Alright folks, let me walk you through my latest project chaos for June 26th horoscope stuff. Started simple enough – fired up VSCode at like 11 PM last night, thinking this would take maybe an hour tops.
The Rabbit Hole Begins
First I googled “June 26 zodiac traits” on my phone while microwaving leftovers. Found out it’s Cancer season apparently? Scrolled through three astrology sites where all the explanations sounded like fortune cookies. Ended up copying-pasting random bullet points into Notepad:
- Mood: Watery emotional soup
- Lucky thing: Finding car keys
- Warning: Don’t trust squirrels
Then the real mess started when I tried coding this. Wrote a Python script that was supposed to scrape horoscope sites but kept crashing when emojis popped up. Spent 45 minutes yelling at my screen over some Unicode error – felt like the universe was mocking me already.
The Visual Disaster Zone
Thought “hey let’s make this pretty” and tried adding CSS with star backgrounds. Looked like a kindergarten craft project vomited glitter. Changed fonts seven times before settling on plain Helvetica like a coward. At 3 AM the gradient buttons made me physically nauseous so I scrapped them completely.
My cat walked over my keyboard mid-code and added seventeen typos. When I finally got a version running, the date check glitched so it kept showing Sagittarius traits for everyone. My coffee went cold while debugging that dumpster fire.
The Home Stretch (Kind Of)
Finally slapped together this clunky solution:
- Dumped all zodiac data into a dictionary that looks like alphabet soup
- Hardcoded date ranges ignoring leap years because screw it
- Added random crab emojis for Cancer peeps as emotional support
Tested with my buddy Mark’s birthday – told him his love life would suck on Tuesday. He texted back “cool but my birthday’s in September” so we know the date sorting still doesn’t work right. Whatever, it outputs text without crashing most times now.
Published it around sunrise feeling like a zombie. Moral of the story? Horoscopes are fun until you have to make them actually work.
