2023-11-22

• [[Perceptions of degrowth in the European Parliament]]

  • Looks good. Only skimmed it, but they mention [[ecosocialism]] as one of the positions held.

• Today at work I:

  • Did the daily inbox trawl.
    • A lot of the emails are automatic alerts that take up a lot of my time checking. I kind of need to see them though.
    • I wonder if there’s a way of flipping it so I only see them if something has gone wrong.
    • The trouble then, though, is you don’t realise if the alert itself has stopped sending.
  • Responded to questions from the team on Slack.
    • Schedule tasks/actions in as a result.
    • Either as ‘unplanned’ work for the day if it needed doing today.
    • Or for a future date if not urgent.
  • Quickly added a cache around a slow endpoint.
    • It was (a) meaning some automatic tests were very slow to run.
    • (b) possibly crashing the app when the tests were running.
    • I patched it quickly in on live (naughty, but needed) and now need to properly add it into the repo.
  • Tested app-to-app connection between app and WP site API as part of migration tests.
    • I always app-to-app connections and APIs. Prefer them to user interfaces :D
  • Attended team meeting.
  • Did some layout/content tweaks to our main website.
    • Fiddling around with CSS and layout is not top on my list of fun things to do. Always takes longer than you expect.
    • Some yak shaving to be done based on npm install failing. Haven’t got the time to shave that yak right now.
  • Do some quick estimates of how long potential pieces of work should take.
  • Cross-posted a social post on Mastodon.
  • Kicked off a new sprint in Jira (late, as I was off on leave when it technically started).