Fred and Loathing on The Internet

My Talking Scale Spoke To The Masses

2023-Sep-04

Tech debt can affect you even if your app is developed, tested, and deployed by just one guy! I hope stating that precaution will soften the blow I’m about to give you dear fredlambuth.com blog readers. There’s an update, but it broke some functionality. I know you’ll be able to handle this, and in time we can all laugh about just how cascading the styles are in the sheets of CSS.

If you were to look over at /stats, I threw in a [songs played per day] average counter at the top so you could get a better picture of how powerful today’s chart means in relation to my general listening style. Now that I have written this, I should have shown a 28 day average so that the numbers match the scale of the charts… Oh well. Once again dear readers, I ask for your understanding in the next few days.

I ask for days because I really need to map out how far the cascading goes in my templating. I ought to stop applying more ‘fixes’ and find the underlying styles being passed down. The Flask routes are fine, or they were a few templating changes ago today, so the problem is pure templating. I lost sight of the tiny position numbers and now I can’t see how to get them back without breaking the other changes I made. C’est la vie! I only show my top five spots. I’m sure the audience can easily fill in the blanks. We’ve got a great audience tonight.

My audiobook tour of The Information is up to seventy percent of the runtime. How much I was able to easily understand and want to fast forward through some obvious or redundant parts is -I hope- a testament of the increase to my understanding of information theory since I last read the book in 2019. I had not remembered much of any section about biology, microbiology, or Schrodinger’s part in spurring the idea of applying Shannon’s theories about information toward how organisms are able to impart the blueprints for growth from generation to the next.

I am excited to get to the parts where Von Neuman builds the digital computer that Turing describes with his infinite tape machine. Seing how only thirty percent of the book left makes me wonder if I that Von Neuman stuff was from another book.