Fred and Loathing on The Internet

He Has A Face For Data Modelling

2023-May-21

Today’s update was brought forth from the sticky situation my software architecture decisions have left me. In theory my data models, python views, and HTML templates should be made to follow one another. I developed each of those with considerations somewhat independent of each other, so whenever I have operations that involve all three I end up writing in some fixes that stack up to make narrow coding options. The Top 5 Artist Per Month plot over in the /dash section now has some visual flair that came from doing some simple joins to the data before I feed it over to plotly.dash. I wanted to broaden the scope of that to include years other than 2022, but the corners I’ve coded myself into makes that a complicated implementation. I’ll take another stab at making a hacky workaround.

The other day I finally broke my chat_GPT cherry. I used it for some work related stuff by having it spit out example documentation for some stuff I plan to build. I doubt I could have come up with a clearer set of statements. I thought about trying some stuff over here by sending over my weekly or monthly hits over to their service to get a playlist review. So far my tastes are so eclectic that it keeps giving me the same paragraph with different noun:adjective tuples for the artists I give to it. If you need some airplane magazine sounding copy, I highly recommend chat_GPT for providing it.