Fred and Loathing on The Internet

Today’s update is brought to you by the very, very, declarative rhetoric of SQLAlchemy. I went along with Flask bringing in SQLAlchemy because I heard good things about it. I wanted to sink my teeth deeper into ORM, especially on the model creation side. It would be lying if I said I have no...

Update for this post is a CSS paint job change. What makes it juicier than being a mere superficial retouching update is that all the CSS changes were made at the base.html sheet that all my website pages inherit their templating from. That means I no longer change any individual pages. Instead...

The index view of my blog posts now has a thumbnail of the photo that got randomly attached to its index number attached to each blog entry. I thought my css style sheet would make sure they do not overlap, but when I see how it looks on a vertically aligned phone, I see that is wrong. I’m...

There was a bit of back and forth effort on updating this website. I did make a new database table to hold the blog entries, with a BLOB type column to hold a photo to go with each post. However, getting Flask to display this photo without actually writing the image to disk was way more effort...

You will have to take my word for it, but there were a few changes made to the codebase of this website. It’s all back-end work that has yet to have any HTML views, but they are there in the repo. I think I might never make that big data overhaul down to the SQL/database level. The flaws there...

I have yet to make some HTML that points to the /stats section of my page. Nevertheless, it has been updated. I think I have hit my over-the-hump point with using Bootstrap to layout the HTML/CSS in my site. The grid system it uses to manage rows and columns sounds remarkable like the dashboard...