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Look to get a full breakdown of pitchers vs. batters, add in a column for the batter’s height (strike box).

Discuss.

So it likes to end paragraphs whenever there is an <h3> tag. This of course is a bunch of bun…

What? I learned something new today. H tags can’t go inside a paragraph. Woah…

Right. I now have while text blocks popping in. I dropped the text I want into a <div> because I could then have section headings be formatted as something a bit more specific than bold. Really I should have a tag with a custom class, but it’s 10pm, and I haven’t had the desire to do HTML by hand in quite a few years. It’s the curse of all these tools. Writing clean markup is something that hasn’t been on my mind.

The text is handled in HTML files for having preformatted text that drops in. I need to take a look at that section of the walk-thru again, as I’m bungling something. I also really need to look into JavaScript’s ins and outs. Stuff like how to do switches, string formatting, and having and manipulating the date.

As a plus note, everything I learn about JavaScript will carry over to anything I do with node.js. As a minute note, if I decide to rebuild my website on node.js I’m going to have to change my host of the last 15 or so years.

At work I’m doing a lot more stuff. Which means that now is the time that I kinda need to fill out my dance card of skills – at least a bit more.

Yesterday I threw on the demo of Planet Press, and I’ve been going through the learning examples. It’s a monster of an interface when I’m coming from InDesign and SmartStream, but it makes sense in a way. Since it, and the majority of it’s competition, are built on top of XML, complaining about it’s page layout is a bit of a mistake. Rather than the InDesign pages and layers you have a lot more of master elements with streamed in sections of content. This is nice for half the things I do, but it looks to be ugly as f-bomb for one off jobs. A lot of this is me visualizing how the jobs we have can be built.

Things to do:

• Multiple backgrounds
• Find my JavaScript Cookbook
• Look into error checking for a given data file (because this is never an issue)
• Build a workflow
• Automate the workflow

Should I build a holiday letter? It’s be a good trial run. I could have a list of addresses and interests. If a given person likes cats, they get the full cat stuff, otherwise they only get a blurb. On the PostScript I could add a custom URL to change how they get their holiday letter. I should also think about using whitespace as well as sending out the letter as an email.

To the prep cave!

My website went down for a few days as a result of a jacked up .htaccess file. At some point I should try to dig into why it went South. On the other hand, it led me to seeing might be able to break free of PHP and switch over to node.js for the server without changing hosts, which might be fun. Since this is low on content and traffic it really doesn’t matter too much on which tech it’s built in top of, but for future purposes (data logging and visualization) it could be hella fun.

I’ll have to look into this as my poor bust arm slowly heals.

https://www.altera.com/products/fpga/new-to-fpgas/resource-center/getting-started.html

Well that’s handy looking

Pulled pork

Potential cheese

(Traditional ravioli pasta dough until I have a way to do biscuit style dough)

Hand made baked beans and barbecue sauce… Sauce

I should totally figure out if this would work for me. Though… 1 second refresh means typing is right out (the technology, not the project, it’s still be wicked for a lot of things)

https://hackaday.com/2017/10/11/hackaday-prize-entry-paperback-desktop-epaper-monitor/

After a bit more thinking…

I think step one is going be clearing my work table and measuring the glass. Step two should be cutting the glass and making doors. This way if I munch something really bad, I don’t have to wonder what to do next. Step three will be measuring spaces and find one or more for putting said cabinet. This is a bit backwards, but doing it this way I can better visualize the “how does this look?” factor.

So tonight, unrelated, do laundry. Then clear the work table. It’s be nice if I hadn’t ended up with metal freaking shelving in my den, but that’s how things work somedays. Ugghhh… I hate metal racking. Now I need to start figuring out how to get it from taking up so much damnable space… First step there is getting rid of everything on it.