A quick note about uploading documents to Paperless NGX via the API: You need to make sure that your multipart form document part includes the filename attribute.

This is automatically done by a browser when it’s using a file field to pull the file, but if you’re constructing the multipart form manually, the API will reject an upload without the filename with the following message:

The submitted data was not a file. Check the encoding type on the form.

Heyo, just as a quick announcement, I’ve added a new page to the site dedicated to Pathfinding. My hope is to grow it into an entire section of the site, with detailed information about pathfinding algorithms, breakdowns and summaries of academic research papers, and links to other helpful sites with more information and demos, but for now it’s a giant braindump of information.

Of particular note is the table of papers at the end of the page. While not comprehensive, it does cover a number of major papers that have influenced the field and produced commonly-used algorithms. I’ve added some quick notes for each paper, as well as links to where you can view them without needing a journal subscription (one of the few things I miss about being a student; journal subs are expensive).

Document everything.

No, seriously. Document everything. You think you’ll remember what you’re doing right now. You think you’ll remember exactly how machine users should be set up in AWS, because it’s so obvious, how could you possibly forget it? You think you’ll remember exactly where you’re storing that system backup configuration, and how to decrypt it, because it’s the most logical thing you ever came up with. It makes perfect sense, Future You would be an idiot to not remember that.