Fred and Loathing on The Internet

Huzzah! Big splashy visual updates! If you care to take a gander at the pull down menu for ‘Spotify’ you will find some web pages that use Javascript to handle dynamic design changes. A little bit of web 2.0! Let’s party like it’s 2007! I did give raw javascript in my templates a shot. It kept...

Cascades of updates these days. I’ve gotten a taste for CSS so I’m doing what I can to make my website look like something somebody would pay for. I don’t necessarily like doing web design, but I do not want to pay anybody to do the job. I suppose I got that from my old man. If he could fix it...

What we have here is one helluva update to report in this blog post’s opening paragraph. Wander over to /dash/global and you will witness my marvels! A snazzy looking live dashboard! With filtering done by mouse click! If that isn’t wondrous, then I don’t know what is. That’s the new part for...

There is a third Plotly figure in the /dash/global dashboard. It is somewhat the result of a happy accident. I could not figure out how to strech the choropleth map horizontally to make the default size more clickable. To fill out the dead space I decided upon some sort of third figure. I am...

Our update today is another bittersweet encounter with SQL-Alchemy, the Object Relational Modeling framework that is somehow attached to Flask. It has been ten months since I made any architecture decisions about using Flask. I usually go with the default option; the one used in the tutorials. I...

There were some updates in the past few days. I do not recall all their specifics, but I would wager that almost all changes made since the blog post are all cosmetic. Oh wait! I did add a section that does a crude job of hosting the image files that are some recent comic strips I made. Although...