Fred and Loathing on The Internet

I Thought AWS Was For Finding South American Spiders

2023-Apr-21

You will have to take my word for it, but there were a few changes made to the codebase of this website. It’s all back-end work that has yet to have any HTML views, but they are there in the repo. I think I might never make that big data overhaul down to the SQL/database level. The flaws there are of redundancy. The flaws there could be solved by just cutting off values when I archive my data. The data model is sound. My changes come from redoing the Python level stuff that makes charts from my data. I did some sloppy work slapping together a Pandas dataframe to Plotly Dash. I had gotten so excited about putting out live Plotly Dash charts through Flask that I forgoed any sort of web design to get something deployed, no matter how it’s layed out.

Over the past few weeks I have made my way through half of a water-damaged paperback Mona Lisa Overdrive I found in my local book sharing box. My complaints for Neuromancer remain for William Gibson’s second novel. He chooses underworld slang over plausible descriptions for the tech in his cyberpunk settings. I had read Neuromancer before I had more tech industry experience, when those flashy words were enough to keep me enthralled. Now I seek a more concrete example of the hardware or concepts at hand, which I am finding in short supply.

Red Dead Redemption 2 will likely be the only video game I play for a while. It’s a whole digital lifestyle. I told myself not to try the fishing portion of the game because I didn’t need to keep finding more ways to waste time in these fake bucolic settings. Oh well…