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Created at: Sept. 5, 2025, noon Updated at: Sept. 4, 2025, 10:45 p.m.

2025-09-04-Thursday

Created at: Sept. 3, 2025, 12:49 p.m. Updated at: Sept. 3, 2025, 12:45 p.m.

Collected starting images (more can be collected from the camera to demonstrate functionality of individual scripts), scripts, and other resources from PostiePi.
Transferred to my local machine to start writing the Programming by Pixels Blog Post.

Created at: Sept. 1, 2025, noon Updated at: Sept. 1, 2025, 4:51 a.m.

Updated the Like feature so that the color of the heart SVG represents the state of the post by the user (liked or not liked)
Added Comment functionality for the Blog App
Closed Issue 8 after implementing blog post interactivity with users
Opened a new issue called Upgrade Comments for Blog App which highlights the future upgrades that could be made for comments on blog posts.

Created at: Aug. 31, 2025, noon Updated at: Aug. 31, 2025, 11:50 p.m.

Fixed the SMTP email authentication issue by updating Google Workspace envrionment variables
Implemented category tags for the Blog App so that tags can now be appropriately filtered by their tagged category (closing the Implement Blog App Categories Issue)
Integrated the Like functionality into the app, with interactivity via AJAX scripts
Organized / outlined all of the different issues related to the Blog App to tackle

Created at: Aug. 30, 2025, noon Updated at: Aug. 31, 2025, 11:50 p.m.

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)!