March 31, 2025

Week in Review 2025-03-31

Last week was about regular work, some Django, and revisiting old photos.

Hello, regular readers, and welcome to the new ones!

This is Luis, with the latest issue of my newsletter. I write this newsletter to share my passion for photography, cities, and technology, along with interesting links I find over the week(s). This newsletter will be (as long as possible) free, but if you like to support it feel free to become a paid subscriber (pay what you want), or buy one of my photos.

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Welcome back to the regular week overview. This one was not a particular exciting one, it was normal. We all know a normal week. At least at work it was a regular one that went by. The usual tasks, some coding, debugging, managing and the usual Agile board(s).

For the personal projects it was a more interesting one. As you might remember, I recently decided to build a web application to solve one of my issues with crossposting and managing hashtags. This week had some progress on that end. I'm really enjoying getting back to coding with Django, and the full integration between back and front end. Django + HTMX is the perfect combo. I really don't get the appeal to work with React and all those big front end frameworks. Anyway. I'm happy that I'm using Django again. I had missed it.

Finally, the photography side. During the week I shared some recent, and not so recent photos (check them out here). I like to go back and check some of my previous shots. Not only to see how I framed and approach a certain shot, but also to discover some images that might have been discarded at the moment.

How often do you go back to see some of your previous work? Have learn something new recently from looking to something you did in the past? Let me know, I'm interested. For me, one of those experiences was reviewing the photos I shared in the past newsletter issue. Getting to see how I approached the shots, got me thinking on what would I do different now.

And now, some links:

Mastodon

• I took some old pixel fonts, turned them into vector fonts, but normalized their cap height… so the original pixel size is now serving as this new strange property – kind of like “pixel resolution.”It’s kind of interesting to play with! I made a little playground and you can also download all the fonts I made there: https://aresluna.org/pixel-fonts/

• Projects should work like mold cultures so I can just run around starting dozens of projects and then they would all finish themselves

• In one tab I have an article about how we’ll all (finally) be using cloud based IDEs. In the other I have a pull request on GitHub where there’s a two-second pause between hitting the “Viewed” checkbox and the file preview closing. “No we won’t”, I think to myself.

• I promise all of you that, no matter what level of creative talent you may or may not think you have, I'd much, much rather see a post of something you made yourself than a post of something you had a generative AI thing cobble together out of other people's stuff while burning another chunk of the Earth.

• Some times, while I solve a Git merge conflict, I will see something else and fix that, too... then it all goes into the merge commit.It's my gitty pleasure

Weeknotes

• Jochen’s Weeknotes 2025-03-17

Thanks for reading!

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I'm Luis Natera, a software developer, network scientist, and data/cities/tech nerd. I have an interdisciplinary trajectory (architecture -> sociocultural studies -> network science -> software development), you can read more about me and my career here.

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