# 2023-11-22

-   [[Perceptions of degrowth in the European Parliament]]
    -   Looks good. Only skimmed it, but they mention [[ecosocialism]] as one of the positions held.

-   Today at work I:
    -   Did the daily inbox trawl.
        -   A lot of the emails are automatic alerts that take up a lot of my time checking.  I kind of need to see them though.
        -   I wonder if there's a way of flipping it so I only see them if something has gone wrong.
        -   The trouble then, though, is you don't realise if the alert **itself** has stopped sending.
    -   Responded to questions from the team on Slack.
        -   Schedule tasks/actions in as a result.
        -   Either as 'unplanned' work for the day if it needed doing today.
        -   Or for a future date if not urgent.
    -   Quickly added a cache around a slow endpoint.
        -   It was (a) meaning some automatic tests were very slow to run.
        -   (b) possibly crashing the app when the tests were running.
        -   I patched it quickly in on live (naughty, but needed) and now need to properly add it into the repo.
    -   Tested app-to-app connection between app and WP site API as part of  migration tests.
        -   I always app-to-app connections and APIs.  Prefer them to user interfaces :D
    -   Attended team meeting.
    -   Did some layout/content tweaks to our main website.
        -   Fiddling around with CSS and layout is not top on my list of fun things to do.  Always takes longer than you expect.
        -   Some yak shaving to be done based on npm install failing.  Haven't got the time to shave that yak right now.
    -   Do some quick estimates of how long potential pieces of work should take.
    -   Cross-posted a social post on Mastodon.
    -   Kicked off a new sprint in Jira (late, as I was off on leave when it technically started).