2019-10-11 – Mostly Software

tawk.to is the chat app for live chat (talk to users on your site, like “need help with x?”). It’s free.
minnit.chat is the chat app for group chat (users talking to each other). It’s also free, for max 40 simultaneous users. https://minnit.chat/. Created a room, played around with it – I liked it a lot.
Tried chatcamp.io as well. Their website was pretty bad. Broken register link, bad UX on the dashboard, poor documentation.
The problem with these group chat embeds: they force user accounts on THEIR platform. I couldn’t find a single app that allowed you to simply forward the user accounts that you already have on your site. It’s honestly as simple as a single unique key; even email would work just fine. You just need a string to display in the chatroom. I understand the design though. They want user traffic on their own platform, they don’t just want you to use them for storage space and chat functionality.
Closed the ticket as won’t-fix: https://gitlab.com/bmahlstedt-group/supercontest/issues/22.

I’m not sure if GitLab issues have a resolution field.
I love that GitLab correctly calls them Merge Requests instead of Pull Requests, but they went with the legacy “Issues” instead of “Tickets” which I’m less happy about.
Went through the tough mudder pics from our event and collected the ones with us. About 3 for each, at 3 separate obstacles. Uploading your photo and having them find your pics is easier than searching yourself.
Supercontest.

Closed the user league creation ticket. https://gitlab.com/bmahlstedt-group/supercontest/issues/67. Will reopen later if need be.
Closed the final “Long Term” milestone.
Last remaining ticket: stripe. I do wanna play with this one. https://gitlab.com/bmahlstedt-group/supercontest/issues/29.
Tried customizing the navbar for flask-admin. Copying the templates over isn’t perfect because then you can’t upgrade the pkg. In addition, they have a full html template, you can’t extend your own header, so that’s not ideal. This was the same with graphiql; I’m surprised. It’s not hard, I guess they just don’t expect you to embed such a full page as a subset of another page. I guess you could just use an iframe.

Neither graphql or flask-admin were designed for iframe embed. I’d have to subclass some of the internals to reroute some templates, and again, I’d be making it more of a pain to upgrade than anything else. It’s fine as-is; getting my banner on top is not worth it.

Turned autocomplete=”off” on the feedback form so the “petty’s mom” surprise wouldn’t be shown before you type, if you’d already done it at any point in history.
Went ahead and added the convenient late pick form in the admin view. It tells you the week and season, you pick the user and teams from dropdowns, then it commits and emails them. Nice.
Closed the ticket: https://gitlab.com/bmahlstedt-group/supercontest/issues/118.
Added Petty to admin.

Started playing with stripe. Submitted application to activate the account (business info basically).

They have Stripe Atlas, which is a pretty cool service that helps you form a C Corp, generate the docs, get a tax ID number, etc.
Used the wizard to start the “Checkout” tutorial. Accepting one time payments, from an https website, etc.

NE defense has the 2nd most points out of any offensive player (only McCaffrey higher) and they have the 10th most for avg/week

As of Oct 18 (1 year ago), Mayweather Pacquiao is the best selling PPV of all time: 4.6m buys.
Mayweather McGregor is 2nd at 4.3m buys.
Khabib McGregor is 3rd at 2.5m buys. They drop off pretty quick.

Amazing UFC teaser commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7WywdwqK3o.
Steve kerr reaction to trump calling him a little boy about china dodging: https://streamable.com/8saxb.
Good summary by Buffett: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl2aP8dlIn4. Human investing makes sense. People get pumped, and you get huge bull markets for short times, then they stay stagnant for years because they’re looking in the rear view mirror, doubting it will continue so gold.

Now that the gigantic majority of trading is ML, this will change. Sure, you’ll have explosions like crypto, but the general trend is more programmatic.

In basketball, true shooting percentage (TS%) weighs free throws lower and 3-pointers higher, so it’s a more balanced metric for measuring your shooting efficiency than field goal percentage (FG%). You’re penalized less for missing a 3 because it’s harder, etc.

“Vegetable Oils” are usually just blanket terms for trans fats. You’re better off with a seed oil like flax or sesame oil, because you’re getting the actual oil and fat from from the source.
Cool inside look at the nutrition program for the patriots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iDTAzD2hT4.

They get every meal provided, even in the offseason.
You can customize and special-request items, if you want.
They go through 70lbs of poultry, 25lbs red meat, 25lbs fish, and tons of vegetables every day.
Everything organic, grassfed, freerange. The usual.
They do a ton of smoothies.
The whole program is surprisingly equivalent to my daily meals.

Read up a little bit on bootstrap forms and validation.
You can have subsequent form inputs base their options on previous selections (e.g. season -> week). You have to put these conditions, and subsequent queries (post to server for new choices) in javascript. It’s dynamic. There’s no shortcut.