2021 Week 46

🍐 More superb pairing sessions this week
🦥 Still making slow progress on the feature I'm working on but, I've reached the point where I can see how I should have done it
🗑 inadvertently wasted someone's time this week. I've moved on from knowing nothing to "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing"
🎓 always be a beginner mindset is great but, I'd forgotten how hard new language, new framework, and a new system can be
⏰ I need to be more purposeful about learning and carefulness
❓ each time I asked for help, things got a tonne easier. I should be old enough to know that by now! I need to be better at spotting when I should put effort and when I should raise the flag
📈 That all might seem negative, but making stuff is 💯
✅ had fun

2021 Week 45

🍐 Two superb pairing sessions this week
🦥 Making slow progress on the feature I'm working on
🚀 Made some cool improvements to some tests' speed and can apply to other tests
✏️ I'm working on a "breakdown" feature. I have typed "breadkown" thousands of times
✅ had fun

2021 Week 44

🦸‍♂️ Support Hero this week - 5 days of helping people
🚀 Helped a bunch of people
🛠 Fixed 3 bugs, PR in for a 4th
🤯 a little window into how much more there is to learn
🗻 walked up a big hill with the dog
✅ had fun

2021 Week 42

📅 week five in the new job, so a month however you cut it
🚀 I'd forgotten how much fun the dopamine fix of deep work on a feature was
🗣 10.5 hours of meetings over two weeks, in the last job I would have that much in one day
🤯 asked the team I'm on if it was OK to take a day off -> "don't need to ask, only inform" #Trust
🏢 spent a day at the Manchester WeWork
☕️ on-site barista in the morning
🍕 had lunch with old colleagues
🏃‍♀️ I'm forgetting to do exercise more and more as the weather gets worse
🕰 lack of a commute means I tend to forget to write these
✅ had fun

2021 Week 40

🎬 week three in new job
🤔 practiced honesty in 1-2-1, meant I got supported and challenged, good result
🧠 still slower than I'd like to be, but learning
🔢 used property based testing to try to solve a problem
🤯 asked for the rule around some spending -> "just do what you think is in company's best interest" #Trust
💖 had nice feedback
🇮🇹 set my phone to Italian so I could learn
🪣 so many systems now serve content in Italian on other devices
👨‍🦲 got a new webcam because old one was too low resolution. Can now see how bald I am :'(
✅ had fun

2021 Week 39

🎬 week two in new job
🌃 went to that London
🍽 met loads of people
🧠 such fun, if slow progress, tracking down a tricky bug
💖 had nice feedback
✅ had fun

2021 Week 38

🎬 first week in new job
⌨️ code in production on Wednesday
🤫 2 days with no meetings
🤯 getting meta - I can use Posthog to graph adoption of my change to PostHog
🔋 battery life on M1 macs is incredible
🎥 saw old job folk for a retro/lean coffee
✅ had fun

2021 Week 29

🌞 I WAS BORN FOR THIS SUN
🦶 although my middle-aged man feet got pretty sweaty
🍽 very bitty week of spinning plates
😈 got to join a meeting and say we shouldn't be using batch files to save 5 seconds of API calls
🖖 started a couple of async meetings
✅ had fun

2021 Week 28

2021 Week 27

📝 have been keeping a daily journal and tagging what I'm doing
💉 only a few days and my second COVID jab will have taken
💖 got good time with awesome people this week
📹 practice for my next youtube video
2️⃣ two subscribers now
🧠 time planning the future with Andy Tabberer
🤔 made time to think
⚡️ folk got some code in prod to get started on some important work
🔎 joined a fascinating major incident
🙌 couple of folk were awesome in joining and fixing things
🪟 got to dust off my Windows Server skillz
✅ had fun