Where to start?
Whelp, as it often is... the best laid plans.
I thought I would spend the day spinning up the system, so I could refresh myself as to the site structure from a UI/UX perspective, but instead I got caught up in getting testing and CI to work.
The moral of this story...
Tech Debt Is Everywhere
Jade-truffle the cookiecutter template that I used to bring up the skeleton of the application, has been pretty well maintained, and I took some pains when designing it, to create the most up to date site possible. No versions of anything are pinned in the pip-tools .in files, and the requirements are resolved at the time the cookiecutter is run.
Even so, other places that I hadn't thought to look had rotted away:
- pre-commit.config.yml was out of date with many of its revs.
- flake8 started failing because of changes in a major version
- An initiative to add accessibility testing into jade-truffle had some quirks that I missed on the initial PR.
I had to fix all of those to go from angry red x's on my repo to happy green ticks.
On to tomorrow.
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