Updated: July 19, 2025
By Daniel on July 14, 2025
How I got rid of a JavaScript framework and became enlightened, happy, charismatic, rich…
I have taken some pains to rebuild this entire blog in Django class-based-views.
It was much easier to do than anything in Angular, and more enjoyable to boot. There are a few bits and bobs missing, but I’m feeling a lot more energised about blogging.
At least, I’m not going to have to spend time updating npm libraries with CVEs being found every ten minutes.
Updated: July 19, 2025
By Daniel on August 21, 2024
Starting from Friday I will be taking long service leave for a couple of months.
For the first few weeks my partner and I will be moving house, but afterwards I have some time to myself. I plan to use this time being a fun, happy-go-lucky, man about the house. Primarily, this involves resting, playing, engaging in hobbies, and cooking good food.
The temptation is to write an enormous to-do list, but I want to actively avoid the mind-state of doing. I am here to be and stuff will get done I suppose – I am not really bothered. Thus I will be doing being.
I want to spend some time being a home-programmer.
I have some web utility ideas that I want to dabble in. I have a couple of Raspberry Pis that I plan to play with. I also want to sharpen up this site a bit, possibly finishing the unit tests and making the code public, maybe.
There's also a thought about replacing the Angular front-end. I initially developed this blog with a Django back-end and an Angular front-end in order to teach myself Angular. What I have learned is that I hate it, and it is definitely overkill for this use case. Besides, the more complexity that gets added to these frameworks the harder they are to maintain. I am toying with the idea of rewriting it as class-based views in Django, with only vanilla javascript to add some pop.
Should be fun!