DIMMiN

Created at: Aug. 30, 2025, noon Updated at: Aug. 30, 2025, 6:42 a.m.

2025-08-30-Saturday

Updated last D3 Beta Distribution Data Visualization so that the user could alter distribution parameters before sampling / selecting which animation to play
Pushed Static Files to Production, allowing blog posts to render properly in the Blog App
Optimized D3 chart widths for mobile view
Published Mini Martial Artists - Part 2, now available here
Add a ResearchPaper Django Model to the BookNook app, along with a corresponding ResearchNote object and a Django Management Command to process it

Created at: Aug. 29, 2025, noon Updated at: Aug. 29, 2025, 6:11 a.m.

Created the adjustable demo takedown success Beta Distribution chart that the user could interact with
Created the sampling logic / animation for D3 charts
Integrated Pixi with D3 animations, chaining them so the output of the D3 Data Visualization then activates a sequence of animations for the Spritesheets.

Created at: Aug. 28, 2025, noon Updated at: Aug. 28, 2025, 6:18 a.m.

Integrated Pixel Art animations into the blog post, storing Spritesheets in S3 via the /media-proxy/ Signed URL from the config/views.py Django View (which makes retrieving media assets super easy)
Allowed the user to interact with the sprites on click
Re-wrote the Pixi Javascript so that animations can be easily chained and mapped to different div containers
Created a versatile BetaChart class with D3 that can quickly produce nice Data Visualizations of Beta Distributions with flexible sizing, styling, and number of distributions
Began implementing the first collection of Beta Distribution Data Visualizations and positioning them in the blog post

Created at: Aug. 27, 2025, noon Updated at: Aug. 27, 2025, 4:36 a.m.

Created correct Spritesheet and Metadata to include all animations
Validated that all animations were working properly and that metadata properly associated each image with the correct snapshot
Created a re-coloring script based on my recoloring logic around a base color, used this to create two different composite fighter spritesheets to use in my blog post
Rendered these fighters in the browser with correct animations using Pixi
Chained animations so that fighters can elegantly go between different animations / states using Pixi

Created at: Aug. 26, 2025, noon Updated at: Aug. 26, 2025, 2:51 a.m.

Updated my WGU MSDADS vault within the BigBrain App
Collected resources to finish up Mini Martial Artists - Part 2
Started looking into Javascript libraries that can handle Spritesheets (specifically Pixi integrates directly with Aseprite)

Created at: Aug. 25, 2025, noon Updated at: Aug. 25, 2025, 8:59 a.m.

Fixed Redis cache issue in prod, allowing for blog post images to be rendered without problems
Created a data proxy to serve signed URLs of data directly to D3 for processing Data Visualizations
Removed clunky iframe implementation of plotly and networkx charts and used js to build interactive Data Visualizations on A Major Problem with a Fort Minor Solution via div tags.
Fixed CSS styling to more accurately reflect the styling choices I wanted to apply to the images in my Blog App
Added Responsive Design elements to plotly charts so that they operate (and look good on) mobile
FINALLY CLOSED OUT ISSUE 29 to take my dimmin S3 Bucket private (and all the above craziness I had to fix to get that to work)!

Created at: Aug. 24, 2025, noon Updated at: Aug. 24, 2025, 8:15 a.m.

Started resolving Issue 29, starting by adjusting permissions on S3 Buckets and allowing Signed URLs to be generated on the Backend via boto3.

Created at: Aug. 23, 2025, noon Updated at: Aug. 23, 2025, 12:30 p.m.

Created at: Aug. 23, 2025, noon Updated at: Aug. 22, 2025, 3:17 a.m.

Created a Mel Spectrogram visualizing each of the 6 Vietnamese tones. Could serve as an interesting prototype for an additional tonal language learning app or an interesting post for the Blog App.

Created at: Aug. 23, 2025, noon Updated at: Aug. 20, 2025, 9:08 a.m.

JSON extracted data now populates individual BookNook/Note objects
Note uniqueness is enforced on Book.id, Note.source_text, Note.note_type, and User.id
Changes to Note objects where they are either created or updated are now tracked within the Django Management Command (apps/booknook/management/commands/booknook_process_enotes.py)
Updated the display on the Django Admin page so that notes are searchable by source_text and filterable by Book.title as well as Note.note_type
Pushed changes to the BookNook app.
Created another Django Management Command (apps/booknook/management/commands/booknook_convert_terms.py) that converted existing Term objects into their appropriate Note objects
Transferred existing propositions / terms to the new generic BookNook/Note Django Model.
Used the Django Shell to apply the booknook_process_enotes.py command across all books.
Updated the Book Django Model's save() method so that enotes are processed whenever they are updated for a Book.
Created a github issue to reference the duplicate Note updating / re-writing over itself problem later (would make a great first issue if any devs wanted to join me on this project).