Fred and Loathing on The Internet

There is a pile up of topics worth reviewing on the fredlambuth.com/blog. The reason for the pile-up is a slowdown on the commits toward reconfiguring the backend to this site, at least the Spotify collection functions and data model. After a few days of breakneck speed refactoring the API calls...

A backend only update to report. The multi-genre data model uses all three genres to assign a master_genre derived from polling all the possible genres each artist possesses. Dealing with the nulls was a pain. The pain of dealing with nulls in data bending cannot be understated. They’re the...

The git commit that marks this blog post belongs to another repository. The new back-end is done! That part actually has no model changes. It did give me the chance to make some decisions about how the work is going to be divided into modules. I think I’ll have a Spotify API request library of...

A number of updates to talk about today. The big one involves my first successful stab at using the variables in my Flask views in the plotly-dash apps. So at the moment you can get a dashboard view of any artist found in my app’s artist catalog if you go over to /dash/art_search/ and then add...

The only update this time is a fix to the links generated for each artist at the bottom of /dash/art_cat/. Matching the variables between my regular Flask work with the Plotly-Dash section has been my Gordian Knot in my codebase. Well… one of many. I have an idea to make a shell outer Flask app...

We have quite a bit of templating changes for the folks at home checking up on the website. It’s all in the /about_me section if you care to look. I repurposed the styling of the unused sections of that CSS/JS package I’ve been cannibalizing into some dynamic graphic stuff. I’ve yet to get the...