2021 Week 14

🎢 this 4 day week has been at least 6 days long
🗣 got to talk about eventsourcing
👎 only two hours engineering this week
😍 but that was two fun hours that ended on a high
🏃‍♂️ there are some hard miles being worked through at the moment
👩‍❤️‍👨 talking, being open, being honest, still the thing
✅ had fun
posted on: 09 Apr 2021

2021 Week 13

🌪 WHAT A WEEK, BLIMEY
🏃‍♂️ has been incredible to see people working together
💔 has been sad to see people leaving
👎 out of eleven hours put to one side I managed one hour with engineers
😱 attended the worst run meeting there has ever been
🗣 talking, being open, being honest, that's all there really is
✅ had fun
posted on: 01 Apr 2021

2021 Week 12

🌪 have been off for 3 weeks, OMG a lot can happen in 3 weeks
3️⃣ Only in work for 3 days this week
🤩 attended the brill CTO craft conf for half of that time
👎 spent zero time with the engineering team
🤗 recently joined team member continues to be empathetic and wonderful (you know who you are Mr Burgers-for-tea-today)
🏚 IR35 continues to be a royal pain in the behind
🗣 attended a brilliantly facilitated session trying to bridge an expectation divide between two groups
✅ had fun
posted on: 26 Mar 2021

2021 Week 9

½ Spent a good amount of time with the team but not during typey-typey
🤯 very frustrating at points this week
💖 lots of opportunities to be reminded of how much everyone cares
📈 getting closer to understanding where systems are and could be in new team
🤮 dusted off my Windows Server 2008 skills this week
🏃‍♂️ shorts weather this week
✅ had fun
posted on: 26 Feb 2021

2021 Week 8

✅ I spent most of a day over the week in with the engineers
💣 but it was all responding to an incident
😚 two team members were awesome in spotting it
📚 exciting new team member joined and is posting me a book
💖 and learned someone else exciting is joining us soon
☯️ needed to be a grown-up at points
✅ had fun
posted on: 20 Feb 2021

2021 Week 7

😱 thought I was only going to have spent 30 minutes coding this week
💖 then spent a big chunk of Friday afternoon pairing
🧠 learned some vue
🔎 clarified some naming
🔬 wrote some tests
🗣 so many meetings though
✅ had fun
posted on: 12 Feb 2021

2021 Week 6

👎 managed to hold only a single hour for coding
🤯 everything still feels new so I asked lots of questions
🙌 I felt like I was slowing people down but the mob were welcoming
👍 again meeting time was focussed on ongoing work
🌪 but there's so much going on
🤔 and I'm terrible at prioritising
🏃‍♂️ I'm biased towards action
☸️ so all the planning isn't my wheelhouse
✅ had fun
posted on: 05 Feb 2021

2021 Week 5

🚀 got concentrated time coding with others this week
💖 someone mentioned about being scared of a bit of code, so we fixed it
🗣 privileged that I'm able to choose not to go to meetings to make that time to code
🔐 facilitated some threat modelling
🙌 lucky to have awesome colleagues to crib from
🤯 it's been a hard a week, someone said something nice in an email, I nearly cried
🤗 make sure you're saying nice things to people when you think them, they might really need it
✅ had fun
posted on: 29 Jan 2021

2021 Week 4

👎 managed to hold precisely two hours for coding
👍 meeting time was focussed on ongoing work
🗣 now twenty people into meeting everyone 1-2-1
🤔 really loving everyone's insight
📝 did some mob diagramming
🐷 talked nonsense about ham at Mega COP
✅ had fun
posted on: 22 Jan 2021

2021 Week 3

❌ didn't manage to keep three days free for engineering
🗣 but did get to meet even more people 1-2-1
⌨️ did some CI fangling
💣 joined an investigation of some networking confusion
❓still fun not knowing so much!
💖 had a great session to understand our systems
✅ had fun
posted on: 15 Jan 2021