Fred and Loathing on The Internet

A turning point for the blog is already upon us. Some major dabbling has been done with the LLM libraries available for making a chatbot for the site that could not only answer questions pertaining to the site layout and codebase, but with some sort of Fred Lambuth flavor in the text responses....

The update to report represents more than what is presented to the user. We’ve got some brand new, unprecedented code involved. Over at the /rp section, which is my shorthand for ‘recently_played’, now has color coded boxes grouping the artist names that are found in my artist database. I was...

The updates and their respective blog posts keep coming! The pre-processing job I mentioned in the last post is here, and in a different physical type than I was planning. I was thinking of splitting the results into four CSVs. Instead I went with a Sqlite database, just like I’ve got for my...

It is a blog post for rejoicing! That big refactoring that has been talked about in these very blog posts over the past few months has been deployed. The branches have been merged, bringing you the very words you are reading. Deploying was much easier than I imagined. Getting my domain to point...

A somewhat shocking reminder of the development time spent on this big refactoring project occurred to me recently. Work had moved over to the ‘track_catalog’ table in the Sqlite3 database, putting the focus on the back end. No back-end jobs had been written to handle the update of new tracks to...

The modularization of the new version to Fredlambuth.com is reporting success in reducing functionality to the most replaceable unit. It has made mixing and matching between Flask views and Jinja2 templates a possibility. The old version has a much more fragile linking between those, requiring a...