Covid Vaccine — 1 of 2
So, on Saturday, I ended up getting my first COVID vaccine shot.
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Jinja Filters 1.1.0 & 2.1.0 for Pelican Released
This post actually covers three releases:
- v1.1.0 doesn’t add any functionality or bugfixes directly, but is designed to point users to the new v2 releases.
- v2.0.0 reorganized the project codebase to make this work as a “namespace
plugin”. Added by Pelican 4.5 is a feature to automatically activate such
plugins. It also transfers the code repo to the
Pelican-Plugins
organization and moved the PyPI package to
pelican-jinja-filters. - v2.1.0 adds two filters — merge_date_url and datetime_from_period. It also lowers the minimum Pelican version to 3 (from 4.5). Under the hood, it also updates the local development infrastructure to work better on Windows.
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Global Git Ignore on Windows
Git has an handy feature that you can get a system-wide .gitignore file. This is particularly helpful to keep your project .gitignore files lean. However, Git was originally built for Linux and sort of begrudgingly supports Windows, which sometimes leads to oddities (like this):
Where do you put your global .gitignore file on Windows to automatically have it loaded?
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Covid Personal Update — 11 Months In
So it’s almost exactly 11 months since the first Covid restrictions were implemented…. It’s getting long enough that “last year” will soon stop referring to “normal” times.
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Negative Covid Test Results
So my Honey and the kids got their Covid test back: negative. But, odd to me
at least, they’ve been asked to continue to isolate for the rest of the
original two week isolation period.
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Covid — 6 1/2 Months In
So normal went out the window
pretty fast. After two and a half weeks of school (i.e. “normality”) my Honey
and some of the kids are at home, being asked to isolate for the next two
weeks. It turns out one of the other kids at the daycare tested positive for Covid.
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Covid — 6 Months In
Life feels like it’s returning to normal. But I wonder if that’s mostly because
the kids are back at school and my Honey is once again working outside the
house (so I have the house to myself during the day again).
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Economics of Land Redevelopment
I’ve been house hunting for a while, seeing if I can mind a bigger place at an
affordable price. As part of that, I’ve been thinking a little about urban
renewal and redevelopment and their effect on house pricing. The long and the
short of it is that I don’t see how they can bring down house prices (directly).
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Seafoam 2.4.5 Released
It’s time for a new update to Seafoam, the website theme currently in use
here (on my Blog) and by my wider site.
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Covid and Bankruptcy
So we are about two months in to the local COVID crisis. I work from home and
am healthy, so not a tonne has changed in my day to day (although there are
more people running around the house). But my company almost went bankrupt.
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