Fred and Loathing on The Internet

Therapists Must Have Difficulty Mentioning Their Jobs in Their Domain Names

2023-May-18

In my estimation, the hallmark of a genuine intellectual breakthrough is the temporary self directed anger. “Why didn’t I grasp this before? This is actually so simple!” I had one of those today.

My update process is somewhat impulsive. Yesterday I failed at getting sqlalchemy-flask syntax acceptable for making some joins on my models, so I could bring in some artist image info into some web views that so far have used models that did not have image data. I failed at doing that in one post-workday evening, and my Jinja templating hack failed as well. I went into today’s recreation coding jaunt with an expectation to hit some obstacle and then spend time finding a solution online. I got what I needed after ten minutes of some very facetious coding efforts!

Today’s update brings us a URL schema for looking around my most basic data unit, my daily charts. If you put in fredlambuth.com/stats/YYYY/MM/DD, you’ll get my top10 (I started truncating to 10 a few months ago) or 20 Spotify hits of the day, as far back as some date in December 2020. That was when I made my first early development entries into the database I have kept using. If you try some numbers that do not match with my data, you’ll get a 400 level error.

For the critique section I have very personal material. Subreddits I subscribe to that comment on ‘bad’ movies have led me to Tubi.tv. I have some experience before with this app on my living room Roku when I was making a stab at forgoing paid video streaming services for a few months. I enjoyed the novelty of commercials for those months, but I ended up with Hulu. It’s got that stash of Frasier I can’t live without. Using the Tubi app on my PC (with an adblocker) means it is more than just a facsimile of ad-driven broadcast television. It has become a gateway to an embarrassment of low-budget trashy movie riches. I have come to learn of the filmmaker named Andy Sidaris. A genius of a rare genre.