Fred and Loathing on The Internet

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...

There is definitely no noticeable update to report on the website. In the time since my last blog post my primary disk drive on my PC had failed. It had the Linux VM I keep as my development environment. Getting all things back to working order was remarkably easy. The only thing I have yet to...

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...

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...

In my estimation, the hallmark of a genuine intellectual breakthrough is the temporary self directed anger. “Why didn’t I grasp this before? This is actually so simple!” I had one of those today.

My update process is somewhat impulsive. Yesterday I failed at getting sqlalchemy-flask...

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...