Fred and Loathing on The Internet

Yeah, there’s an update. I fixed the dashboard landing page so that the third Plotly Dash app is shown. The CSS is ugly everywhere and definitely not consistent. I suppose I should work on that. Today’s book talk is a boring tech one. I had been reading a very old (80s I think) dry software...

Version numbering is not something I have considered at all. At least, not for marking any updates smaller than the big huge changes. This would be the fourth or so update since I moved the framework over to Flask. Let us call this one version 3.1.3. The Artist Listening History dashboard now...

The idea of using an actual database server to handle my app, rather than the database-in-a-file approach that comes with SQLite, came to me when I realized a lot of the changes I want to make to my website would be done on the data side. Lots of SQL. ALTER TABLE is not robust at all with...

I had not gotten to making a new database to allow the blog table to have a BLOB type column. The idea of making a complete overhaul to the data architecture breezed into my thoughts when I thought about how the fixes I want to make will not be usable if I were to do that. And I do. I have read...

The latest update is cursory progress. Once I rebuild the database structure my app should be using, these fixes I put in will be erased. They are there to get the HTML to display what I want, but there are several cases where this functionality will be broken. I thought about making some more...

The blog index will now be contained into pages with five posts per page. Those Digital Ocean tutorials are just wonderful. Most of the progress I make on this Flask site is built on the code blocks I copy from there, grafted together from disparate tutorials. The last one was about pagination....