October CMS

Get back to basics

Category: Software Engineering

Variables in WinterCMS October CMS

Here's how it breaks down:

✅ What’s working:

You set the variable in the Layout:

twig
{% set layout_name = "layout_default" %}

And then access it in the Layout itself:

twig
<p>Layout in use: <code>{{ layout_name }}</code></p>

That’s why it renders correctly there.


🧩 What’s going wrong in the Partial:

If you include a Partial from within a Page (not the Layout), it won’t inherit layout variables like layout_name by default.

Why?
Because WinterCMS isolates scopes between Layouts, Pages, and Partials. Layout-scoped variables like layout_name are not automatically passed to Partials include...

How (CG)NAT Centralized Internet

"Because the public IP was yours. That’s the world TCP/IP was built for.

💥 What Changed? Why That Died"

i didn't realize that had died.!!!

ChatGPT said:

Exactly. You lived through the era where TCP/IP worked like it was meant to — where the Internet was end-to-end, dumb routers passed packets, and you could spin up a Quake 3 server on your dial-up box at 3am just to see if you could.

Then, somewhere along the way… we lost the Internet and nobody told us. 😱 What You Missed (Because No One Announced It)

You didn’t miss it because you were out of touch — you missed it because:

ISPs never said...

Add-2-New

Web Tools

It's called VistaCreate

#Linux

CIFS mount

# <file system>       <mount point>        <type>  <options>                                      <dump> <pass>
//mxuni/wd2           /mnt/lan/mxuni       cifs    credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,uid=1000,gid=1000,nounix,noserverino  0       0

Browser

Firefox Xtn

Balanced and Blue

Chrome Xtn

Theme Cute Frenchie

Dev Tools

JSON

Process formatting JSON Sort

DEBUG

DevContainer Example

"Bite my shiny metal Flask app!" 🧠✨

You’ve built a slick Dockerized Python stack that screams "Dev ready!" Here's a quick breakdown of what you’ve got running—and why it’s chef’s kiss:


🛠️ Stack Breakdown

🐍 Python & Flask App

  • Python 3.11 in a clean slim container ✅

  • venv set up and activated correctly 👌

  • Key libs:

    • Flask, werkzeug → Web framework power 💥

    • mysql-connector-python → DB handshake 🤝

    • pandas, plotly → Data crunch & visualization 🧠📊

    • faker → Mock data wizardry 🎩

🐳 Docker & DevContainer

  • VS Code Dev Container setup with:

    • Port forwarding (5000)

    • Python environment file ...

Schema Conceptual Map

Chat GPT said

"What you were really asking for when you said “an analog to the object types generally associated with movies” was a conceptual map — a set of one-to-one equivalents that let you learn the same lesson the instructor’s teaching, while building something that actually excites you.

Here’s that core analog map you’ve now defined — your translation key between the tutorial and your Potbot theme 🌿:"

...
Movie Tutorial Object Potbot Analog Example Values / Notes
🎬 Movie 🌿 Strain Blue Dream, Gorilla Glue, Pineapple Express
🧩 Genre 🍃 Type Indica, Sativa, Hybrid
🎭 Actor 💧 Compound

Dockerfile

Volumes in the app service

In your docker-compose.yml for app:

volumes: - ./.env:/workspace/.env # Mount env file explicitly - ./workspace/app

  • You mount .env explicitly — good.

  • ./workspace/app — this is incomplete syntax. Docker volume mount expects host_path:container_path format.

You probably want:

yaml volumes: - ./.env:/workspace/.env - ./workspace/app:/workspace/app

Or uncomment the full project mount:

yaml volumes: - .:/workspace

startuml SurpriseDiagram

@startuml SurpriseDiagram

title A Small Surprise for Cent

skinparam backgroundColor #1e1e1e skinparam handwritten true skinparam shadowing false skinparam ArrowColor #ffcc00 skinparam ActorBorderColor #ffcc00 skinparam ActorFontColor #ffcc00 skinparam SequenceLifeLineBorderColor #ffcc00 skinparam SequenceLifeLineBackgroundColor #333333

actor Cent as C participant "Flask App" as F participant "PlantUML Renderer" as P

C -> F : Request /diagram/surprise.puml F -> P : Encode + Render P --> F : SVG Output F --> C : Display Diagram

note over C You are now seeing your first fully offline-rendered UML...

Potbot Schema Concept - Template

Chat GPT said

"What you were really asking for when you said “an analog to the object types generally associated with movies” was a conceptual map — a set of one-to-one equivalents that let you learn the same lesson the instructor’s teaching, while building something that actually excites you.

Here’s that core analog map you’ve now defined — your translation key between the tutorial and your Potbot theme 🌿:"

...
Movie Tutorial Object Potbot Analog Example Values / Notes
🎬 Movie 🌿 Strain Blue Dream, Gorilla Glue, Pineapple Express
🧩 Genre 🍃 Type Indica, Sativa, Hybrid
🎭 Actor 💧 Compound

Notecards-style Research Assistants

Microsoft CoPilot

For Notecards-style People

Prompt i want you to generate a decision engine response agent type of turn which i can thereafter use-- via linked, viable HTTP URL-- to said decision, for my friend to view. your response should be tailed to a person who has zero knowledge of how to use a desktop computer. she is semi comfortable on her iPhone (Apple), but I'd like to get her to use the desktop if she can. perhaps you could do a left-side desktop | right-side iPhone type layout (or section 1, section 2 probably better, as she'll most likely be reading it on the iPhone. Let me pr...

Controls and Basic + Latin-1 Supplement

Basic Latin Unicode Table