Fred and Loathing on The Internet

The Evil Coach in The Waterboy was Jerry Reed!

2023-Jul-04

Yowza! A flurry of updates to report! I’ve been away from my keyboard for a spell. My tolerance for doing two steps forward/one step back development was at its maximum capacity. Corrections were made and novel content was pioneered. What’s corrected is the alpha headings in between the artist catalog section now only displays the possible letters. I set some variables in the template for the HTML base at the top of that section so that I no longer have to import the same variables in all my Flask views here. Setting variables in the template feels like a power I will surely abuse in the future when I resort to making cheap fixes.

The 24 hour view of last month’s Spotify listening updated as I hoped when the turn of the month happened a few days ago. I rearranged the colors and sorting to make it more readable. I can see that last month had a large uptick in total hours. Especially on weekday mornings. I have spotify running most of the time I’m working. This graph and that tidbit correlates to a very busy June. Those months of coffee fueled coding benders are exhilarating but only when they happen once in a while. Back to back months of that frays my brains.

In my time away from my development environment(s) I managed to put a big dent in the novel Cutting for Stone. The writer is a M.D. of some academic stature. His reverence for the profession drips all over the prose. I appreciate a professional writing about what they know, even if I find his characters too idealistic to be completely believable. There’s a character that so far has been referred to by other characters in the narration spot. I have hopes that he’ll get more time in the spotlight to reveal that his passion for medicine is more workmanlike rather than passionate. Or a non-medical professional character would help make a foil to see how the author would describe the internal monologue of somebody that doesn’t save lives as an occupation.