Dan Sloan

Weekly Notes - 2023-03-25 to 2023-05-26

Life The last few months have been…a lot. Had a good time staying with some friends in Bali, working remotely from there for a number of weeks Caught some non-covid respiratory infection, developed bronchitis, got very very sick for a while After about a month of recovering, …

Weekly Notes - 2023-03-18 to 2023-03-24

Travel So it looks like my travel plans for the year are firming up: - DjangoCon Europe in Edinburgh in the start of June. - A month with WiFi Tribe in Valencia. - Cost and time allowing, trips to Portugal, Germany, and maybe Sweden to visit friends. - Very tentatively; considering a trip to Banskjo …

Weekly Notes - 2023-03-11 to 2023-03-17

Travel I made the decision to head to Europe for the end of May, to attend DjangoCon Europe, in Edinburgh. I’m planning to stay over there for a bit, although family/health stuff might force me to change that plan. Still working out more details here… Time Management Last …

The Right Way to hyperlink a row in an HTML table

I’m currently in the process of rewriting a user interface to remove most of the jQuery and other stuff like datatables and similar, and replace them with straight HTML, CSS, and some django-tables2 and django-unicorn magic to provide the filtering components. One feature of the tables …

Weekly Notes - 2023-03-04 to 2023-03-10

Trying out the “weeknotes” idea I’m giving weeknotes a try - for a few reasons: * It helps me to get back to actually writing stuff, and getting in the habit of writing down thoughts and experiences. * Since I’ve mostly quit social media, it gives me a place to write up …

Life Update, March 2023

Hi there! I don’t plan on posting stuff under the “personal” category of this site very often, but I figured this needs to live somewhere, and I don’t really engage on many social platforms anymore, so….here we are. TL;DR ? Strap in, folks, this is a pretty …