Finally, just before summer 2020 my web site reached to it's first milestone. It is going on line!

This webpage was created during covid-19 lockdown. It might sound silly, but the forced home office gave me some extra time as I didn't need to commute to my office. And time was extra even if suddenly three kids wanted to share my home office with their home school.

Nevertheless, a project that was long time on my list was to program a fully functional web site running on Python Flask backend. Sure, I can imagine everyone asking why one needs to 'program' their own web site. There are number of web site builders that spin up your site or blog in a few minutes. For example WordPress, Webly, Wix or similar may had caught your ear already. Using Flask on other side was a looooong journey thru advanced Flask mega tutorial by Miguel Grinberg, and another very didactic YouTube channel by Corey Schafer!

Yet here it is, a fully flexible home page. It helped me to learn from building dynamic pages with forms and templating, thru user login management, email notifications, language translations, till deploying to a cloud hosted linux server backed with MySQL database and secure protocols. Bootstrap make-up was just an extra. But most important of it, a custom page might allow me to try out advanced applications written in Python also outside of the cosy PC environment. So, machine learning and software vision that I learned in past few years might perhaps even find some new usage.

One last thing. Site is conceptualized as a family blog. The content will be family stories, and full access to blog will only be granted to family and close friends.

ABOUT US

If we don't watch the Wicked tuna, then we must be watching Death in paradise.

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