Fred and Loathing on The Internet

Hey dear blog readers! Remember way back when this domain name pointed to a Django app with no blog section? I thought I ported everything over to Flask in the big frontend migration at the beginning of the year. A full HTML page Plotly dashboard about the name drops throughout the seasons of...

Aluh akbar! My nerves have calmed. I passed my Spark Developer Associate Certification exam from Databricks. I was well prepared for it yet I was incensed with apprehension. Nothing some careful breathing couldn’t handle, yet my nerves were definitely in need of assuaging. It felt like the...

The modules I use to make the Plotly charts that get displayed with Plotly-Dash are far too bloated. They have been that way for a while yet I keep piling on new stuff, loaded with redundancies. My update development time is at least fifteen percent scrolling through superfluous code. I remember...

This blog post comes with no updates to the codebase. At least not to this one. I’ve more or less decided to throw everything I’ve got into mastering Apache Spark. This blog post was spurred by my breakthrough in setting up a Spark cluster on a linux VM in local mode. I then downloaded a jar...

Yowza! A flurry of updates to report! I’ve been away from my keyboard for a spell. My tolerance for doing two steps forward/one step back development was at its maximum capacity. Corrections were made and novel content was pioneered. What’s corrected is the alpha headings in between the artist...

That day of the week:calendar day problem within my template was not difficult to comprehend after a good night’s sleep. I found several avenues to connect the day of the week to the calendar day. Several because each gawd damn time I implemented them I would get a HTML problem. Every trick I...