Fred and Loathing on The Internet

The modularization of the new version to Fredlambuth.com is reporting success in reducing functionality to the most replaceable unit. It has made mixing and matching between Flask views and Jinja2 templates a possibility. The old version has a much more fragile linking between those, requiring a...

There is an actual update for the web app currently being served at fredlambuth.com. A very minor one, and that brings up more questions than answers. I’ve doubled up the decorators of a few ‘views’ that I often visit by manually typing in the URL. The extra decorator is the answer I came up...

The reporting on updates will no longer be the impetus for blog posts. The update cycle and the database that holds my blog posts are no longer connected. I suppose once I have a very distinct front and back end defined, I can go back to writing blog posts whenever I make front-end only updates....

The launch of the rebuilt fredlambuth.com is not going to be happening anytime soon. Definitely not in the few weeks left in this calendar year. There is progress being made. The new backend is more or less working, so there will be a little bit of history using the new data model when the...

There is a pile up of topics worth reviewing on the fredlambuth.com/blog. The reason for the pile-up is a slowdown on the commits toward reconfiguring the backend to this site, at least the Spotify collection functions and data model. After a few days of breakneck speed refactoring the API calls...

A backend only update to report. The multi-genre data model uses all three genres to assign a master_genre derived from polling all the possible genres each artist possesses. Dealing with the nulls was a pain. The pain of dealing with nulls in data bending cannot be understated. They’re the...