Weekly Notes - 2

Created a custom Django starter template.
Deploying and setting up a new Django project takes 3-4 days. Most of the time I am copying my setup and deployment scripts from other projects. This starter template reduces the setup time to 10 minutes.
It mainly splits up the setting and requirements files for different environments, sets-up pre-commit hooks, has a deployment script for Uberspace and set-ups 12-factor authentication (using Django-environ).

Started another toy project: get-things-done.com.
Last week I started reading David Allen's book Getting Things Done. It had 4 major concepts:

The above points made total sense. Just writing down all the pending things + their next steps reduced the chaos. Capturing open-loops when idling brought peace. I tried to do the above on paper. But it soon became too hotch-potch. Also, I didn't have that paper all the time.

Hence I thought of creating a simple to-do app where I can capture the tasks + write the next steps. I also wanted a "snooze" option. Plus full keyboard support. That's where I started working on get-things-done.com. This is also why I created that Django starter template.

It is around 60% done with the proof-of-concept ready. Need to work on snoozing and re-ordering. Code is available on Github.

Audit Log in Screener
Handling user queries take up a lot of time. Many of these queries are for transactional things. Things like merging accounts, modifying old invoices, resetting user limits and handling spam reportings. Having an audit trail for these would make it easier to delegate these tasks and bring more transparency for users.

We are still working on the module and hope to complete it this week. It is mostly based on Django's admin log implementation.