Fred and Loathing on The Internet

The launch of the rebuilt fredlambuth.com is not going to be happening anytime soon. Definitely not in the few weeks left in this calendar year. There is progress being made. The new backend is more or less working, so there will be a little bit of history using the new data model when the...

The reporting on updates will no longer be the impetus for blog posts. The update cycle and the database that holds my blog posts are no longer connected. I suppose once I have a very distinct front and back end defined, I can go back to writing blog posts whenever I make front-end only updates....

Even though there is now an official decoupling between this blog and the rate of updates that I put into the repository it is sourced from, I still find myself not exactly jumping on to the keyboard to start writing down my thoughts about whatever I just saw on TV. While I am watching, or...

The non-metric peculiarities of our time-date system has been a puzzling thorn in my data practitioner career. Several times I think I have come up with work-arounds to the common irregularities of how we keep time. Much like the Imperial system of weights and measures that the USA was foisted...

There is an actual update for the web app currently being served at fredlambuth.com. A very minor one, and that brings up more questions than answers. I’ve doubled up the decorators of a few ‘views’ that I often visit by manually typing in the URL. The extra decorator is the answer I came up...

This blog comes hot off the git commit presses. I had been wrestling with a URL >> template issue for more than I would have liked. The lessons learned tasted somewhat anticlimactic. Turns out flask cannot handle two routes using the same namespace. I had to make an explicit directory prefix so...