Fred and Loathing on The Internet

Quite a gap in the update pacing. Almost a whole month without any new development fruit to harvest into pithy blog posts framing these efforts as anecdotes that tell a more interesting story than the bare recounting of what is different about the codebase since the last blog post date. Nor...

The project manager for the big update has decided that the scope is too ambitious to spend anytime deploying what is usable into production. Dear readers, you will have to do with my written reports here in the prologue of each blog post. This delay is for good rather than acrimonious reasons....

It is a blog post for rejoicing! That big refactoring that has been talked about in these very blog posts over the past few months has been deployed. The branches have been merged, bringing you the very words you are reading. Deploying was much easier than I imagined. Getting my domain to point...

Hey blog readers! We’ve got a colorful update. With outside data! None of my models is sourcing this update. I found a dataset on Kaggle that has the top 100 Spotify songs for 73 countries (across the past 3 months or so) that is updated daily. After a quick introduction to the Kaggle API, I...

The updates and their respective blog posts keep coming! The pre-processing job I mentioned in the last post is here, and in a different physical type than I was planning. I was thinking of splitting the results into four CSVs. Instead I went with a Sqlite database, just like I’ve got for my...

Updates made to the production repository since the last blog post are metaphysical. To the user, there are some subtle templating fixes to bring font families into uniformity that can be noticed. The /rp URL is now being cached once an hour. The results of my effort to cache all the variables...