Fred and Loathing on The Internet

The idea of using an actual database server to handle my app, rather than the database-in-a-file approach that comes with SQLite, came to me when I realized a lot of the changes I want to make to my website would be done on the data side. Lots of SQL. ALTER TABLE is not robust at all with...

Version numbering is not something I have considered at all. At least, not for marking any updates smaller than the big huge changes. This would be the fourth or so update since I moved the framework over to Flask. Let us call this one version 3.1.3. The Artist Listening History dashboard now...

Yeah, there’s an update. I fixed the dashboard landing page so that the third Plotly Dash app is shown. The CSS is ugly everywhere and definitely not consistent. I suppose I should work on that. Today’s book talk is a boring tech one. I had been reading a very old (80s I think) dry software...

Latest update brings a color coding system to the artist catalog section. I had that going on in the previous Django iteration of my website, but this time it is not limited to the default colors of the Bootstrap system. Now I know how to properly lay down some CSS style. Somewhat. I still can...

I have been reading another space opera novel concurrently with Consider Phlebas. The other is a paperback copy of The Weapon Smiths by A. E. Van Vogt. I am only fifty of the two-hundred fifty pages of the entire book. So far it is a leaner narration of the 'space' action, along with packing in...

I suppose this does not have to be about the absolute minutia of what tech problems I had since the last time I wrote a blog post. There were very few development troubles getting my next feature installed here. Well I suppose there is, but I'll save it for the LinkedIn post that talks about the...