Family

I skipped last week’s update because we spent Easter weekend with my family and ~6 hours in the car with the kids.

We went to our favorite local nursery, Vinland Valley Nursery, to pick up some new Hostas and other heartier plants since April is still a bit early for planting flowers because we typically have a few late freezes through Spring. We planted everything, and I fertilized the lawn to prepare it for the season.

I unboxed and assembled my portable workbench and miter saw. My miter saw shipped with everything but the manual, and by the time I found one and printed it, it was time for me to make dinner. I cooked burgers on the outdoor griddle for the first time this year.

Work

I observed Good Friday on Monday and then worked a full day on Saturday to keep up with two client projects.

Community

My community cup was overflowing this week:

• Monthly DEFNA Board of Directors meeting
• Biweekly PSF Conduct WG meeting
• I interviewed with Djangonauts to see if Django Packages was a good fit for a future session.
• I joined one of Wiggle Work’s lunch sessions.
• I joined Conference Chat’s Friday session over lunch.
• I hosted Office Hours for my first meeting back in a month.
• I am working on rebooting the DSF’s Code of Conduct WG and getting it back up to a healthy number of people.
• I attended half a day of PyCascades

Side projects

Mastermind group: A friend invited me to attend their monthly Mastermind business group, which was interesting. We set some goals for next month.

Django News Newsletter: We shipped issue #226.

Django News Jobs: I wrote up a few new features, including potentially moving the project to Django FSM, which might save me a few headaches. I’m also debating a new feature to bring Company Endorsements into the listings.

Django Packages: Security updates. I gave Ryan some reviews on an upcoming profile/extra links feature he’s working on. It’s pretty cool. I drafted a few issues for some potential new feature ideas.

Upgrade Django: I bumped to list the latest few Django releases.

Writing

I wrote and published every day.

2024-04-06: 🚜 Refactoring and fiddling with Django migrations for pending pull requests 🐘 

2024-04-05: ⛳ Syncing Django Waffle feature flags 

2024-04-04: ⬆️ The Upgrade Django project 

2024-04-03: 🚀 Mise is really fast 

2024-04-02: TIL: Brandolini’s law

2024-04-01: 🔥 An update on OpenSSF’s XZ fumble 

“Me” time

Even though March is over, March Madness continues, and I enjoyed two more weekends of Men’s and Women’s basketball. I took first place in my women’s bracket this week. My son tied for #2 and was excited about it tonight.

While I am in first place for my men’s bracket, they play tomorrow (Monday), and the team I picked to win lost last weekend. So I will only win this year if there is a team fight and both teams forfeit. So there is still a chance.

Next week

I should have mowed today and made another pass at removing sticks and leaves accumulated over the Spring. So I suspect we’ll spend some time outside doing that next week.

It’s also time to break out the miter finally saw and spend half a day replacing old boards, repairing fences, and getting my money’s worth out of it.