Fred and Loathing on The Internet

Those very recently posted notices about large sweeping changes to the CSS are happening right away. I grabbed a sample CSS package for a personal website, plopped it into my jinja templating, and then filled in the fields with my Flask app’s variables. Voila, un nouvel homepage! Sure looks...

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...

As promised, I beefed up that static line plot I had been serving at /dash/succession into a hi-falootin’ interactive dashboard, with a seasoning of KPIs above the line plot indicating how heavy the swear word usage was per season. I cleaned the three actual manuscripts with parts assigned into...

Nothing new in this codebase. I was hoping to explore the Succession data a little more and flesh out a first draft of a combined HTML/Plotly-Dash page with some interactivity. I chose a more modest goal today because I am only working at half-strength. American Airlines stranded me in Charlotte...

Huzzah! A minor one. I have not rolled out a big new flashy dashboard exploring all the text mining data I have procured by scraping fan typed transcripts of the TV shows Succession and Mad Men. What I did was take out the good parts of the Mad Men work I did about a year ago for my site in its...

Hey dear blog readers! Remember way back when this domain name pointed to a Django app with no blog section? I thought I ported everything over to Flask in the big frontend migration at the beginning of the year. A full HTML page Plotly dashboard about the name drops throughout the seasons of...