
Website planning, etc.
So I bought another Django book. This one covers Django APIs and React, so I'm hoping I can get something useful out of this one. It's a small book, only has 138 pages, but hopefully it'll cover the meat of the material without any fluff. I'm thinking about going through the Django projects I've done over the last year and trying to fix some bugs in the code. I've covered a lot of ground but still have far to go. I'd like to build another website that uses Django as the backend and something like React for the frontend, but I don't know JavaScript well enough to feel very confident. Hence, the new book. My main website is about 5 months old, and I'm already thinking of ways to improve it and/or replace it entirely. What I'd like it to be in the long-term is a site that hosts my resume, has a small amount of information about me and has links to some of the projects I've built. When I was developing it back in June-July I ran into an issue I couldn't figure out - I created two apps named "Projects" and "Blog", but when I tried to add links to them on the front page Django threw an error. After trying and failing to find a solution, I disabled the links so I could get the site online and have something worthwhile to show off. My LS Enterprises site is just a brochure site that I'm going to build a "Contact Us" page for, with a form people can fill out to send me an email, a working Captcha, maybe a few other things but I'm not planning on putting anything very extensive there unless I figure out a business plan. My other site, trixelated.com, still has the Local Library website I built from the Django tutorial hosted by Mozilla in their developer docs, and other than this blog it's the only fleshed-out site I have at the moment. Eventually I'll replace it with something else, but I have a lot to figure out first, and plenty of other things to do along the way. On a side note, I'm still waiting on the new engine for my truck to get here. I talked with the shop manager on Tuesday and he told me it was on a pallet waiting at some warehouse somewhere, and he'd find out when it would get here on Friday or Monday. I'm really hoping this new engine is in good shape, because I've been through enough nonsense with this truck already. It's cost me a small fortune just to keep it going, and at this point I've spent more money than the truck is worth. I just hope we can get the new engine installed and I can drive the truck for another 3 years, to get my money's worth out of it. Things at work are humming along like usual, it's pretty quiet so I'm able to work on my coding projects and stuff. There are hiccups in the network occasionally but for the most part everything's been fine as far as I know. I hope it stays that way.