Fred and Loathing on The Internet

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...

The blog index will now be contained into pages with five posts per page. Those Digital Ocean tutorials are just wonderful. Most of the progress I make on this Flask site is built on the code blocks I copy from there, grafted together from disparate tutorials. The last one was about pagination....

The latest update is cursory progress. Once I rebuild the database structure my app should be using, these fixes I put in will be erased. They are there to get the HTML to display what I want, but there are several cases where this functionality will be broken. I thought about making some more...

I had not gotten to making a new database to allow the blog table to have a BLOB type column. The idea of making a complete overhaul to the data architecture breezed into my thoughts when I thought about how the fixes I want to make will not be usable if I were to do that. And I do. I have read...

The idea of using an actual database server to handle my app, rather than the database-in-a-file approach that comes with SQLite, came to me when I realized a lot of the changes I want to make to my website would be done on the data side. Lots of SQL. ALTER TABLE is not robust at all with...