Fred and Loathing on The Internet

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...

There is an actual update for the web app currently being served at fredlambuth.com. A very minor one, and that brings up more questions than answers. I’ve doubled up the decorators of a few ‘views’ that I often visit by manually typing in the URL. The extra decorator is the answer I came up...

The reporting on updates will no longer be the impetus for blog posts. The update cycle and the database that holds my blog posts are no longer connected. I suppose once I have a very distinct front and back end defined, I can go back to writing blog posts whenever I make front-end only updates....

The launch of the rebuilt fredlambuth.com is not going to be happening anytime soon. Definitely not in the few weeks left in this calendar year. There is progress being made. The new backend is more or less working, so there will be a little bit of history using the new data model when the...