Family

This week was Spring Break for both of my kids. My son had all week off, while my daughter had Thursday and Friday off. My son was also sick and hanging out with me the first two days of the week instead of getting to go to day camp.

I worked on several house projects, including cleaning our smoker and outdoor griddle. I didn’t winterize our smoker nearly as well as I thought I had, so it took me much longer to clean than it should have.

Sunday was cold and windy, so I couldn’t do as much outside as I planned.

Work

I spent most of my week working on the green field project again.

I also hosted a rather minute(ish) Office Hours session again.

Community

I had two DjangoCon US meetings this week. One is to discuss our online experience, and the other is to kick off our new website and eventual new website framework.

Side projects

I spent most of my side project time on Django News, Django News Jobs, and Django Packages. I also upgraded several project configs to use some new uv options.

Django Packages: We updated our profiles to drop support for Google Code and add Bitbucket and GitLab profiles.

Trailhawks: My local running club’s website has been running on Django since 2009. I upgraded the project from Django 3.2 to 5.0 and to Python 3.1x, including upgrading two outdated third-party packages to Python 3.1x and Django 5. I also changed one of our race websites to Tailwind CSS, which has been in flight for a while.

Django Packages: We released an update to our profiles to drop support for Google Code and to add Bitbucket and GitLab profiles. I also broke the website with a wsgi change, which I quickly found a fixed.

**django-startproject: ** I updated django-startproject project to have better support for uv.

Django News Newsletter: We shipped issue #223.

Writing

I wrote and published every day.

2024-03-17: 🍕 On tortilla pizza 

2024-03-16: 🏡 On Gardening 

2024-03-15: Five for Friyay 

2024-03-14: Python’s UV tool is even better 

2024-03-13: On environment variables and dotenv files 

2024-03-12: Completed, finished, or done 

2024-03-11: My Python Roots 

“Me” time

🏀 I watched Kansas get swept in the first round of the Big 12 tournament because our best two players were out with injuries. I set aside time on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons to watch some conference tournaments, but they were all blowouts.

Next week

🚸 My kids are back in school, and our schedules return to regular routines.

🪚 I have more rot repair, and I now have a compound miter saw to cut wood for framing and fixing things. I had to order a portable workbench to attach the miter saw in mid-week.

🏀 Next week also starts the NCAA tournament, a sign that the third basketball season has begun. I am taking two days off to enjoy the madness, and I suspect this will be most of my weekend, too.

👟 I should have to get the other half of the Trailhawks website out the door.