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Latest Posts

• How to Set Up and Deploy a Dead-Simple ERN App Part 2 - Deploying our Creation

  16 Dec 2020

  Time to bring our baby into the cold, cruel world.

• How to Set Up and Deploy a Dead-Simple ERN App Part 1 - Creating the App

  12 Dec 2020

  ERN: Because MongoDB comes next.

• Learning MERN... and My Next Project

  11 Dec 2020

  It’s time for a bit of a pivot.

Older Posts

• 5 Things I Learned Giving My Blog A Facelift

  - 26 Nov 2020

• Updates - Anomaly Frontend and SousChef Demo

  - 16 Nov 2020

• A New Project - Anomalies

  - 06 Oct 2020

• Where I've Been

  - 03 Oct 2020

• It's Out

  - 12 Sep 2020

• More Users and a Better Login

  - 06 Sep 2020

• Additional Cleanup for Release

  - 05 Sep 2020

• Cleaning Up the List Page

  - 02 Sep 2020

• Cleaning Up the Recipe Page

  - 29 Aug 2020

• New Functions for the List Page

  - 26 Aug 2020

• Refactoring Modals

  - 16 Aug 2020

• Building the Recipe Page - Part 2

  - 13 Aug 2020

• Creating the Recipe Page Part 1 - Modifying the Backend

  - 08 Aug 2020

• Adding Recipes and Lists

  - 06 Aug 2020

• Adding Authentication - Part 2

  - 03 Aug 2020

• Adding Authentication - Part 1

  - 02 Aug 2020

• Creating the Main Interface of the App

  - 29 Jul 2020

• Creating the Login and Register Pages

  - 23 Jul 2020

• Beginning the Frontend to the Grocery List App

  - 16 Jul 2020

• Finishing Touches on Writing Sprinter

  - 05 Jul 2020

• Building a Writing Sprinter Part 2

  - 29 Jun 2020

• Creating a Writing Sprint App Part 1

  - 21 Jun 2020

• Creating the Functionality for the Calculator

  - 13 Jun 2020

• Designing A Calculator with React

  - 30 May 2020

• Rewriting PUT Requests with Exposed Association Endpoints

  - 26 May 2020

• Parsing Recipes and Refactoring

  - 15 May 2020

• Creating the User Schema and Endpoints

  - 14 May 2020

• List Schemas and Changing Queries

  - 09 May 2020

• API Endpoints -- Part 1

  - 04 May 2020

• Coding the New Database

  - 03 May 2020

• Designing a New Database

  - 02 May 2020

• Still Much To Learn

  - 27 Apr 2020

• Second Patch -- Custom Error Pages and the Beginnings of a Control Panel

  - 26 Apr 2020

• First Patch, with Notes on Scraping

  - 25 Apr 2020

• That Was Hard.

  - 24 Apr 2020

• Preparing for the First Release

  - 22 Apr 2020

• More Changes to the Lines... And Thoughts About Perfectionism

  - 17 Apr 2020

• Updating the Recipe Adder

  - 12 Apr 2020

• List Copies and Edit Restrictions

  - 07 Apr 2020

• Custom Validators and Verifying Email

  - 05 Apr 2020

• Settings Page and Password Reset

  - 04 Apr 2020

• Enabling the Creation of Temporary Lists with Guest Users

  - 02 Apr 2020

• Creating a New Homepage -- Part 2

  - 31 Mar 2020

• Creating a User Homepage -- Part 1

  - 30 Mar 2020

• Creating an Account System

  - 28 Mar 2020

• An Interlude to Refactor

  - 26 Mar 2020

• Emailing the Grocery List

  - 24 Mar 2020

• Exporting a List to a PDF

  - 23 Mar 2020

• Adding a Link to the Recipe Source

  - 21 Mar 2020

• Dragging List Items Around

  - 20 Mar 2020

• Deleting Lines on the Grocery List

  - 18 Mar 2020

• Checking Items off the List

  - 16 Mar 2020

• Renaming Lists

  - 12 Mar 2020

• A Road Map for the Future

  - 11 Mar 2020

• Completing the Custom Recipe Feature

  - 10 Mar 2020

• What Happens When We Can't Parse a Recipe

  - 09 Mar 2020

• Finally Fixing the "Add Line" Feature

  - 06 Mar 2020

• More List Functionality -- Adding Edit Lines and Details

  - 02 Mar 2020

• Giving the User the Ability to Clean Recipe Lines

  - 24 Feb 2020

• Deepening Interactivity on the List Page

  - 21 Feb 2020

• Creating a More Interactive List Page

  - 20 Feb 2020

• Adding Some Navigation to the App

  - 16 Feb 2020

• Constructing a More Complete Database Model

  - 15 Feb 2020

• JSON and Databases and AJAX -- Oh My!

  - 13 Feb 2020

• The Grocery App Part 1 -- Building the Skeleton

  - 10 Feb 2020

• Enter Flask!

  - 09 Feb 2020

• A Command Line App to make Annotating spaCy Data Easier

  - 02 Feb 2020

• Teaching spaCy the "Ingredient" Entity

  - 29 Jan 2020

• Building a Command Line App to Annotate Large Amounts of Data

  - 27 Jan 2020

• Working out the Kinks in NER "Quantity" Improvement

  - 25 Jan 2020

• A First Stab at Training spaCy's Model

  - 24 Jan 2020

• Evaluating the Performance of the Recipe Parser

  - 23 Jan 2020

• Building a Recipe Parser -- Part 3

  - 19 Jan 2020

• Building a Recipe Parser -- Part 2

  - 18 Jan 2020

• Building a Recipe Parser -- Part 1

  - 17 Jan 2020