Fred and Loathing on The Internet

The update today is mostly fixes. There are new things added. However this fix is the first fruit of the mobile-device testing pattern! Let’s not jump for joy just yet. All that means is the browser window used for user testing is squeezed vertically as much as possible. It feels ludicrously...

Updates made to the production repository since the last blog post are metaphysical. To the user, there are some subtle templating fixes to bring font families into uniformity that can be noticed. The /rp URL is now being cached once an hour. The results of my effort to cache all the variables...

This blog comes hot off the git commit presses. I had been wrestling with a URL >> template issue for more than I would have liked. The lessons learned tasted somewhat anticlimactic. Turns out flask cannot handle two routes using the same namespace. I had to make an explicit directory prefix so...

The non-metric peculiarities of our time-date system has been a puzzling thorn in my data practitioner career. Several times I think I have come up with work-arounds to the common irregularities of how we keep time. Much like the Imperial system of weights and measures that the USA was foisted...

Even though there is now an official decoupling between this blog and the rate of updates that I put into the repository it is sourced from, I still find myself not exactly jumping on to the keyboard to start writing down my thoughts about whatever I just saw on TV. While I am watching, or...

The production branch has some updates! Look over at the about_me section and you’ll see a slightly more manicured look. I peppered in a few photos that match up with the highlights in the ‘about_me’ story. Nothing super fancy to report. Some members of the development team have been...