Goal

• Finish writing a A Major Problem with a Fort Minor Solution and upload it to the DIMMiN Blog.

Pomodoro

None today, just wanted to write. Ended up getting distracted by texting, but had most of the work finished from the last time I worked on this 2023-07-11.

Notes

I had completed a surprising amount of the work last time I was writing. Finishing this up was just a matter of adding additional context around some graphs and editing what I already had. Ended up working on this today before and after work (instead of just in the morning). I decided to use AWS to host my plotly graphs using iframe tags. There's got to be a better way to render these things.

I also decided to try looking into how I might implement Floaty Notes into the background of my app. When I was doing this I was looking at the CSS stylesheet and noticed that I have two identical folders (static and staticfiles). When I removed this line

STATIC_ROOT = str(BASE_DIR.joinpath('staticfiles'))

and set the STATIC_ROOT variable to the 'static' path instead of 'staticfiles' like so

STATIC_ROOT = str(BASE_DIR.joinpath('static'))

I was able to finally delete my staticfiles folder without causing any issues (as far as I am aware...). I updated my changes and committed them to GitHub. So far so good, no issues yet.

Results

• Finished the post and uploaded it here
• Found out that some of my links didn't have a blank target, so the links wouldn't open a new tab they would redirect the user to a new page
  • Added target blanks to open new tabs
• Deleted staticfiles folder and used the one true static folder for css/js utilities.

Next Time

• Figure out how to implement Floaty Notes OR
• Continue fixing the graph on Beauty is in the AI of the Beholder.