Fred and Loathing on The Internet

There was a bit of back and forth effort on updating this website. I did make a new database table to hold the blog entries, with a BLOB type column to hold a photo to go with each post. However, getting Flask to display this photo without actually writing the image to disk was way more effort...

You will have to take my word for it, but there were a few changes made to the codebase of this website. It’s all back-end work that has yet to have any HTML views, but they are there in the repo. I think I might never make that big data overhaul down to the SQL/database level. The flaws there...

I have yet to make some HTML that points to the /stats section of my page. Nevertheless, it has been updated. I think I have hit my over-the-hump point with using Bootstrap to layout the HTML/CSS in my site. The grid system it uses to manage rows and columns sounds remarkable like the dashboard...

There are no published links on my site, but appending /stats to the homepage’s URL will show the barest of HTML I cobbled together to start a feature I want to show me my recent data, other than the top track and artist I show on the homepage. The steps are not that time consuming, but they do...

I told myself I would not publish a blog post unless I have an update to push to the website’s codebase. That rule has proved onerous when all my planned changes require hours of coding to take effect. The shortcut I have found to meet this change rule is to tweak something with the CSS. I’ve...

This might be the most minor update to report in this blog post series. I had made several back and forth changes with the CSS/HTML. Often I am guilty of thinking ‘more is more’ with visual design. My Django site was clear evidence of that urge. Since I had made the switch to Flask, along with a...