2019-10-21 – Mostly Software

Made new batch of oat milk. With dates this time. Extra filtered.
Made new batch of cashew butter. Because it’s much more doughy than the other nut butters, add a bit of olive or coconut oil to cream it out.
Made new batch of protein bars. Getting the ratios closer to perfect every time.

Added the sbsc gmail account to my phone so I can monitor there, and get push notifications.
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Celery (backed by redis + rabbitmq) would probably be 1000x better than flask-apscheduler for my background cron jobs.
I could expose a REST API for the direct models. There are tons of flask extensions to do so. Picks, changing leagues, roles, some of the admin stuff; it would all get a little easier. Plus then you can autobuild the documentation with swagger. It’s a little different than the graphql api, which is just for user querying. I’m not going to do this now, because the added value isn’t crucial for this app.
https://gitlab.com/bmahlstedt-group/supercontest/issues/126.

Minified the html (in prod) using flask-htmlmin. The text responses are condensed. It strips comments, extra whitespace, etc. It’s still quite readable without prettyprint (unlike minified js). You access this on the elements tab of devtools (like you’d expect), not sources like for js files.
Made team names on your-picks lowercase with capital, rather than fully upper.
Max-width on name columns for all-picks and lb, so any user making their name gigantic doesn’t wreck the responsive few. Overflow is hidden. Added the full name to the tooltip so that you can see it hovered if it’s cut off normally.

Made the int/float renderer pre-round to 1 decimal place properly, handling the X.0 case.

It’s annoying that companies are taking political stances on topics completely unrelated to their industry, simply for compounding reputation + appeal to new fanbases. Categorization, classification, identity politics, call it whatever you want – it’s moving focus away from the actual values and individuals, which can’t help the actual values and individuals. https://marker.medium.com/why-companies-need-to-pick-a-political-side-9fd5541da81d.
This badge is pretty cool: https://github.com/sourcerer-io/hall-of-fame. Shows your top contributors.
Checked out a meat market that I hadn’t been to before (manhattan and manhattan basically).

They had an ok selection, but not a wide variety of raw cuts. More like a nicer grocery store with preseasoned dinners. They didn’t stock elk, but you can call on thursdays and add it to their weekly order.
Costco business center still the best around here by far.

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Big Mouth is a super underrated show. There are so many clever bits and current social commentaries. There’s even the artistic display with the musical portions.
It’s obviously not feasable to gasoline home delivery for a car owner, since a full tank is ~100lbs, and you’d need it every couple weeks. But for motorcycles? I need 3 gallons to fill it up completely. That’s like a few gallons of milk every month, which is well within the means for a service like amazon fresh.

There’s a home delivery service called filld: https://filld.com/. It’s $5/gal for premium, and a $5 delivery fee.
You can order an above-ground fuel tank directly from Atlas: https://www.atlasoil.com/products/93e10lv. Minimum 150lbs, at $4.04/lb. 91-93 octane, but has 10% ethanol.

I would totally do this for home use, if I were in a static location. It would last me a couple years, and be super convenient. It’s a little risky though; basically a bomb on your property.

The elastic stack is elastic search, logstack, and kibana (ELK). Beats is a fourth application that’s sometimes included. It’s similar to splunk and nagios, a full operational monitoring system. You can aggregate logs, monitor the system, all profiles/processes/nodes/etc, dashboards, metrics, other visualizations.
This is amazing: