This week marked an important event 🍾 - I have been at my current job since the first of March, and it’s been great, but one thing was missing. I hadn...

🤯 - lost a day to a unit test this week because it turns out console.log doesn’t log out lot...

💾 - learned some new command line stuff this week. linux terminal is something that is always on my list of “stuff i want to get better at”. so instea...

During Manchester International Festival, I went on an amazing guided walk by Hayley, aka Skyliner. We went north of the city centre and she spoke lao...

👋 - i said goodbye to my wonderful teammate James this week. We’ve worked together on and off for two years, and he’s been a brilliant colleague, teac...

👩🏼‍🏫 - I helped teach a two-day bootcamp about Systems Design for software development apprentices this week. “Systems Design” is a fancy name for wor...

Some unformed thoughts about why some engineers are resistant to giving time estimates for their work (hint: it’s fear, it’s obviously fear).

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🏝 - this week i’ve been on holiday! things i have done:

🤯 - “this week has been unbelievably hard, for a variety of reasons” is what I said at the beginning of last week’s weeknotes. this has not changed! i...

🤯 - this week has been unbelievably hard, for a variety of reasons. We had to deal with a an issue that could have potentially impacted thousands of u...

👋 - there are a good few personnel changes on our team at the moment. it’s sad to say goodbye to some brilliant people, but we need to try to keep the...

🪢 - spent over a day wrangling with one unit test. not even to get it to pass but to get it to fail correctly. it was unbelievably frustrating. there’...

🚑 - used some stuff I learned in my DevOps class when we had an outage this week. “let’s scale up the pods” - me
💯 - our wonderful engineering a...

This month I only read one non-fiction book, which goes against my plan for the year. I’m lining up some more for March.

🗣 - had a really good honest conversation with someone this week where we gave feedback about ways we were working together that needed improving. me ...

🦷 - i had to go to the emergency dentist this week but on the plus side i was greeted by Marcus Rashford when i got there
🤯 - this week we has s...

📈 - this week I levelled up as a software engineer! i got a lil promotion. i haven’t started the new role yet but I’m very happy to have gone from a J...

📚 - i’ve spent a lot of time this week brushing up on my OOP principles for an interview. i miss working with a class hierarchy that mapped well onto ...

I’m reviewing the SOLID principles of OOP and I read this article and made a few notes on ...

🐍 - I got to do some Python this week! There was a bit of work to do on a project my team supports, and it has a Python backend which I haven’t worked...

Like a lot of people I used to read a lot when I was a kid, and then life, work, the internet, the pub got in the way. About five years ago I got a ki...

I volunteered to collate some tips of best practice for remote pairing for my team, because it is hard, and we are always looking for ways to make thi...

🎁 - i’m presenting for the first time since I joined the team at our regular team show and tell, talking about how we’re going to develop a new featur...

🚵🏻‍♂️ - i had a very short week this week because i had the tuesday off as well as the bank holiday. i used the time wisely by literally watching all ...

🧐 - this week i have spent a lot of time trying to get to grips with redux saga. i can see the benefits of it at a high level but it involves a lot of...

🔖 - our team apprentice is getting ready to take her first exam and i’ll be helping her get ready. she’s done an amazing job preparing on her own and ...

👩🏼‍🏫 - going to do some mentoring with the apprentice on our team. hopefully as most things I know about coding I learned extremely recently, I can pa...

☎️ To get to know the team a bit better I set up calls with the product owner and the delivery manager. The idea of these was so I could get to know t...

👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 Being on the new team is still hard - not because of the team themselves, they’re wonderful, but figuring out a whole new set of ways of worki...

👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 I joined a new team remotely and I was expecting it to be difficult - it was really challenging. there are people at work who have started n...