Fred and Loathing on The Internet

One of the updates today is an unsatisfying fix. The pagination links at the bottom of the /blog section sometimes had a None printed out in the 3 or 6 spot. It would link to /blog with no /number appended. That problem has been circumvented by setting my pagination size to 8 posts per page. I...

This blog post comes with no updates to the codebase. At least not to this one. I’ve more or less decided to throw everything I’ve got into mastering Apache Spark. This blog post was spurred by my breakthrough in setting up a Spark cluster on a linux VM in local mode. I then downloaded a jar...

Updates involved some fixes to my hacky hard-coded URL paths to the Spotify web player. Some of the links that go to /tracks/ fail because Spotify sometimes appends another code after the track ID; to distinguish different recordings of the same song name. My links fail because I do not use that...

Allegations about involving Spark in any way to this project have been greatly exaggerated. Even though I sorta worry that using Pandas right before I take a Spark exam is going to cloud my thoughts about code syntax. I sorta think the big thing to remember is explicitly having to select from a...

The modules I use to make the Plotly charts that get displayed with Plotly-Dash are far too bloated. They have been that way for a while yet I keep piling on new stuff, loaded with redundancies. My update development time is at least fifteen percent scrolling through superfluous code. I remember...

Aluh akbar! My nerves have calmed. I passed my Spark Developer Associate Certification exam from Databricks. I was well prepared for it yet I was incensed with apprehension. Nothing some careful breathing couldn’t handle, yet my nerves were definitely in need of assuaging. It felt like the...