diff --git a/.github/workflows/run_tests.yml b/.github/workflows/run_tests.yml
index 1214587..028b6b3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/run_tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/run_tests.yml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: "Set up Python"
       uses: actions/setup-python@v2
       with:
-        python-version: '3.8'
+        python-version: '3.11'
     - name: "Install poetry"
       run: |
         python -m pip install --no-cache-dir poetry==1.8 supervisor
diff --git a/test_app/tmp/notes.txt b/test_app/tmp/notes.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..789fd08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_app/tmp/notes.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# tail docker container logs
+docker compose logs -f dev-app
+
+libraries:
+- pydantic -- object validation
+- alembic
+- cerbos -- multilanguage general purpose authorization enforcement framework
+- strawberry -- most popular GraphQL framework
+- sqlalchemy -- most popular ORM in python
+- mypy
+- FastAPI
+- pytest -- dependency injected test framework
+
+normally mounts to 9009
+debug session mounts to 9008 -- only one at a time
+
+
+schema changes:
+- update YAML
+- make codegen --> generate types
+- make alembic-autogenerate --> generate migration
+- make alembic-upgrade-head --> run migration
+
+
+cerbos
+derived_roles_common: aware of different roles 
+policies/sample.yaml: rules of what different roles can do for each action
+
+pytest
+can generate fixtures
+conftest.py will automatically load from each directory, tests in any lower directory have access to fixtures
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