Fred and Loathing on The Internet

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...

There was a bit of waffling back and forth between choosing a whole new module to handle the genre assignment functions. The current version of my app import a module with so many unused functionality. Had they not been there I would have made the decision much quicker to rethink the entire...

The production branch has some updates! Look over at the about_me section and you’ll see a slightly more manicured look. I peppered in a few photos that match up with the highlights in the ‘about_me’ story. Nothing super fancy to report. Some members of the development team have been...

A content only update. New comic in /comics. Huzzah!

Let’s get down to brass tacks. Reviews, and the thinly veiled windows into my tastes they are.

On the spooky season theme, we have the 1970s sci-fi Hollywood production of The Omega Man, very prominently starring a glistening...

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...

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...