This is part of my weekly notes, note-taking, and sometimes reading later. I have never been consistent with newsletters. I hope this changes that…
Shipped
Articles and Newsletter Scraper Automations
- Updated my articles and newsletter automation scripts to get quality and more reliable content from specific sources. I made my list of sources more intentional, instead of scraping all of dev.to and Medium articles (filtered by tags): https://github.com/achingachris/automations
- I added a newsletter scraper: https://github.com/achingachris/automations/tree/main/daily-newsletters
Startup
- Haaafla is back live, again… I made so many mistakes last year on the startup. I’m doing better this year: https://haaafla.chrisdevcode.com/
- No crazy features — just normal buy ticket user flows
Work
- Building a data lake, started in Dec 2025. My PR was merged successfully (happy!)
Learned/Learning
- How to carefully use LLMs for my code, making me a better executor
- Database indexing and caching — making queries faster. I am using a Postgres DB
- Task scheduling using Django-Q (I don’t like it though, thinking of switching to Celery)
Broke / Fixing
- My lookup scripts and APIs are not looking “it” up well. Super buggy (Django + Postgres)
- My scraping skills are kinda rusty, need to keep up
Top Reads (Articles and Newsletters)
Newsletters
- Django News Issue 318 - the 2025 reviews are super great!
- Django News Issue 320 - the djangopackages updates
- TSBT56: Morning Pages - Velda shares some cool and insightful resources. I loved How AI fixed my procrastination.
Articles
- Preparing for conference sprints
- Your AI coding agents need a manager
- AI writes code faster. Your job is still to prove it works.
Podcasts
- Building a Django API Framework Faster than FastAPI - Farhan Ali Raza
- Phones Cost More, but This Camera Is Free?
Events & Conferences
- None that I am aware of or attending this week.
- I did a fireside chat: Allouve Fireside Chat: Technology for Social Impact