Follow my whole plodding flask journey here.. Am still stuck at where I was yesterday. But made a tiny bit of progress. Yesterday, it would not even submit the form. And now I got it to do that. How? I had forgotten to close the form tag. Now while I see that it is posting perfectly in the terminal, I cannot get it to reply with a message saying that I indeed have logged in. ...
Follow my whole plodding journey here. Wrote a basic login form today. Short story short, it shows up, but it does not respond like Miguel shows in the course. It justs sits there … staring back at me … like an obstinate goat. Will go spelunking into what I could have done wrong, tomorrow. Learnt about adding routes and creating views and making templates. Thoroughly confused though. While I am dumbly following instructions right now, what I don’t get, is what do I need to write first? It all seems very circular to me. What comes first? The route, the form, the template, the chicken or the egg? ...
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face … forever. That, probably is the quotable line, I found. The book’s terrible, and I hated the story (too bleak, too dystopian). The only reason for its popularity is that events in real life, are proving Orwell right.
Continuing the Flask course. Learnt about seperation of concerns today. To me that means that I should try to keep related things together and disparate stuff apart. Case in point, we1 created a seperate file config.py to store the variables about the program in. And then to kind of secure it even more, instead of hardcoding the password in the file, it now looks for an environment variable, which I need to set before running the program. Another example was when we created a seperate file to process input (for our logins) and then put all the login, password etc. fields in there. This feels good. Feels like I am learning best practices and good habits already. ...
In my youth, I came across the work of Robin Williams. No, not that one. She introduced me to the beauty of CRAP. And the fact that the PC is not a typewriter. But most of all, she introducted me to the beauty of type and design Fonts, and line spacing and kerning and everything else lovely, about the written word. And now if you want all that wisdom distilled, into a short, opinionated, beautiful web series, look no further than Matthew Butterick’s, Practical Typography. ...
Continuing with the Flask course. Today I learnt about how to loop, using Jinja loop blocks. The syntax is slowly becoming clear to me. Everything python related in enclosed is {% … %} blocks, except for variables which use their own {{ … }} syntax. What I am still confused on is the relationship between the various files, I am writing. There is html and then there are templates and there are python files themselves. Hopefully that will get clearer in the days to come. My naïve understanding, right now, is ...