Weeknote #5

At work

• It has been a rewarding week helping a business transform a physical product into something that can be consumed online
• It has been hard not to overcomplicate things by thinking too far into the future. The business now has a nice MVP which can be built upon as they gather feedback
• Note to self - live streaming is not always the solution to “in real life” events

After work

• I’ve now cleared my backlog of Craft CMS plugin announcements. I posted notes about Breadcrumb, GetFiles and GetAsset in case you missed them
• I use Breadcrumb to display a reliable breadcrumb trail across different Craft CMS objects
• I use GetFiles to load certain assets into my Service Worker
• I use GetAsset to load hashed CSS and JS into my Twig templates
• I would love to get better at technical writing - it's certainly a hard thing todo well without sounding like a robot
• I have gone off the idea of supporting WEBP on my personal website. It seems like a lot of overhead to implement. I can make quick gains elsewhere

Links and inspiration

• I've been too busy this week to spot anything notable, but I did enjoy a link to an article posted by Sara Soueidan on how to deal with grandchild elements in BEM

Life

• My sons school opens next week. If we send him to school, this means he will go for 1 day a week because of smaller class sizes due to social distancing rules
• There are 6 weeks until the summer holidays
• Our region is in the "green" zone in terms of COV-19 deaths/infections and we're still in partial lockdown, not being allowed to travel 100km from our house
• We've been discussing about sending him back before the summer holidays versus sending him back after the summer holidays in September
• Will schools still be following social distancing rules in September? Will there be another peak in the autumn?
• We've not done any home improvements during the lockdown. We've been busy trying to work, rest and be happy parents
• However, this week we finally painted an old French Vaisselier - which is another thing ticked off the ever growing house todo list