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Just the two popular ones here … Dickens writes such fluid prose here, I would quote the whole book. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way–in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. ...

Follow my whole plodding, Flask journey here. Crashed and burned even harder today. Tried to retrace my steps and did all the exercises again. I reached, once more, all the way upto the forms chapter and it just does not work. Now it won’t even display my login page. Was it worth doing? Oh yes. I gained a much better understanding of how Flask works, of what is required where. Will work once more at the login page tomorrow. ...

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. ...