posted over 2 years ago
by
Kara Brightwell
1. WOW I HAVEN'T BLOGGED IN A WHILE
hahaha funny ironic meta blogging joke
2. okay so i'm the Tech Lead of the FT.com Platforms Team now, what's up with that
my(!) team solves common developer problems so every other team can spend time doing not that
we own a lot of stuff, like seventy repositories out of the three hundred ish in the Customer Products group
we're a fairly new team, there were predecessor teams but basically none of the knowledge about what we own has survived
we've got a lot of catching up to do! we started rewriting our documentation last year and we have a hitlist of what knowledge we're missing
but also we've jumped in the deep end with a beeg rewrite of the FT.com developer tooling
the line i use in presentations is "they're used literally every day by literally every developer in Customer Products, and they're broken"
they're actually public, that's odd
this week is the second "mob programming" week we've done on this project
we cancelled all our meetings
we set some goals
we worked on VS Code Live Share (for a couple of hours at a time! pairing is exhausting, remote pairing is gggggggggggg)
we've written more than a thousand fucking lines of code with three developers in one week, what the heck
find out next time on dragonball z
3. i am burning out holy shit
holy shit, i'm burning out
may day bank holiday soon
going camping soon
need some time off wow
4. i saw some friends, irl
okay so that was like two weeks ago fine okay
i went to Flat Iron Square with chee and Rowan and Jake and KJ
i got very drunk and we went and made music in a park
also i finally signed 2 Deed 2 Poll. now to send it to literally everybody that might have ever heard my name in the last two years
5. okay so speaking of music
i've gotten big into Eurorack in the last year
i put together a little, USB powered case a while ago and i've been slowly filling it with modules
recently i outgrew it, and also little portable case obviously needs to be for generative ambient, so i started planning a bigger desktop case in like November
i finished it last week!!!
i mean wow look at that thing. i made an Object
6. i got mildly good at chess
i've got a 700~ Rapid rating babes
e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc5 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 6. exd5 Nxd5 7. Nxf7 Kxf7 8. Qf3+ Kg8 9. Bxd5+ Qxd5 10. Qxd5+ Be6 11. Qxe6# is the only correct game of chess . every other game is a shitty imitation of that
im actually kind of bad if you don't cooperate with my Fried Liver Attack or Stafford Gambit okay
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