Hey there 👋,

For me, this week has been insane and the meme at the end will give you some insight into why 😉 .

How do you comfort a JavaScript bug? You console.log it.

Enjoy the letter 🚀.

LAUNCH

❤️ Life in Weeks

Built by Cory Zue, Life in Weeks is a beautiful web app that lets you visualise how time passes through a series of graphs which represent the weeks in your life. You can then add special moments and events that happened in your life which will be showcased in your visualisation. Some key features include:

• Visual Timeline: Display your life week by week, encompassing past, present, and future, to gain insights into time utilization.

• Life Periods: Assign colors to different life phases—such as childhood, education, careers, and residences—to highlight their impact.

• Events: Emphasize notable moments like achievements, transitions, and travels, making each memory visible on your timeline.

• Rich Details: Enhance your timeline with detailed notes on events and periods, accessible by hovering over any week.

• Event Collections: Automatically incorporate birthdays, historical events, and curated collections to see how personal milestones align with broader occurrences.

• Data Export: Export your timeline to YAML for editing and backup, ensuring your data remains accessible and under your control.

• Sharing Options: Share your timeline via personalized links, embed it on websites, or keep it private, depending on your preferences.

• Evolving Timeline: Update your timeline as life unfolds, adding new events or revisiting past memories, creating a dynamic representation of your journey.

This is also the first app on LaunchWeek which was built with Python and the Django framework. This was made possible through SaaS Pegasus. Cory is currently working on internationalisation (i18n) to support more languages. He also plans to enhance multi-life support and expand the default event collections, making them more geography-specific. However, the roadmap is primarily driven by user feedback.

CHANGELOG

✈️ Sim Flights Tracker

Donald recently pushed changes to Sim Flights Tracker. Key changes being:

• View online controllers - You can now see online controllers on the airport information popup and on the flight details page.

• Added Vatsim flight log - You can see your latest 100 Vatsim flights.

• Language improvements - Translations for Afrikaans and Setswana have been improved and Russian is now supported.

• Search flights enhancements - Searching flights by call-sign on the map screen has been enhanced with highlights and marked departure and arrival airports.

• Map performance improvements - Map loda time and scroll smoothness has been improved significantly.

Other updates include updated airports data and controller regions.

COMMERCIAL BREAK

🙌 Entelect is hiring

Entelect Software has taken Sunday Times’s Best Place to Work 2024 and the great thing is that they are hiring! Especially Java engineers but they also have roles open for mobile developers, JavaScript developers and .NET developers. Reach out to us for more information on how you can potentially join this great company.

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🚆 Cape Town Train Times

Miss your train one too many times? Tom did too—so he built ctmetro.co.za to crowdsource live train updates for Cape Town commuters. No more decoding cryptic group chats—just search your station, check delays, and contribute real-time updates. Stuck on a packed train? Find out if an emptier one is right behind. If you ride the Southern Line, this might just save your morning. You can read all about it here.

VNEXT

👀 What to look out for

Here are some articles I found to be very interesting along with some nice tools you might want to use for your next project.

• Kill the newsletter - This is actually a really cool tool that let’s you turn newsletters into a nice RSS feed.

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