SacMusic events updates: 2022

So here we are. It's the first time since I built SacMusic that I'm updating the events. I hate this part. I just want to do the fun development bit. So I think I can probably make a few assumptions here. I can probably assume I've burnt some trust in the site by having out-of-date …

Successful Pop! upgrade, Tauri

Gonna try not to type a lot tonight. I'm tired. The other day I tried to upgrade Pop!_OS. It failed. Then I got curious about Tauri. I tried to make a new Tauri app, and everything broke. Apt stopped working. Mono screwed something up. I'm not sure when I installed it, but I probably did …

Deployed: Turbo vs React performance

25 commits. That's how many commits it took to get the Rails version of SacMusic deployed. My first go-around took over 100 trial-and-error commits, so I guess that's that's an improvement. The Compose files needed lots of tweaking though. Mostly because I forgot how they worked on previous projects. Even better, I was able to …

Feature parity achieved for Rails-powered SacMusic

Minus a slightly nicer admin interface in WordPress/Django-powered editions of SacMusic, the new Rails-powered SacMusic has all of the features that the other two sites were using. Which basically means that it has all of the features of the very first one I launched in January 2019: despite this being the fifth rebuild, I haven't …

I don’t think my skills are improving in 2022

Learning Django and Rails has been on my TODO list since 2020. Last year I built small side projects with them, but focused my efforts on testing, containerization, DevOps, etc. This year I program Django full time and I'm in the process of migrating my main side project to Rails. I finally understand the basics …

Still plugging away with Rails

Today I added TinyMCE and improved the index/create/edit templates for venues. Before I added TinyMCE I tried Trix. I'm a huge fan of the Trix UI, but it uses divs instead of paragraphs and that's a deal breaker for me. The maintainer said it had something to do with image positioning. It also seemed like …

Fuck your flying cars

Peter Thiel famous said, "We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters." The optimistic future of mankind has often been defined by technological progress. From Earth's societal Utopia on Star Trek to the wonderful and whimsical world of the Jetsons, we've spent the centuries dreaming of the every day minutiae that technology can unburden …

Protected: The people I admire most are those who know when to call it

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Django is not my jam

Why does every Django REST Framework serializer--even those that aren't tied to models--need a create and update method? Why do I need to create a serializer to validate user generated json in a way that returns a reasonable error object? DRF's serializers are overloaded. Django's url_patterns-based routing is a pain. Django's restrictive templates are a …

Three days out from feature parity

I worked on the Rails SacMusic site a little more after work today. Implemented favicons, Analytics, redirect-to-trailing-slash, and bundled font awesome. I also did some manual testing to ensure a few things worked the way that I thought it did in Rails. Here's what's left to get feature parity to the Next.js/Django DRF app: 404/500 …