Family

Spring Break is over for my kids, and they both returned to school. Both kids seemed healthy again, but then we had a doctor’s appointment on Thursday and a follow-up appointment on Friday. Everything was fine, and everyone was healthy.

Work

It was a short week for us. I spent most of my week working on the green field project again and then on some internal projects.

Community

I only had a little time for community projects this week. What little time I did have was spent at the bank getting paperwork for the next DEFNA board.

Side projects

Django News Newsletter: We shipped issue #224.

Django News Jobs: I fixed/simplified a few layout issues. I also spoke to a few companies that use the service, changed how jobs are submitted, and cleaned up some of the messaging around it.

Django News Portal: Django News has a portal I have never publicly launched. I use it for some of my contributions and to double-check that we get all the big releases. I spend some time working on it over my break.

Django News Browser Extension: We also have an unreleased Browser Extension I have used for three or more years. I used it with Chrome, but since switching to Vivaldi, I have yet to figure out how to make it work as my new page. I might release this in April.

Django Packages: We only had a few minor updates this week. I fixed UV, and we improved Sentry profiling.

Fun projects: I dabbled with a Bootstrap to Tailwind CSS converter project. I also dusted off an old Git Bot project I wrote about in my On Scratching itches with Python post.

Writing

I wrote and published every day.

2024-03-23: On scratching itches with Python 

2024-03-22: Automated Python and Django upgrades 

2024-03-21: Fixing a CSS layout issue 

2024-03-20: 🤖 On Robots.txt 

2024-03-19: Justfile Alfred Plugin 

2024-03-18: Weeknotes for Week 11: March 11 to March 17 

“Me” time

I took my annual March Madness break and watched basketball from Thursday through Sunday.

My Jayhawks Men’s basketball team won the first round but fell in the second round, while the Jayhawks Women’s team was still in their respective tournament. Overall, it was a rare down year for the men, and it was great to see the women make the tournament and knock off a good team to advance to the Round of 32.

Next week

I was asked to appear on two different podcasts, and I’ll be recording those next week.

As of tonight, I plan to host Office Hours next week, but someone mentioned it being a holiday weekend. I will figure that out sooner than later this week.