TV channels. All GIFs are miscellaneous screen captures from many different animes -- some are mellow, while others are packed with action. There are many more GIFs I would have liked to include in the rotation, but I have restricted the GIFs to anime to keep consistent with a single theme. This list of GIFs will continue to grow over the years as I find more GIFs that suit the aesthetics of the site. Enjoy cycling through the GIFs!

The site consists of many little easter eggs, including but not limited to:

• A dynamic GIF background that changes on each page refresh.
• 404 page stories about a digital nomad getting lost, generated by ChatGPT.
• [Click around and find out]

Where Does the Violence Data Come From?

My site pulls data from the City of Chicago's Socrata API. Here are links to the documentation:

• Violence Reduction - Shotspotter Alerts
• Violence Reduction - Victims of Homicides and Non-Fatal Shootings

The City of Chicago's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) codes and descriptions may be found at this page.

The Stack

This project uses the following stack:

Frontend

Yew

API

Actix Web

Database