diff --git a/inventory/config.py b/inventory/config.py
index 0372d87..f0f7608 100644
--- a/inventory/config.py
+++ b/inventory/config.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ def quote(value: str) -> str:
 
 class Config:
     SQLALCHEMY_TRACK_MODIFICATIONS = False
-    DEBUG = False
+    DEBUG = True
     TESTING = False
 
     DB_BACKEND = os.getenv('DB_BACKEND', 'sqlite').lower()
diff --git a/inventory/routes/hooks.py b/inventory/routes/hooks.py
index 7186220..298a709 100644
--- a/inventory/routes/hooks.py
+++ b/inventory/routes/hooks.py
@@ -1,18 +1,30 @@
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 from flask import current_app as app
+import re
 
 from . import main
 
 @main.after_request
-def prettify_html_response(response):
-    if app.debug and response.content_type.startswith("text/html"):
+def prettify_or_minify_html_response(response):
+    print(app.debug, response.content_type)
+    if response.content_type.startswith("text/html"):
         try:
-            soup = BeautifulSoup(response.get_data(as_text=True), 'html5lib')
-            pretty_html = soup.prettify()
+            html = response.get_data(as_text=True)
+            soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html5lib')
+
+            if app.debug:
+                pretty_html = soup.prettify()
+                response.set_data(pretty_html.encode("utf-8"))  # type: ignore
+            else:
+                # Minify by stripping extra whitespace between tags and inside text
+                minified_html = re.sub(r">\s+<", "><", str(soup))  # collapse whitespace between tags
+                minified_html = re.sub(r"\s{2,}", " ", minified_html)  # collapse multi-spaces to one
+                minified_html = re.sub(r"\n+", "", minified_html)  # remove newlines
+
+                response.set_data(minified_html.encode("utf-8"))  # type: ignore
 
-            response.set_data(pretty_html.encode("utf-8")) # type: ignore
             response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'text/html; charset=utf-8'
-
         except Exception as e:
-            print(f"⚠️ Prettifying failed: {e}")
+            print(f"⚠️ Prettifying/Minifying failed: {e}")
+
     return response
diff --git a/inventory/templates/inventory.html b/inventory/templates/inventory.html
index 2011f8d..8126665 100644
--- a/inventory/templates/inventory.html
+++ b/inventory/templates/inventory.html
@@ -263,37 +263,35 @@
                 ) }}
             </div>
             {% if worklog %}
-                <div class="col" id="worklog" style="max-height: 300px">
+                <div class="col" id="worklog">
                     <div class="row">
                         <div class="col form-label">
                             Work Log Entries
                             {% set id_list = worklog_rows | map(attribute='id') | list %}
                             {{ links.export_link(
                                 id = (item.identifier | replace('Name: ', '')
-                                    | replace('ID:', '')
-                                    | replace('Serial: ', '')
-                                    | replace('Barcode: ', '')
-                                    | lower) + '_worklog',
+                                | replace('ID:', '')
+                                | replace('Serial: ', '')
+                                | replace('Barcode: ', '')
+                                | lower) + '_worklog',
                                 endpoint = 'worklog',
                                 ids = {'ids': id_list}
                             ) }}
                         </div>
                     </div>
-                    <div class="row border overflow-auto">
-                        <div class="col">
+                    <div class="row border">
+                        <div class="col overflow-auto" style="max-height: 300px;">
                     {% for note in notes %}
                         {% set title %}
                             {{ note.timestamp.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') }}{{ links.entry_link('worklog_entry', note.work_log_id) }}
                         {% endset %}
-                        <div class="row">
-                            {{ editor.render_editor(
-                                id = 'updates' + (note.id | string),
-                                title = title,
-                                content = note.content,
-                                mode = 'view',
-                                enabled = false
-                            ) }}
-                        </div>
+                        {{ editor.render_editor(
+                            id = 'updates' + (note.id | string),
+                            title = title,
+                            content = note.content,
+                            mode = 'view',
+                            enabled = false
+                        ) }}
                     {% endfor %}
                 </div>
             {% endif %}
diff --git a/inventory/templates/worklog.html b/inventory/templates/worklog.html
index 6eafdcb..03706f3 100644
--- a/inventory/templates/worklog.html
+++ b/inventory/templates/worklog.html
@@ -219,11 +219,6 @@
                 <label class="form-label">Updates</label>
             </div>
             <div class="col">
-                {#
-                <button class="btn btn-primary mb-3" id="addUpdateButton"{% if log.complete %} disabled{% endif %}>
-                    {{ icons.render_icon('plus-lg', 16) }}
-                </button>
-                #}
                 {% set addUpdateLogic %}
                     function formatDate(date) {
                         const pad = (n) => String(n).padStart(2, '0');
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3455bb3..6fed6e1 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "pandas",
     "pyodbc",
     "python-dotenv",
+    "waitress",
     "Werkzeug"
 ]