Fred and Loathing on The Internet

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2023-Jul-05

One of the updates today is an unsatisfying fix. The pagination links at the bottom of the /blog section sometimes had a None printed out in the 3 or 6 spot. It would link to /blog with no /number appended. That problem has been circumvented by setting my pagination size to 8 posts per page. I am still not sure how exactly that works. I thought if 8 works, 4 would too, but I get that None pop up with 4. I was not interested enough in this problem to properly address it. Let’s hope this quick paving over of the problem resolves the matter.

The bigger update is having the search bar in the /dash/art_cat handle artist names that have inconsistent uppercase use for all the words in their name. Queens of the Stone was my test case. Some other bands like to capitalize the ‘of or ‘the’ when they’re not the first word. I was hoping I could also solve my problem of having it find the artists that have accents or other modifications to the 26 letter alphabet. Right now Motorhead will not return any results. I found a method that uses some external libraries I could import. That part turned me off. Maybe I can still do this without bloating up my environment with yet another external library.

In the past few days I have had the opportunity to sample a wide swath of fast food available in the states between Texas and Virginia. The clear standout was Culver’s. In the past few years the labor compensation squeeze has left a lot of restaurants with skeleton crews as the norm. The word ‘fast food’ is sort of a misnomer now. Most places could easily take more than ten minutes to get a numbered combo ready. Culver’s was the standout because the food was noticeably fresh, fast, and even had some ordering snafu’s from a new employee that were quickly corrected by an employee involved in the process. Them and Chick-Fil-A are the only fast food places I can count on to not be slow or error prone. This has improved my diet because I don’t have the patience for slow fast food that now costs more than $10.