Fred and Loathing on The Internet

Hey dear blog readers! Remember way back when this domain name pointed to a Django app with no blog section? I thought I ported everything over to Flask in the big frontend migration at the beginning of the year. A full HTML page Plotly dashboard about the name drops throughout the seasons of...

Huzzah! A minor one. I have not rolled out a big new flashy dashboard exploring all the text mining data I have procured by scraping fan typed transcripts of the TV shows Succession and Mad Men. What I did was take out the good parts of the Mad Men work I did about a year ago for my site in its...

Nothing new in this codebase. I was hoping to explore the Succession data a little more and flesh out a first draft of a combined HTML/Plotly-Dash page with some interactivity. I chose a more modest goal today because I am only working at half-strength. American Airlines stranded me in Charlotte...

As promised, I beefed up that static line plot I had been serving at /dash/succession into a hi-falootin’ interactive dashboard, with a seasoning of KPIs above the line plot indicating how heavy the swear word usage was per season. I cleaned the three actual manuscripts with parts assigned into...

Tech debt can affect you even if your app is developed, tested, and deployed by just one guy! I hope stating that precaution will soften the blow I’m about to give you dear fredlambuth.com blog readers. There’s an update, but it broke some functionality. I know you’ll be able to handle this, and...

Those very recently posted notices about large sweeping changes to the CSS are happening right away. I grabbed a sample CSS package for a personal website, plopped it into my jinja templating, and then filled in the fields with my Flask app’s variables. Voila, un nouvel homepage! Sure looks...