Silver Saucer is a domain I registered many years ago and kept because I like the name. Both the name and the logo are inspired from both a poem by Neil Gaiman, The Day the Saucers Came and my love of The X-Files.

Silver Saucer's main goal is was a Python learning exercise to integrate my record collection, using the Discogs API, with a website to display album art when an album is chosen or randomly picked.

You can visit Silversaucer.com to see the site in action.

The project had three main goals:

• Complete: Build a website that integrates with the Discogs API to display information about an album, either chosen at random or picked specifically.
• Integrate with an Adafruit PyPortal and using CircuitPython, display the album art on the PyPortal.
• Build an "On this Day" feature to display albums released on a specific day. This required a number of steps to integrate the MusicBrainz into the app.

Want to know more? You can view my blog posts about Silver Saucer and my progress here.

• Switch from the Pyramid web framework to the FastAPI framework.
• Still need to learn testing and 'pytest'. Just can't wrap my head around it.
• Migrate to Github Actions from Azure Pipelines.
• Learn the Discogs API (and potentially MusicBrainz).
• Learn how to use the CircuitPython MatrixPortal. (This is more complex than it sounds!)