The new year has been great so far. The Golden Globes went off without a hitch. It was a surprisingly simple ceremony. The categories were succint and I had an overall wonderful time working on that list of nominees and winners.
The Grammy Awards on the other hand...is kind of a nightmare. There are a ton of categories which I just don't see how they're going to address all on the night of the awards ceremony. I will probably have to update some of those categories after the fact, which is okay. I mean, there are nearly 100 different categories celebrating the different types of music. It's a crazy undertaking for such a diverse industry to acknowledge all the different artists, producers, mixers, technicians, genres and everything else, but I'm committed to updating everything I can to accurately reflect the winners and nominees.
I have a secret weapon that I'm using to help me make all this possible. I wrote a simple html generator script in Python. It takes input from me on what the category is, how many nominees there are and then spits out the proper html to create the page. It has shaved off so much time with an already tedious process. I'm able to knock out 15 categories in one evening instead of about 5 before I get bored and need a break. It also allows me to solve problems with python, which I very much enjoy.
The next awards show is the Grammy Awards on Sunday February 2nd. I have a lot of work to do until then, so keep checking back for more updates and information on the site!
The Game Awards are now live! You can check out the results here: The Game Awards results
The Golden Globes are in a few days, January 5th. You can check in here to see all the nominees and then tune in on the 5th of January to get all the results in real time: The Golden Globes
The 2025 Grammy Awards will be held on February 2nd, 2025. There are 94 categories, so I'm hard at work getting those all entered and setup. There is a lot of work to do before we can go live with anything, but my goal is to get those all entered in January.
This hasn't changed. I'm still working on getting it updated. Slow process.
I restructured the Blog to be easier to update. It's one flat file now instead of a file for each month. I might move content to an archive page to keep this one lean, but that requires more content :)
I would also like to do more posts on the blog just to keep content flowing. This is my hobby/project on the side, so when I come and work on it it's in my free time outside of my 9-5. I'll just have to commit to some kind of schedule to make more updates.
For the first blog post I'd like to go over some stuff that you may have noticed if you frequent the site.
First, the CMA or Country Music Awards were held on Wednesday, November 20th. Those results are live on the site! Go check them out here, CMA results
Next, the Emmy section is not done, even though the 2024 Emmy ceremonies are over. The reason for this is because there were over 100+ categories to enter and update. It's simply taking a long time. The awards will be added and I'll continue to support the Emmys, but that might be the one awards that takes the longest to update. I'll update the website and post another entry here on the blog when the Emmys go live. Keep your eyes peeled!
This next section is going to be far more technical and I'd like to use this blog as a place to discuss plans for the site as well as use it as a roadmap for ideas.
The issue with the Emmys is just the sheer amount of categories there are the enter. I want to maintain a very lean and clean setup, so there's not any automated processes or pieces of code that run in the background to help maintain the site. This means that everything is entered by hand. There's no database or flask application running to dynamically update the site. The menus have to be updated manually as well across any page that gets added. I need to fix that. Fast. As the site grows it's going to become more and more time consuming to update all the pages. Now, luckily the only real dynamic content I'll serve here on the site is for the menu/navigation section. The awards data won't change unless there's some amendment to the winners, in which case I can come and update it on the source. I don't need to have a fancy setup to store static data. But I absolutely need something to keep the menu/navigation section in check. So, my solution is to use flask. I don't see this causing any issues, but I will be overhualing the template code for all the pages which could lead to some problems. What I'm trying to say is, just bare with me for a bit. I don't know when it will happen and based on my traffic data, it's not going to affect anyone. Again, I'll update this page when it's all said and done.
These are nice to haves, things I keep mulling over in my head. Who knows what will get implemented.
All of these things could probably be done using a proper blogging platform like Wordpress or Ghost, however, I think it would be a valuable exercise to see if I could develop something of my own, just to see if I can do it. It's a learning opportunity.