2024 Week #40 Notes

week-notes

2024-09-30

Monday 30th September

• H ill, drove A to school.
• Had a play with the Google NotebookML podcast generation. Interesting possibilities.
• Some IT stuff for staff leaving:
  • Account shutdown.
  • Laptop collection.
• Meeting about pitch next week.
• Caught up with SP about the development of the ThankQ integration. His strategies were all correct.

Tuesday 1st October

• H ill, drove A to school again.
• Work anniversaries for WH and AMcL.
• Chat with the team, spoke about various IPython tricks.
• 1-2-1 WH, covered CMS4 upgrade
• Site media export for RM/AMcL.
• Quick meeting with RT, passed annoying SEO ticket over to him.
• Meeting with WH and AMcG about white-labelling some software.
• 1-2-1 with SP. ThankQ integration.
• Call with VP.
• Management call. Useful discussion of campaign content systems.

Wednesday 25th October

• Meeting with AMcG about GG pitching.
• Raised new PR on github-actions to bring in deployment URLs.
• Checked through some Sentry errors with PSK.
• Quick blog post on iPython autoreload, based on conversation yesterday.
• Quick chat with WF about the Charity Commission API client, I'm leaning towards open-sourcing it.
• Cut a release for teams-deploy-action.
• Updated github-actions to use the new release. This is exhausting.
• WH letter.
• Meeting with WH and SP about GG resourcing.
• 1-2-1 with WF.

Thursday 26th October

• Early start.
• Investigated multiple branch deployment, reviewed a few PRs.
• Wrote up 2x GG tickets, dashboard and open source strategy.
• Call with VP.
• Spoke with GG team about deadline for ThankQ integration.
• Built a GitRevMiddleware for GG. See this PR.
• Did some work on doma.
• Blog post on Ruff configuration.

Friday 27th October

• Early meeting with AMcG about the Brook pitch.
• More work on NotebookML-generated podcasts.
• Further team meeting for pitch.
• Quick discussion with RT/GE about the redirect situation for H4H.
• Discussion with RM about open-sourcing our DotDigital API client.

Weekend