diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 34fbcc3..6f8f449 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,3 +5,5 @@ dist
 .coverage
 .coverage.*
 codecov.xml
+
+.spyproject/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/demo/parallel/server.py b/demo/parallel/server.py
index 7a13a68..248e40a 100644
--- a/demo/parallel/server.py
+++ b/demo/parallel/server.py
@@ -1,54 +1,73 @@
 """Demo of parallel tqdm."""
 
-# HTTP server addition
-import http.server
 import json
-import socket
-import socketserver
 import sys
-import threading
 import time
 import uuid
 from concurrent.futures import ProcessPoolExecutor
-from typing import List, Tuple
+from typing import List
 
 import requests
 
 from tqdm_publisher import TQDMPublisher
 
 
-def _run_sleep_in_subprocess(args: Tuple[int, int]):
-    """The operation to run on each subprocess."""
-    repeat = args[0]
-    iteration_index = args[1]
-    id = args[2]
-    url = args[3]
+def to_main_process(id: int, url: str, n: int, total: int, **kwargs):
+    """
+    This is the parallel callback definition.
 
-    iterable = range(repeat)
+    Its parameters are attributes of a tqdm instance and their values are what a typical default tqdm printout
+    to console would contain (update step `n` out of `total` iterations).
+    """
+    json_data = json.dumps(obj=dict(id=str(id), data=dict(n=n, total=total)))
+
+    requests.post(url=url, data=json_data, headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"})
+
+
+def _run_sleep_tasks_in_subprocess(task_times: List[float], iteration_index: int, id: int, url: str):
+    """
+    Run a 'task' that takes a certain amount of time to run on each worker.
+
+    In this case that task is simply time.sleep.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    sleep_time : float
+        The amount of time this task emulates having taken to complete.
+    iteration_index : int
+        The index of this task in the list of all tasks from the buffer map.
+        Each index would map to a different tqdm position.
+    id : int
+        Identifier of ??.
+    url : str
+        The localhost URL to sent progress updates to.
+    """
     sub_progress_bar = TQDMPublisher(
-        iterable=iterable,
+        iterable=task_times,
         position=iteration_index + 1,
         desc=f"Progress on iteration {iteration_index} ({id})",
         leave=False,
     )
 
     if url:
-
-        def to_main_process(n: int, total: int, **kwargs):
-
-            json_data = json.dumps(dict(id=str(id), data=dict(n=n, total=total)))
-
-            requests.post(url, data=json_data, headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"})
-
         sub_progress_bar.subscribe(to_main_process)
 
-    for _ in sub_progress_bar:
-        time.sleep(0.5)
+    for sleep_time in sub_progress_bar:
+        time.sleep(sleep_time)
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     number_of_jobs = 3
-    repeats = [4, 6, 8, 10, 4, 8, 20, 10, 5, 12, 5, 4, 5, 5, 5]
+
+    # Each outer entry is a list of 'tasks' to perform on a particular worker
+    # For demonstration purposes, each in the list of tasks is the length of time in seconds
+    # that each iteration of the task takes to run and update the progress bar (emulated by sleeping)
+    all_task_times: List[List[float]] = [
+        [4.2, 6.7, 8.5, 10.3, 4.2, 8.1],
+        [20.5, 10.7, 5.3],
+        [12.4, 5.2, 4.9, 5.1],
+        [5.7, 5.8],
+    ]
 
     flags_list = sys.argv[1:]
 
@@ -67,12 +86,16 @@ def to_main_process(n: int, total: int, **kwargs):
 
     URL = f"http://{HOST}:{PORT}" if port_flag else None
 
-    # Start the parallel jobs
     with ProcessPoolExecutor(max_workers=number_of_jobs) as executor:
-
+        # Assign the parallel jobs
         job_map = executor.map(
-            _run_sleep_in_subprocess,
-            [(repeat, iteration_index, uuid.uuid4(), URL) for iteration_index, repeat in enumerate(repeats)],
+            _run_sleep_tasks_in_subprocess,
+            [
+                (task_times, iteration_index, uuid.uuid4(), URL)
+                for iteration_index, task_times in enumerate(all_task_times)
+            ],
         )
 
-        [_ for _ in job_map]  # perform iteration to deploy jobs
+        # Perform iteration to deploy jobs
+        for _ in job_map:
+            pass