Category: Food For Thought

SoYouStart.com does not do a good job of updating account information, specifically email address.  I started my SoYouStart account with one email address, so you start sends alerts to that email address when it’s time to pay your bill.  If you change that email address SoYouStart.com sends that previously mentioned email to the same old address.  I have not found anywhere in settings to fix or change this.  I even called them and told them and it is still happening.  It’s been three (3) weeks still no one has fixed the bug.  I’m Just making my fellow software developers aware.  It’s a good thing the server it cost me was just a dev box.

SoYouStart.com remains one best places to get a dedicated server.  But that’s about it.  You are on your own from there on in.

I recently purchased and started using Formidable Forms for a client.  I’m less than impress.  The customer service is terrible.  We’re always asking if something is worth it.  Formidable forms is worth maybe $50 to me.  I’ve had to go in and fix too many things.  It’s not worth buying the license.  $399 is way too much for the lack of support they give you.

I recently started using GitAhead and I’m pleasantly surprised.  My first choice for git SCM was SourceTree.  Everything about SourceTree kept trying to get me to log into github or gitlab.  It wasn’t geared toward my own git repository.  Which is what every good software development company needs.   It’s what happens when softare developer really created a software to get clients or customers.  I think I’ve found a solution with GitAhead that is quite different.   has recently Git source control management has come to be one of the biggest pains in the ass because of that.

This an important google feature that should be added.

Can shared file members see each other?

or

https://support.google.com/drive/thread/14958505?hl=en

What a year 2020 has been so far and we are only half way there.  At this point the hottest thing in the media cycle is Floyd George story.  It’s sad.  I don’t want to say this but what was expected.  I’ve been judging us way too long.  Staying quite and watching the whole thing play out.  I have no answers,m but what did you expect.  As if COVID19 wasn’t bullshit enough.  I don’t even want to start speculating on what I truly believe.  I stick to making money. . and try to keep it.

Remember the whole Jeffrey Epstein thing. I’m sure that seems like nothing now.  It seem like nobody is paying attention to the decline in quality presidential candidates but I wont say shit.

I created a service to run my webapp using the Systemd method.  When I was trying to run the app.py file I got this error saying that ‘sqlalchemy’ module could not be found.  I kept trying to install it in many different ways.  The final solution was to make sure I installed in for my python 3 environment and make sure I install all the packages using sudo and then run the application as sudo.

install package using sudo:
     sudo python3 -m pip install sqlalchemy

The .service file looks something like:

[Unit]
Description=HomeBase
After=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=idle
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /BaseWebApp/webapp/app.py > /BaseWebApp/webapp/application.log 2>&1

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

There really is no reason to expect that the file being run is will be run be root (or it just isn’t apparent)

Sometimes Imgur is just funny.

https://www.tesla.com/solarroof?redirect=no

The CIA’s World Fact Book is a nice little place to look up… things

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/335rank.html#TS