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

2021 Week 26

😥 long week
🌓 how are we half-way through the year
💉 started with second COVID jab
💖 got some awesome, timely support this week
😬 for some scary meetings
😅 which weren't as scary as I worried
😘 some awesome colleagues move off the team this week
👋 and another left entirely
👻 managed to completely break a project with an innocuous change - haunted NPM packages at fault
✅ had fun

2021 Week 25

🤔 odd week, only three days in work
🤷‍♀️ started with bittersweet news at home
🦷 ended with one of the kids having dental work under general anaesthetic
⌨️ only wrote code for fun this week
🤯 can't get my head around some things at work
💖 principles and empathy is the name of the game
😭 some folk who have been doing great work are moving off the team
🙌 zuhlke folk that have joined us are starting to build a head of steam
~ fun at points

2021 Week 24

❌ it was a good week but…
🤦 so disappointed with the lazy response from Co-op on advertising in GB News
💸 if your principles are only firm when they don't cost you money, they're not principles
🤔 a female colleague quote tweeted me about it. They had trolls respond and, I didn't. A little view of the misogynists that Co-op is choosing to pander to
⌨️ only wrote code for fun this week
😰 SO MANY BUSYWORK MEETINGS
💖 ended the week with a great meeting of minds about how to improve enterprise testing
😍 and a wonderful session run by Andy Tabberer that has changed how I see the world and behave
💣 attended a CAB for the first time in three years, I'm certain this process adds nothing
❓ what fun I had was all offset by organisational pathology

2021 Week 23

⌨️ spent quite a bit of time (helping) writing code this week
🔁 some code to automate browser performance testing
😰 lots of time swearing at YAML and waiting for lambda@edge's slow feedback cycle
💖 bits of time meeting different people to try and understand them better
😱 some time staring into the middle distance in frustration
🤗 some opportunities to give feedback
✅ had fun (intermittently)