Fred and Loathing on The Internet

The fidgeting I've done with the data model over in SQL felt dreary. There were not any big blasts of inspiration to improve when I poked around my prior work. There could be some minor gains in efficiency to be made by making sure I do not have any redundant information between my tables. I do...

There has been work done on the complete codebase rewrite. Down to the data model, mind you! I’m saving that stuff to a different git repository. So far what I have are some very, very sparse SQL create table statements. My aim is for each table to only have as few columns as possible with the...

You know what? No updates. Not one. I’ve been busy. The day job has been heavy on the coding each day, so there is not much gas left in the tank when I sign off for the day. I suppose I could clean up some of the CSS by getting rid of all the per-element styling and put them into a base...

The big weekend update was the product of impulsive coding. I did not have any clear objective. What I did have was forty ounces of hot coffee brewed, a few hours with my battlestation, and enough zen leftover from work to put in some possibly difficult work. What came out was some ugly...

Today’s update is brought to you by the very, very, declarative rhetoric of SQLAlchemy. I went along with Flask bringing in SQLAlchemy because I heard good things about it. I wanted to sink my teeth deeper into ORM, especially on the model creation side. It would be lying if I said I have no...

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...