What a week.

Family

My youngest was home most of the week with a virus, which changed everything about my week.

We had a rare night out to see Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit at Liberty Hall

My family also had a birthday on Friday, my son’s friend’s birthday party on Saturday, and Mother’s Day today, so it was a busier than usual week for us and a sick kid all week.

Work

With my daughter sick, everything changed this week. I mostly worked on an e-commerce app on a rare Saturday to get my bearings.

Community

Conference Chats: We had our monthly Wednesday night meetup.

Office Hours: I hosted Friday Office Hours.

Side projects

Django News Newsletter: We shipped issue #232.

Django Packages: I mostly worked on some notes and task ideas for Djangonaut Space.

Upgrade Django: We had four updates this week, which is rare.

Writing

I wrote and published every day. I started writing and publishing on my https://micro.webology.dev every day since February 1st, and this week marked my 100th day in a row of writing.

2024-05-11: 📭 On vacation autoresponders and deleting email

2024-05-10: 🐍 TIL build-and-inspect-python-package GitHub Action workflow plus some bonus Nox + Tox

2024-05-09: 📚 African tech book drive at PyCon US

2024-05-08: 👥 Office Hours on May 10th

2024-05-07: 🎸 Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit at Liberty Hall

2024-05-06: 🌪️ Tornado Watch tonight

“Me” time

Early Saturday morning, I wrote a podcast downloader script to make downloading podcast episodes easier. I like to run some of my favorite podcast episodes through MacWhisper to generate a transcript to take better notes.

Saturday evening, I wired up Fabric to connect to my Macs to update them and run various Just recipes to keep everything updated. I ran into a few issues with my .bashrc file, but it was a good enough MVP.

Entertainment

📺 Space Jam: A New Legacy: My oldest has gotten into basketball and this was a fun family movie.

📺 Dead Boy Detectives: I didn’t have high expectations for this series, but watching two ghosts solve mysteries was fun.

🎮 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge: We hadn’t played this one in a while, so we primarily focused on leveling up the two new characters from the expansion.

Next week

I leave for PyCon US on Wednesday and have a small mountain of things to finish between now and then. I finished my laundry tonight, so I can leisurely pack over the next few days.