Weeknotes 2024-03-11

Dungeons and Dragons is a role-playing game that lets you live out such fantasies as:

- Having money

- Making close friends as an adult

- Travelling the world without crippling debt

- Being able to change the world

- Getting better at something with practice

- Getting 8 hours of sleep each night --Dgar

Normal work week. Attended the PyDDF Python Spring Sprint which was great. I had to stop working on django-cast in January and used the Sprint to finally catch up. It's now possible to fetch all the data needed to render a list of pages (example: the feed) in one go and then pass that data to Wagtail, which then renders the pages without hitting the database. This opens up a lot of possibilities for performance improvements. The original plan was to work on a transcript feature, but this is fine too 😅. Adding transcripts is the next big feature on the list.

Mid-week I stumbled across this Mastodon post that forced me to indulge in some Vietnam travel nostalgia. I Went to an opera performance which was also great. And we released a new podcast episode about freelancing. Oh, and I managed to patch my favorite terminal font MonoLisa with some nerd font symbols because I finally started using Neovim again via LazyVim. Hmm, quite a busy week.