Weeknotes for the week finishing Friday, 27th September 2024.

This was my third full week as Katie’s buddy. We covered:

• When QuerySets are evaluated
• The nature of the SQL statements generated by Django’s ORM
• List comprehensions (listcomps)
• Breakpoints, the Python debugger, and pdb++
• Django Debug Toolbar
• Django’s requests, responses, and middleware (within the context of views and authentication)
• Callables (within the context of a URLconf)
• And Dracula

Katie also started MDN’s Django Tutorial.

There were many great learning moments with Katie this week. The best? On Monday, I watched Katie find out that MyModel.objects.count() caches the result. On Friday, I heard Katie ask “Why does this view take less time to render, when I refresh the page?” and immediately answer “Ah, because the results are cached!”

Besides buddying, I was on tech support this week. It was great to be busy again, after several months of quiet. I revisited how we restrict access to datasets, and had a couple of productive conversations with Lucy and Ben B.C.

Finally, Simon reminded me of “Hypermedia Systems”. I’m really enjoying it. If nothing else, then it’s helping me understand why I have an aversion to SPAs.