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

posted on: 02 Jul 2021

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

posted on: 25 Jun 2021

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

posted on: 19 Jun 2021

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)
posted on: 11 Jun 2021

2021 Week 21

🛹 onboarded 10 new team members from Zuhlke this week
🤷 it went surprisingly smoothly
💖 so much effort and kindness from everyone to make it work
🎹 no time writing code this week so, I ended the week test driving a state machine
🗺 took part in more Wardley mapping
🙌 attended a diversity and inclusion session
🎓 the work that some of the senior leaders have put in to learn about D&I shines through in how they talk
😍 promised Chris L that I'd include they said nice things, cos they did, and it always helps to get feedback ✅ had fun (despite the odds)
posted on: 28 May 2021

2021 Week 20

😭 yet another rollercoaster week
😥 too much work for everyone
🍀 time with the engineers was only through luck
📽 writing lots of decks this week
🐦 a quick play with AWS canary - really very cool
🙌 some awesome sessions run this week
🗺 took part in some Wardley mapping
✅ had fun (sometimes)
posted on: 21 May 2021

2021 Week 19

😭 another rollercoaster week
💖 received nice feedback, that got me through the week
❌ almost didn't get to spend any time with the engineers
👀 the time I did get was because of a heisenbug in production
🤩 new starter from a new partner - if the others are even half as good we're in a great place
🌗 thought that I'd achieved something I'd been heading at for weeks
👎 but no (not yet!)
✅ had fun (barely, thanks to awesome team)
posted on: 14 May 2021

2021 Week 18

😭 about as low as I've been at work ever at points this week
💖 value that I felt safe to be open about it and that people were there
❌ almost didn't get to spend any time with the engineers
👀 the time I did get was eye-opening and useful
✍️ finally getting to the point I have enough of an internalised model of funeralcare to start to communicate
🧠 I still know nothing, but I think I might have found some of the edges
🤗 I've too much to do, asked for help, and it was so much better
🗣 spent some time with a friend from the local dev community talking about work stuff
🤩 did similar recently with someone else about event sourcing questions they had
💖 feel very lucky to be part of a community
😍 and thankful for all the folk that run user groups and community events
✅ had fun (barely)
posted on: 07 May 2021

2021 Week 17

🎢 another wild ride
❌ didn't expect to get to spend time with the engineers
🔬 awesome colleague suggested a smart experiment
🪵 another awesome collegue spotted a problem and did the right thing
🍒 and I got to pair on some low hanging fruit
💖 started the week receiving lovely feedback
💉 had covid vaccine number one
✅ had fun
posted on: 30 Apr 2021

2021 Week 16

😮 thought it was Friday on Monday
❌ didn't expect to get to spend time with the engineers
👍 managed to drop in a few times
👎 only short sessions though
🏃‍♂️ still hard miles but some great, open, honest things this week
💖 received feedback
📈 I love not having to guess about where I can get better
🚶‍♂️ met lovely people for a walk in the actual world
✅ had fun
posted on: 23 Apr 2021